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  • A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

    Creator:
    Faherty, Dionna E.
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    Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Shakespeare's Juliet AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dionna E. Faherty for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Classified bodies : disability, identity, and the technological classroom

    Creator:
    Iwertz, Chad E.
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    This thesis pursues a flexible understanding and definition of dis/ability as a broadly and liberally applied mark of stigma. It asks questions that develop a deeper understanding of how disability influences mētis, a knowledge or cunning use of the body. Through this framework of mētis, this thesis explores technologies as...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chad E. Iwertz for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented

  • Sarah Grimke's Rhetoric for Empowerment : Her Life and Letters

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    Hamilton, Susan E. Maier
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    In twentieth century America, women continue the age-old struggle for recognition as whole, intelligent individuals, not just an "other," less hearty, less deserving or less capable being than man. Sarah Grimke spoke of the inequalities over 150 years ago during the abolitionist movement when she compiled her major arguments into...
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    letters AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Susan E. Maier Hamilton for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    of Grad e School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon

  • A History of the National Pygmy Goat Association

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    Coneybeer, Jane K.
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    The National Pygmy Goat Association is a hobby livestock organization founded in 1975. Over the past five decades, it has grown in size and importance, occupying a niche role as the primary breed registry and certification authority for the smallest domestic ruminant. This history attempts to capture the scope of...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    by Jane Katherine Coneybeer A THESIS submitted to Oregon

  • A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

    Creator:
    Carothers, April D.
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    What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    The Elements of Teaching Writing, Katherine Gottschalk and Keith Hjortshoj offer “A Basic Method for

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of Feminist Critics' References to Virginia Woolf

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    Stockton, Judith D.
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    Virginia Woolf wrote both prose and poetry, both fiction and non-fiction: she was both a creative writer and a politically conscious reporter. She left a wealth of beautifully crafted observations and comments that continue to be immensely quotable and influential. Feminist critics today use Woolf's vocabulary to continue the feminist...
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    Masters Thesis
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    especially imperative goal for feminist a u t o b i o g r a p h e r s . . . . ( 221 ). After identifying her

  • A literary discourse on the evolution of gender & sexuality in the first & second waves of feminism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" deconstructs established gender roles as Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" reconstructs them

    Creator:
    Hotard, Tami
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    The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather examined in this thesis anchored a larger discussion of the discourse about gender and sexuality during the First and Second Waves of feminism in America. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman deconstructed the notion of "femininity" manifested at the turn...
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    invalidism'-that began in the mid- nineteenth century and did not completely fade until the late 1910s"(E

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

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    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Katherine N. Kinnick analyzes the saturation of porn culture into popular culture. Lastly, works by Ariel

  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    and the material “contribut[e] to a complex production of space and spatial practices” (43). To do