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  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    any one of our parts. Black feminist theorists in particular have pointed out that there are no

  • The application of John Rawls' principles of justice to health care distribution in the United States

    Creator:
    Wetle, Victoria L.
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    The principles of justice developed by John Rawls and articulated in his work A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, were used as the evaluative tool in assessing health care distribution in the United States. A model for using Rawls' theory was developed emphasizing the role of the 'least advantaged'...
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    , the lack of decision-making information for the consumer creates a subsequent high dependency on the

  • Learning from Women of Color working within the United States Forest Service

    Creator:
    Ramos, Jeanna A.
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze women of colors's (WOC) experiences working within the United States Forest Service (USFS) accessing the challenges of recruitment, retention, and promotional efforts. Using testimonios and Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness, I found three themes that included white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, presumed incompetence,...
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    resources agencies. There is no information available on the insights, perspectives, and experiences of

  • An abortion service provider as political activist

    Creator:
    Willis, Gloria
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    The feminist beliefs of abortion service providers and the effects of these beliefs on the delivery of health care to patients is examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion includes abortion rates, abortion safety, characteristics of patients, and accessibility of...
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    activists. Health care workers are also principal conduits of the medical information we receive

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    . 146-7). Looking back in history and becoming aware of women’s church leadership in years past is