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  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary J. Streufert for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Reconsidering Openness : A Study of Relationships Between Personality Openness and Attitudinal Openness

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    Chang, I-Tung Joyce
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    This is an observational study concerning relationships between personality openness and attitudinal openness. 209 volunteers from two samples, participated in this study. The Ohio sample contained data from 36 self-identified feminists (age 18-65) at the Annual National Women Studies Conference in Akron, Ohio, 1990. The Oregon State university (OSU) sample...
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    Personality Openness and Attitudinal Openness _Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Frank J. Bernieri

  • Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

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    Wright, Amanda R.
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    American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
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  • The Conseciuences and Effects for Male Students in the Women Studies Classroom

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    Love, Melanie S.
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    This research explores the consequences and effects for men enrolled in introductory Women Studies courses at Oregon State University. Men are enrolling in the feminist classroom in larger numbers due to institutional changes allowing Women Studies to provide credit for baccalaureate core curriculum. The intention of this study is to...
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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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    . Stories for children often express the powerlessness of the small, weak, or vulnerable (Paul, 1990

  • 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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    fields in popular culture,” is changing the cultural perception and status of porn. Pamela Paul and

  • A Qualitative Study of Women in Modern Day Polygamous Households in the United States

    Creator:
    Wilson, Suzanne M.
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    This study will show that polygamy is not a religious freedom protected under the U.S. Constitution, but a power system in which men use economic, political, social and physical force to control the behavior of others. This thesis will use a feminist perspective theory to provide a theoretical outline for...
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  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

    Creator:
    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    ” (Byerman 28). Similarly, American studies scholar Nancy J. Peterson contrasts hegemonic, grand

  • Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy of Evangelical Christian College Women

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    Dahlvig, Jolyn E.
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    The extent in which the evangelical Christian perspective influenced the career decision-making self-efficacy of six female college students was qualitatively explored. Interviews and a focus group were utilized to find common themes and influences amongst the women. Literature from the areas of female college student development, career decision-making self-efficacy, and...
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    outside the home. (j. 179) Schaefer (2004) and Hughes (1998) appeared to have contradictory conclusions

  • Exploring Sri-Lankan women's migration experiences in L.A. county : three stories, three lives

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    Gunewardena, Sriyanthi Lorna Antoinette
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    The recognition that women are not in a fixed position but are dynamic and active in any of the processes of migration and post-migration adjustment helps us to see the complexity of women's participation in migration. Using life history interviews, three Sri-Lankan womens' migration experiences are examined for the ways...
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    Migration to the Middle East, London: Kegan Paul International Ltd.; Sassen-Koob, S.,(1996) "Notes on the