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  • Oregon Klanswomen of the I 920s: A Study of Tribalism, Gender, and Women's Power

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    Rielly Thorson, Wendy P.
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    The fraternal order of the KKK, originally founded in the 1860s, reemerged in 1915, to present itself as an organization committed to the Cause - a dangerous reactionary political ideology to protect white, native born, Protestant, middle class values from all outsiders. Concomitantly, the Ladies of the Invisible Empire (LOTIE5)...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

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    Coffey, Kimberly Ann
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...
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    Movement Abstract approved: Mark P. Moore The purpose of this study is to examine

  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

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    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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    than those clearly defined in Beloved. For example, literary scholar P. Gabrielle Foreman proposes

  • Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a Culture of Patriarchy

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    George, Julie A. (Julie Ann)
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    The aim of this study is to explore how women who identify as both active, believing Mormons and as feminists negotiate the contradictions between an ideology that values equality (feminism) and a religion that values patriarchy (Mormonism). Data were gathered through recorded and transcribed interviews with women who identify as...
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    described above (McConkie 1966, p. 558-559). The modern organizational structure of the LDS Church

  • Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920

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    Cummings, Katherine H.
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    Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as...
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    and Speeches, p. 136 6 MOTHER JONES Mary "Mother" Jones was a labor organizer for most of her

  • 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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    Jovanovich, 1977) letter 1848/pp. 457-58. 2 Nicolson, Letters: Volume Three, letter 1520/p. 149. Nicolson

  • Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

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    Zaragoza, Mariana C.
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    There is an ever growing number of Latinas/os who reside and have settled permanently in rural America. Unbeknownst to most, rural Latinas/os face adversities unfamiliar to those living outside of this scope. As it stands, the barriers urban Latinas/os students face when transitioning to college has been well documented. However,...
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    of erasure (The Latina Feminist Group, 2001, p. 2). 10 Analysis of the Literature The literature

  • An Assessment and Comparison of Resources and Services Available in Men's and Women's State Prison Libraries

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    Glenn, Judith A.
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    The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference in the resources and library services in men's and women's state prison facility libraries, and to determine to what extent the librarians who administer services to inmates in prisons believe the resources available are adequate in giving...
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    (Chicago: American Library Association, 1974). p. 46. 13 Richard M. Barone, "De-Programming Prison

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

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    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
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    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    them without benefits and pension provisions (Albelda, p. 122). Women want the chance to work and

  • Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

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    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
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    with me” (Ensler, 1998, p. xxvi). After performing the piece as a solo show for a year, Ensler met