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  • Language Differences between Women and Men and the Attribution of Leadership

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    Dunsworth, Sabrina J.
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    This research addresses the perception of leadership attributes in light of evaluator and target gender. It specifically investigates whether there is a difference in language usage when the evaluator is female versus when the evaluator is male. Two studies were conducted. A pre-test used instrumental development drawing from studies conducted...
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    : ____________________________________________________________________ Michael L. Beachley This research addresses the perception of leadership attributes in light

  • Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

    Creator:
    Stone, Erin A.
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    Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Erin A. Stone for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

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

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    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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jeanna A. Ramos for the

  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

    Creator:
    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    : Susan M. Shaw This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical

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

    Creator:
    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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    Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a

  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

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    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    , Archaeology, artd_Women Studies presented on September 17, 1998. Title A Feminist Celebes the Rediscaveu of

  • 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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    presented on July 14, 2004. Title: A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

  • Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

    Creator:
    Steinert, Laura
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    Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This thesis argues that feminist theory and recent rhetorical theory have caused a critical paradigm shift that has...
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    Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a

  • Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

    Creator:
    Vanderpool, Aubrae M.
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    This thesis brings together gender and genre criticism to consider Virginia Woolf s memoir, "A Sketch of the Past," as a modern experiment in rewriting the traditions and conventions of Victorian autobiography. This thesis will demonstrate how Woolf specifically disrupts the conventions of linear representations of time and the assumed...
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    on June 15, 2004. Title: Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography:" Rewriting Victorian Conventions

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

    Creator:
    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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    offering a critique of Michael C. McGee’s essay, “In Search of ‘The People’: A Rhetorical Alternative