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  • The resistance and survival of old women : striving for empowerment in the face of oppression and violence

    Creator:
    Mau, Sindy Kay
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    Old women face a unique set of obstacles in their quest for empowerment. In this study the concept of empowerment is explored by politicizing issues of personal safety. The most significant factors that impede an old woman's sense of safety and control include oppression, primarily ageism and sexism, along with...
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    in the Face of Oppression and Violence. Abstract approved: Janet Lee Old women face a unique set

  • "Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

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    Brinker, Rachel K.
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    Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
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    Janet Lee Research shows that women’s lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of

  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

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    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    Dr. Rebecca L. Warner, Dr. Susan M. Shaw and Dr. Janet Lee for their patience, encouragement and

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

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    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    busy days at the office. I would like to thank Laura Rice, Lisa Ede, Anita Helle, Janet Lee, and

  • Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

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    Brown, Colleen Karen
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    In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
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    of communication, of art, but as only a single production element. Sue Ellen Case's Feminism and

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

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    Forrest, Dodie A.
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    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    over the phone. Thanks also to Professors Anita Helle, Lisa Ede, Janet Lee, and Mark Moore for

  • From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

    Creator:
    Gilmore, Jennifer
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    Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
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  • 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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    , Ryan, Sue, Moira, and all the rest. Greatly Blessed Be. Finally, I celebrate the spirit of my late

  • Incredible Lives: An Ethnography of Southern Oregon Womyn's Lands

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    Almquist, Jennifer Marie
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    This research summarizes the cumulative efforts of in-depth research, extensive participant observation, and archival analysis focused on Southern Oregon lesbian lands. This community of womyn has persisted in rural Southern Oregon for nearly 30 years. The intention of this study is to examine both the accumulation of knowledge of issues...
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    1970s: Could We Do it? Pelican Lee (2003) writes: "Although most of us were lesbians, we called our

  • Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

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    Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
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    This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
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    , there must be a system that provides competent and reliable child care and domestic help" (Lee et al