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

Creator:: Glenn, Judith A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 1971) : 50. 5 in the Sing Sing library, which was located in an old

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

Creator:: George, Julie A. (Julie Ann)
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to maintaining patriarchal hierarchy, c) privilege buffers the effects of patriarchy among many

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

Creator:: Zaragoza, Mariana C.
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Experience of Self-Identification" AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mariana C. Zaragoza for the degree of

Uncovering Women's Magazines: Editors' Perspectives on the Relationship between Editorial and Advertising Content in Women's Fashion/Beauty Magazines

Creator:: Felesky, C. Leigh
Abstract:: This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship between editorial and advertising content in women's magazines. It specifically investigates how this relationship affects both general editorial content and more specifically, social topic stories. Mainstream women's beauty/fashion magazine editors—including editors-in-chief—were queried as to the nature of these relationships. Interviews...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: through a political economy approach is recommended. ©Copyright by C. Leigh Felesky June 6, 2000 All

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

Creator:: Cummings, Katherine H.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: political group. Philip Foner and C. Vann Woodward concur that the party's stand was significant because

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

Creator:: Coffey, Kimberly Ann
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: offering a critique of Michael C. McGee’s essay, “In Search of ‘The People’: A Rhetorical Alternative

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Streufert, Mary J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: experiences. Around the time when Woolf was born, Richard Jeffries published The Story of My Heart, which

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Creator:: Brown, Colleen Karen
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

Creator:: Christian, Mary Ann
Abstract:: The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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An Assessment and Comparison of Resources and Services Available in Men's and Women's State Prison Libraries

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

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

Uncovering Women's Magazines: Editors' Perspectives on the Relationship between Editorial and Advertising Content in Women's Fashion/Beauty Magazines

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

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

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

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