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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Experience of Self-Identification" AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mariana C. Zaragoza for the degree of

  • Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Al-Sheikhly, Nadya A.
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    Since 2005, the United States has experienced a significant influx of international students from Saudi Arabia, particularly women (Bollang, 2006). The American educational structure is something Saudi women have never experienced due to the vast differences between both cultures in all facets. There is very little to no research conducted...
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    committee: Shelley Dubkin-Lee, Patti Duncan, Anita Helle and David Bernell. I will never forget the

  • 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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    to maintaining patriarchal hierarchy, c) privilege buffers the effects of patriarchy among many

  • Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

    Creator:
    Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
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    In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
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    ABC in April of 1990. The executive producers were Mark Frost and David Lynch, who between them

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
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    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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  • 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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    , reaching 99% by 1969 and remaining constant ever since (Curtin and Park). The change in birth

  • 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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  • 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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  • The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

    Creator:
    Bjorkman, Gail M.
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    Examination of all known U.S. Third Wave feminist literature reveals that there is no coherent unitary theory. Explication of the Third Wave addresses the generational and cultural strife within the feminist family and provides a modern feminist response to the changing faces and locations of the isms. Identification of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , support and encouragement. I finished it! Thank you to my ever-present and wonderful partner, David

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

    Creator:
    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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    to David, who never lost faith in my ability to complete this work. This thesis is dedicated to