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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
Full Text:: over Speech and Pornography AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary Ann Christian for the degree of

Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

Creator:: Wright, Amanda R.
Abstract:: American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays. Abstract

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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kimberly Ann Coffey for the degree of Master of Arts in

Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

Creator:: Love, Jennifer Mary
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF THE THESIS OF Jennifer Mary Love for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

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:: meals. He approached Relief Society Secretary Mary Elizabeth Hales Horne and asked her to teach

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

Creator:: Morales-Warming, Melissa
Abstract:: White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Virgin of Guadalupe is Mary, the mother of Jesus, who appeared to

A Qualitative Study of Women in Modern Day Polygamous Households in the United States

Creator:: Wilson, Suzanne M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) . Isaac Bullard, naked except for his beard and bearskin girdle gathered a following (Brodie, 1995). Ann

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
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: most of the other criteria for great literature. Baym, Ann Douglas, Jane Tompkins, Mary Kelly

Beyond the ballot : the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the politics of Oregon Women, 1880-1900

Creator:: Gelser, Sara Anne Acres
Abstract:: Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis is dedicated to my grandmothers: Mary E. Frazier, Florence Ellen Acres, Mary Helen Florea, and

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

Creator:: Gilmore, Jennifer
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

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

Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

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

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

A Qualitative Study of Women in Modern Day Polygamous Households in the United States

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

Beyond the ballot : the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the politics of Oregon Women, 1880-1900

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

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