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  • Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

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    Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
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    Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
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    of "madness" by women writers AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jaspal K Singh for the degree of Master

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

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    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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    scholars such as Robert Cathcart, Charles Wilkinson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, and David Zarefsky. Lucas

  • Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

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    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

  • 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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    fiction. Certain critics including Nina Baym and Susan K. Harris have suggested that sentimental

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

    Creator:
    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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    by David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky and Reading Texts by Kathleen McCormick, Gary Waller, and

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

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    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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    ); Abijah married fourteen women (2 Chron. 13.21); David had a large harem (1 Chron. 14.3); and Solomon

  • The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

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    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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    , support and encouragement. I finished it! Thank you to my ever-present and wonderful partner, David

  • 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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    Effects of School Segregation 19 La Experiencia: Latinas/os in Elementary Education (K-8) 20 Latinas/os in

  • Letting Our Students Speak: Enriching the Discourse about Feminist Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

    Creator:
    Hugmeyer, Andrea Doyle
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    The increasingly corporatized and privatized public university has resulted in significant role changes for students and faculty. Among these changes includes the development of online education and its proliferation among various disciplines to not only increase educational access, but to sustain budgetary program needs. Such processes are occurring in women's...
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  • 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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