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  • 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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    Masters Thesis

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

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    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    Katherine N. Kinnick analyzes the saturation of porn culture into popular culture. Lastly, works by Ariel

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    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...
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    sense of ultimate reality, to use theologian Paul Tillich's phrase for the sacred. This is evidenced

  • Reconsidering Openness : A Study of Relationships Between Personality Openness and Attitudinal Openness

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    Chang, I-Tung Joyce
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    This is an observational study concerning relationships between personality openness and attitudinal openness. 209 volunteers from two samples, participated in this study. The Ohio sample contained data from 36 self-identified feminists (age 18-65) at the Annual National Women Studies Conference in Akron, Ohio, 1990. The Oregon State university (OSU) sample...
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    overall correlation between Openness and Feminism scores was significant (r = 0.46,12< 0.001, N=209

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    . Stories for children often express the powerlessness of the small, weak, or vulnerable (Paul, 1990

  • 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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    other members of my thesis committee--Anita He lle, Paul Kopperman, Janet Lee--and for each person's

  • Exploring Sri-Lankan women's migration experiences in L.A. county : three stories, three lives

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    Gunewardena, Sriyanthi Lorna Antoinette
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    The recognition that women are not in a fixed position but are dynamic and active in any of the processes of migration and post-migration adjustment helps us to see the complexity of women's participation in migration. Using life history interviews, three Sri-Lankan womens' migration experiences are examined for the ways...
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    Migration to the Middle East, London: Kegan Paul International Ltd.; Sassen-Koob, S.,(1996) "Notes on the

  • 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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  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

    Creator:
    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    Masters Thesis

  • 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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