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

    Creator:
    Felesky, C. Leigh
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    through a political economy approach is recommended. ©Copyright by C. Leigh Felesky June 6, 2000 All

  • 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

  • Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

    Creator:
    Stone, Erin A.
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    Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...
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    CONSENT DOCUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 APPENDIX C: INTERVIEW PROTOCOL

  • “My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

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    Tanner, Laura C.
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    Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    ”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse by Laura C. Tanner A PROJECT Submitted to

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

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    Campbell and Courtney Cox, also offers an informal metatextual analysis of horror fIlm. In the fIrst half

  • 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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    practiced polygamy. When one of the inner circle, John C. Bennett, was asked why Smith preached so much

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

    Creator:
    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    Varsell Smith for encouraging me to do an interview-based project, Beverly McFarland for her earlier

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    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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    reality. Huston Smith interprets the fmal definition of modernity as our dependence on physical evidence

  • Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

    Creator:
    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
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    C Interview Questionnaire………………………………….. 117 Appendix D 2007 Audience Survey