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

Creator:: Tanner, Laura C.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Susan Shaw Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in

The resistance and survival of old women : striving for empowerment in the face of oppression and violence

Creator:: Mau, Sindy Kay
Abstract:: Old women face a unique set of obstacles in their quest for empowerment. In this study the concept of empowerment is explored by politicizing issues of personal safety. The most significant factors that impede an old woman's sense of safety and control include oppression, primarily ageism and sexism, along with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: initiate personal and social change, as well as a level of contentment stemming from an understanding

Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

Creator:: Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
Abstract:: This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: discrimination and hardship during their stay in Singapore; their low social status makes exploitation

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
Full Text:: June 5, 2002. Title: From Sister to Sister to Woman: The Role of Sororities in the Social Transmission

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

Creator:: Papaleo, November R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ___________________________________ Susan Shaw MySpace is a social network phenomenon

The Umpqua Eden site : the people, their smoking pipes and tobacco cultivation

Creator:: Nelson, Nancy J.
Abstract:: Located on the central Oregon coast, the Umpqua Eden site (35D083) yielded an artifact assemblage which is one of the five largest assemblages from the Oregon coast. The first aspect of the site that I looked at is the people who lived at the site, the ancestors of the Confederated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: extremely rigid before Euro-American contact and the social category of "female" was expanded to more than

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the reassertion of a social justice-oriented definition of global citizenship and for educational

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

Creator:: McNeill, Elizabeth
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: social identification of a problem as a problem…It examines the naming process by which problems enter

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:: sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist ABSTRACT

Discourse and the power of symbols : representation and regulation of prostitution in France, 1831-1975

Creator:: Sweatman, Jennifer L.
Abstract:: This is a study of the representations of prostitutes and prostitution produced within a particular historical framework-regulationism. Drawing support from public health movements, campaigns against depopulation and degeneration and protest from feminists and socialists, the "French system" of regulation of prostitution occupied center stage in social debates from the mid-nineteenth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

The resistance and survival of old women : striving for empowerment in the face of oppression and violence

Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

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

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

The Umpqua Eden site : the people, their smoking pipes and tobacco cultivation

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

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

Discourse and the power of symbols : representation and regulation of prostitution in France, 1831-1975

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