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

    Creator:
    Sweatman, Jennifer L.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

    Creator:
    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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    within the feminist family and provides a modern feminist response to the changing faces and locations

  • Are single classified women's needs being addressed by the union in a university environment?

    Creator:
    Pastre, Nicolette M.
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    The initial research question for this study asked whether single women were having their employment needs met by the union in a university setting. Twelve single women who were members of a union at a university participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences with the union. To the surprise of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Union in a University Environment AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicolette M. Pastre for the

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

    Creator:
    Gilmore, Jennifer
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    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...
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    sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Women Studies, Women Studies, and Philosophy presented on September 18, 2007. Title: A Thematic

  • An abortion service provider as political activist

    Creator:
    Willis, Gloria
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    The feminist beliefs of abortion service providers and the effects of these beliefs on the delivery of health care to patients is examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion includes abortion rates, abortion safety, characteristics of patients, and accessibility of...
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    examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    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...
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    loyal to their congregations? What makes a congregation open to women’s leadership? (Howard Ecklund

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dodie A. Forrest for the degree of

  • 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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    Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a

  • In the words of a woman

    Creator:
    Rose, Kerin G.
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    I am a woman who writes. I am a writer who is a woman. In the Words of a Woman is an exploration of how these two facts of my life merge and influence each other. It is a work written to mediate between the supposed dichotomies of creative and...
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    In the words of a woman AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF