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  • Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

    Creator:
    Brown, Colleen Karen
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    In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
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    authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a

  • 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...
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    : Susan M. Shaw This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical

  • The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

    Creator:
    Knewtson, Katrina Anne
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    This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
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    maintain power structures or to transform a group's role in society. Education can be used as a tool to

  • 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

  • Breast cancer experience literature : women's stories as cultural critique

    Creator:
    Cohen, Karla R.
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    Breast cancer statistics in the United States are staggering. As the number of women diagnosed grows, so does the number of women who are writing about their experiences. This thesis is a multi-textual work which includes both the stories of women with breast cancer as well as the thesis author's...
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    grows, so does the number of women who are writing about their experiences. This thesis is a multi