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  • The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

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    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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    , p. 69). In the course of writing this thesis, I discovered that I am a Third Wave feminist

  • Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

    Creator:
    Coffey, Kimberly Ann
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...
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    Movement Abstract approved: Mark P. Moore The purpose of this study is to examine

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

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

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    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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  • An abortion service provider as political activist

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

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    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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    “female.” (p. 148) Lorber (2007) “contend[s] therefore that the continuing purpose of gender as a

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

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    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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    end. Robert Thompson, I am so glad you were part of the committee. Two of my favorite courses at

  • 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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    Bartholomae, Robert Brooke, Sheree L. Meyer, Anthony Petrosky, Mariolina Salvatori have in particular helped

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

    Creator:
    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
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    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    and Rozell, 2000, p. 10; Van Lare & Griener, 2000, p.5; Haskins et al., 20001b, 4). Robert Rector

  • Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920

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    Cummings, Katherine H.
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    Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as...
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    and Speeches, p. 136 6 MOTHER JONES Mary "Mother" Jones was a labor organizer for most of her