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

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    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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    finish this paper. I would also like to thank my other committee members, Dr. Warren Suzuki and Dr

  • Incredible Lives: An Ethnography of Southern Oregon Womyn's Lands

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    Almquist, Jennifer Marie
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    This research summarizes the cumulative efforts of in-depth research, extensive participant observation, and archival analysis focused on Southern Oregon lesbian lands. This community of womyn has persisted in rural Southern Oregon for nearly 30 years. The intention of this study is to examine both the accumulation of knowledge of issues...
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    . Abstract approved Susan M. Shaw This research summarizes the cumulative efforts of in-depth research

  • 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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    Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books. Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw

  • Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

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    Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
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    In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
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    Character Audrey Home. Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the

  • 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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    Provider as Political Activist. Abstract Approved: Susan M. Shaw The feminist beliefs of abortion

  • Gender role attitudes among Thai college students : traditional or egalitarian?

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    Surinya, Tippavan
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    The purpose of this investigation is to explore gender role attitudes among Thai college students and to determine whether differences in gender role attitudes among Thai college students are related to the sex of students, college major and family structure. To investigate this problem a Gender Role Attitude Inventory is...
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    . It is important for 0 : 13.70 0 : 36.70 0 : 31.00 0 : 16.00 0 : 2.70 men to be more M: 17.24 M

  • 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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  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    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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    understandingher 12 Andrew M. Greeley, Ecstasy: A Way of Knowing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974) p

  • Beyond the ballot : the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the politics of Oregon Women, 1880-1900

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    Gelser, Sara Anne Acres
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    Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
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    Overland Trail to California an Oregon, 1842-1867," Feminist Studies 2 (1975): 150-66. Julie Roy Jeffrey

  • "Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

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    Brinker, Rachel K.
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    Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
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    Susan Griffin (1978) and Karen Warren (1987) elucidate the ways in which western philosophy is