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  • Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

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    Painter, Stephanie
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    Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Stephanie C. Jenkins Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network

  • Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

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    Harrington, Erin R.
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    In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...
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    feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and

  • Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

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    Schmidgall, Matthew J.
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    Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word essays written in the style of Lewis Thomas, a physician who regularly contributed to The New England Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 - 1980. The resulting compilations collectively...
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    : ______________________________________________________ W. Chris Anderson Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word

  • Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

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    Travers, Jessica D.
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    In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
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    theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative

  • California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

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    Oliveira, Kristine Yvonne
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    The diversity of attitudes held by California community college faculty about Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was studied. In twelve semi-structured interviews, faculty informants explained how their work has changed as a result of increased standardization and accountability measures, how they value those changes, and how they expect the profession to...
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    Work within a Postmodern Market Economy AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristine Y. Oliveira for the

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

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    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    in Science. Abstract approved: Robe?t A. tye This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in

  • Cooperation and small to medium sized enterprises in Oregon's forest product industry

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    Brown, Nicole A.
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    This thesis examines perceptions of cooperation among small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in western Oregon's forest products industry. Recent changes in the industry, such as corporate consolidation, global marketing, and government regulations have created an environment in which many SMEs find it difficult to stay competitive. Cooperation among SMEs...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicole A. Brown for the degree of

  • Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

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    Boltseridge, Nathan H.
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    In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
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    1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled

  • An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

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    Opas, Matthew E.
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    Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...
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    : David A. McMurray Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT

  • “I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

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    Baker, Carlee A.
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    In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
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    THE THESIS OF Carlee A. Baker for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25