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Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Creator:: Spencer, Megan
Abstract:: This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Constructing identities : analyzing dress, appearance, and mental illness in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

Creator:: Haas, Rachael E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine how the popular writer Wilkie Collins used dress and appearance to bring to light concerns about mental illness in his 1859-60 sensation novel The Woman in White. The method of narrative analysis was used to complete this study. Data sheets were developed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rachael E. Haas for the degree of Master of Arts in Design and Human

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Corvallis, OR (hereafter cited as Radiation Center Records). 8 Chih Wang to Bobby E. Leonard, 28 August

To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Karnes, Daniel A.
Abstract:: In this era of free trade and globalization, food is traveling greater and greater distances to its consumers. This is causing small farms and small farmers all over the world to protest as their livelihood is being undercut by cheap agricultural commodities from outside their communities. In the Ecuadorian Andes,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Rhetoric versus practice : strategic language education and socialization of immigrant children in Sweden, the preschool years

Creator:: Nordlander, Amy Nastrom
Abstract:: Sweden's changing demographics, due to recent migrations in the last fifty years, have affected the Swedish educational system and Sweden's language policy. Funding for special education in Sweden regarding its minority populations is on the decline. Previous forced linguistic assimilation has occurred in Sweden among the Finnish population to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Years. Abstract approved: Joan E. Gross Sweden's changing demographics, due to recent migrations in

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Creator:: French, Melissa M.
Abstract:: Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: River Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Joan E

Marriage role expectations of college students

Creator:: Fordyce, Wendy Kyle
Abstract:: This study explored the relationship among marital role expectations, religiosity, and other variables including age, dating status of subjects, living arrangement, marriage plans and parents' marriage. Data were obtained from a sample of 460 Oregon State University students in April, 1976. They were primarily young students, 18 - 19 years...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: EXPECTATIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Arthur E. Gravatt This study

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Gossen, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Joan E. Gross Garry O. Stephenson

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

Creator:: Simpson, Taylor
Abstract:: The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Constructing identities : analyzing dress, appearance, and mental illness in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

Rhetoric versus practice : strategic language education and socialization of immigrant children in Sweden, the preschool years

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Marriage role expectations of college students

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

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