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  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

    Creator:
    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    Wendy Bishop: A Feminist Voice at the Intersections of

  • Marriage role expectations of college students

    Creator:
    Fordyce, Wendy Kyle
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    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...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wendy Kyle Fordyce for the

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

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    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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  • Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

    Creator:
    Galipeau, Brendan A.
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    This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
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    Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Bryan D. Tilt This

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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    May, Laura D.
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    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laura D

  • Traversing the displaced: incarcerated women's writing selves

    Creator:
    Maybaum, Lenore D.
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    This quasi-ethnographic research documents the autobiographical utterances of incarcerated women taking part in a narrative writing course, Life Writing, at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The purpose of this research was to cultivate a better understanding of how incarcerated women move through different discourses of identity via narrative writing, and how,...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lenore D. Maybaum for the degree

  • Empowering others and empowering ourselves : a case study of community health workers in a mental health project

    Creator:
    McNeil-Delaney, Oona D.
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    The Surgeon General of the United States in 2003 documented the existence of striking disparities for minorities and immigrants in mental health services and the underlying knowledge base. This thesis expands the knowledge base by examining the personal experiences and perspectives of community health workers (CHWs) employed in a mental...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Oona D. McNeil-Delaney for the

  • Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

    Creator:
    Killeen, Shanna
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    This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
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    Spanish, or who access her work in English. Translator Wendy Call, who has translated two of Pineda

  • Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

    Creator:
    McHugh, Kathleen M.
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    Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
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    , 11–12, 16. 20 Holt, Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930, 8–9. 21 Rima D

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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    together, Wendy-Vasey's book Nourishing Words discusses the difficulty of this task. First, two of