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"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Creator:: Barkley, Charles K.
Abstract:: This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Charles K. Barkley for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

Creator:: Henschke, Stefan
Abstract:: In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . I argue that state power, explained through the lens of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, is

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Creator:: Vanderzee, Vanessa A.
Abstract:: The LGBTQ population is widely recognized as an at-risk demographic—as a result ofstigma, studies report sexual and gender minorities experience elevated risk for depression,suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as greater exposure to sexual, physical, andinterpersonal violence (Logie 1244). Asexuality, a marginalized population traditionallyexcluded from the LGBTQ acronym, poses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

Creator:: Danna, Maria N.
Abstract:: Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the former emerges (Davis-Floyd 2001, 2004; Cheyney 2011; Bohren, et al. 2015: Bowser, D, Hill, K

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Bustamante, Stephanie
Abstract:: East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: adult-child as a discursive practice, an argument grounded in the works Pierre Bourdieu and Michel

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

Creator:: Hill, Cayla L.
Abstract:: St. Joseph's College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific Northwest. The St. Paul mission was finally established in 1839 by Father Francois Blanchet, four years after the French-Canadian settlers in the area, appropriately known as French Prairie, had requested the presence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Test Pit J Artifact Assemblage…………....………………………………...193 A.11 Test Pit K Artifact Assemblage

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Creator:: Piel, Eric W.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and local, Michel Foucault (1991) has presented ideas of power from a broad philosophical perspective

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Creator:: Payne, Eva M.
Abstract:: The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ." 7 Solution to the Problem I wish, in the words of Michel Foucault, to "locate the forms of power

Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

Creator:: Zhuo, Chen
Abstract:: Energy issues are becoming one of the most pressing topics in today's political and cultural landscape, particularly in the midst of the climate crisis. Globally, a variety of renewable energy projects are under development to meet energy demand without continuing to overburden the natural environment of our planet, with profound...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

Creator:: Rathert, Gregory S.
Abstract:: Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving its goals of autonomy and cultural independence. For Joyce, this was particularly evident in the dialects and thought structures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Magazine of Independent Thought, which was co-edited by Frederick Ryan and W. K. Magee [John Eglinton

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

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