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Creator:: Smith, Xenophon Palmer
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

Creator:: Conway, Clare
Abstract:: Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

Dress and acculturation : clothing transitions of the Mien

Creator:: Hoffman, Elizabeth Lee
Abstract:: The Mien are recent United States immigrants from Laos. They left Southeast Asia at a time of great political upheaval. Because of their close ties with United States governmental operations during the Southeast Asian war, conditions for Mien in Laos made flight imperative as Pathet Lao forces now control the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mien AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Elizabeth Lee Hoffman for the degree of Master of Arts in

Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

Creator:: Painter, Stephanie
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: also like to thank Dr. Barbara Muraca as well as my minor advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan, for your

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

Creator:: Harrington, Erin R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female authors who are now slowly

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

Creator:: Stone, Helen Delight
Abstract:: Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mr. Andrew Smith, of Yam Hill county, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of General Palmer

The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

Creator:: Sylvester, Ruth E.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the potential applications for 3rd generation activity theory in writing studio spaces, using the Undergrad Research and Writing Studio at Oregon State University as a focal point. David R. Russell, Nedra Reynolds, and Deborah Brandt have all investigated systemic and communal elements in student writing processes, while...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: voices: Marilyn Cooper, who published “The Ecology of Writing” in 1986, and Stephen North, who

From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Creator:: Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
Abstract:: The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reached their final form. Dr. Vicki Collins and Dr. Elizabeth Campbell both inspired me during times of

Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

Creator:: May, Laura D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Composition Classroom, Bonnie Lenore Kyburz and Elizabeth Vander Lei present the work of fourteen scholars

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Audio-visual aids in the library

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Dress and acculturation : clothing transitions of the Mien

Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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