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The women's movement in Japan and its effect on the workplace

Creator:: Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of women in the Japanese workplace. Data obtained from in-depth interviews and questionnaires, shows that the Japanese workplace is in a state of change moving toward a higher level of opportunity for female workers. While similar to the circumstances experienced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , engineering or the social sciences. "Nevertheless, 55 percent of all women enrolled in universities in 1991

Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

Creator:: Moyer, Dawn J.
Abstract:: This thesis outlines dominant ideologies and practices that affect women's authority in the urban social milieu of north India. Theories that consider the causes of social stratification by gender as well as social movement patterns are useful for understanding the durability of gender roles. The utility of these theories for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for privacy cultural ideologies, including the social and economic devaluation of women

"We see that we are not like the others" : A Case Study Exploring the Consequences of Structural Violence for the Marseillaises

Creator:: Wiseman, Nicole S.
Abstract:: France's universalistic idea of citizenry has been complicated by a history of colonialism, racialization, and selective acceptance of difference. Although Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) is France's motto, the consequences of colonial rule continue to impact the lives of non-autochthonous French citizens today. Since the colonial days, immigrants and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: structural violence from the perspective of Franco-Maghrebian women in Marseille, France. In these

Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

Creator:: Ota, Brandy
Abstract:: Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: branch of the United Nations. UNIFEM seeks to empower women through economic, social and political

"Freedom from what?" : Iraqi women's narratives from the 2003 U.S.-led war

Creator:: Mohtashamipour, Sahar (Soudeh)
Abstract:: This research explores the experiences of Iraqi women during and after the 2003 U.S.-led war (2003-2011). The aim of the project was to provide an occasion for a group of Iraqi women to give voice to their lived experiences of war and to document these voices, adding their subjective perspectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: important ways 21 for feminists around the world to help Iraqi women reach the point of social

"A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

Creator:: Watson, Annaliese
Abstract:: Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Social Risk Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney Haiti’s

Walking the narrow path : narratives of migration and mental health among Saudi Arabian women at Oregon State University

Creator:: Gentry, Kristen Elizabeth
Abstract:: Since the inauguration of the King Abdullah-Aziz Foreign Scholarship Program in 2005, the number of Saudi university students in the United States has increased exponentially, and an unprecedented amount of Saudi women are seeking international degrees. The absence of scholarly research within these women’s home and host countries highlights the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Saudi women at OSU as subject to modern social flows, while still firmly embedded within the

Sites of Memory : Black Women's Geographies, #SayHerName, and Black Hair Politics

Creator:: Adkins, Daryl
Abstract:: According to Katherine McKittrick, black women’s geographies reveal and confront geographies of domination that have been erased or considered unworthy of analysis. This thesis positions #SayHerName protests and natural kink/coiled hair within a black women’s geographic analysis suggesting that both body and hair politics provide historical and contemporary geographic clues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Daryl Adkins for the degree of Master of Art in Women, Gender, and

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
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Megan Spencer for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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The women's movement in Japan and its effect on the workplace

Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

"We see that we are not like the others" : A Case Study Exploring the Consequences of Structural Violence for the Marseillaises

Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

"Freedom from what?" : Iraqi women's narratives from the 2003 U.S.-led war

"A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

Walking the narrow path : narratives of migration and mental health among Saudi Arabian women at Oregon State University

Sites of Memory : Black Women's Geographies, #SayHerName, and Black Hair Politics

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

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