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  • The Promise and Unfinished Business of Title IX

    Creator:
    Mannen, Noelle
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    The law commonly referred to as Title IX, which was passed in 1972, called for an end to sex-based discrimination in educational and federally-funded settings. Before long, it became particularly associated with the quest for equality for women’s sports. As Title IX was a major catalyst in advancing and even...
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    McKiel, Mark Edwards, and Stacey Smith – have dedicated their time and attention, and have shown

  • Sex stereotypes in Thai elementary school textbooks

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    Pobsook, Thanitthar
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    This study analyzed Thai textbooks as a dimension of research on sex-role stereotypes in Thailand. One hundred and sixty-two stories in Thai elementary school textbooks were investigated, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of content analysis. This study was a modified replication of Britton and Lumpkin's study (1977) and partly...
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    other members of my committee. I thank Dr. Alan I. Sugawara and Dr. Dale D. Simmons for their help with

  • Managing Maternity Rights Across Sport

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    Mount, Juliana E.
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    This thesis covers the facing problem of maternity rights for professional female athletes. By examining the consciousness raising strategies of two professional track athletes, the critical consciousness theory was used to understand the importance of anti-oppressive thinking and anti-oppressive action. Major findings have shown that consciousness raising is a practical...
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    conversations and meetings designed specifically for these purposes” (Stacey, Sowards & Valerie, 2004, p. 535

  • From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

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    Gilmore, Jennifer
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    Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
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  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

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    Yao, Yingxia
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    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    Elliot Griffis, L. H. D., A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown – Pioneer Educator in China

  • The Conseciuences and Effects for Male Students in the Women Studies Classroom

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    Love, Melanie S.
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    This research explores the consequences and effects for men enrolled in introductory Women Studies courses at Oregon State University. Men are enrolling in the feminist classroom in larger numbers due to institutional changes allowing Women Studies to provide credit for baccalaureate core curriculum. The intention of this study is to...
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  • 'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

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    Hisey, Aimee
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    Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
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    of the Mediterranean, ed. by David D. Gilmore (Washington, District of Colombia: American

  • The Experiences of Male Students in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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    Viveros Cespedes, Marcos Andres
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    Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary academic field that addresses gender, sexuality, and social justice issues. The research objective of this project was to examine the attitudes of self-identified male students in introductory Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for winter term 2016 at Oregon State University. This...
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    : Collective e-email…………………………………………………….85 Appendix D: Explanation of research

  • Gender role attitudes among Thai college students : traditional or egalitarian?

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    Surinya, Tippavan
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    The purpose of this investigation is to explore gender role attitudes among Thai college students and to determine whether differences in gender role attitudes among Thai college students are related to the sex of students, college major and family structure. To investigate this problem a Gender Role Attitude Inventory is...
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  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

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    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    APPENDIX C: Marriage Equality & Other Relationship Recognition Laws ......143 APPENDIX D: Hospital