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  • Work pants worn by loggers in Western Oregon, 1920-1970

    Creator:
    Gullickson, Mark A.
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    With the arrival of European settlers to Western Oregon nearly 150 years ago came new methods of forest management. Early settlers' forest practices consisted of little more than harvesting what seemed an endless supply of timber. Forestry in the 20th century eventually incorporated such management concerns as re-forestation, biodiversity, wildlife...
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    Lee Company; Kay McDonough, Assistant Archivist, Levi Strauss & Company; Doug and Elaine Haga

  • Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

    Creator:
    Poet, Rebecca McClelland
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    In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
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    Willamette Valley. Jason and Daniel Lee established their Methodist mission in 1834 near the present-day

  • Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

    Creator:
    Filan, Trina Robin
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    This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
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  • Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

    Creator:
    Stone, Erin A.
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    Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...
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    . (Chesler, 2001; Domínguez, 1994; Greer, 1999; Penelope, 1992; Rosabal, 1996; Shaw & Lee, 2001; Tannebaum

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

    Creator:
    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    and the laboratory: Jim Bell, Mark Bevel, Doug Etter, Mike Gallagher, John Hatch, Don Kowitz, Clay

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

    Creator:
    Chapman, Judith Sanders
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Oregon State University offered assistance in both the field and the laboratory: Jim Bell, Mark Bevel

  • Who We Are and Will Be

    Creator:
    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
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    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    When She Was Bad: Framing Female Killers in Film CHAPTER ONE Introduction Laurie (Jamie Lee

  • Whale Cove (35LNC60) : an archaeological investigation on the central Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Rogers, Ann Bennett
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    The Whale Cove Site, 35LNC60, is a shell midden, showing occupations from 3010 B.P. to 330 B.P., spanning the Early and Late Littoral Periods. Analysis of mammalian faunal remains, bone and antler tools, lithics and discriptions of recovered shellfish artifacts allows for chronological refinement of the previously mentioned archeologically defined...
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    , I wish to thank R. Lee Lyman, Elizabeth B. Merrill, Charla Meacham Francis, and Tom Grigsby for

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

    Creator:
    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    busy days at the office. I would like to thank Laura Rice, Lisa Ede, Anita Helle, Janet Lee, and