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Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

Creator:: Crocker, Melissa R.
Abstract:: In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Crystal M. Boson In the contemporary United States, the process of “coming out of the

Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

Creator:: Freehling-Burton, Kryn
Abstract:: Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

Creator:: Vanderpool, Aubrae M.
Abstract:: This thesis brings together gender and genre criticism to consider Virginia Woolf s memoir, "A Sketch of the Past," as a modern experiment in rewriting the traditions and conventions of Victorian autobiography. This thesis will demonstrate how Woolf specifically disrupts the conventions of linear representations of time and the assumed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Aubrae M. Vanderpool for the

Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

Creator:: Ireland, Heather Montes
Abstract:: This study employs interdisciplinary methods to make transnational feminist sense of the microfinance phenomenon. Drawing upon a combination of discourse approach, textual analysis, political economics and critical theory construction, I fused a feminist critical discourse approach to excavate microfinance from neoliberalism. I designed an economic justice framework and executed an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: because my feelings of gratitude are so profound. To paraphrase the words of Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Letting Our Students Speak: Enriching the Discourse about Feminist Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

Creator:: Hugmeyer, Andrea Doyle
Abstract:: The increasingly corporatized and privatized public university has resulted in significant role changes for students and faculty. Among these changes includes the development of online education and its proliferation among various disciplines to not only increase educational access, but to sustain budgetary program needs. Such processes are occurring in women's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: practices in the university, Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003), suggests “we rarely link these concerns to a

Unpacking Success: Progressive Politics and Stalled Gender Equity at the Mitraniketan People's College

Creator:: Glick, Stephanie Nahima
Abstract:: Founded over fifty years ago by K. Viswanathan, the Mitraniketan educational facility in Kerala, India provides literacy and vocational education to socially marginalized women, men, and children through nursery, elementary, high school and an educational preparatory program for young adults. Viswanathan founded the school on several ideals including Neo-Marxist, Quaker,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chandra Talpade Mohanty argues for a decolonizing of academic feminism. In Feminism Without Borders

Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

Creator:: Al-Sheikhly, Nadya A.
Abstract:: Since 2005, the United States has experienced a significant influx of international students from Saudi Arabia, particularly women (Bollang, 2006). The American educational structure is something Saudi women have never experienced due to the vast differences between both cultures in all facets. There is very little to no research conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An Examination of Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Possible Trans-Pacific Contact in Pre-Columbian America

Creator:: Schaefer, Roger Glen
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is the statement and examination of relevant data pertaining to the subject of trans-Pacific pre- Columbian contact. The paper's contents will be organized in to five major areas: oceanography, ship building, archaeology, religion and history, plus an introduction and conclusion. Each of these chapters will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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ScholarsArchive@OSU

Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

Viria Woolf and "A Woman's Autobiography" : Rewriting Victorian Conventions of Autobioaphy

Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

Letting Our Students Speak: Enriching the Discourse about Feminist Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

Unpacking Success: Progressive Politics and Stalled Gender Equity at the Mitraniketan People's College

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

An Examination of Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Possible Trans-Pacific Contact in Pre-Columbian America

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