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  • Oppression from Within : AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

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    Whitebear-Cupp, Luhui
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    This thesis describes how heteropatriarchal, settler colonialism impacted Indigenous communities' systems in power and control, particularly with the American Indian Movement during the 1960s-1970s. Further, the gendered divides this created within the American Indian Movement are described. The murder of Anna Mae Aquash is revisited as an act of gendered...
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    Within: AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

  • Resisting Society’s Influence: Selling Sex in Women’s Professional Sports

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    Perry, Rodney C.
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    Title IX's passage into law in 1972 set women’s sports on a course toward gender equity with men's sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels, leading to a definitive growth in women’s professional leagues, corresponding athlete salaries, and athletic marketing and promotional prospects. However, disparities currently exist in the availability...
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    stars, Anna Kournikova and Venus Williams, on Sports Illustrated magazine covers and in print

  • “I Was That Student”: Exploring Instructor Experience of Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom

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    Anderson, Anna
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    This research is an exploration of empathy in the classroom from the standpoint of how instructors experience it and understand themselves to communicate it to their students, particularly students from different cultural backgrounds. The research method used was ethnographic analysis of a classroom observation and a one-hour semi-structured interview with...
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    Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anna Anderson for the

  • Mother's Choices

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    Dietz, Amy L.
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    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    . There was still the primal wail of a weeping child. Quieter, of course. Wailing is not seemly for

  • Spirituality and Aging Among Women

    Creator:
    Orcutt, Nancy Wilson
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    The term, spirituality, as used in this study, refers to that part of our lives that has the deepest meaning, that which nurtures each of us and moves us toward wholeness. It is the basis for which we live out our lives, following our own truths with honesty and commitment....
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    hiking and camping together. "It was a very happy child life." Anna, too, appreciated her family

  • Barbie Feathers: Writing Native Women

    Creator:
    Hedges, Jamie Lewis
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    Literature has often misrepresented Natives and women. I involved Native Women in researching and editing my novel to fairly and accurately represent them. in open-ended interviews they described their experiences of nature, enjoyment, and discrimination as well as their critiques of the novel itself. Descriptions were of discrimination as perceived...
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  • Alaska Native Education : Sheldon Jackson to Paul Jensen 1884-1984

    Creator:
    Martain, Jacqueline
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    This thesis will look at Paul Jensen while he was an education professor at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, Oregon, and his role in Alaska Native education while working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Jensen's work coincided with the last twenty-five years of Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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    1907 in Denmark to Anna and Hans Jensen. In a series of interviews with Jennifer Lee, Jensen noted

  • Family Deed : A Collection of Original Poetry

    Creator:
    Jones, Stephen Robert
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    This Thesis is a collection of fifty original poems with an Introduction completed during the Oregon State University academic year 1980-81.
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    into a day. Rude enjambement of swonarimmory Keeps our child close at hand, And memories like body

  • 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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    women. They are still burdened with household and child rearing responsibilities, and end up with

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

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    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    . I also would like to thank Crystal, Kevin, Monica, Anna, Katie, Kristin, and my many friends over