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  • Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

    Creator:
    Rost, Coral
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    Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

  • An abortion service provider as political activist

    Creator:
    Willis, Gloria
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    The feminist beliefs of abortion service providers and the effects of these beliefs on the delivery of health care to patients is examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion includes abortion rates, abortion safety, characteristics of patients, and accessibility of...
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    Provider as Political Activist. Abstract Approved: Susan M. Shaw The feminist beliefs of abortion

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

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    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    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...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books. Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw

  • The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

    Creator:
    Sandeno, Robin M.
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    Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
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    Present, trans. Patricia M. Ranum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), 29. 14 and

  • Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

    Creator:
    Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
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    This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
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    THESIS OF Suzanne M. Gaulocher for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • Effectiveness of Computerized Communication Treatment for Neurologically Impaired Adults

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    Krivak, Brenda M.
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    The single subject alternating treatment design experiment reported here compared the effectiveness of pencil-and-paper versus computerized communication treatment for neurologically impaired adults. Five stroke patients receiving outpatient speech/language treatment (ages 51-72) served as subjects. One subject completed the experiment as designed and clearly supported the hypothesis that a higher number...
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    neurologically impaired adults AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brenda M. Krivak for the degree of Master of Arts

  • Buddhist Theories of Karma and the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others

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    Allen, Pamela M.
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    Psychological theory of social cognition and Buddhist philosophy of cognition suggest that people's actions should determine their impressions of future events. In psychology, several studies have shown that behavior can activate constructs and thereby influence one's perception. However, they do not address prosocial behavior, a specific concern of Buddhist philosophy...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THESIS OF Pamela M

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    Andre M. Hahn for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in History of Science

  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
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    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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