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  • The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

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    Biddle, Jeanette M.
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    This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
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    THE THESIS OF Jeanette M. Biddle for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

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    Christian, Mary Ann
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    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    over Speech and Pornography AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary Ann Christian for the degree of

  • The resistance and survival of old women : striving for empowerment in the face of oppression and violence

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    Mau, Sindy Kay
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    Old women face a unique set of obstacles in their quest for empowerment. In this study the concept of empowerment is explored by politicizing issues of personal safety. The most significant factors that impede an old woman's sense of safety and control include oppression, primarily ageism and sexism, along with...
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    oppressed groups" (Pheterson 35). Ann Gerike refutes the assumptions that contribute to the oppression

  • 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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    Catholicism. Theologian Jeanette Rodriguez researched Mexican-American women’s perceptions of Our Lady

  • The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

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    Gray, Dennis J.
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    This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
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    Wagner Creek, near the present site of Talent, and was there harassed by the "next tribe." The Ogden

  • Development of a Bone Artifact Typology for the Oregon Coast

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    Lindsay, Lee W.
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    This thesis was to develop a bone artifact typology for the Oregon coast. This typology was used to test the hypothesis that different geographical regions of the Oregon coast would have different artifact assemblages associated with them. These regions, identified by geologist from landform changes, have been defined as: region...
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    . I would like to thank Dr. Jon Kimerling for agreeing to substitute for Dr. Rosenfeld. Dr. Jeanette

  • Cooperation and Coordination Between Interdependent Organizations : Job Training Partnership Agencies and Oregon Employment Division Local Offices

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    Bober, Pete
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    The Oregon Employment Division (ES) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funded agencies frequently provide employment and training services to the same populations, resulting in increased demands to coordinate the two systems efforts and avoid duplications of service. This study examined coordination between local ES offices and JTPA agencies in...
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    Agency When Unable to Fill Job Order 149 Table 14A Wagner-Peyser Sign-Off Has Significantly Increased

  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

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    Mackaman, Julie Irene
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    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    programs such as "The Shadow," and serial magazines. According to his biographer, Ann Charters, Kerouac

  • An Exploratory Study of Social and Personal Identity of Selected Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National College Students

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    Espinosa M., Jorge E.
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    Social and personal identities were examined for samples of college graduate students in three culturally different groups: Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National. Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: religious, family, gender, and peer. No differences were found between the groups on religious and gender identities....
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    , and Weigert, 1973; Wagner, 1977). While these four affiliations are impor- tant for all cultures

  • Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

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    Cole, Madeline L.
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    In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
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