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  • Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian Kingfishers

    Creator:
    Kesler, Dylan C.
    Abstract:
    Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , and Dr. Richard Womack of the College of Micronesia supported fieldwork and made life interesting

  • “Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care

  • Can you see me?

    Creator:
    Wyckoff, Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find

  • Connections between women's unpaid family work and their family relationships : a feminist analysis

    Creator:
    McGraw, Lori A.
    Abstract:
    Women have long been responsible for the unpaid and under-recognized work of maintaining homes and family relationships (Walker, 1999). In this dissertation, I use feminist theories to address the connections between women's unpaid family work and their family relationships. I explore family ties between (a) aging mothers and their care...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Thoughts Of Talk At Work: Communication In A Feminist Battered Women's Shelter

    Creator:
    Cuéllar, Dawn M. Christiansen
    Abstract:
    This qualitative study explores communication among twelve battered women's advocates. It highlights their experiences of communication at work. A disconnection existed between the agency's recommended communication style and the way participants experienced talking with coworkers and supervisors during staff meetings, specifically, and across agency sites, generally. Along with study participants,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The Experiences of Women in First-Term Calculus: Factors Affecting Mathematical Confidence

    Creator:
    Petty Blaisdell, Amanda
    Abstract:
    As industries relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in America continue to grow, employers will need more mathematicians and mathematically able workers than are currently graduating. Women are an underrepresented portion of these graduates, and researches say that this could be due to the difference between women’s and men’s...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    presented on August 12, 2019. Title: The Experiences of Women in First-Term Calculus: Factors

  • The Design of SWEsters Mentorship Program for First-Year Engineering Student Success

    Creator:
    Thompson, Tatiana A.
    Abstract:
    In order to support first-year women in engineering, a program was designed to help their transition to college and promote connection with other women. The program focused on three main areas based in research: mentor matching with mentee input, regular formal meetings in small mentoring groups, and the formation of...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________ Carlos Jensen In order to support first-year women in engineering, a program was

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
    Abstract:
    Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Street. She was the last of the old women left on the block, and still stubborn to stay. But once she

  • A qualitative description of pregnant women experiencing homelessness

    Creator:
    Shatzel, Margaret M.
    Abstract:
    This study describes the experience of homelessness and pregnancy for seven women and their partners in Lane County, Oregon. Homeless pregnant women provide a unique challenge to health care providers and social workers. These women are at increased risk for many negative factors that could affect their pregnancy outcomes. The...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    A qualitative description of pregnant women experiencing

  • Women: Pregnancy and Sexual Activity

    Creator:
    Kilkenny, Michelle
    Abstract:
    The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the experience of pregnancy. Included in the experience of pregnancy are issues with perceptions of the self, body image, transition into motherhood, and reconciliation of the self as a sexual being during pregnancy. Through a review of the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Gender, and Socilogy presented on May 13, 2005. Title: Women: Pregnancy and Sexual Activity Abstract