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  • Are single classified women's needs being addressed by the union in a university environment?

    Creator:
    Pastre, Nicolette M.
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    The initial research question for this study asked whether single women were having their employment needs met by the union in a university setting. Twelve single women who were members of a union at a university participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences with the union. To the surprise of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    University Environment? Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw The initial research question for this

  • Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

    Creator:
    Yoshizaki, Kimiyo
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    This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife and mother. Especially, motherhood was the main responsibility of women. However, the advance of industry, technology, and methods of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Nancy Rosenberger, Dr. Joan Gross, Dr. Susan Shaw, and Dr. Anita Helle. Especially, I would like to

  • A Global Trend of Child trafficking Among Girls Experiencing Violence and Neglect in the Yorùbá Ethnic group in Nigeria: A Transnational Feminist Approach

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    Oludayo, Folasade M.
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    The trafficking of children is one of the gravest violations of human rights globally today. Every year, hundreds of thousands of girl child are smuggled across borders and sold as mere commodities. There are minimal scholarly works focusing on the girl child and analyzing it from the global trends among...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw Abstract The trafficking of children is one of the gravest violations of human

  • Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

    Creator:
    Wright, Amanda R.
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    American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
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    Masters Thesis
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    committee members, Dr. Marion Rossi, Dr. Susan Shaw, Dr. John Simonsen and especially to Dr. Mark

  • “My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

    Creator:
    Tanner, Laura C.
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    Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Susan Shaw Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in

  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

    Creator:
    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Susan M. Shaw This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical

  • Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study

    Creator:
    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Nancy Staton

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

    Creator:
    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
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    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amy L. Leer-Beyerlein for the

  • Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

    Creator:
    Kubein, Adele M.
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    This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee communities and particularly their businesses to gentrification and community vitality in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of African Americans by Whites seeking affordable housing and new frontiers, but rather is...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee

  • Investigations of regulatory T cell induction by 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin during a graft-versus-host response

    Creator:
    Marshall, Nikki B.
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    The immune toxicity of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) has been studied for over 35 years, but only recently has the profound immune suppression associated with TCDD exposure been linked to induction of regulatory T cells (Tregs). The effects of TCDD are mediated through binding the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a ligand-activated transcription...
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    Dissertation
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    : ____________________________________________________________________ Nancy I. Kerkvliet The immune toxicity of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) has