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  • Developmental aspects of the awareness of sex-trait stereotypes among Korean children

    Creator:
    Lee, Jae Yeon
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    A Korean Sex Stereotype Measure (KSSM) was developed to assess the awareness of sex-trait stereotypes among Korean children. The KSSM contains 32 descriptions of psychological characteristics, 16 of which represent the male-trait stereotypes, and 16 of which represent the female-trait stereotypes. In a test situation, subjects were asked to associate...
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    Dissertation
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    placed on the importance of understanding the concept of sex role being assessed when using these

  • "Doing weddings" : couples' gender strategies in wedding preparation

    Creator:
    Humble, Aine M.
    Abstract:
    Men today are doing more household labor than in previous generations, but research suggests that gender still strongly influences household labor. A great deal of labor goes into creating family rituals, which may be central carriers for gender construction. Weddings, in particular, are rituals based on a gender dichotomy that...
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    Dissertation

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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Resisting Society's Influence: Selling Sex in Women's

  • Gender role attitudes among Thai college students : traditional or egalitarian?

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    collecting the gender- related attitude scales and items from Beere's Sex-Role Egalitarian Scale ( King and

  • The structural relationship among gender role conflict, social support and health behavior in older men

    Creator:
    Hill, Wade Garrison
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    Inquiry into the cause of men's premature mortality has been historically framed in a biological deterministic perspective. This research takes an alternative view whereby the possible interactions of psychosocial variables with men's health promoting and health seeking behaviors are examined using cross-sectional survey data with older men. Specifically, this research...
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    Dissertation
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    Men 16 Male Sex-Role Identity and Health 24 Sex-Role Strain 28 Gender Role Conflict 33 Social

  • Gender and Race Stereotypes in Advertisements in Science, 2004-2006

    Creator:
    Atwood-Wheeler, Kathryn
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    This study documents the occurrence of stereotypical representations of gender, race, and other characteristics in individuals that appear in advertisements in the prestigious academic journal Science. It repeats and expands upon a study conducted by Mary Barbercheck (2001) that analyzed advertisements in Science between 1995 and 1997. In this study,...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

    Creator:
    Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
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    Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
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    Masters Thesis
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    outfits my mother used to knit for her. My mother, on the other hand, not a preferred role model for us

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ). Cheney’s article re-launched a fervent public debate about the role of history in schools on national

  • Processes of orientation to the informal caregiving role among Mexican-origin women : a qualitative analysis

    Creator:
    McDermott, Elizabeth A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents the steps that were taken to develop thematic findings using data from a qualitative study. Using a grounded approach, the study focused on qualitatively exploring Mexican origin caregivers' conceptualizations of elder caregiving in terms of role functioning, social norms, cultural beliefs, and familial obligations. Data collected from...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Informal Caregiving Role among Mexican-Origin Women: A Qualitative Analysis. Abstract approved