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  • Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

    Creator:
    Browning, Richard L.
    Abstract:
    Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
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    social sciences and the author's own experiences in Latin America, the author proposes that current

  • The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

    Creator:
    Knewtson, Katrina Anne
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    This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
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    the degree of Master of Arts in InterdisciplinaEy Studies in Women Studies, History, and Adult

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

    Creator:
    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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    violence by men against women and children" (132). The "objective social basis" that Mies refers to

  • Native American Women : Leadership, Activism, and Feminism

    Creator:
    Cole, Spirit Dine'tah
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    In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are often at the core of American Indian resistance and struggles for liberation. Native women have a long history of assuming leadership positions within their particular tribes. Their struggles share many of the characteristics of women's struggles...
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  • 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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    Applied Anthropology. Applied Anthropology and Women Studies presented on February 16. 2001. Title

  • Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

    Creator:
    Power, Katherine A.
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    This thesis is an arrangement of essays, poems, and journal entries expressing and exploring experiences from the author's six years in a medium security women's prison. They are collected around the themes of longing and grief, of despair, of survival, of joy, and of the complexity of homecoming.
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    , like humans, geese form long-mated pairs and stable social groups capable of passing a culture of

  • In their own words : divorced and widowed women, retirement, and friendships

    Creator:
    Barlow-Pieterick, Marilyn
    Abstract:
    Friends benefit both our psychological and our emotional well-being by increasing overall happiness, life satisfaction, and a positive sense of self among women. Often, however, friendships decrease in the later years. The purpose of this study is to learn more about divorced or widowed, retired women and their friendships, specifically,...
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    social networks than did employed women. Friendships have been clearly identified by women as a

  • Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

    Creator:
    Martinez, Yolanda Tellez
    Abstract:
    This research explored the self-concept of Chicanas in terms of their lived experiences and how those experiences influenced the shaping of their identity. It examined the multiple labels Chicanas use to self-identify and the context or situations in which they use specific labels. Moreover, it took into account the influence...
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    participants. During the loosely structured interviews, the women were asked to narrate their life stories as

  • Depression, acculturation, and relationship power in Mexican immigrant women: an exploratory study

    Creator:
    Helfgott, Gabriela I.
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    One of the largely undetected and untreated health conditions affecting the Latino population in the United States is depression. Although the onset of depression can be influenced by a variety of factors that differ among individuals, Latinos in the United States are subject to certain cultural-specific social and environmental stresses...
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    machismo,2 perpetuate a gender inequality that places women in an inferior social and economic status

  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

    Creator:
    Ota, Brandy
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    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
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    branch of the United Nations. UNIFEM seeks to empower women through economic, social and political