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  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

    Creator:
    McNeill, Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    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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    marriage contract to more families. To determine the political strategy needed to achieve legal

  • Oregon's Death with Dignity Act : A Rhetorical Criticism of Narrative within Public Policy

    Creator:
    Townsend, Timothy F.
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of narratives within public policy, surrounding the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. Specifically, this study attempts to examine the way(s) in which narratives both shape and influence public policy; pertaining to Measure 16, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Narrative communication involving...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Necessary Limits of Religious Influence on Public Policy

    Creator:
    Kaltenberg, Shawn M.
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    In this thesis, I argue that Christian fundamentalism is a threat to the traditions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state in US liberal democracy. I support this claim by exploring the writings of men who were instrumental in the foundation of the US, concluding that they...
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    Masters Thesis
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    public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his

  • Resource policy implications of animal rights activism : a demographic, attitudinal and behavioral analysis

    Creator:
    Jamison, Wesley V.
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    The thesis analyzes the demographic, attitudinal and behavioral characteristics of animal rights activists, placing them in the context of resource policy. It is argued that the animal rights movement combined the Victorian critique of empiricism with a reaction to modernity that was characteristic of other contemporary mass movements. Animal rights...
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    Dissertation
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    mass movements. Animal rights activism emerged from a socio- political milieu that legitimized and

  • Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

    Creator:
    Ruder, Bonnie J.
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    In Uganda, there are an estimated 200,000 women suffering from obstetric fistula, with 1,900 new cases expected annually. These figures, combined with a persistently high maternal mortality rate, have led to an international discourse that claims the solution to improving maternal health outcomes is facility-based delivery with a skilled birth...
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    Masters Thesis
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    violence in the lives of rural, poor women. Results demonstrate how political-economic and cultural