In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents
the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response
theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media
conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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Susan Shaw
White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included,
often
The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
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Elaine L. Pedersen
The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship
The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins, Oregon is an intact, well-preserved example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger patterns of expansion in America...
Historically, women made quilts for utilitarian and for aesthetic purposes. Quilting was for many women one of the few outlets in which they could express themselves in a patriarchal society. Quiltmaking in groups afforded women the opportunity to increase their personal and political empowerment and to legitimate social gatherings. Because...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic has achieved a difficult feat – it has remained culturally relevant. The dedication of the general public to understanding Titanic is evident in many avenues of popular and consumer culture. For those individuals who did not get enough of the 1997 Titanic movie, there...
Integrated research that attempts to bring together social, biological, and physical variables is a recent phenomenon in natural resources. Scientists, land managers, politicians, and society as a whole have recognized that in order to produce optimal decisions for both humans and the environment, research on the interactions
between the two...
Recent national and state legislation reflect a
growing awareness of the need for comprehensive cultural
resource management programs. Various pieces of federal
legislation and Oregon's Senate Bill 100 demonstrate a
willingness of governments to provide for such programs.
The administration of local land use issues at the state
government level...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of dress and queer women and how their sexual identity influences their appearance management behaviors. I answered the following research questions: (1) How is gender identity constructed and negotiated in different spaces for queer? (2) Does sexual identity influence dress...