In spring term 2015, four OSU Women's Center staff members gathered for an oral history interview to reflect upon their experiences working at the center. The interview begins by introducing four staff members of Oregon State University’s women’s center--Amelia Allee, Shelby Baisden, Soreth Dahri, and Nicthé Verdugo. After discussing their...
Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...
The focus of postcolonial studies has shifted in the last decade or so from a struggle over history, the narratives of winners and losers—as recorded by the winners and resisted by the losers—to a struggle over geography. Power inequities formerly embodied in Manichean conceptualizations (Colonizer/Colonized, Oppressor/Oppressed, Occidental/Oriental, Self/Other, First World/Third...
The purpose of this investigation was to locate, organize and
analyze information pertaining to clothing and household textiles of
Aurora Colony, Oregon, which existed from 185 7 to 1877. Aurora
Colony was a communal group, headed by Dr. William Kiel, which
emigrated from Bethel, Missouri to Oregon in 1857. This...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the direction of future
Korean industrial engineering education and to suggest how U.S.
experiences can guide Korean developments. The leading indicator
concept, correlation coefficients are utilized.
The following statistical relationships were developed and the
following educational and practical industrial engineering trends in...
This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...