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Tyler, Mary Anne Deibert. "Women's voices responses of women students to a women's studies course /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1992. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9222154.
Full textChen, Pei-Ching. "Women's studies and the women's movement in Taiwan /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2639.
Full textTheses (Dept. of Women's Studies) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor : Dr. Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.
Rabinowitz, Amy Phyllis. "Education for empowerment: the role of emerging statewide organizations in gaining economic justice for women /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11168638.
Full textTypescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Lawrence Cremin. Includes bibliographical references: (leaves 118-121).
McPherson, Marian. "Framing of African-American Women in Mainstream and Black Women's Magazines." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13850741.
Full textFor decades, there has been a concern with the negative framing of black women in the media. Historically, black women are placed into four stereotypical frames: The Mammy, The Jezebel, The Sapphire and The Matriarch. However, in 2008, a new image of black women arose through Michelle Obama. She was well rounded — beautiful, intelligent, insightful, humorous, strong, yet soft all at the same time. This study seeks to understand the changes in the framing of black women since Michelle Obama’s time as First Lady.
More specifically, this study focuses on the medium of magazine journalism, which seems to be largely ignored in the realm of media studies. Thirty articles from a mainstream (Glamour) and a black women’s magazine (Essence) were analyzed for the presence of historical frames along with the emergence of new ones. The study employs the qualitative method of textual analysis as a way to determine frames and their meanings through a grounded theory approach.
The primary outcomes of this study are a greater understanding of how historical frames still affect how magazines, mainstream and black, frame black women, and the revealing of new frames that depart from those historical representations. Furthermore, this study will be used as a foundation for editors, writers, educators and students alike, to create more authentic and multifaceted stories about black women.
Young, Shawna Hodges. "Women's collegiate wrestling : three case studies /." ProQuest subscription required:, 2001. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990270571&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textKhalsa, Sat Bir Kaur. "Incorporating Disability Studies: Revising the introductory women's studies course curriculum." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291543.
Full textGarza, Maria Alicia 1957. "El genero y la sexualidad en la cuentistica de Ines Arredondo." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290641.
Full textMylonas, Ariana. ""Women are the pillars of the family"| Athenian women's survival strategies during economic crisis." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527018.
Full textDemonstrations in response to the harsh austerity budget in Greece which cut valuable government services, and the civil unrest in Athens specifically, are an outward, visible response to economic crisis. In an androcentric society such as Greece, women are disproportionately affected by the austerity measures because of the feminization of budget cuts. This ethnographic study explores how middle class women in Athens are coping economically, politically and socially in a national and global financial crisis. Through studying middle class Greek women, one can intensively illustrate the faults of neoliberal economic policies that pride themselves on the creation of the so-called middle class while simultaneously eliminating it. This research examines the survival strategies and adaptation methods of middle class women in Athens as well as placing them within the global economic context further displaying the fallacy of neoliberal economic policies as an economic growth agenda.
Galindo-Arévalo, María Teresa. "Women's empowerment through cooperatives in Latin America." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1387449194.
Full textNowogrodzki, Anna (Anna Rose). "Sex, drugs, and women's desire." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101363.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis. "September 2015."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-34).
Low desire is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. Pharmaceuticals are being developed to treat it, most notably Flibanserin, owned by Sprout Pharmaceuticals. Sometimes inaccurately referred to as "female Viagra," Flibanserin actually treats an entirely different problem. Viagra allows men to get an erection, meaning that it treats physical arousal problems. Flibanserin, and other drugs for low sexual desire in women, act on the brain. Women with low desire don't have a problem with physical arousal or with orgasm, but with desiring sex before it starts. Most women with low sexual desire disorder have partners with higher desire than they do. So is low desire a medical, physiological problem in the brain? Or is it a sociocultural, interpersonal issue? Some experts think that the majority of women with what has been called a "disorder" of low sexual desire have no abnormal physiological problem, but instead are living in a sociocultural and medical system that encourages them to think of themselves as broken, and may be best treated with non-pharmaceutical methods. Other experts think that low desire is a physiological problem and drugs are important to treat it. Cultural shame around communicating about sex, undervaluing of women's sexuality compared to men's, and unrealistic sexual expectations all feed into and complicate the issue.
by Anna Nowogrodzki.
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Mitchell, Anne Michelle. "Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678.
Full textRussell, Helen. "Women's experience of unemployment : a study of British women in the 1980s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339032.
Full textDeller, Ingrid G. "Women's Experiences of Being without Children." Thesis, William James College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10270570.
Full textFor many, bearing children is not a choice, it is considered the norm, a rite of passage. Despite this view, in the past two decades, there has been a substantial increase in the number of families without children, and the number of women who do not have children has doubled. While women who have chosen to be without children have increasingly gained acceptance in society, they continue to experience varying degrees of stigma. This research project reviewed the literature on the topic of women without children, and investigated the subjective experience of ten women who have decided to not have children. This study explored the decision process, particularly, how the participants arrived at the decision to not have children as well as the impact their choice had on their sense of self. The method used was a semi-structured interview, and data from these interviews was analyzed to identify themes that emerged from the participants’ narratives. The findings of this study revealed that the choice to forego motherhood is complex and that several factors can impact one’s decision, including others’ opinions. Some of these factors included their background and experience of being a child as well as their role within their family. The participants made reference to the way their mothers identified with being a ‘mom’ and not wanting to identify as such. They expressed doubts about their ability to manage parenting and bringing a child into a dangerous world. Also of concern was the idea of meeting the demands of parenting, including the expense of raising children. Lastly, the participants identified health reasons as a factor, as well as the physical demands of pregnancy and childbirth.
AYERS, AMANDA KAY. "WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALING: A BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1070897265.
Full textJohnson, Lakesia Denise. "The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213127495.
Full textMurray, Bethany A. "Sociocultural factors in women's health in Swaziland." Thesis, Indiana University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3712736.
Full textThe Kingdom of Swaziland is a small African nation with an HIV prevalence rate of 27.4% in adults and up to 39% in pregnant women (Global Health Observatory, 2014). In 2012, life expectancy for a woman in Swaziland was 55-years (World Health Organization, 2014). Health entails more than the absence of disease. Although considered a lower middle-income country, 69% of Swazi citizens live in poverty and nearly one-third live in extremely poor circumstances. The degree to which upstream factors such as social conditions and the cultural environment impact individuals tends to be minimized in Westernized models of health behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine the sociocultural factors that impact self-care and health maintenance of women in Swaziland. The goals related to this were to uncover the salient cultural values, beliefs and attitudes that affect the health of Swazi women, and to develop a deeper understanding of how strongly embedded cultural values are a determinant of health outcomes. Using Carspecken’s methodology of critical ethnography, which incorporates both observational and narrative methods, this study focused intensively on the life stories of four rural African women. The findings richly illustrate how social issues such as poverty and food insecurity impact the health of women and their children; and how traditional customs and practices both support and threaten the health of women and families. Women in this study experienced a loss of husband or extended family due to death or abandonment that resulted in losses in supports and resources. Additionally, they worried about the health and education of their children before personal health needs. They also reported chronic employment problems and mistrust in existing governmental agencies including the healthcare system. Application of the culturally sensitive Person-Environment-Neighborhood (PEN-3) model highlights areas of resilience, strengths, and resource targets and identifies the community as an appropriate entry level for health interventions.
LaFave, Helen Grace. "A Place of Honor and Fruitfulness : World War one and the War Activities of Women from the Elite Women's Colleges." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624382.
Full textAramand, Anne. "Can women have it all?| Hesitant feminism in American women's popular writing." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550547.
Full textTwilight by Stephenie Meyer and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are two of the bestselling series of our generation. These series are meeting widespread popularity just as the contemporary feminist debate of: "Can women have it all?" is occurring around the country. Although Twilight and The Hunger Games are not considered overtly feminist texts, they have emerged in a time when women are reexamining the possibility of empowering themselves both in the public and the domestic sphere. Meyer and Collins have introduced female protagonists that deal with precisely this issue.
First, I will be outlining why cultural studies are important to discussions of popular literature, as argued by both Jane Tompkins and Cathy N. Davidson, especially in terms of female readers and writers. I will also be exploring the bestselling works of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls which emerged during the first and second waves of feminism and how they expressed a hesitation to give women a happy ending outside domesticity within their respective historical contexts. Next, I will review the current "lean in" culture of the third wave of feminism. I will also show how both Twilight and The Hunger Games continue the pattern of female protagonists that cannot be empowered unless they are wives and mothers. Finally, I will analyze how my own creative writing has been affected by cultural debates involving women's roles. Popular women's writing that emerges in the context of major feminist moments in American history shows ambivalence towards empowering women outside the home. This ambivalence is also reflected in my own writing through poetry. By first examining the work of best-selling women writers in the last two centuries and then analyzing my own writing in concurrence with the evolution of feminist ideals, I will show that women writers display a hesitant feminism despite emerging alongside progressive cultural moments in American history.
Christianson, Stace Hucks. "Mormon Women's Sense of Empowerment." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1997. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,24557.
Full textBrown, M. H. "Organizational aspects of women's centres." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373111.
Full textNorgang, Gloria. "Gifted women's perspectives on giftedness and success." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10002.
Full textNchimbi, Rehema Jonathan. "Women's beauty in the history of Tanzania." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6701.
Full textQuinlan, Colleen. "Women's Career Development: The Lived Experience of Canadian University Women Presidents." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1353006797.
Full textBlomgren, Emelie. "Women and Political Participation : A Minor Field Study on Hindrances for Women's Political Participation in Georgia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-9910.
Full textEl, Geyoushi Bohaira. "Studies in women's reproductive healthcare in developing countries." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406021.
Full textGooch, Betty Louise Eppler 1947. "Power through information: Women's networking organizations." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291927.
Full textHarris, Jacqueline. "Rereading and Rewriting Women's History." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/19.
Full textThomas, Evans Margaret Anne. "Available Means in the Twenty-First Century: Women’s Organization Websites." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240261550.
Full textCochran, Shannon M. Phd. "Corporeal (isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative Cultures." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281917081.
Full textAscuaga, Camille. "Political agenda setting and the battered women's issue : the effects of government funding on battered women's programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71049.
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by Camille Ascuaga.
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Weigand, Kathleen Anne. "Vanguards of women's liberation : the Old Left and the continuity of the women's movement in the United States, 1945-1970s /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303142245.
Full textWilliams, Jennifer D. "Re-Membering madness in Africana Women's Literature." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1998. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/655.
Full textGoodwin-Kucinsky, Molly. "Filling the Gaps: How Women’s Groups Meet Changing Needs in Post-Soviet Russia." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243868760.
Full textStefani, Victoria Lee. ""True statements": Women's narratives of the American frontier experience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284185.
Full textCox, Linda June. "Stalking: A Qualitative Study of Women's Lived Experiences." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1380551037.
Full textLatimer, Shana. "In Their Words: Women's Holocaust Memoirs." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/129.
Full textDaniels, Rosemary. "Women's place in men's poetry: The creation of a beata femina in women's poetry of the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29093.
Full textColeman-Crossfield, Latangela L. "The impact of sexism on African-American women ministers in selected branches of methodism as perceived by clergywomen: 1980-2000." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2008. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/8.
Full textFischesser, Sarah M. ""Thanks to Title IX" : female athletes' identifications and team sports in transition." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textJiwani, Nisara. "Shia Muslim Canadian women's discursive constructions of physical activity." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28060.
Full textMcConnell, Karen E. "Homophobia in women's intercollegiate athletics : a case study." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2261.
Full textUdel, Lisa J. "REVISING STRATEGIES THE LITERATURE AND POLITICS OF NATIVE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990625725.
Full textMendelson-Klauss, Cindy F. "Mexican American women's struggle to create health." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289213.
Full textCooke, Maureen Lynch. "The Great Escape: Modern Women and the Chick Lit Genre." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/418.
Full textThis thesis uses a cultural studies approach to study the contemporary "chick lit" genre. These novels written by women, for women may be dismissed as frivolous, but their immense popularity proves that they have tapped into a cultural tension. Their target readers are young women who have grown up in a post-feminist revolution society and face unique issues unknown to any other generation of women. Blending feminist, Marxist, and formalist theories, this thesis attempts to discover how this genre functions in contemporary society – what does it do to its readers? While trying to respect the readers at all times, this thesis will discuss the failure of the genre to provide a new space for women to escape to. The conclusion discusses the potential of chick lit to do more; the genre has captured a "zeitgeist" among young women and its popularity reaches a wide audience. In the future, chick lit could serve as a genre that discusses women's issues, prompting its readers to question gender roles, consumerism, and the global status of women
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
Geary, Danielle. "Understanding women's experiences with women-only leadership development programs in higher education| A mixed methods approach." Thesis, Marquette University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10242225.
Full textPrevious research indicated that women’s advancement into the leadership and administrative ranks in higher education has stalled over the past twenty years. Studies highlighted the socio-cultural and structural barriers that create challenges for women’s advancement in the academy. This study focused on the use of women-only leadership development programs (WLDPs) as a potential resource for women in the pursuit of advancing their careers. Few research studies to date assess the outcome for women who have attended WLDPs.
This study was an in-depth case study of the Women in Higher Education Leadership Summit (WHELS) held at the University of San Diego, School of Leadership and Education Studies. Using a sequential transformative mixed methods design, 95 WHELS alumnae were contacted to answer the research question “How do women from various social locations understand the influence of WHELS on their career plan/trajectory?” Using a quantitative survey (37% response rate), followed by qualitative interviews, five main hypotheses were tested to determine if WHELS alumnae reported improved leadership identity, improved leadership ability, improved understanding of effective leadership styles, whether they had advanced in their career, and if alumnae attributed WHELS to their advancement.
Based upon the findings all five hypotheses were supported by the quantitative data. Qualitative data also supported the quantitative findings, but it provided clarification into how women experienced WHELS. The qualitative findings revealed that women reported benefitting from attending WHELS, it confirmed the leadership ability and style the women already possessed. WHELS built women’s self-awareness and self-confidence, allowing women to adopt a leadership identity. Women benefited from this leadership identity as it built their self-efficacy and agency.
This study confirmed that women do face socio-cultural and structural barriers in institutions of higher education, which create barriers to their advancement into leadership roles. However, through the completion of WHELS, the participants of this study built self-confidence in their leadership abilities, adopting a leadership identity. Through this process the women in this study returned to their institutions with self-efficacy and agency. The study concludes with a discussion of the findings, limitations, recommended future research, and implications for action.
Winkle, Wagner Rachelle. "The Unchosen Me : institutionally imposed identity and women's college experiences /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215213.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1251. Advisers: Deborah F. Carter; Phil F. Carspecken. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 18, 2007)."
Mironesco, Monique. "Feminist consciousness, voice, and empowerment : Women's Studies in Hawaiʻi." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3064.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 344-350).
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Padavell, Jacqlyn Suzanne. "Gender and the university, the debate over women's studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34460.pdf.
Full textAchtenhagen, Leona, and Malin Tillmar. "Studies on women's entrepreneurship from Nordic countries and beyond." Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21187.
Full textDemers, Sylvie. "Émigration, famille, travail et communauté : rôles cachés des femmes portugaises d'Ottawa-Hull." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5353.
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