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The older mother-daughter relationship: The influence of caregiving beliefs on communicative behaviors prior to dependency.
(1998)
The goal of this study was to develop a richer understanding of the interaction between healthy mothers and their adult daughters prior to the mother's dependency. Thirty-six mother-daughter dyads discussed how they would ...
Women mentoring minority women in universities: Retention strategies for female minority students.
(2001)
These purposely selected women (informally) mentored minority women in two different universities in one state. The broad research question was: (1) How do university female faculty perceive the mentoring process (if ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
Is there still a chill? Student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom.
(1997)
This study investigates student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom. Utilizing the Student Perception Questionnaire, Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, and student perceptions of teacher immediacy, ...
Women’s Rights as Proletarian Rights: Yamakawa Kikue, Suffrage, and the “Dawn of Liberation”
(2018)
Yamakawa Kikue is famous for having worked relentlessly to critique Japan’s prewar socialist movement for its lack of attention to women’s issues. In addition to her continual presence as an oppositional figure operating ...
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
The intersection of feminism and Indianness in the activism of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.
(2002)
My work offers a comparative examination of the use of feminism and Indian identity in the careers of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. While they took different paths to political activism, Harris as the wife of a United ...
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)
Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ...
The evaluation of a university-based acquaintance rape prevention program.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of one such prevention program. One hundred and eighty male students from a large midwestern university were divided into two groups (dormitory & ROTC) and were ...
Re-thinking sexual identity, toward an out-siders' praxis: An educator's re-vision of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" in response to compulsory heterosexuality.
(2001)
Responding to wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in education, this dissertation examines theories of heterosexism, conceptualizing as mis-educative compulsory ...