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Women and the avant-garde: Sexual difference in discourse and art, 1900--1950.
(2002)
This study seeks to understand the critical influences shaping the literary and artistic exchanges between women and the modernist avant-garde. It analyzes texts disclosing expressions of gender and sexual difference ...
Emerging leadership among African American female educators.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to understand the process of why African-American female teachers seek administration early in their teaching career. This study examines the chronological stages of five women teachers that ...
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
The advancement of women in higher education leadership.
(2001)
The cross-case analysis is supported by literature on organizational culture, change and life cycle. The importance of pioneers and the context for social change are discussed along with their impact on the diffusion of ...
Bells and whistles: The mass (re)production of female bodies for male consumption.
(2003)
In this work I examine the way female bodies are constructed by contemporary ethnic U.S. women writers in the clash of cultures, thus involving a process of negotiation between the dominant culture and ethnicity. Of special ...
Making meaning of barriers and successes: A qualitative study of upper level female educational leaders.
(2006)
This study revealed the phenomenological meaning three women in the upper levels of school administration in a military school system overseas made of the barriers (both internal and external) they experienced in their ...
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 ...
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 ...