Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Irvine, Jill"
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Carceral Christianization as a Religious Problem of Generations: Theorizing Cultural Miseducation from a Gender-Sensitive Study of Oral Life Histories
Stroud, Robin (2015-08-14)Religion is one of the most influential agents of moral education in both private and public domains, and its educational values and practices vary profoundly from one tradition to another. With that recognition, this ... -
Cross-National Lesson-Drawing: International Influences on Domestic Policymaking in the United States
Rickard, Victoria (2017-12)In an increasingly internationalized policy environment, determinants of U.S. domestic policy may include factors that are global in reach and external to the macro-level domestic political setting. The changing context ... -
Do As I Say Not As I Do: A Study of Representation in Congress
O'Grady, Caitlin (2013-08-26)This dissertation examines the behavior of members of the House of Representatives on economic issues in order to ascertain how economic characteristics of their constituencies affect their actions. Specifically, this ... -
EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE CANCER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX PINK WAR MACHINE: THEORIZING GENDER INSUBORDINATION FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF BREAST AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
Kogan Davis, Julie (2019-04-24)Premised upon John Dewey’s contention that dualist notions of minds isolated and elevated from bodies are an “evil” perpetuated in education (1916), this study applies Jane Roland Martin’s theories of education as encounter ... -
Emotions, Reasons, and Rationality
Epley, Kelly (2016)Intuitively, emotion/judgment conflicts are irrational because they are disruptive. They create disturbances and divisions in our generally well-ordered and cohesive selves. When you fear the spider, even though you judge ... -
Labor and Environmental Activism in Twentieth-Century American Women's Catholicism
Buchkoski, John (2020-05-08)This dissertation explores how the United Farm Worker movement inspired Catholic women to adapt their relationship to the environment. Liberal nuns, who had participated in the civil rights movement, initially saw advocating ... -
Mis(sed) Conceptions: Motherhood Through the Lens of Involuntary Childlessness
Brody, Jessica (2014-12-12)The present study examined predictors of fertility-specific distress in the experience of involuntary childlessness. One hundred and twelve women took part in this online study. Participants completed a demographic ... -
Opposition to Authoritarianism: Ideational and Material Resources in Russia and Ukraine
Degirmen, Burcu (2017-12)Why do some opposition movements succeed in deposing authoritarian leaders in the former Soviet Republics, while some others fail? How do regime opponents challenge authoritarian discourses and practices? How do authoritarian ... -
Order in a Chaotic Subsystem: A Comparative Analysis of Nuclear Facility Siting Using Coalition Opportunity Structures and the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Gupta, Kuhika (2013-11)This dissertation attempts to highlight existing patterns surrounding locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) and explain how institutional features of a country influence the likelihood those LULUs become operational. Focusing ... -
Strings of Traitors: Social Networks and the Organizational Trajectory of the Khmer Rouge
Fox, Andrew (2019-05-10)How do social networks shape the development and trajectory of militant organizations and revolutionary parties engaged in the process of establishing political order through violence? In this dissertation, I argue that ...