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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)
The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ...
The utility of select psychological, behavioral, and affective dimensions in differentiating among categories of eating disturbances.
(2001)
Three hundred twenty-six female undergraduate women participated in this investigation of the relationship of psychological, behavioral, and affective dimensions to categories of eating disturbances as delineated by the ...
American Indian wives' perceptions of agreement consensus: A study of marital power.
(2001)
Social scientists have traditionally based their study of marital power on western patriarchal notions of power. Concepts of power between wives and husbands have been measured by outcomes of decision making with economic ...
Migrancy and changing structures: The experiences of South African women in the Eastern Cape.
(2001)
This study examines the breakdown in Xhosa-speaking cultural, economic, and political structures that have been transformed in response to colonialism and apartheid. Its primary purpose was to identify indicators that ...