Browsing by Subject "feminism"
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There has been much written about Rosa Parks throughout the years including biographical sources about her life and secondary sources about the Civil Rights Movement in which she is included. As a whole, scholars have ...
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Contemporary Representations of Race: Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment (2017-05-09)This dissertation examines ways in which the myth of meritocracy, notions of America as post-racial, and instances of colorisms are articulated through CNN (Cable News Network) during the rise of then-Senator Barack Obama’s ...
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(2009-05-15)“Empowerment” is a term used liberally throughout feminist theory. However, the term has a number of assumed meanings, depending upon the context of its use. In this dissertation, I examine primarily second-wave feminist ...
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To overall explore how new media use presents a forum for discussions of inclusivity through personal narratives, this study investigates how religious discourse about feminism influences individual identity by analyzing ...
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(1991)This thesis investigates the problem of reading women's and ethnic literature by exploring three American novels written by ethnic women: Beloved (1987), by African-American novelist Toni Morrison; Love Medicine (1984), ...
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(2018-04-26)This dissertation is a historical examination of the development of 1970s Southern lesbian feminism in the United States. It uses archival research, lesbian feminist periodicals and publications, and Southern lesbian ...
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(2014-06-24)This study investigated the educational programs of an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in a developing region. The purpose of this study was to examine the exchange between an international NGO ...
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Peripheral travelers: how American solo women backpackers participate in two communities of practice (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)To investigate the ways in which communities of practice affect individuals' identity development, qualitative research methods were used to understand the impact solo travel had on American women's identity development. ...
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(2019-03-29)This thesis contains the critical introduction and the full text of my original science fiction novel, The Pirate Queen. The critical introduction details the literary, theoretical, and historical influences that led to ...
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(2013-05-03)On July 19, 2010, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a story on his website claiming USDA worker Shirley Sherrod was racist in her work with farmers. The edited video included with the story as proof, showed ...
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(2020-06-05)This dissertation interrogates myths of empowerment centered on individual choice within a global rape culture. While rape culture is increasingly a fixture in contemporary U.S. and European news, especially with the rise ...
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(2023-07-20)This dissertation investigates the “Bearded Girls,” a phenomenon enjoying the spotlight in Iran's news media during 2016-2020. Bearded Girls is a nickname given by news and social media to women who disguise themselves as ...
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(2015-08-11)This dissertation examines the conservative response of mainstream Americans to the various social movements that captured the nation’s attention in the 1960s. In conjunction with opinion polls, newspaper articles, and ...
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(2020-07-07)Bibliography of academic and practitioner articles and statements about historic preservation and social justice. The list was developed in 2020 by The Texas Freedom Colonies Project research team and will be updated annually.
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)A feminist point of view is used in this study of gay men living in a small, collegiate community who use leisure travel as a negotiation strategy to achieve freedom of expression. Feminism is concerned with equality, ...
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(2022-05-20)Muslim women’s veils are a global obsession. From the compulsory hijab laws in Iran to police stripping women of their burkinis on French beaches, the sight of the veil provokes visceral reactions. International public ...