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Understanding Women's Experiences With Women-Only Leadership Development Programs In Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Approach, Danielle Marie Geary
Understanding Women's Experiences With Women-Only Leadership Development Programs In Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Approach, Danielle Marie Geary
Dissertations (1934 -)
Previous research indicated that women’s advancement into the leadership and administrative ranks in higher education has stalled over the past twenty years. Studies highlighted the socio-cultural and structural barriers that create challenges for women’s advancement in the academy. This study focused on the use of women-only leadership development programs (WLDPs) as a potential resource for women in the pursuit of advancing their careers. Few research studies to date assess the outcome for women who have attended WLDPs. This study was an in-depth case study of the Women in Higher Education Leadership Summit (WHELS) held at the University of San Diego, …
Discarding Dreams And Legends: The Short Fiction Of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, And Eudora Welty, Katy L. Leedy
Discarding Dreams And Legends: The Short Fiction Of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, And Eudora Welty, Katy L. Leedy
Dissertations (1934 -)
This project examines four Southern women writers—Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty—who use the genre of the short story and the setting of the farm or insular living space to critique Southern regional identity. I argue that the social critiques of these southern female short story writers have been overlooked because stereotypes rooted in the fantasy of the idealized southern woman has limited critical perceptions of these authors’ engagements with cultural or political issues, when in reality their short fiction helped to influence the shifting expectations of the mid-twentieth century South. This study provides a …
Gendering Scientific Discourse From 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, And Jane Marcet, Bridget E. Kapler
Gendering Scientific Discourse From 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, And Jane Marcet, Bridget E. Kapler
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation project operates on the belief that the democratic, everyday pursuits of science were at least as significant scientifically, and perhaps even more important culturally, as the elite, highly speculative work done by the gentlemen scientists of the Romantic Age (1790-1830). It focuses upon the literary works, careers, and discourse of Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet, tracing the role that gender played in assigning recognition and authority in the scientific community. Operating in a public sphere that favored the scientific discoveries of male gentlemen scientists, boundary crossing had to occur decisively, but quietly through a …