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The 6669th Women's Army Corps Headquarters Platoon: Path Breakers In The Modern Military, Peg Poeschl Siciliano Jan 1988

The 6669th Women's Army Corps Headquarters Platoon: Path Breakers In The Modern Military, Peg Poeschl Siciliano

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


When Mary Entered With Her Brother William: Women Students At The College Of William And Mary, 1918-1945, Laura Frances Parrish Jan 1988

When Mary Entered With Her Brother William: Women Students At The College Of William And Mary, 1918-1945, Laura Frances Parrish

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


When Women Say Yes: Sexual Initiation, Minority Status, And Opportunity Costs, Chris A. Flippo Jan 1987

When Women Say Yes: Sexual Initiation, Minority Status, And Opportunity Costs, Chris A. Flippo

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Law And Women In The Seventeenth-Century Courts Of York County, Virginia, Linda Lee Sturtz Jan 1987

Law And Women In The Seventeenth-Century Courts Of York County, Virginia, Linda Lee Sturtz

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Women Who Have A Graduate School Education Who Have Chosen To Make Mothering The Major Focus Of Their Time : A Descriptive Study, Linda Shapiro Stone Jan 1987

Women Who Have A Graduate School Education Who Have Chosen To Make Mothering The Major Focus Of Their Time : A Descriptive Study, Linda Shapiro Stone

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This is a descriptive study of 33 graduate school educated women who have chosen to stay home with their children. The study includes a discussion of five major areas: personality characteristics, decision-making process, level of job satisfaction, peer and family relationships, and self-image.;The Methodology for this study involved four data gathering procedures: the demographic data form, the structural interview, the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), and the Bems Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). Participants were obtained by sending fliers home with children at five preschools in the Richmond, Virginia Metropolitan area.;Demographic Data. The mean age for the group was 34. All were part …


Neither Heroine Nor Fool : Anna Ella Carroll Of Maryland, Janet L. Coryell Jan 1986

Neither Heroine Nor Fool : Anna Ella Carroll Of Maryland, Janet L. Coryell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1815, Anna Ella Carroll was the eldest daughter of Maryland Governor Thomas King Carroll. By the early 1850s, she had become a political pamphleteer for the Know-Nothing Party, a nativist and anti-Catholic organization. She wrote a number of books and election pamphlets supporting the presidential candidacy of Millard Fillmore in 1856. In the election of 1860, she promoted the candidacy of John Minor Botts of Virginia, a strong Unionist.;When Civil War began, Carroll worked to support Lincoln's action, and wrote several pamphlets on his behalf. She argues, as did Lincoln, that the …


Captured.Never Came Back: Social Networks Among Female New England Captives, 1689--1763, Barbara Austen Jan 1986

Captured.Never Came Back: Social Networks Among Female New England Captives, 1689--1763, Barbara Austen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Sallie And Elizabeth Galt: Compliance And Resistance To The "Southern Lady" Role In Antebellum Williamsburg, Elizabeth Neal Pitzer Jan 1985

Sallie And Elizabeth Galt: Compliance And Resistance To The "Southern Lady" Role In Antebellum Williamsburg, Elizabeth Neal Pitzer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Dutiful Obedient Wife": The Journal Of Elizabeth Foote Washington Of Virginia, 1779-1796, Linda Eileen Parris Jan 1984

"A Dutiful Obedient Wife": The Journal Of Elizabeth Foote Washington Of Virginia, 1779-1796, Linda Eileen Parris

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Feminism On Subjective Class Identification, Emilie Patricia Walter Jan 1983

The Impact Of Feminism On Subjective Class Identification, Emilie Patricia Walter

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


To Be Amiable And Accomplished: Fitting Young Women For Upper-Class Virginia Society 1760--1810, Tori Ann Eberlein Jan 1982

To Be Amiable And Accomplished: Fitting Young Women For Upper-Class Virginia Society 1760--1810, Tori Ann Eberlein

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Sex Roles, Ego Identity, And Intimacy In College Women, Jane G. Wilson Jan 1982

Sex Roles, Ego Identity, And Intimacy In College Women, Jane G. Wilson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Women's Studies On The Fear Of Success And Locus Of Control Of Female College Students, Arlene Spielholz Levine Jan 1981

The Effects Of Women's Studies On The Fear Of Success And Locus Of Control Of Female College Students, Arlene Spielholz Levine

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of women's studies courses on the fear of success and locus of control of female college students. The relationship between fear of success and locus of control was also examined.;Subjects for the investigation included: 243 male and female students from The College of William and Mary (128 students) and Old Dominion University (115 students). The treatment group consisted of 153 students enrolled in women's studies courses. The comparison group consisted of 81 students not enrolled in women's studies classes. Both the treatment and comparison groups were pretested and posttested. The …


The Relationship Between Need For Achievement In Women And Achievement Goals: An Application Of Atkinson's "Expectancy-Value" Theory, Daina Paupe Henry Jan 1981

The Relationship Between Need For Achievement In Women And Achievement Goals: An Application Of Atkinson's "Expectancy-Value" Theory, Daina Paupe Henry

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Role Satisfaction In The Sisterhood: A Cross-Cultural Replication, Raquel Miranda German Jan 1980

Role Satisfaction In The Sisterhood: A Cross-Cultural Replication, Raquel Miranda German

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Single Mothers By Choice, Candace Diane Mccreary Jan 1979

Single Mothers By Choice, Candace Diane Mccreary

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Female Candidates For Virginia Councils, 1976-1977, Agnes Logan Braganza Jan 1978

Female Candidates For Virginia Councils, 1976-1977, Agnes Logan Braganza

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Role Satisfaction In The Sisterhood, Jacqueline Veronica Mikulka Jan 1978

Role Satisfaction In The Sisterhood, Jacqueline Veronica Mikulka

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Black Female Assertiveness, Dale Purnell Yeatts Jan 1978

A Study Of Black Female Assertiveness, Dale Purnell Yeatts

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Extending Their Usefulness: Women In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Rebecca Mary Mitchell Jan 1978

Extending Their Usefulness: Women In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Rebecca Mary Mitchell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Pious Wives And "Hen-Pecked" Husbands: White Women, Evangelical Religion, And The Honor Ethic In The Old South, Sharon Elizabeth Romeo Jan 1977

Pious Wives And "Hen-Pecked" Husbands: White Women, Evangelical Religion, And The Honor Ethic In The Old South, Sharon Elizabeth Romeo

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Examination Of Motivational Barriers To Negative Assertion In Women, Mary Jo Moeschl Jan 1976

An Examination Of Motivational Barriers To Negative Assertion In Women, Mary Jo Moeschl

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Women In Virginia Politics, Elizabeth Williams Bullock Jan 1975

A Study Of Women In Virginia Politics, Elizabeth Williams Bullock

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Woman's Rights In Virginia, 1909-1920, Alice Matthews Erickson Jan 1975

Woman's Rights In Virginia, 1909-1920, Alice Matthews Erickson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Attitudes Toward Women And Levels Of Personality Development, Deborah Richardson Capasso Jan 1974

Attitudes Toward Women And Levels Of Personality Development, Deborah Richardson Capasso

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Struggle For Suffrage: Interrelationships Between Woman Suffrage And Prohibition And Child Labor, Margaret Jeanne Beck Hogenson Jan 1973

Struggle For Suffrage: Interrelationships Between Woman Suffrage And Prohibition And Child Labor, Margaret Jeanne Beck Hogenson

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No abstract provided.


Legal Status Of Women In Colonial Virginia, 1700-1785, Patricia Ann Padgett Jan 1967

Legal Status Of Women In Colonial Virginia, 1700-1785, Patricia Ann Padgett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Wearing Apparel Of The Women Of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1700-1775, Nancy Lou Oberseider Jan 1966

The Wearing Apparel Of The Women Of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1700-1775, Nancy Lou Oberseider

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No abstract provided.


An Analysis And Appraisal Of The Women's Intramural Sports Program At The College Of William And Mary, 1945-1950, Inez Lois Smith Jan 1950

An Analysis And Appraisal Of The Women's Intramural Sports Program At The College Of William And Mary, 1945-1950, Inez Lois Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Woman's Question As Viewed By Poets Of The 19th Century, Margaret L. Harter Jan 1934

The Woman's Question As Viewed By Poets Of The 19th Century, Margaret L. Harter

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.