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1990

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Ethnography Of A Lesbian Community In Michigan, Carol W. Burton Apr 1990

Ethnography Of A Lesbian Community In Michigan, Carol W. Burton

Masters Theses

The purpose of this master's thesis is to describe the structure and workings of a community of women in a major western Michigan metropolitan area, who identify themselves as lesbians, and to describe how this subcommunity relates to the dominant American culture in the area. This study examines the ways in which these lesbians define themselves and their subculture.

To facilitate this research, the researcher participated in the group's meetings, both formal and informal, and spoke with individual members about the history of the group, organizational principles, problems and concerns, formal and Informal rules of conduct, values, and any other …


Legal Abortion: An Examination Of Public Support From 1972 To 1988, John Angus White Jan 1990

Legal Abortion: An Examination Of Public Support From 1972 To 1988, John Angus White

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Christina Rossetti: A Feminist Visionary, Cindy K. Currence Jan 1990

Christina Rossetti: A Feminist Visionary, Cindy K. Currence

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley Jan 1990

An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Representation And Resistance: A Feminist Critique Of Jean Toomer's "Cane", Elaine Margaret Sisson Jan 1990

Representation And Resistance: A Feminist Critique Of Jean Toomer's "Cane", Elaine Margaret Sisson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol And Function Of African-American Women's Self-Creation, Juliette Bowles Jan 1990

Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol And Function Of African-American Women's Self-Creation, Juliette Bowles

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Breaking The Formula: Politics And Sexuality In Lesbian Detective Fiction, Meredith Abner Wood Jan 1990

Breaking The Formula: Politics And Sexuality In Lesbian Detective Fiction, Meredith Abner Wood

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Milk Enough For All: The African-American Woman's Quest For Identity And Authority In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Amy Carol Ghaemmaghami Jan 1990

Milk Enough For All: The African-American Woman's Quest For Identity And Authority In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Amy Carol Ghaemmaghami

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


On A Women's Language, Tamara Brown Jan 1990

On A Women's Language, Tamara Brown

Dissertations and Theses

Assessing the feminist belief that women have a perspective dramatically differing from the patriarchal perspective, and that this viewpoint is, or could be, couched in a language differing from the norm, this researcher addressed the following three questions: (1) is there a definition of a women's language? (2) does a women's language exist? and (3) if a women's language does exist, in what form does it exist? These questions engendered feminist rhetorical criticism on the work of two radical feminists well known for their interest in, and attention to, the issue of a women's language.


Casualties Of War And The Politics Of Representation In Vietnam, Samantha Walsh Jan 1990

Casualties Of War And The Politics Of Representation In Vietnam, Samantha Walsh

Theses : Honours

This thesis explores the 'casualties' of media representations of the Vietnam War in the nineteen eighties. Produced during the term of office of Ronald Reagan these texts rework central ideological issues revelent to that presidency: American innocence, 'fragile hero', Vietnam and the Vietnamese, and gender relations. Such issues will be looked at across a range 'of films and television programmes. Firstly, the filmic 'casualties'; American innocence, fragile hero and 'others' will be identified and analysed, Secondly, their relation to television will be initially expanded with a view to reevaluating television's supposed 'inferiority'. Television's casualties will then be analysed with particular …


Gender And The Search For Identity In Gwendolyn Macewan’S Julian And Noman Stories, Anne Marie Martin Jan 1990

Gender And The Search For Identity In Gwendolyn Macewan’S Julian And Noman Stories, Anne Marie Martin

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis looks at the theme of gender and the search for identity in three fictional works of Canadian poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen. The works considered are her first novel Julian the Magician (1963) and her two collections of short stories Noman (1972) and Noman’s Land (1985).

The thesis examines the way self-identity is characterized and considers the way gender is presented in relation to the self. The work shows the development of MacEwen’s idea of self from a creative eternal force equivalent to the Christ image in Julian the Magician to an eternal force that finds its expression …


"Into A Strange Land": Women Captives Among The Indians, Jennifer D. Mcdaid Jan 1990

"Into A Strange Land": Women Captives Among The Indians, Jennifer D. Mcdaid

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Nietzsche's "Woman" : A Metaphor Without Brakes, Kathleen Merrow Jan 1990

Nietzsche's "Woman" : A Metaphor Without Brakes, Kathleen Merrow

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis reconsiders the generally held view that Friedrich Nietzsche's works are misogynist. In doing so it provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's texts with respect to the metaphor "woman," sets this interpretation into an historical context of Nietzsche reception and follows the extension of Nietzsche's metaphor "woman" into French feminist theory. It provides an interpretation that shows that a misogynist reading of Nietzsche is in error because such a reading fails to consider the multiple perspectives that operate in Nietzsche's texts.


Age, Gender, And Religious Differences In Moral Perspective, Samuel L. Clay Jan 1990

Age, Gender, And Religious Differences In Moral Perspective, Samuel L. Clay

Theses and Dissertations

An investigation was conducted to see if age and gender are related to a preference for a caring versus a justice morality. The World View Questionnaire with 40 word pairs was used to measure a preference for a caring morality. It was found that there was a significant gender difference in the caring score, with the females scoring higher than the males. There also was a significant religious difference in the caring score with religious and especially Mormon subjects scoring higher than non-religious subjects. There was not, however, a significant age difference as was predicted.


The Relationship Between Needs And Interpersonal Problems Of Women In Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova Jan 1990

The Relationship Between Needs And Interpersonal Problems Of Women In Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study empirically assessed the relationship between needs structure and interpersonal presentation in women. Proposed indices for selective attention were assessed as to their ability to detect pathology. The relationship between interpersonal presentation and interpersonal problems were also studied. The measures used were The Picture Identification Test (Chambers, 1976), The Interpersonal Adjective Scales-Revised (Wiggins, 1985), The Inventory for Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz, 1986), and The Marlowe-Crowne Social-Desirability Scale (1964).

Subjects were assigned to one of four interpersonal categories (Friendly-Dominant, Friendly-Submissive, Hostile-Dominant, Hostile-Submissive) on the basis of their self-reported IAS-R and one category on the basis of their counselor-reported IAS-R scores. Subjects …