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Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Nov 2009

Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


News From Mabel (Fall 2009), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff Sep 2009

News From Mabel (Fall 2009), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff Sep 2009

New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Sep 2009

Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Silverwire Newsletter, Lenard W. Kaye Jul 2009

Silverwire Newsletter, Lenard W. Kaye

Maine Center on Aging Education and Training

The Silverwire Newsletter is a triannual publication that highlights the work of the UMaine Center on Aging. The topics covered in this edition of the Silverwire Newsletter include the announcement of a grant to create the Maine Senior Environmental Leadership Corps and ongoing research around aging and memory.


Coming Out Of The Sexual Harassment Closet: One Woman's Story Of Politics And Change In Higher Education, Susan K. Gardner Jul 2009

Coming Out Of The Sexual Harassment Closet: One Woman's Story Of Politics And Change In Higher Education, Susan K. Gardner

Higher Education Faculty Scholarship

In this essay, a university professor tells the story of her sexual harassment by her graduate school adviser in order to explain the institutional cultures and structures that exist to perpetuate this type of behavior in higher education as well as to communicate the steps she took to create change and accept the events that occurred. Characterizing the documentation as a “coming out process,” she describes the events that occurred from 2002–2006, using a semi-autoethnographical approach augmented with document and literature analyses. The essay goes beyond a mere re-telling of the events to an analysis of the cultural constructs that …


News From Mabel (Spring 2009), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff Mar 2009

News From Mabel (Spring 2009), Mabel Wadworth Health Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff Mar 2009

New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Mar 2009

Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Black History Month From Nigeria To The Bronx To Umaine, Aislinn Sarnacki Feb 2009

Black History Month From Nigeria To The Bronx To Umaine, Aislinn Sarnacki

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus on the experiences of University of Maine student Ogheneova Dibie who moved to the U.S. from Nigeria.


Doing Good, Being Good, And The Social Construction Of Compassion, Amy Blackstone Feb 2009

Doing Good, Being Good, And The Social Construction Of Compassion, Amy Blackstone

Sociology School Faculty Scholarship

Activists and volunteers in the United States face the dilemma of having to negotiate the ideals of American individualism with their own acts of compassion. In this article, I consider how activists and volunteers socially construct compassion. Data from ethnographic research in the breast cancer and antirape movements are analyzed. The processes through which compassion is constructed are revealed in participants’ actions and in their identities. It is through their actions (or “doing good”) and their perceptions and presentations of themselves (“being good”) that participants construct compassion as a gendered phenomenon. Together, the processes of doing good and being good …


Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Jan 2009

Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Health Promotion For Maine’S Aging Population: A Legislative Roadmap, Lenard W. Kaye, Rachel Hutchins, Dyan Walsh Jan 2009

Health Promotion For Maine’S Aging Population: A Legislative Roadmap, Lenard W. Kaye, Rachel Hutchins, Dyan Walsh

Maine Center on Aging Research and Evaluation

Maine has the distinction of being the oldest state in the nation. This policy brief considers strategies for promoting the health of aging Mainers. As of 2005, 7.5 million individuals living in rural America were over the age of 65. Challenges of living in a rural area can make it difficult for older individuals to access services that are vital to their daily living. Older adults in rural regions are found to be less educated, have worse health outcomes, and have incomes that fall below the poverty level. Recommended strategies include utilizing the Federally Qualified Health Centers, encourage greater collaboration, …