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Sisterhood And Survival: An Exploration Of Women's Relationships In Feminist Speculative Fiction, Madeleine Gernhard May 2022

Sisterhood And Survival: An Exploration Of Women's Relationships In Feminist Speculative Fiction, Madeleine Gernhard

Honors College

Writers have used the genre of feminist speculative fiction as a lens through which to view modern issues which effect women. Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Margaret Atwood’ Handmaid’s Tale, and Naomi Alderman’s The Power each explore dystopian or transitory dystopian societies in which women are pitted against one another for the sake of their survival. In reviewing the relationships which the women in these novels have to each other we stand to gain insights into the ways in which sisterhood influences change in these societies. Each of these works, while centering around different understandings of dystopian society, also prominently feature the …


Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier May 2018

Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier

Honors College

This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of University of Maine students attitudes and consumption habits of pornography. It contains a literature review of anti-pornography feminism from the Second Wave, as well as an overview of sex-positive and sex-critical theories of pornography from more recent years. The goal of the thesis is to understand how sex-negative and/or sex-positive ideas have or have not permeated college student’s understanding of pornography. Over 800 students were surveyed about pornography consumption through the Psychology Department’s Fall prescreen. 4 students from the survey, who all happened to be women, were interviewed about their relationships …


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jun 2017

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Dec 2016

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Apr 2006

Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jul 2005

Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Mar 2005

Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate No. 36 (Winter 2004), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2004

Maine Women's Advocate No. 36 (Winter 2004), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 34 (Summer 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jul 2002

Maine Women's Advocate No. 34 (Summer 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate No. 33 (Winter 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jan 2002

Maine Women's Advocate No. 33 (Winter 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate No. 32 (Summer 2001), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jul 2001

Maine Women's Advocate No. 32 (Summer 2001), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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No abstract provided.


The Content And Process Of Women’S Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses Of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism, Nancy Parent Bancroft Jan 1999

The Content And Process Of Women’S Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses Of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism, Nancy Parent Bancroft

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to expand the understanding of ethical decision-making by contributing women’s experiences and thoughts to the issue. Fifty women shared a decision that they had made or were in the process of making having to do with their health or reproductive life. The research method of phenomenology was used with the women in the semi-structured interviews in an attempt to capture the meaning that they gave both to what they paid attention to and to the process that they used in arriving at their decisions. After researchers gained as clear a rendering as possible of …


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Sep 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Aug 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Jul 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Jun 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff May 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Apr 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 74 (March 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Mar 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 74 (March 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 73 (February1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Feb 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 73 (February1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 72 (January 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Jan 1986

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 72 (January 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 71 (December 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Dec 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 71 (December 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 70 (November 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Nov 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 70 (November 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 69 (October 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Oct 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 69 (October 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 68 (September 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Sep 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 68 (September 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 67 (August1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Aug 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 67 (August1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 66 (July 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Jul 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 66 (July 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 65 (June 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Jun 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 65 (June 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 64 (May 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff May 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 64 (May 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Statewide News Letter No. 63 (April 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Apr 1985

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 63 (April 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.