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The Meaning And Perception Of Environment By Rural Women In The Sudan And Their Importance In The Design Of Public Awareness Campaigns For Environmental Protection, Hind Abbas Hilmi Ibrahim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Communication: The Vital Link Between The Sexes, Ruth A. Weber

Theses

Our ability to get along with the opposite sex is often directly affected by our inability to communicate. We believe we are communicating, only to realize that what we said is not what was understood. This is not the fault of any one person or sex but is a misunderstanding of the different ways women and men communicate. These differences begin in infancy and continue to thrive throughout our lives. Our culture, religion, history, language, stereotypes, sex, and other influences discussed in this study affect how and what we perceive others to be. We observe each other from our own …

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

The proliferation of publications in the lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and transgender press has allowed the weaving of a well-informed network of previously isolated individuals and communities, empowering and unifying lesbian, gay, and other sexual minorities," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender' section of Katzes' 1995 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and …

Volume 23, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News; New Show at CVA; HIV/AIDS Support Group Offered; Hate Crimes Against Native Americans; Ms. Hippie; Jesse Smart's Telephone Etiquette; Pantagraph Sends Scabs to S.F.; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues; Russian Homebirth Project; Animal Magnetism; Yummy Recipes; Thoughts on the Recent Mike Cockrill Exhibit; Voice for Choice News; Interview with a New Theatre Group in Bloomington/Normal; New Age Center to Open in Bloomington; Holidays and Consumption

Volume 23, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News, Ms. Hippie, Rutherford's Double Standards, Winter Wren's Star Guide, Ethics in Psychism, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues, 200th Issue Special Section, Voice for Choice/Election Summary, Towanda Reviews Books, Why You Should Watch TV Nation, ISU Music Schedule, Good News for Vegans - Restaurant Review, Animal Magnetism: Stop Gillette, Famous Veggies

Gloria Patri, Gender, And The Gulf War: A Conversation With Mary Kelly, James Castonguay, Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Christopher Lane, Kathleen Woodward

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Mary Kelly's gallery size installation, entitled Gloria Patri, was first shown at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University in 1992. Gloria Patri focuses on the issues of heroism, mastery, and war within the context of a pathologized masculinity; that is, on the identification by both men and women with masculine ideals of mastery, domination, and control, and their simultaneous physical and psychological collapse. This crisis of masculine mastery is set against the backdrop of the Persian Gulf War.

Analysis Of Levels Of Self-Esteem Among Male And Female High Achievers, Ladonna Weaver

Graduate Theses

This study investigated the hypothesis that female high-achievers possess lower self-esteem than their male counterparts at the high school level. This hypothesis was derived from an analysis of the self-esteem theory in relation to sex related roles and cultural norms. The hypothesis was tested using high school juniors and seniors, 37 male and 48 female students who were enrolled in Advanced Placement Honor classes at Odessa High School. Results showed that the females’ mean scores were considerably lower in each category of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. The results supported the hypothesis that in high school, high-achieving females have lower self-esteem …

Volume 23, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

O.J. Simpson's Hidden Shame, What lies in your future? /Winter knows, Ms. Hippie returns/Broom closet, Animal Magnetism, Deer killed by police in Hancock Stadium, Doonesbury censored by guess who, Womeri For Guatemala, Pell grants for prisoners cut, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual issues

Battered Women's Compliance-Gaining Strategies As A Function Of Argumentativeness And Verbal Aggression, Jill E. Rudd, Patricia A. Burant, Michael J. Beatty

Communication Faculty Publications

This study investigated (1) the type of compliance-gaining strategies that battered women reported using in domestic conflicts and (2) whether these strategies related to the battered women's verbal aggression and argumentativeness. Participants in this study were 115 abused women who were seeking refuge from abusive spouses in temporary shelters for battered women. The results suggest that battered women most frequently reported using indirect strategies. Aversive Stimulation (i.e., pouting sulking, crying) and ingratiation (i.e., manipulation in the form of affection or favor-doing) were the top two strategies reported. Furthermore, a canonical correlation analysis resulted in an overall significant relationship between compliance-gaining …

Volume 23, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Incredible Shrinking Post Amerikan, Larger Than Life Figures II, Male Genital Mutilation, Voice For Choice News, Oh, Well, Whatever...Nevermind, Winter Wren's Star Guide, Support for Safety Strikers, Roadkill on Taxes, Naropa

Volume 23, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Letters; Raffle Winners; Classy Frieds; Blue Moon Coffeehouse Schedule; Community News; Ms. Hippie; Winter Wren's Star Guide; Animal Magnetism: Premarin; Milk--It Does a Body Bad; 101 Reasons to Be a Veggie, Finale; Notes from the Land of Anti-Fat; Episiotomy--Genital Mutilation Amerikan Style; A Matter of Identity; News from Voice for Choice; Generation X: Marketing, Stats, Reflections; Take 2 Tablets; Modernization Revisited--The Zapatista Rebellion; Dave a Life, Save the World; News from NGLTF: Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Issues; Condom Facts; Ollie's Fun Page; Love Post Amerikan Style

Volume 23, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News; Uppers/Downers; 1994 Predictions; Think About It; FDA Targets Food Supplements; Bioregionalist Perspectives: A Quest for Human Identity and Survival; Anarchy, Revolution, and Christ; Anarchy, Revolution, and Crestwicke; Ms. Hippie; Notes from a Local "Lefty" and Small Business Owner; Rittenhouse Letters: Responsibility and the Rape Culture; Attention Meat-Eaters; Diet Styles of the Rich and Fatuous; Famous Larger-Than-Life Crossword Puzzle; Voice for Choice; Homebirth: Fighting for Another Reproductive Right; Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Public Aid; Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues

Responding To The Americans With Disabilities Act: Contributions Of Interpersonal Communication Research And Training, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Denise Labreque

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has resulted in considerable misinformation and resistance, especially when ablebodied individuals and persons with disabilities interact. This essay reviews contributions of interpersonal communication researchers who address the challenges persons with disabilities face when communicating with ablebodied others, suggesting ways to mitigate communication discomfort and to reduce problems in helping situations. The authors suggest foci for future research and training which can contribute to the acceptance and effectiveness of ADA and to facilitate communication between ablebodied persons and persons with disabilities.

Affinity-Seeking In The Classroom: A Study Of Differences In Instructor Gender And Status, Darin L. Garard

Masters Theses

Affinity-seeking is the process by which individuals attempt to get others to like them. The purpose of the present study was to analyze student perceptions of instructor use of affinity-seeking strategies as a function of instructor gender and status by replicating the research of Bell and Daly (1984) and Roach (1992). A pilot study was first conducted to determine if research in this area was indeed warranted; results were significantly positive to that effect. For the present study, research questions were developed to examine the differences between male and female instructor affinity-seeking, Graduate Teaching Assistant and faculty affinity-seeking, and to …

Pornography And Premarital Sexual Activity Among Lds Teenagers, Mark A. Harris

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the relationship between several independent measures and premarital sexual activity among 1,393 LDS teenagers living along the east coast. Results indicate that among these LDS teens, exposure to pornography is strongly and significantly related to the probability of having engaged in premarital sex. This holds true even when controlling for peer influence, family structure, religiosity, gender, and age. Teens who were exposed to pornography (1 to 24 exposures) are 2.6 times more likely to have engaged in sex as compared to those who report no exposure to pornography. Furthermore, those teens exposed to a higher amount of …

Viewer's Perception Of Local Television Anchors: A Gender Based Study, Mary Elizabeth Wagner

Masters Theses

A number of studies conducted by Lin (1992), Meeske (1992), Stone and Lee (1990), and Weinthal and O'Keefe (1984) have examined which variables are rated highest and most prominent by respondents toward television anchors. Professionalism, voice and speech, personal appeal, and attractiveness have been among the top rated variables, but they have never been researched within a single study. This study examines the above variables for local male and female television anchors and discovers which was rated the highest by male and female respondents. Significant findings within this study include male respondents perceive professionalism to be the highest rated variable …

Domestic Space And The Construction Of Identity, Kerry Faulkner

Theses : Honours

This thesis on Domestic Space and the Construction of Identity investigates the construction of feminine identity within the domestic journal. The devalued status of the homes magazine is a direct reflection of the devalued status of women's domestic work and its political insignificance in a patriarchal society which values external paid labour over unpaid domestic work. This work is of course central to society and homes magazines provide an important focus for research since they intersect with the construction of femininity and roles for women. The contradictory nature of the domestic journal is such that while it supports the hegemonic …

Structuring Constraints On Perceptions Of Upward Influence And Supervisory Relationships, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This research examined the effects of centralization of authority on employees’ perceptions of the likelihood of attempting upward influence and their perceptions of supervisory trust and leader-member exchange. Three hundred and sixty-two employees from five different organizations responded to a questionnaire that assessed perceptions of centralization, attitudes toward upward influence, leader-member exchange, and supervisory trust. Consistent with earlier formulations, centralization was operationalized as perceptions of participation in decision making and job autonomy (Hage, 1980; Hage & Aiken, 1967). Results revealed that both job autonomy and participation in decision making significantly affect subordinates’ attitudes toward attempting upward influence and the levels …

The Effects Of Gender Of Juror And Gender Of Plaintiff On Outcomes Of Mock Medical Malpractice Lawsuites, Verity Anne Tubb

Graduate Theses

The current study investigates the effect of the gender of the subject and the gender of the plaintiff on the outcome of a mock medical malpractice lawsuit. Thirty males and twenty-nine females read a transcript from a mock medical malpractice lawsuit, completed a verdict form and answered opinion and recognition questions. The gender of the subjects did not produce any significant results, showing that male subjects did not select significantly different verdicts when compared to female subjects. The gender of the plaintiff did show significant results. The subjects found for female plaintiffs more often than they did the male plaintiff. …

Volume 22, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Post Amerikan Declares War on Pantagraph, Page Two Stuff, Community News, Gallery Exhibits, Omigod! A Letter from Bill Flick, Classy Fried Ads Are Back!, Staley Update, 7 Things You Can Do, Horoscopes, Ms. Hippie, Sandra Bernhard Review, Pastor Leon Says: We Must Overcome, Swastika Watch, Car Found Guilty, Boycott News, A View from Bloomington's West Side, The Politics of Coming Out, Vegetarian Reasons Continued, Animal Magnetism, PETA News, Meat Label Update, Voice for Choice News, Think About It..., Uppers/Downers, Prison Legal News, Life in the Fat Lane, AIDS Stamp, Notes from the Land of Anti Fat, Common Sense 1993, Gay/Lesbian/and …

Volume 22, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News, Think About It..., Ken's a Queen, Dear Ms. Hippie, Nervendranke und Rohunge Part II (Neurotics and Savages), Get Involved, Swastika Watch, Uppers/Downers, Gun Control No Threat, Staley Lockout Continues, Bulletin Board Systems, Proud to Be on the Rag Again, Animal Magnetism, Attention Meat Eaters: Part II, News from Voice for Choice, GALA News

Volume 22, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Guilty of Racism, Boycott News, Uppers and Downers, Menstrual Health, Exposed Racism in Our Court Systems: Are There Solutions?, ACLU speaks out about crime and civil liberties, Swastika watch returns, Animal Magnetism: FARM's annual report, PETA stuff, Reagan/Hitler coincidences, 101 Reasons to eat only plants, Dare to be yourself - fat or thin or short or tall or..., Isis goes to the movies

Volume 22, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Shocking "Truth" Revealed - Homosexuals in the Military: President Clinton proposes lifting ban (cover spoof); Setting up recycling programs; Ms. Hippie urges you to "just say no to drugs"; Towanda's thoughts on the Suzuki billboard; Nazis abound in Normal - we dare you to prove us wrong; Holly Foy discusses midwifery; New plans to open abortion clinic; Animals rights: GM stops, L'Oreal continues; NAAFA what does this acronym stand for?

Women's Profiles, Robyn Lynn Cochran

Institute for the Humanities Theses

This creative project chronicles the development of an innovative short-format public radio series called Women's Profiles. I include a range of pertinent materials, including a record of my public radio internship, a grant proposal, and a public radio script. Using a feminist approach, I create a prototype for a radio show in which women subjects/narrators, in a non-hierarchical interview process, share their life experiences in conversation with one ( or more) women interviewers. By incorporating myself as a subject in this document, with work journals and narrative, I give readers an opportunity to appreciate the effort and process involved in …

Ua12/2/74 Triangular Times, Volume 5, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Audre Lorde Dies, Leaves Message
• Dismukes, G. Woman to Woman
• What's Happening
• Plotnik, Ken. Kentucky Fairness Alliance (KFA): A Statewide Civil Rights Organization Forms
• Brown, Larry. Welcome to New Members
• Audre Lorde Speaks in Life & Death
• Angelou, Maya. On the Pulse of Morning
• Why Black History
• Lambda Forum, 3/27/1993
• Forum Time
• The Because Manifesto
• Comix
• Defending Our Lives

The Contributions And Challenges Of Family Communication To The Field Of Communication, Sandra Petronio, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

As the Family Communication Commission in the Speech Communication Association is off to a good start, it seems appropriate to bring attention to the contributions and challenges studying family communication has for the discipline of communication. More than a decade ago, Bochner (1976) outlined several fruitful areas of investigation. Clearly, people heeded Bochner’s persuasive arguments and produced research on family communication problems (e.g., Bochner & Eisenberg, 1987; Fitzpatrick, 1988; Noller & Fitzpatrick, 1988; Petronio, 1982; Sillars, Weisberg, Burggraff, & Wilson, 1987). But, the need to examine family communication in more depth is essential to the growth and development of the …

Female Spectators (14.1), E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.

Communications: Faculty Publications

This introduction to Female Spectators gives a concise account of the major feminist debates in film studies and argues for more work to be done in incorporating filmmaking practice, spectatorship and textual analysis. All the contributors to this book share a concern to emphasis women’s presence in, rather than absence from, the “cinematic experience”

Volume 21, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

4 More Weeks, RU 486, Jesse Jackson Jr., Insanity

Ua12/2/74 Triangular Times, Issue No. 2, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Apathy: An Enemy Among Us
• What's Happening
• Education: The Best Defense
• Flener, Craig. You (Love Poem)
• Harless, Michael. Clinton-Gore Victory . . . Or Ours?
• Heterosexism Workshop: A Success
• Young, Lori. Be All You Can Be
• Meadows, Melanie. Defending Your Life
• Brown, Larry. Election time: Is There an Office for You?
• Comics

Ua12/2/74 The Triangular Times, Issue No. 1, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Women's Conference: Provided Sense of Safety
• Politics, Education & Cohesiveness
• Brown, Larry. Letter from President
• Incognito
• Vote for Bill Clinton
• Comics
• Bag of Toys Book Review
• Coming Out Not All Bad
• Crime Report Misleading