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Full-Text Articles in Gender and Sexuality
A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage
A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage
Ann Oberhauser
Throughout the coalfields of central Appalachia, working-class people are engaging in alternative means of economic survival. For many, the region's endemic poverty is now worsening as tremendous job losses in coal mining diminish the historic source of employment for working -class men. In order to secure the necessities of life for themselves and their families, working-class women are not only entering the paid labor force but also turning to unregulated forms of income generation that lie outside the formal, wage-earning economy.
"Gender Gaps, Information Technology, And Academic Libraries: A Feminist Evaluation, Kelly Barrick Hovendick
"Gender Gaps, Information Technology, And Academic Libraries: A Feminist Evaluation, Kelly Barrick Hovendick
Kelly M. Barrick
This thesis examines the relationship between gender gaps and the increased use of information technology (IT) in academic libraries from a feminist perspective. Since the 1960s, more academic libraries have been utilizing IT in their quest to bring more and faster information to their users. Though information technology has advantages, the increased presence of it brings disadvantages such as gender gaps as well. Therefore, it is vital that the library profession examines the impacts both positive and negative of IT.
In order to effectively evaluate IT, gender gaps and academic libraries, it is necessary to examine related phenomena. Therefore, research …
Pimps And Predators On The Internet, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Pimps And Predators On The Internet, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
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