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Payment for environmental services in Costa Rica's Osa peninsula : a feminist political ecology perspective
(2015-05)
This dissertation investigates payment for environmental services (PES) programs on the Osa peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica. Three aspects of life in Osa Costa Rica are found to critically affect PES implementation: ...
Sexing the midlife: women's experiences across same-sex and different-sex couples
(2015-12)
This paper examines the experiences of women navigating sex amidst midlife transitions within same-sex and different sex long term couples. Data from in-depth interviews with women in 18 same-sex and 18 different-sex couples ...
American deaf women historiography : the most silent minority
(2011-12)
The development and current state of the historical perspective of American Deaf women is outlined in the report. Initially this paper reviews the historical study of people with disabilities and for the American Deaf. ...
K-popscape : gender fluidity and racial hybridity in transnational Korean pop dance
(2015-05)
Analyzing bodily representation and audience reception, my dissertation examines (a) how racial hybridity and gender fluidity in Korean pop (K-pop) music performances challenge racialized gender norms in the West, such as ...
Sidelined : gender inequality in athletics
(2010-05)
The essence of American women’s struggle to play sports at a competitive level is that for decades the power structure of American professional and scholastic athletics simply didn’t think they should be allowed to play. ...
Study of information specific and relational processing through advertising messaging frameworks
(2014-05)
Utilizing the information garnered from research on information processing in the two elaboration types (i.e., item-specific and relational processing) this research examines the influence of gender and advertising narrative ...
Nine women world leaders : sexism on the path to office
(2012-12)
Many obstacles preclude women from becoming presidents and prime ministers, yet a select group of women attain executive offices. How do they succeed? Drawing from 24 published autobiographies, interviews, and speech and ...
Mulheres Brazucas : identity negotiation in the immigration experience of Brazilian women
(2013-08)
This study draws from literature on acculturation, acculturative stress and gender roles as they relate to the experiences of Latin American immigrant groups. It focuses on Brazilian immigrant women, a group which has been ...
Gender fluidity : an alternative image of women (and men), and a critique of the colonialist legacy
(2011-08)
Chinese feudal women have long been identified as victims of the Chinese Confucian patriarchy and discussed in terms of notions of backwardness, dependency, female passivity, biological inferiority, intellectual inability, ...
Credibility in context : addressing audiences, objectivity, and branding in contemporary news credibility research
(2012-05)
This study employs an experimental design to test the effects of branding,presence of opinion, and gender on news credibility. A history of credibility theory in social science research is explored in order to contextualize ...