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WOMEN’S ADOPTION OF EGALITARIAN ATTITUDES THROUGH EMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO
(2016-05-04)
This dissertation examines the impact of female employment on Mexican women’s attitudes toward gender equality. Specifically, the objective was to analyze different mechanisms and moderating variables through which female ...
THE IMPACT OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH WELL-BEING AMONG WOMEN SEEKING HELP FROM A POLICE STATION
(2016-05-10)
Studies have examined the relationship between IPV and mental health. However, there is limited knowledge on women who seek help from police stations because many studies have used samples of women residing in domestic ...
The Woman Behind The Glass: Representation of Prehistoric Women and Gender in Museum Exhibits
This thesis investigates and analyzes the ways in which Texas museums represent women and gender in prehistoric human exhibits and how this relates to the manner in which modern women view their own past. This study aims ...
Italian American Literature and Food: A Match Made in the Kitchen A Handbook
(2018-12-10)
Food is a recurrent theme in Italian American literature and authors have used it to highlight the importance of family, women, and the community at large and to teach about Italian customs to the U.S. public. Oftentimes, ...
Strength, Tradition, and Adaptation: Native American Women in Pontiac's War, the Trail of Tears, and the Wounded Knee Massacre
(2018-12-06)
Native American women have largely been excluded from American history. Although there are a few Native female figures that are highlighted, such as Pocahontas and Sacagawea, the complexities and vastness of Native female ...
Women's Experiences During an Acute Myocardial Infarction
(2016-11-29)
Objective: The objective was to describe the lived experience of women having a myocardial infarction and seeking health care, using the framework of the stress and coping theory (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).
Setting: ...
Recipients of Major Scientific Awards a Descriptive and Predictive Analysis
(2016-12-06)
Recent trends demonstrate an increase of women in leadership roles, STEM fields, and participating in higher education including graduate and doctoral programs, which is a result of Title IX. This quantitative study ...
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
(2018-11-27)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ...
African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching
(2019-12-16)
This thesis focuses on resistance strategies used by African American women in the aftermath of lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the ways in which those strategies were shared, ...
DEVOTION, DOMESTICITY, AND HEALING AMONG EARLY MODERN WOMEN: WRITING RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN PERSONAL MANUSCRIPTS
(2017-11-27)
The establishment of the Church of England in the sixteenth century instigated a period of turbulence as religious practices transitioned from medieval Catholicism to post-Reformation Protestantism. Protestant theology ...