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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"National Organization for Women"”.
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The National Organization For Women: Building Community in the Face of Diversity
… look at the communication patterns of the National Organization for Women. Specifically it seeks to point out the usage of identification and community building efforts used by the different facets of the organization. The ethnography is a retelling of the narratives gathered from an eleven …
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Mobilizing and sustaining grassroots activism in the National Organization for Women, 1966-2000 : by Maryann Barakso.
This dissertation examines how the National Organization for Women (NOW) survived the vagaries of both the political environment and its intraorganizational problems and controversies over its thirty-five year history. It considers the role that patrons, the state, mobilizing structures, leaders, …
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A Comprehensive Literature Review of American Sexual Assault Culture and the Status of Women's Self-Defense
According to the National Organization for Women (NOW), 232,960 American women were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006, equating to more than 600 women daily (2012). American women furthermore experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes each year (NOW, 2012). …
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A Comprehensive Literature Review of American Sexual Assault Culture and the Status of Women's Self-Defense
According to the National Organization for Women (NOW), 232,960 American women were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006, equating to more than 600 women daily (2012). American women furthermore experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes each year (NOW, 2012). …
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From Soft-Sell to Hardball: The Evolution of thePro-Equal Rights Amendment Campaign In South Carolina, 1972-1982
… ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) when the women's movement was at its peak in the 1970s and early 1980s. This may not be particularly surprising based on the state's conservative record on women's rights. Historians have not thoroughly studied this state's involvement with the modern …
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The Role of Architecture in Systemic Gender Inequality: National Organization for Women's Headquarters
… down the strata to find an appropriate audience for my thesis project. In my opinion, one of the most interesting group of people in every society all around the world is women. My main focus in this research is to discuss more about women's future in society and argue political issues that women …
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Feminists and marriage: a qualitative analysis
… problematic nature of marital and family life for women. Feminism has deconstructed traditional marriage and made apparent the potential overwhelming cost to women in financial, emotional, and physical dimensions. However, the experience of feminists who choose heterosexual marriage has not …