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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"White Women"”.
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Black And White Women In Blue: A Case Study Of Policewomen
… experiences of fourteen African American and White female police officers using interviews and observations. There is ample research that addresses the ability of women to perform policing duties, but most of the literature presumes that White and African American policewomen are a single …
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"Sisters of the Capital": White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860-1880
… on elite, middle-, and working-class white women in Richmond, Virginia. Anne Firer Scott has written that the Civil War was a historical watershed that enabled southern women's movement into broader social, economic, and political roles in southern society. Suzanne Lebsock and George …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… dissertation creates a background for studying white women in the Transvaal between 1877 and 1899. Legal documents are used as primary sources, as they are invaluable for researching women’s history, in that they provide a new perspective. When writing women’s history, it must be grounded in …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
<p>My dissertation argues that white women played crucial roles in the economic, political, and cultural circuits that linked the United States and Cuba, and the hemisphere broadly, during the nineteenth century. It inserts white women into a historical account of U.S. imperialism by analyzing the …
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Fictions of American domesticity: indigenous women, white women, and the nation, 1850-1950
Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:16:36-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-05-28 14:21:22 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Clothing buying practices and life style differentials between employed black and white women
… buying practices between employed black and white women. The findings related to this hypothesis revealed that there were significant black-white differences for 20 of the 45 clothing buying practice variables which provided sufficient support for accepting Hypothesis 1. Three constructs …
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Fat oxidation at rest and during exercise in postmenopausal middle eastern and white women
… during the menopausal transition predispose women to an increase in overall body mass and altered adiposity distribution that may place them at risk for developing cardiometabolic disease. Estrogen, progesterone and testosterone levels have been linked to changes in lipid metabolism and since …
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Race, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power for White Women Sexual Violence Victim Advocates
… victim advocacy agencies are dominated by White women advocates often creating barriers for women of color survivors seeking assistance (Tillmann et al, 2010; Washington, 2001). White women’s dual and sometimes conflicting locations of race (White) and gender (woman) influence how they …
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The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s
… and gender by showing the eugenic origins of the white ideal, which emerged concurrently with the complementary ideal of the “New Negro Woman,” as it ultimately tracks as well both the practical and conceptual innovations Black women pioneered and the ideological policing of racialized notions of …
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Factors influencing the mathematics-related attainment of a national sample of hispanic, black, and white women
For the most part, women are still employed in traditionally female occupations which require little or no mathematics training. The presence and seeming acceptance of confined, low-status occupations for women represent an enormous loss of economic and intellectual potential for the individual …
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"I Have Told You about the Cane and Garden": White Women, Cultivation, and Southern Society in Central Louisiana, 1852-1874
… between the years 1852 and 1874. The Bennett women's letters convey an intimate sense of the agro-economic preoccupations (and gardening pleasures) of these slave-owning white women, and the centrality of cultivation in mid-nineteenth-century rural Louisiana within a landscape of country …
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Racial Differences in Distress Symptoms Among Black and White Women with Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer on Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy
… due to its high prevalence, particularly among women. It significantly contributes to disability, personal suffering, and increased mortality, especially in the context of chronic illnesses like breast cancer. As one of the most common cancers affecting women globally, breast cancer not only …
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White Women as the Abused and the Abusers: Secret History and the Seduction Plot’s Ties to Capitalism, Colonialism, and Slavery
… novel shows readers an imaginative future where women can leave their abusers. While Secret History shows the harms of domestic violence, it also problematically paints black men on the island of San Domingo as predators to white women and does not discuss women of color as equal subjects of …
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Exploring the Racial and Gender Identity Formation of Men of Color in Student Leader Roles who have white Women Supervisors and Advisors in Higher Education
… when they centralize identity exploration. White women are overrepresented in student affairs direct student contact positions in higher education and are likely to supervise and/or advise men of color student leaders, but many student affairs professional are not properly trained to …
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Ethnic specific associations between body composition and metabolic risk and the role of sex hormones and aromatase among black and white South African women
… and metabolic risk between black and white women. However, the reasons for these differences are not known and may be explained in part by differences in sex hormones. The overall aim of this thesis was therefore to i) examine ethnic-specific associations between body fat and its …
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