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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"and women of color"”.
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There are many paths of healing: Narratives and themes from Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color sexual violence and assault survivors
… frequency yet still underestimate the true scope and impact of the issue. Women are disproportionately impacted by sexual violence, thus situating sexual violence as social issue where the intersection of social identities and forces of oppression create and shape vulnerability to trauma (Bubar …
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The Impact of the Classroom Climate in Introductory Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Courses on the Persistence Desires and Academic Outcomes of White Women and Women of Color in Engineering
… climate in introductory science, engineering, and mathematics courses and its impact on students' desire to remain in engineering, academic success, academic confidence, and enjoyment of their major. Data were collected from 161 engineering students that completed their second year of …
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Crazy tubby girl/mad fat transman: troubling and reclaiming schizophrenia through women of color feminism and madness studies
… demonstrates a complex, yet incomplete picture of schizophrenia as an illness mediated by and through racist ableist (trans)misogynistic queerphobic capitalist heteropatriarchy. It describes the beginnings of schizophrenia as genetically inherited, yet entirely socially mediated process where …
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An Evaluation of Mammography Rates for Women, 50-74 Years Old, at the San Francisco Department of Public Health
<p>This paper explores the efforts of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) to increase their overall mammogram screening rate to 76.7% by June 2015 in order to receive funding from the federal government. The target population is women …
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… through its emphasis on personal responsibility and individual freedom in accelerating economic development globally, has only pushed women further into the margin of society. Structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which impose state budget cuts on healthcare and welfare programs, particularly …
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Predictors of burnout for women of color therapists
The purpose of this study is to address the unique experiences of workplace burnout for women of color who are therapists. There is limited research conducted that addresses the interplay between racial discrimination and the experience of burnout for this population. Historically, women of color …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
"If you define writing as any kind of scribble, any kind of trying to mark on the world," Gloria Anzaldúa says in an interview with Andrea Lundsford, "And, some of us want to take those marks that are already inscribed in the world and redo them." Language - and thus, writing - has the power to …
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
… allegorical reading in Third World literature and the pertinent analysis of binary class struggles in First World literature, typified by Fredric Jameson’s 1986 essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” have long been canonized in literary studies. The undertaking …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
<p>This thesis examines the reemergence of a particular performance of domesticity in the post-pandemic era, focusing on the rise of the "tradwife" (traditional wife) movement alongside the normalization and spread of Alt-Right ideology through popular social media platforms. It argues that the …
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Constructing Portraits of Elementary Teachers of Ethnic Studies: Examining the Narratives of Anti-Racist Educators in an Era of Common Core Curriculum and Instruction
<p>The emergence of policies requiring ethnic studies courses in California’s secondary and higher education institutions amplified calls for anti-racist pedagogy and content in all K-12 grade levels. Currently, little empirical research exists on how ethnic studies is taught in elementary school …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… the researcher examines the implications of and strategies for curating exhibitions that feature the works of women of color (WoC) artists. In this study the researcher explores the ways in which viewers interpret exhibitions by the non-profit arts organization, WoCA Projects, an …
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Conceptualizing Displacement Through Poetry: An Analysis of Persian and Chicana Poetry Through Embodied Women of Color Feminisms
In this thesis, I view poetry as a site of revelatory self-(re)envisioning through which one’s lived and learned experiences of displacement can be distilled, processed, and shared. From my lived experience as a Persian American woman who cannot step foot in Iran, I feel how poetry gives me a voice …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
<p>Building upon examinations of genericity, subalternity, and carcerality by Black, Indigenous, and women-of-color feminist scholars, my dissertation offers an account of how truth claims are produced and sustained to limit social change in representatively governed societies. Taking the gangster …
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Sacred sites: the social-spiritual and feminist practice of contemporary Latina/o narrative
“Sacred Sites: The Social-Spiritual and Feminist Practice of Contemporary Latina/o Narrative” identifies and reads an archive of established and emerging genres of Latina/o narrative—Chicano/a movement and women of color feminist print culture, “multicultural” women’s writing, young adult and …
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Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach
… is associated with better access to health care and better health outcomes at every age. The United States does not provide universal health insurance, and most people pay for private insurance that is linked to their job. Individuals whose jobs do not provide insurance have three choices: to …
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From Injustice to Social Justice Education: The Journey of Formerly Incarcerated Women of Color in Community College
<p>There is a growing rate of women of color in the U.S. prison system—their intersectional identities are hypercriminalized surrounding the nexus of oppressive barriers they experience (Annamma, 2017). The lack of awareness, understanding, and advocacy for carceral-impacted women of color in …