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A Narrative Inquiry Into the Experiences of Participants in a High School Feminist English Language Arts Class
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While many scholars have engaged with the benefits of feminist pedagogy in schools, most conceptualize feminist pedagogy in university classrooms as singular lessons, projects, units, or strategies in elementary and secondary schools. Through the relational research approach of Narrative Inquiry,...
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Spring 2021
Abstract This tome is both a “solar” dissertation and a “lunar” grimoire that performs its own argument. Adepts of Modernism argues that the infamous “little magazines” of modernism conjured their own enlightened, reading “counter-publics” by exploiting the same strategies and tactics of...
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A woman’s place is in the kitchen… unless she’s getting paid. A study of the social and structural dynamics impeding gender equity in the culinary industry
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Kelly Marie Emma Hobbs Bruzzese
While the graduation rate of individuals identifying as female continues to rise dramatically in the culinary world, the top restaurants and hotels are still predominately run by men. Due to this imbalance, this study explores the role of hierarchal and organizations structures in the curation of...
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Temporomandibular Joint Condylar/Fossa Positional Changes Post Herbst And Xbow Treatments In Adolescents Assessed Through CBCT Imaging
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Objective: To evaluate the three-dimensional positional changes (anteroposterior, vertical, and mediolateral) in the condyle /and the glenoid fossa utilizing different Class II fixed mandibular positioners/appliances (Herbst and Xbow) compared to controls. Methods: The primary sample consisted of...
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Fall 2011
This thesis makes a contribution to the burgeoning study of the sexual identity category and sexual orientation of asexuality by arguing for its political valence and feminist potentiality. Offering a feminist reading of scientific texts on asexuality, and revisiting feminist radical texts from...
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Fall 2014
This dissertation explores the concept of environmental sustainability and design by connecting posthumanist philosophies of materiality to material practices. This research complicates the idea of sustainability by posing sustainability as a problem or a question: What is sustainability? Or,...
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Creating Resistance by Engaging Destruction: Three Contemporary Feminist Artists from Ukraine
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Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma...
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Spring 2017
Changes are commonly required throughout construction projects. Although some changes can be beneficial, most changes are believed to adversely affect project performance. Nevertheless, the matter of change is often overlooked by construction companies and practitioners, thereby resulting in cost...
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A crossdisciplinary exploration of essentialism about kinds: philosophical perspectives in feminism and the philosophy of biology
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“Essentialism about kinds” is the belief that there are necessary and sufficient conditions for membership in a kind. This thesis addresses the parallels in the discussions of essentialism across feminism and the philosophy of biology. Specifically, I address the similarities and differences...