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AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
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Author
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Brooks, Temeka
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...
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Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
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Author
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Gaskin, Rachael
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...
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Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
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Author
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Plough, Christine
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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This thesis is a case study that explores the life and influence of Mary Boleyn, royal mistress to King Henry VIII from 1522-1525. The intent is to present an analysis of primary documents in combination with secondary sources, which provide cruci...
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Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
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Author
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Robbins, James
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
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Description
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The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...
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Poor-Branded Women
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Author
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Goodnight, Melissa
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
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Description
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MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...
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Queering Entrepreneurship: An ethnographic study of a women-led tech startup in Berlin
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Author
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Wilson, Miguel
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational sociology, Women's studies
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Description
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With the rise of more women-led firms in the tech industry, the question of how these organizations either differentiate or align themselves with their male-dominanted competitors is of growing interest. I examine whether a women-led tech startup ...
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Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
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Author
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Moore, Kate
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
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THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
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Author
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Battista, Nancy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, Sex, History
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Description
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Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
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“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
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Author
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Whittington, Joseph
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...