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Title: Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
Author: McManimen, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...

Title: Does Gender Matter? A Moderated Model for Family Climate and Psychological Ownership of the Family Firm as Experienced by Next-Generation Family Members.
Author: Shike, Sarah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: While most family business leaders want their offspring to take over the family business, most next-generation family members choose to pursue opportunities outside their families’ businesses. This research aims to understand how internal family d...

Title: Racial and Gender Concordance: Effects on Utilization of Health Services Among Individuals Enrolled in a Primary Care Case Management Delivery System
Author: Smith, III, Galen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Social sciences--Research
Description: Very few studies to date have directly examined the impact of race or gender patient-provider concordance on the utilization of health services. This is particularly noteworthy given the role that the linkage between concordance and health service...

Title: Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
Author: Yates, Sophie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Sex role, Sex
Description: At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Europe bore witness to what Lynne Huffer has termed "a crisis in sexual definition", stemming from the gradual shift in popular conceptions of non-normative sexual acts as behaviors monitored by ecclesi...

Title: The Warrior and the Maiden: The Participation and Representations of Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous in the Greek Revolution
Author: Mastrokolias, Olympia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Sex role, History, Modern
Description: This thesis explores the participation and representations of two popular and exceptional heroines of the Greek Revolution of 1821-1832, Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous, and how their legacies have been used as symbols of nationalism by...

Title: An Exploration of Gender Differences in Seventh-Grade Single-Sex Mathematics Classrooms in a Co-Educational Public School
Author: Rohn, Debra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this exploratory case study was to examine the learning experiences of students enrolled in an all-girls and all-boys math class. Forty-nine (22 boys and 27 girls) seventh-grade students from a rural co-educational public middle sch...

Title: Black Women Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators of Persistence and Degree Completion in a Predominately White University
Author: Howell, Cathy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This study explored the experiences of persistence and degree completion for Black women at a Predominately White Institution (PWI). The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Black Feminist Thought (BFT). The participants were 12 Bl...

Title: COMMEMORATING QUEEN CHARLOTTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, 1750 TO 2014
Author: Gregory, Bethany
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, History
Description: Despite the vast research by historians on Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a person, little research has been conducted on what she meant to the people of regions named in her honor. This thesis seeks to uncover the significance ...

Title: A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
Author: Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...

Title: Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
Author: Barry, Leanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...

Title: Gendered Antecedents of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
Author: Sargent, Amanda
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: While much is known regarding important outcomes of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), little research exists regarding possible antecedents. The present study applies a gender lens to establishing antecedents of FSSB using Social Role...

Title: Feminism in Oz: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die Series
Author: Murphy, Shannon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: L. Frank Baum is best known for his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story of a young girl named Dorothy who has an abundance of adventure. It is lauded by many as "the quintessential American Fairy Tale" (Riley 3), and it has become the inspira...

Title: HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
Author: Randolph, Kyle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
Description: Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...

Title: Internalizing Genderization: Women’s Navigation of Power Dynamics in Senior-level Student Affairs Roles
Author: Wheeler, Emily
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: While women have attained higher-level roles and greater representation in higher education administrator roles, the concept of the higher, the fewer (Nidiffer, 2002) represents the "gendered prestige hierarchies" (Allan, 2011, p. 58) that limit w...

Title: EFFECTS OF FEMININITY IDEOLOGIES AND SEXUAL SELF-CONCEPT ON HPV VACCINATION INTENTIONS: AN EXPLORATORY EXTENSION OF EXISTING HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODELS
Author: Roof, Katherine
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Public health, Psychology
Description: Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of over 100 different types of related viruses currently infecting 79 million Americans, making it the most pervasive sexually transmitted infection in the United States (American Cancer Society [ACS], 201...

Title: Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author: Weber, Ryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description: In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...

Title: The Effectiveness of Charismatic Signaling by Gender: A Prospective Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: While charismatic leadership tactics (CLTs) have been validated across a variety of settings and shown to improve leader evaluations and cause follower behaviors, the role gender may play in charismatic leadership has been understudied. The presen...

Title: Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Author: Elton, Kira
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...

Title: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
Author: Robbins, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
Description: 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 ...

Title: Examining Early Perceptions of Leaders and Entitativity in a Shared Leading Situation with a Focus on Gender
Author: Caudill, Leann
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychobiology, Sociology, Management
Description: As organizations become increasingly team-based and less hierarchical, the leader (and follower) role could stretch within groups and be shared by all group members. When faced with gender-diverse groups, members or observers of the group may have...