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Title: Women in the ministry personality and background characteristics of a group of United Methodist clergy and theological students
Creator: Orrick, Martha
Date: 1984
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women of Iqbal Street : popular models of health and illness
Creator: Eickmeier, Janice Louise
Date: 1989
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women of advanced maternal age and miscarriage : an examination of the essence of the experience
Creator: Wright, Rebecca Jean
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "This qualitative study explores the essence of the experience of miscarriage among women aged 35 years and older. ... The salient themes identified suggest that women experience miscarriage from a physical, emotional, temporal and social context. From these themes of experience , the essence of miscarriage for the participants in this study were found to be 1) physically experiencing intense loss and grief, 2) having a sense of otherness, 3) a continuous search for meaning and 4) feelings of...
Show more"This qualitative study explores the essence of the experience of miscarriage among women aged 35 years and older. ... The salient themes identified suggest that women experience miscarriage from a physical, emotional, temporal and social context. From these themes of experience , the essence of miscarriage for the participants in this study were found to be 1) physically experiencing intense loss and grief, 2) having a sense of otherness, 3) a continuous search for meaning and 4) feelings of regret and self-blame."--From abstract.
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Title: Women of color faculty in STEM : successfully navigating the promotion and tenure process
Creator: Soto, Melissa
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Black women and Hispanic/Latina faculty are underrepresented in tenured science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) positions at research universities. Despite this fact, this demographic group is increasingly recognized at the national level as a key source of underutilized talent that may significantly contribute to the nations' STEM talent pool. As a result, resources continue to be allocated to higher education institutions to support the successful career advancement of...
Show moreBlack women and Hispanic/Latina faculty are underrepresented in tenured science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) positions at research universities. Despite this fact, this demographic group is increasingly recognized at the national level as a key source of underutilized talent that may significantly contribute to the nations' STEM talent pool. As a result, resources continue to be allocated to higher education institutions to support the successful career advancement of women of color in STEM. Yet, little empirical data currently exists about how these faculty members successfully navigate the promotion and tenure process based on the salient challenges they face as probationary faculty. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that contribute to the successful career advancement of tenured Black women and Hispanic/Latina STEM faculty from assistant to associate professors at predominately White, research institutions. A sub-focus of this study is to identify the challenges faced by the participants during their early career. This qualitative study is guided by social cognitive theory and the literature on faculty development. A purposeful snowball sampling technique (n=13) is utilized. Respondents filled out an online demographic questionnaire and participated in one round of telephone interviews (90-120 minutes). The findings show that the participants faced five key challenges as probationary, early career faculty. Seven personal and external strategies enabled the participants to mitigate these challenges and contributed to their successful promotion and tenure. Suggestions for future research and implications for policy and practice are presented.
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Title: Women of color international graduate students' perceptions and experiences of safety and violence while studying in the United States
Creator: Naik, Sapna
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The purpose of this dissertation was to understand women of color international graduate students’ conceptualizations, perceptions, and experiences of violence and safety, in addition to the influences of those perceptions and experiences on their lives, while studying in the United States. I perceived women of color international graduate students to be at a particular juncture of political context and oppressions that could influence their experiences. I conducted a qualitative interview...
Show moreThe purpose of this dissertation was to understand women of color international graduate students’ conceptualizations, perceptions, and experiences of violence and safety, in addition to the influences of those perceptions and experiences on their lives, while studying in the United States. I perceived women of color international graduate students to be at a particular juncture of political context and oppressions that could influence their experiences. I conducted a qualitative interview study of 11 women of color international graduate students enrolled in doctoral programs at two universities in the southern United States. I was informed by a framework made up of intersectionality and transnational feminism. I learned women of color international graduate students’ conceptualizations of violence and safety complicated those found in the literature by understanding violence and safety in terms of physical, non-physical, and security aspects. Participants also had complex experiences and perceptions, including experiences of sexual harassment, threats of physical violence, discrimination, and silencing. Participants shared financial and visa status insecurity as contributing to lack of safety. I found policies and events factored into participants’ assessments of safety to varying degrees, with gun violence and campus carry factoring in heavily while sexual harassment from faculty members was less of a concern. Coronavirus emerged as contributing to lack of safety. Influences on participants’ lives included the creation of strategies to maintain safety and prevent violence. In addition, I found participants spent a lot of time and energy thinking about their safety. Participants had perspectives about effects on their own lives including loss of freedom and increased empowerment. I asked participants about their perspectives of university responsibility. While some participants did not perceive the university had additional responsibility than what was already done, others perceived their universities could improve on transparency and training. Their recommendations informed my recommendations in the final chapter. I offered implications for practice and policy, including universities making changes within and advocating for changes at a state and national level. I also discuss implications for theory, including the need for a racialized, gendered, internationalized, and graduate student worker lens, and one that incorporates women of color international graduate students’ previous and current locations. Suggestions for future research include research with other populations and taking into account changing contexts. I offer implications for methods including those that may help researchers studying precarious populations. My hope is this research will positively influence women of color international graduate students’ experiences in the United States.
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Title: Women survivors : transitions away from abusive relationships
Creator: Perelli, Natalie Brohl
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women workers in India's pharmaceutical industry : a study of industry structure and social stratification
Creator: Damle, Ranjana V.
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women writing men : genre, narrative authority, and "mind writing" 1752-1817
Creator: Kane, Jessica
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "I argue that women writers of the long eighteenth century used readers' expectations about genre to reimagine their forms through expanding the socially- and narratively-limited roles of female characters. My chapters demonstrate how the female protagonists in four different texts---Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote, Frances Burney's Evelina, Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism, and Jane Austen's Persuasion---take on the attributes of a narrator and author by creating both their male love...
Show more"I argue that women writers of the long eighteenth century used readers' expectations about genre to reimagine their forms through expanding the socially- and narratively-limited roles of female characters. My chapters demonstrate how the female protagonists in four different texts---Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote, Frances Burney's Evelina, Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism, and Jane Austen's Persuasion---take on the attributes of a narrator and author by creating both their male love interests and their stories through what I call "mind writing." "Mind writing" takes the "mind reading" of cognitive literary studies back to textuality, exploring the ways that one character asserts the thoughts, feelings, actions, or intentions of another in ways analogous to a narrator. "Mind writing" another character in these texts allows the protagonist to control where the story is going and what it is doing, ultimately allowing her to parallel the work of an author. The effect is both social and narratological, as these women characters transcend the usual definitions and limitations of both "woman" and "character." Since all four of my texts work within established genre logics and patterns, breaking these expectations via "mind writing" also means that readers must re-evaluate their own positions in relation to the text. Readers of genre fiction believe they know what they are getting when they pick up a text within that field, whether in the eighteenth century or today. By flipping the script on their readers Lennox, Burney, Inchbald, and Austen rewrite their audiences just as their female characters rewrite their stories. And because generic conventions often put the reader in a position of power, either because they can pass judgement on the characters or because they know something the characters do not, refashioning the genres puts readers in a subordinate position, re-evaluating our assumptions about the stories, ourselves, and the world on which the story comments."--Pages ii-iii.
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Title: Women's addresses : epistolary strategies in antebellum American literature
Creator: Dawson, Jennifer R.
Date: 2002
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women's experiences with abortion within the context of family in Chile : a qualitative study
Creator: Campbell, Shannon J.
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women's involvement with 12-step group support programs : does alcohol diagnosis with and without comorbid psychopathology influence report of participation
Creator: Smith, Deborah Jo
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women's perceptions of their needs relative to development programs through Partners of the Americas and other organizations : case studies in Belize, the Dominican Republic, and Michigan
Creator: Browne, Sharon Anderson
Date: 1989
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women's rights in repetition : nation building, solidarity, and Islam in Zanzibar
Creator: Ott, Jessica Marie
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Women's rights are commonly understood as having emerged out of major women's conferences from the 1970s onward and as aligned with major UN conventions. But contemporary women's rights in Zanzibar reflect a longer history of women's movements on the islesand a greater diversity of influences, including socialist state feminism in the 1960s and the increasing engagement of activists with transnational Islamic feminist network. This dissertation explores historical continuities and...
Show moreWomen's rights are commonly understood as having emerged out of major women's conferences from the 1970s onward and as aligned with major UN conventions. But contemporary women's rights in Zanzibar reflect a longer history of women's movements on the islesand a greater diversity of influences, including socialist state feminism in the 1960s and the increasing engagement of activists with transnational Islamic feminist network. This dissertation explores historical continuities and discontinuities between three women's movements in Zanzibar, beginning with a socialist state feminist movement in the 1960s that presented women as embodying umoja [unity] and as at the front lines of building and developing the nation. Second, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in the wake of a global human rights and democratization movement, a media-based women's movement emerged on the isles. Women journalists translated transnational women's rights ideas into a Zanzibari cultural context, in the process imbuing them with language and imagery from the socialist past. Third, in the 2010s, Zanzibari women's rights activists engaged with a transnational Islamic feminist network as they sought to reform the archipelago's Islamic kadhi's courts. Representing a departure from UN understandings of women's rights, Zanzibari civil society activists relied most heavily on Islamic feminist arguments in their 2017 kadhi's court reform efforts.In my dissertation, I put forth several arguments related to rights and memory, including an overarching methodological argument that women's rights are best understood from an ethnohistorical approach. In Chapter 1, I argue that Zanzibari women's understanding of rights-which are often imbued with language from the socialist 1960s-are informed by their own political alignments and by memory. Using a case study approach, I argue in Chapter 2 that one woman's appropriation of historical language during a millennial media-based women's movement did not represent her endorsement of the past but rather her efforts to mediate collective memory. I argue throughout my dissertation that anthropological frameworks for understanding human rights should incorporate historical memory as a central analytic concept.In Chapter 3, I transition from relying on archival evidence and a few oral histories to relying on participant observation, interviews, and media sources. I chronicle the efforts of a coalition of Zanzibari women's rights activists to reform the archipelago's Islamic legal system, during which they relied on a transnational Islamic feminist network and to a lesser degree on transnational women's rights conventions. Activists passed some reforms but were unable to convince lawmakers to allow women to serve as kadhis [Islamic judges], which highlights the limits of transnationalism in a local context. Activists plan to harness an increasingly faith-based umoja in their continuing efforts to ensure the right of women to serve as kadhis. Chapter 4 is similarly ethnographic and explores the grassroots social involvements of a non-elite woman from the Tanzanian mainland in a women's madrasa [Islamic studies group] and in a women's vicoba [savings cooperative]. Her negotiations of agency across different social groups are multiple, nonlinear, and often contradictory, which reflects relational understandings of rights and obligations as well as the multiplicity and diversity of Zanzibari communities. It also highlights the continuing resonance of gendered language, ideas, and imagery from the socialist past, even in the midst of a deeply rooted Islamic revival. The future for women in Zanzibar will depend in part on how they negotiate multiple solidarities-that often come with different expectations and obligations in their daily lives.
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