Browsing Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Tacoma by Subject "Gender studies"
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Assuming Rape: The Reproduction of Fear in American Military Female POWs
(2012-09-13)In order to discuss the assumption that United States female military Prisoners of War will be raped once captured or during captivity and the reproduction of this assumption, it is necessary to discuss the construction ... -
Girls, STEM, and Children's Books: A Review of the Literature Concerning Girls' Interest, Motivation and Ability in STEM, Complemented by a Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Award Winning Informational Children's Books
(2013-07-23)This thesis includes an expansive literature review investigating why there is still a lack of women in STEM, concluding that social systems are key factors and also looks at how motivation, interest, and engagement might ... -
The Third Shift: Paid Work, Care Work and Education
This paper explores how women’s current status in the workplace and the often unequal distribution of household labor are interrelated. Specifically, focus is placed on how women’s paid and unpaid labor is influenced by ... -
Unmarked and unheard: Voices of working class White men in an Appalachian borderland
This thesis responds to Walls and Billings (1977) call for a study of work in an Appalachian cultural context. Given this, intersectionality theory along with Marx's theory of alienation guide the analysis. Since ...