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Portrayals of women in prime time reality TV programs	Communication practices of women in undergraduate engineering classes

A tale of a "half fairy, half imp": The rape of Jane Eyre	The Center of Almost Everything

Opposition to female enfranchisement: The Iowa anti-suffrage movement	Success in the sciences: Potential influences of sex role conflict, self-efficacy, and role modeling on women's career aspirations

The Myth of Gravity	"Thin is what we're supposed to be, not what we're supposed to talk about": A qualitative study of pro-eating disorder blogging communities

Big women	Care ethics and cloning: A speculative literary critique of human biotechnology

The effect of prisonization on female criminality	"It's not fair!" Mothers' experiences with perinatal loss upon confirmation of a lethal prenatal diagnosis

Therapeutic journeys: Subversion of archetypal convention in women's travel narrative	Influence of model body size on consumer attitudes and purchase intention

Cognitive responses, attitudes, and product involvement of female consumers to traditional and non-traditional models in beauty advertising	The grassroots diffusion of the woman suffrage movement in Iowa: The IESA, rural women, and the right to vote

Female sexual identity in Toni Morrison's "Love"	Minority women in administrative professional positions in higher education

Witches, heathens and shamans: Religious experience and gender identity among contemporary Pagans in the United States	Female teaching and learning in Morrison's "Paradise"

Representations of the true woman and the new woman in Harper's Bazar, 1870--1879 and 1890--1905	Questions about accountability and illegality of virtual rape

Terror rhetoric: Deconstructing dominant and alternative realities	Cultural changes as reflected in portrayals of women and gender in Chinese magazines published in three eras

Power and its price: Female roles and the consequences of gaining agency in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres"	Existing off the map: Reading Stein and Barnes as hybrid architects

Pay attention to what they tell you to forget: What we know, what we want, and how it affects our health	Learning stories through conversations: Gaining insight into women's knowledge of and attitudes towards sexual health and the implications for the spread of HIV/AIDS in Trinidad

Hope deferred: Mormon feminism and prospects for change in the LDS church	Critical feminist theory, rape, and hooking up

My life was over, my life had just begun: rape recovery through survivor testimony, and trauma prevention with early humanist education	Exploring the perspectives and behaviors regarding help-seeking and knowledge about marriage and family therapy in 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-American women

Little lambs, linnets and babes in the snow: Messages of kindness and caution in Christina Rossetti's "Sing Song" and "Speaking Likenesses"	Arrivederci Mama: love longs of a stolen daughter

Language of control and the marriage plot in "Emma" and "Jane Eyre"	Goddess in a cape: Feminine divine as comic book superhero

College-educated Asian stay-at-home mothers in U.S.	Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" as feminist activist ecology

Redefining independence: Voices of single mothers on welfare about motherhood, marriage, and welfare policy	Measured vocational interests, expressed interests in college major, and interest congruence of college-bound women across time

Why they persist: Exploring the educational experiences of adult women currently enrolled part time at a Midwest community college	Changing ourselves: Narrative experiences of women taking the lead in family and consumer sciences

Strain, negative emotional affect, and the criminal adaptations of women	"Our cherished ideals": Rural women, activism, and identity in the Midwest, 1950--1990

Their voices emerged: A grounded theory of learning resilience among African American women in the formal education environment	Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual

Understanding issues of college persistence for undocumented Mexican immigrant women from the new Latino diaspora: A case study	Connections, confidence, and competence: The meaning of professional development for community college support staff personnel

From working-class origins to academia: Community college women who have crossed the great class divide	The land, it's everything: Women farmland owners and the institution of agricultural conservation in the U.S. Midwest

Cosmetic technologies of the body: An exploration of self and identity through the consumption of nonsurgical cosmetic procedures	Leadership, loss, and healing: A study of women community college leaders who left the presidency

Social and institutional factors affecting the daily experiences of the spouses of international students: Voices from the Midwest and implications to academic institutions	Upward mobility: Experiences with families of origin among college-educated African American women

"The God of all comfort:" Experiences from a biblically-based perinatal loss support group	Exploring women community college natural scientists' personal experience narratives through a subjectivist lens

Promoting healthy eating among college women: Effectiveness of an intuitive eating intervention	An exploration of personal financial behavior of college-educated Black women in the Midwest

Latino mothers in rural America: A mixed methods assessment of maternal depression	Finding rainbows in the clouds: Learning about the full professorship from the stories of black female full professors

Women farmland owners in Iowa: Cultivating agency through rhetorical practice	Mother's perceptions of work-family conflict and the relationship to positive parenting, and parental satisfaction

"When we get to voting": Rural women, community, gender, and woman suffrage in the Midwest	Peering beyond the bars: Institutional confinement of female inmates

Understanding the entrepreneurial potential of female Saudi Arabian family and consumer sciences students and businesswomen	An econometric study of the impact of economic variables on adult obesity and food assistance program participation in the NLSY panel