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The Measurement of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes in Counseling Graduate Students

Description:: The primary aim of this study was to explore the existence of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes (OSRS) in a population of counseling graduate students in an attempt to better understand how novice clinicians respond to working with trauma. The second goal was to utilize the data...
Author:: Hatchuel, Elizabeth Edmonds
Keyword:: Compassion Fatigue, Supervision, Measurement, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Counselor Education, and Vicarious Trauma
GW Unit:: Counseling
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Marotta, Sylvia A
Committee Member(s):: Stafford, Susan, Deitch, Cynthia, Lanthier, Richard, and Beauregard, Janet
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Predicting Home Purchase Location in DC: an Intersectional Approach

Description:: Predicting Home Purchase Location in DC: an Intersectional Approach
Author:: Anderson, Emily
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Public Policy - Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Squires, Gregory D
Committee Member(s):: Deitch, Cynthia
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

What's Missing?: Discourses of Gender and Sexuality in Federally-Funded Sex Education

Description:: This work performs a critical discourse analysis of federally-funded abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education curricula in order to understand how, through the implementation process, sex education policies construct gender and sexuality. Both the policy debates and the policy...
Author:: Curran, Leah
Keyword:: Sex education, Sexuality, Discourses of heterosex, Public policy, Gender, and Sex education policy
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Ken, Ivy
Committee Member(s):: Deitch, Cynthia, Infeld, Donna, Harmon, Michael, and Gault, Barbara
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Gender Regulation in the Built Environment: Gender-Segregated Public Facilities and the Movement for Change in Washington, DC, a Case Study Approach

Description:: The designers of our built environment have created public facilities that are segregated by gender for their use. Common examples of such spaces are public restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and shelters. While these gendered structures may exist to promote safety and modesty in our culture,...
Author:: Herman, Jody Leigh
Keyword:: transgender, public policy, public administration, discrimination, activism, and gender
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Harrison, Cynthia E.
Committee Member(s):: Lambert, Sharon, Ramlow, Todd, Deitch, Cynthia, and Infeld, Donna
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Transparency and Medical Interventions in Vital Statistics Reports: Quantitative Research and Analysis

Description:: Unnecessary medical interventions in childbirth carry substantial financial costs and can negatively affect health outcomes for childbearing women and their children. Transparency in the reporting of medical interventions has the potential to reduce incidences of unnecessary medical interventions...
Author:: Herrlich, Ariel
Keyword:: transparency, medical interventions, vital statistics, maternity care, and childbirth
GW Unit:: Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Cordes, Joseph
Committee Member(s):: Deitch, Cynthia
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

"MY ART'S NOT BUILT LIKE THAT:" A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF THE MICHIGAN WOMYNS MUSIC FESTIVAL

Description:: The objective of this paper is to understand the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF) through a transnational lens. Sasskia Sassen's arguments regarding transnational discourse provided a theoretical framework to explore the relationship between music and politics in popular culture. Topics...
Author:: Pearson, Ariel
Keyword:: music, politics, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, and transnationalism
GW Unit:: Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Morris, Bonnie
Committee Member(s):: Ramlow, Todd and Deitch, Cynthia
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Influences on U.S. International Population and Reproductive Health Policy

Description:: The United States has been a global leader in the international population arena for nearly fifty years, but the domestic policy debate around international population and reproductive health issues has been increasingly characterized by politicization and partisanship. This study explores the...
Author:: Petroni, Suzanne
Keyword:: Family planning, Reproductive health, Interest groups, and Congressional voting
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Balla, Steven J
Committee Member(s):: Wood, Susan, Deitch, Cynthia, Infeld, Donna, and Crane, Barbara
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Redefining the Identity of Black Women: "Natural" Hair and the Natural Hair Movement

Description:: This study examines young, Black women's hair practices and perspectives within the current wave of the Natural Hair Movement. Based on twelve in-depth interviews with Black women in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, this analysis uses Black feminist thought and standpoint theory to center...
Author:: Henderson, Amber Juatane
Keyword:: Natural Hair Movement, Black hair, Black women, Hair, African American women, and Natural hair
GW Unit:: Sociology
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Ken, Ivy
Committee Member(s):: Deitch, Cynthia
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Rise of "Slut-o-ween": Cultural Productions of Femininity in Halloween Costumes

Description:: This thesis explores Halloween as a site of gender production through the ritual practice of costuming that reflects society's dominant imagining of what ideal femininity should look like. It analyzes female Halloween costumes from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, identifying a specific...
Author:: Grater, Elizabeth
Keyword:: Halloween, costuming, sexism, femininity, and gender ideology
GW Unit:: Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Ramlow, Todd
Committee Member(s):: Deitch, Cynthia
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Labor Force Participation, Income Packaging, and Economic Well-Being Before and After Welfare Reform: Does Prior Paid Work Experience Matter?

Description:: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 eliminated a social safety net for families maintained by single mothers. The aim of this research was to understand how welfare reform affected income packaging and economic well-being among families headed by...
Author:: Giefer, Katherine Gwen
Keyword:: Economic well-being, Linked data, Low-wage labor market, Income packaging, Low-income single mothers, and Welfare reform
GW Unit:: Public Policy & Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hisnanick, John J and Stoker, Robert P
Committee Member(s):: Wiseman, Michael, Deitch, Cynthia, and Balla, Steven
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Measurement of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes in Counseling Graduate Students

Predicting Home Purchase Location in DC: an Intersectional Approach

What's Missing?: Discourses of Gender and Sexuality in Federally-Funded Sex Education

Gender Regulation in the Built Environment: Gender-Segregated Public Facilities and the Movement for Change in Washington, DC, a Case Study Approach

Transparency and Medical Interventions in Vital Statistics Reports: Quantitative Research and Analysis

"MY ART'S NOT BUILT LIKE THAT:" A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF THE MICHIGAN WOMYNS MUSIC FESTIVAL

Influences on U.S. International Population and Reproductive Health Policy

Redefining the Identity of Black Women: "Natural" Hair and the Natural Hair Movement

The Rise of "Slut-o-ween": Cultural Productions of Femininity in Halloween Costumes

Labor Force Participation, Income Packaging, and Economic Well-Being Before and After Welfare Reform: Does Prior Paid Work Experience Matter?

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