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Ethnic Identity, Womanist Identity, and Young Adult Latinas’ Safe Sex Practices

Valdez, Marina (University of Oregon, 2011-09)

Young Latina women are at risk for unwanted pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections. Researchers have suggested that factors such as self-efficacy and relationship power dynamics may contribute to difficulty in ...
Occupational and Gendered Differences Between Firefighter/Paramedics and Emergency Room Nurses

Bryant, Wesley

Emotional Labor is the active management of emotion derived from a specific social expectation. Paramedics, Firefighters, and emergency room Registered Nurses are a few examples of our high-stress medical service workers ...
Social context in traumatic stress: Gender, ethnicity, and betrayal

Tang, Sharon Shann-Shin (University of Oregon, 2009-06)

The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of sociocultural factors in posttraumatic stress. The two major aims were to add to current knowledge about why women report higher rates of posttraumatic stress ...
Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism

Monsour, Mitchell (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

I begin by discussing structural alienation in the United States and its relationship to the pursuit of romantic love. I argue that romantic love is idealized due the lack of community inherent in a competitive, individualistic ...