Prescott College. Social Justice and Human Rights
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For the purposes of this thesis, I begin with an overview of theatre for social change in the introduction and then focus on the literature review as a way to introduce authors, ideas, theory and knowledge as background for the reader. This includes anecdotal accounts, reasoning for research and methodologies for carrying out research. I look at feminist theory, community-based theatre, education for liberation and decolonizing knowledge as a basis...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"This work examines the tax-exempt status of 501(c)3 organizations under U.S. tax law. Of particular interest in informing this work is the Johnson Amendment and Proposition 8. Questions around tax-exampt status are especially significant in the era of Trump and the rise of the Religious Right. Trump has vowed to overturn the Johnson Amendment, thus making it imperative that we as U.S. citizens increase our understanding of what may come from such...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The objective of this thesis is to explore community agency and resiliency through organizing and action centered around reclaiming spaces and experiences by examining the limitations of the current mental health model used to classify, contain, criminalize, and control individuals into specific categories while using this status to control populations by monitoring behavior and withholding services."--leaf 4.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Eating disorders are now considered an epidemic among girls and women throughout the United States. This thesis suggests a study in which the acts and processes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are positioned as a form of cultural labor undertaken by some Western women in order to embody the myth of the ideal female body. The researcher uses her own lived experience of anorexia and bulimia and her pursuit of embodying femininity in order to...