Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-156). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-156). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2006. / Submitted to the School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Adviser: Patrick Webb. Includes bibliographical references. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed March 17, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-131)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Chara Bohan, committee chair; Lori Elliot, Joseph Feinberg, Caroline Sullivan, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 14, 2009. Includes bibliographical references p. 170-184).

Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1983. / Summary in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-123).

This research explores how concepts of women’s independence are constituted, through neo-liberal and feminist discourses, by members of a feminist organization for women leaving abuse. Analysis of eight interviews and eight focus groups with organizational members, collected over a four year period, surface contesting discourses about individualism, choice, economic independence, collectivity and structural analyses. These discourses interact to produce complex conceptualizations of women’s independence, and produced new subjectivities for women within the organization. In the data, neo-liberal and feminist influences produced an integration of self-responsibility and collectivity, creating new ways of understanding women’s agency. Knowledge of these changing notions of gendered independence in organizations allows feminists to be strategic and reflexive about feminist political work within changing social and political terrain.