Browsing by Subject "Gender"
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Benefits of improved cookstoves: Evidence from MTF surveys in Nepal
(2021-05-01)Clean cooking energy has become the focus of many governments, researchers, and nonprofits, especially in low-income developing countries. However, 43% of the global population, approximately three billion people are still ... -
Boccaccio's Women Philosophers: Defining Philosophy, Debating Gender in the Decameron and Beyond
(2020)This dissertation investigates the ‘woman philosopher’ in the works of fourteenth-century Italian author, Giovanni Boccaccio. Across his literature, Latin and Italian alike, Boccaccio demonstrated an ongoing interest in ... -
Caring for Korea: Engendering War and Aid in the American Century
(2021)“Caring for Korea” examines American relief work during and following the Korean War (1950-1953), and the way that humanitarianism shaped American Cold War approaches to empire. Centering aid workers, I highlight the lives ... -
Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
(2017)In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote a short preface for August Aichhorn’s forthcoming book, Wayward Youth. There, Freud hailed ‘the child’ as the future of psychoanalysis, declaring that “[o]f all the fields in which psychoanalysis ... -
Collateral Damage: Race, Gender, and the Post-Combat Transition
(2014)Research on the military has historically focused on the potentially de-stratifying effects of service, including reductions of racial inequality and social mobility. Taking a life course approach, this prior research tends ... -
Compiling Inequalities: Computerization in the British Civil Service and Nationalized Industries, 1940-1979
(2009)In the 1950s and early 1960s, Great Britain's computing industry led the world in the development and application of computers for business and administrative work. The British government and civil service, paragons ... -
Engendering Genocide: Representations of Violence in the Long Twentieth Century
(2020)Genocide studies typically emphasizes economics, law, history, political science, and sociology as the disciplines most relevant to understanding the phenomenon of premeditated mass slaughter, and the scholarship has been ... -
Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh
(2019)This dissertation examines the collaborative poetry and poetics of four early modern women writers: Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), Katherine Philips (1631-1664) and Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656 ... -
Gender, Institutions, and Punishment: Examining the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women
(2020)While men account for 93 percent of the U.S. prison population, women have seen an increase of over 700 percent in incarceration rates since the 1980s. Despite this, most sociological and criminological research examines ... -
Gender, Loneliness, and Friendship Satisfaction in Early Adulthood: The Role of Friendship Features and Friendship Expectations
(2013)Three studies focus on an intriguing paradox in the associations between gender, friendship quality, and loneliness, and examine whether gender differences in friendship expectations help explain why the paradox occurs. ... -
Gendering the Conservative Party’s Rise From The Ashes, 1945-51
(2022-04-20)The Conservative Party’s shock defeat to Clement Attlee’s Labour Party at the 1945 British General Election cast the party into a period of profound crisis. For the first time in its history, the Labour Party succeeded ... -
Inequality within Congregations and Congregations’ Response to Inequality: Studies of Gender and Mental Health, Race and Mental Health, and Participation in the Sanctuary Movement
(2021)This dissertation aims to address the ways that American religious congregations and religious leaders respond to and are formed within the context of a society marked by inequality. Specifically, I study: (1) the ways that ... -
“Invisible” Discrimination: The Effects of Intersecting Subordinated Identities on Evaluations of Discrimination
(2022)Are women of color viewed as non-prototypical victims of gender and racial discrimination? What are the implications of non-prototypicality in this context? In this dissertation, I seek to answer these questions by exploring ... -
I’m Not Sure But… Undergraduate Women’s Confidence in the Elite University Setting
(2017-08-24)This paper investigates women’s confidence in the elite university setting in the United States and argues that women often experience a decline in confidence in this space. Within the scope of this paper the elite university ... -
Limits of Conversion: Islamic Dawa, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
(2009)Tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers, women working and residing within Kuwaiti households, have taken shehadeh, the Islamic testament of faith over the past decade. Drawing on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork ... -
Lost Bodies/Found Objects: Storyville and the Archival Imagination
(2017)In “Lost Bodies/Found Objects: Storyville and the Archival Imagination,” I engage the numerous collections and scattered ephemera that chronicle the famed New Orleans vice district of Storyville to show the ways in which ... -
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
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No Longer Male and Female: Ancient Christian Voices Illuminating Gender Beyond the Binary
(2023)As faith communities engage in conversations about the meaning and significance of gender, many people have begun exploring the concept of gender beyond a fixed binary of male and female. These conversations can be challenging, ... -
Occupational Stratification and the Multidimensional Structure of Symbolic Meaning
(2014)Subjective cultural meanings were once central to occupational stratification research. However, attempts to operationalize cultural meanings associated with occupations have been widely criticized, leading contemporary ... -
Otome Games: Narrative, Gender and Globalization
(2019-04-04)The goal of the thesis is to answer the question of how otome (maiden) games, despite their heavily cultured origins, have been able to create playable romance narratives that a global audience can understand, relate, play, ...
