Browsing by Subject "Women"
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Against the Grain: Reclaiming the Life I Left Behind
(2015-06-12)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* Against the Grain revisits a period of my life long neglected: the 20 years between my graduation from London University with a BA in African history in 1964 and ... -
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 ... -
"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century
(2013)"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century" explores the socioeconomic worlds of free women of means. I find that they owned slaves, engaged in ... -
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 ... -
Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital, 1890-1940
(2010)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideals of the "New Woman" and the "New Negro" to configure New Negro Womanhood. For these women, the combining of these two figurations ... -
¿Feminicidio? Media Framing of Ciudad Juárez Feminicidios
(2020-11-30)Although the brutal murders of the women in Ciudad Juárez have captured the attention of the international media and human rights organizations, little research has been conducted on the local media’s reporting about the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Steep increase in best-practice cohort life expectancy.
(Popul Dev Rev, 2011)We analyze trends in best-practice life expectancy among female cohorts born from 1870 to 1950. Cohorts experience declining rather than constant death rates, and cohort life expectancy usually exceeds period life expectancy. ... -
Suicide and substance use among female veterans: a need for research.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2014-03)The number of female veterans is increasing. Veterans Administration (VA) enrollment increased over 40% from past eras. However, little research has focused on their mental health. We reviewed literature to examine associations ... -
That's The Way Love Goes: An Examination of the Romantic Partnering Experiences of Black Middle Class Women
(2018)Research on romantic partnering has traditionally focused on the process of relationship formation, marital stability and permanence, and the problems created by distress in relationships. Over the last several decades, ... -
The Changing Face of Women’s Sports at Duke: From Throwing Like a Girl to Competing with the Men
(2006-12)This paper sets out to examine what sports looked like for Duke women at different stages in the University’s history: How have administrative attitudes evolved, and what has been the ensuing effect on student involvement? ... -
The Deacon - Phoenix of Roman Catholic Clergy
(2014)The challenge is the Roman Catholic Church's need for a bit more aggiornamento in the ecclesiology of parochial ministry. The persistent priest shortage has been met with provisional solutions, harboring hopes that increased ... -
The Diary of Mary McKeon, an Irish American Domestic Servant in Nineteenth Century America
(2016-08-31)What did young, single, unaccompanied Irish women experience when immigrating to the United States in the late nineteenth century? In this final project, I will explore primary and secondary sources that address ... -
The Effects of Religion and Patriarchal Norms on Female Labor Force Participation
(2017-05-09)This paper provides an empirical study of the influence of religion, religiosity, and patriarchal norms on female labor force participation across 40 countries. Using micro-level data from the International Social Survey ... -
The Image of Motherhood in Rabonitsa i Krest'ianka, 1922-1928
(2011)Established in 1922, the Soviet women's journal Rabotnitsa i Krest'ianka acted as agent of the Communist Party by supporting its effort to assume the role of mothers and take full responsibility for Russia's children in ... -
The role of substance use and emotion dysregulation in predicting risk for incapacitated sexual revictimization in women: results of a prospective investigation.
(Psychol Addict Behav, 2013-03)Incapacitated sexual assault (ISA) is the most common form of sexual victimization experienced by college women. Although ISA victims are at risk for future assaults, few studies have examined mechanisms responsible for ... -
Validity and Reliability of the Korean Version of the Women's Toileting Behavior Scale.
(International neurourology journal, 2019-06)PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Toileting Behavior Scale (KTBS) to assess women's toileting behavior related to urinary elimination. METHODS:The ... -
Victimless Cruciformity: Queering Submission through a Transgressive Reading of the Lord’s Supper
(2010-06-14)In this paper, I will argue that one can affirm both Scriptural accounts of submission and a feminist ideology that resists oppression by offering a “queer” reading of Christ’s crucifixion and the events leading up to it. ... -
Women-In-Action’s Brand of Biracial Activism: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in 1960s-1970s Durham
(2012-10-24)In the popular narrative of the civil rights movement in the United States, the role of women often becomes minimized or overlooked altogether; yet women played a critical part in engaging racial issues in their communities ...
