Browsing by Subject "feminism"
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Free(dom)inated: A Feminist Examination of Hookup Culture’s Sexual Empowerment and Sexual Policing of Duke University Undergraduate Women
(2017-05-05)How do Duke University undergraduate women experience the seemingly empowering norms of hookup culture? While debate rages among feminists, scholars, journalists, and others as to whether or not hookup culture is beneficial ... -
Habitats of Abandonment: Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Dispossession from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression
(2016)This dissertation draws on American literature from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression to fashion a theory of abandonment, a term that designates both a material reality and a conceptual framework; abandonment ... -
Revolution in the Sheets: The Politics of Sexuality and Tolerance in the Mexican Left, 1919-2001
(2020)Tolerance is considered foundational for a multicultural society to defuse tensions over race, religion, and sexuality. However, critics of tolerance point out that its reliance on the consent of the majority to extend equal ... -
The Perfect Hope: More Than We Can Ask or Imagine
(2011)As Christians in the United States struggle to sustain hope in the face of global economic, environmental, military, and poverty crises, the most popular source of theological hope for preachers and congregations is that ... -
Une Biographie Critique de Marie-Thérèse Eyquem : Pionnière du Sport, du Féminisme, et de la Politique
(2017-05-12)This thesis explores in the form of a critical biography the life trajectory of Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (1913-1978). As sports administrator under the Vichy regime, author, feminist, and Socialist activist under Pres. François ...
