Browsing by Subject "gender"
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A Woman’s Place Is in Populism? Female Leadership in the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Movements
(2018-01-25)This research project focuses on the identity formation of female leaders within the patriarchal ideology of right-wing populism. Case studies of Laura Ingraham and Michele Bachmann attempt to explain the emergence of female ... -
Case Studies Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Climate Action in the Private Sector
(2020-04-24)Applying a gender lens to climate mitigation and resilience is a developing area of interest for businesses. This project aims to increase industry focus on how companies can integrate gender into climate change mitigation ... -
Crack-Whores and Pretty Woman: The Media Framing of Sex Workers
(2018-12-05)International human rights organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Amnesty International have advised nations to decriminalize sex work in order to protect ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Energy Access as a Driver of Gender Equality: What is the Evidence?
(2020-05-22)Executive Summary Introduction Policy Problem. Worldwide, 2.7 billion people rely on traditional fuels such as wood, charcoal, agricultural residue, and animal dung for their cooking and heating needs (Mulugetta et ... -
Epidemiologic Profile and Underreporting Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence in Maringá, Brazil
(2015)Background: Intimate partner violence is a global burden that disproportionately affects women and has more severe outcomes in women as well. Our objective was to explore the epidemiologic profile for intimate partner violence ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(2020)This dissertation considers the role gender plays in labor markets, household decision-making, and health in sub-Saharan Africa.The first chapter considers the impact of fast Internet access on employment outcomes and household ... -
Essays in Empirical Development Economics
(2020)Social norms can play an important role in economic decision-making. Individuals face costs if they deviate from cultural norms in their families or communities, and firms seek to preserve reputation in order to bolster ... -
Gender Differences in the Impact of North Carolina’s Early Care and Education Initiatives on Student Outcomes in Elementary School
(Educational Policy, 2020-03-01)© The Author(s) 2018. Based on growing evidence of the long-term benefits of enriched early childhood experiences, we evaluate the potential for addressing gender disparities in elementary school through early care and education ... -
Gender Portrayals in Television Commercials: Differences Among Target Audience Age
(2012-04-26)The study investigates how gender is portrayed in television commercials targeted at children and adults. Nearly 1,000 commercials from Nickelodeon (a channel aimed at young children) and E! (a channel aimed at primarly ... -
Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual
(2011)This dissertation investigates Iron II Judean pillar figurines and their place in Judean ritual. First, the project identifies major trends in the interpretation of figurines and evaluates them using ancient Near Easter ... -
Man, Wife, and Bingo Verifying Diva: What Drag Bingo Can Do For Me and You
(2010-05-06)How is gender ideology reinforced and transformed through the interaction between the family and extra-familial social institutions in Durham, North Carolina and by extension in the contemporary United States? This study ... -
Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
(2017)This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document ... -
Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic
(2018)This dissertation turns attention to the neglected history of relic practices among Protestants from late colonial America to the 1860s. It explores why Protestants deemed the material remains of their dead saints, friends, ... -
Right-of-Way: Equal Employment Opportunity on the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline, 1968-1977
(2015)This dissertation compares four programs to create equal employment opportunity on the trans Alaska oil pipeline construction project in order to demonstrate the ruptures and continuities between manpower programs to end ... -
Senses of Belonging: The Synaesthetics of Citizenship in American Literature, 1862 - 1903
(2011)In American letters, the Civil War represented a decisive break in literary form, a shift from interiority to exteriority. Sentimentalism harnessed the transformative effects of aesthetic feeling to galvanize political opinion ... -
Suicidal Romanticism: Race, Gender, and the End(s) of Individualism
(2015)Moving beyond traditional conceptions of suicide in Romantic literature as indices of Romanticism's fascination with tragic or mad genius, this dissertation traces how Romantic-era writers also employed the trope of suicide ... -
The Demands of Integration: Space, Place and Genre in Berlin
(2012)This dissertation argues that the metaphor of integration, which describes the incorporation of immigrants into the national body, functions as a way to exclude "Muslim" immigrants from German national identity, as these ... -
The Dormitories are Burning: Gender-Neutral Housing and Critical Trans* Politics in the Contemporary University
(2014-04-29)While traditional college housing systems organize students along a binary of biological sex, many universities, like Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC- Chapel Hill), are beginning to address ... -
The Nouvelle Cuisine Revolution: Expressions of National Anxieties and Aspirations in French Culinary Discourse 1969 - 1996
(2011)<p>This dissertation posits that Nouvelle Cuisine brings together two of the most powerful cultural forces involved in constituting French national identity: food and revolution. As a result of this privileged position, ...
