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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Role of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Environmental Identity Development through Duke Undergraduate Students’ Narrative
(2019-05-06)Recent work in environmental psychology and environmental education emphasizes environmental identity as important in predicting a broad array of environmental behaviors. However, there are gaps in our understanding of how ... -
The Work of Being Worked (For): Intimacy, Knowledge, and Emotional Labor in the Works of Henry James
(2018-03)Henry James’s novels operate within a vibrant social economy, as “the working and the worked were in London, as one might explain, the parties to every relation” (The Wings of the Dove 201). James’s later works illustrate ... -
THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana
(2019-05-30)This thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, ... -
Walking a Fine Line
(2006-12)In this essay, I examine the social disparity between the genders at Duke University, focusing on two critical time periods – the first decades of the founding of The Woman’s College and Trinity College from the mid 1920’s ... -
Women in the Global Clothing and Textile Industry
(2016-04-18)This paper examines the current role of women in the clothing and textile industry through oral history of South African union members. I argue that the industry’s particularly exploitative environment is directly related ...
