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Literary Inequality: Indications and Implications of Gender Disparities in High School Literature
(2017-08-09)
This paper considers classroom gender inequity and its causes. It specifically does this by analyzing the authors and protagonists of major literary works read in United States freshmen English classes. This paper finds ...
Where Romance Meets Stalking: How Heteronormative Gender Beliefs Perpetuate Stalking Culture
(2018-08-14)
Evidence suggests that we live in a stalking culture; that is, a culture in which stalking is normalized, minimized, and romanticized through various cultural institutions. This study examines potential pathways in which ...
When daddies and babies fight back: The processes of stigmatization and destigmatization in online news coverage of Sugar Dating
(2017-08-09)
Founded in 2006 by Brandon Wade, CEO, SeekingArrangement.com currently claims over five million active members. The website criticizes traditional relationships for being too one-sided, and it claims that arrangements offer ...
Understanding the Relationship Between Gender, Previous Cardiac Event and prehospital Delay Behavior in Acute Myocardial Infarction
(2011-03-25)
NURSING SCIENCE
UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER,
PREVIOUS CARDIAC EVENT AND PREHOSPITAL DELAY
BEHAVIOR IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Cynthia G. Waller
Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
Religious and communal practices in three traditions of Esther: practices in texts and contexts
(2013-04-11)
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Douglas A. Knight
The story of Esther has a complex history of transmission and interpretation. This project examines the Hebrew (Masoretic Text) and Greek versions (Septuagint ...
The Caged Bird's 21st Century Song: A Homiletic Practical Theology from the Preaching of African American Women
(2013-07-30)
This dissertation engages the sermons of African American women with the purpose of learning more about their preaching content and style. I begin by exploring the social location of African American women, and how their ...
Representations of Gender in Photographs from People’s Daily: How has China’s Rise Affected Women?
(2015-03-18)
Thirty-five years ago, no one could have foreseen the dramatic changes that would transform China and shift the balance of global power. What started as a series of economic reforms in the late 1970s has redefined a nation ...
Gendered Terrain of Migration: Variations in International Migrant Populations
(2013-11-19)
This paper navigates the gendered landscape of international migration by estimating and examining age-standardized gender ratios of foreign-born stocks in 56 countries for years ranging from 1960 to 2008 in order to gauge ...
Queer During and After School: Understanding LGBTQ+ Youth’s School Belonging and After-School Participation
(2019-03-27)
Research on adolescents has taken great strides to acknowledge and celebrate the assets that young people have and can develop in and out of school. Queer youth, however, are often left out of these conversations, as ...
Risk Orientation and Risk-Taking Behavior: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity and Gender on Mental Health and Substance Use among Young Adults
(2014-04-27)
Current research on the well-being of youth and young adults claims that this stage of the life course includes a higher propensity for risk-taking behavior than earlier or later periods. While most youth tend to “age ...