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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 ...
Tempest in a tea pot: analysis of contemporary witch hunts in the tea plantations of Bengal
(2008-08-04)
In my dissertation I use a variety of qualitative methods (case study, in depth interviews and ethnography) to analyze how a migrant labor community uses “extreme deviance” as a form of protest. Using contemporary cases ...
Sex differences in the time course of emotion
(2004-08-30)
Conventional wisdom holds that women are more “emotional” than men. However, empirical research to date has suggested that sex differences in emotion are considerably more complex than this simple adage would suggest. ...
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 ...
Pursuing a 'Reformed' Dream: CalWORKs Mothers in Higher Education After "Ending Welfare As We Know It"
(2008-07-22)
Sweeping changes in 1996 to the national welfare system prioritized “work first” policies and restricted educational opportunities for mothers in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The purpose of ...
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 ...