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Evoking the Salon: Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator & The Conversation of Protofeminist Space reads Eliza Haywood's 18th century periodical, The Female Spectator, as a reenactment of the feminocentric French salon within the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between child sexual abuse and high-risk maternal parenting indicators and the extent to which maternal depression and self-perceived parenting competence influence that...
ABSTRACT ...coming out of darkness, moving toward the light... -- Maya Angelou The following are the questions at the very heart of this dissertation. What is mothering and what are the roles and duties that mothering entails? Who...
According to social threat theorists, it is the mere presence of blacks that induces a fear of crime which increases punitive attitudes and leads to the mobilization of social control. Blalock (1967) argued that social control is exerted...
This study articulates the reinvention of rewriting in postmodern fiction from the 1980s to present, focusing particularly on the writings of Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, and Emma Tennant. These three authors have made history and...
Criminological research has often overlooked an important segment of offenders' lives - incarceration. Furthermore, the existing research on inmate behavior has focused primarily on male inmates. This dissertation adds to corrections...
Spohn and Holleran (2002) have stated that "little evidence exists that the crime control polices pursued during the past 20 years have produced a predicted reduction in crime (p. 336)." This sentiment has been voice by many researchers...
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