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The purpose of this research study is to develop the Eating Behaviors and Attitudes Inventory (EBAI) as a diagnostic tool and educational device. The EBAI is an instrument that measures women's ability to self-regulate eating behaviors...
I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, ...
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the...
My proposed MA in American Dance Studies thesis analyzes the power and reach of the online dance world in the 21st Century. The project specifically engages with the past decade’s trend of dance spectatorship’s online presence, fueled by...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the link between gender identity and engagement in three health behaviors—alcohol consumption, marijuana use, and the non-medical use of prescription stimulants. Historically, health...
Knowledge, Power, and the IUD: The Biopolitics of Medical Expertise in Reproductive Counseling and the Anatomopolitics of Gynecological Interventions into the Uterus
This thesis focuses on the production of medical expertise over women’s reproductive health and the normalization of biomedical interventions into women’s reproductive systems. To unpack this, I analyze the American College of...
The power of Confessional poetry derives in large part from its reputation for telling the truth. Indeed, the very term “confessional” indicates the genre’s status as a discourse of truth. Recent scholarship on Confessional poetry has...
This phenomenological study addressed the question, What is the lived experience of Black female collegiate choral directors in North America? Participants were eight Black women who currently held collegiate choral conducting...
When aerial performance became popular in the 20th century, critics reported the confusing gender appearance of its performers. Muscular women were described as mannish and Amazonian while men were observed to be graceful and feminine. I...
This dissertation explores contemporary literary representations of the Haitian Duvalier dictatorships (1957-1986), by authors Nadine Magloire, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, and Marie-Célie Agnant. The questions that I explore through...
When Kurt Weill chose to compose a work based on Elmer Rice's play Street Scene (1929), he set out to create a new American operatic idiom crafted for the Broadway stage. Because Weill's writings about Street Scene (1947) are centered on...
This project examines the changing shape of femininity and masculinity for Marines from World War I to the Korean War, focusing on the ways that the body serves as a canvas for demonstrating the negotiation of gender roles and the Marine...
We examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the...
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a...
Blanche Wetherill Walton played a significant role in the development of America’s modernist music culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her legacy has largely been preserved through her roles as a patron and salonnière during this...
Between 1750 and 1830, historians of sexuality have argued for a revolution in the methods and purposes of regulating sexuality in the European-dominated communities of the United States and its colonial antecedents. Regulation of...
This dissertation investigates how gender and sexuality shape people’s perceptions of aging in midlife. The study draws on two narratives about aging discussed by aging studies scholars. Decline—the predominant aging narrative—constructs...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of autonomous girlhood in five young-adult (YA) novels that appropriate Shakespearean plots for twenty-first-century girl audiences: Caryl Cude Mullin's Rough Magic (2009), Lisa Klein's Lady...
Despite the fact that high-quality preschool education is empirically acknowledged to facilitate short- and long-term personal, social, cognitive, and economic benefits, the professionals who teach preschool experience overwhelmingly...
On February 15, 2014, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was arrested for assaulting his then fiancé, Janay Palmer, at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City (Bien, 2014). Four days later, a video surfaced via TMZ, which showed Rice...
Although leisure spaces provide a degree of liberation through their relaxation of norms, women are more likely to experience behavioral and emotional burdens that limit their freedoms in these spaces. Little is known, however, about how...
Utilizing the foundational concepts posited in the work of Tania Modleski, Janice Radway, and Andreas Huyssen, my dissertation project proposes a new method of receptive reading which prioritizes balanced textual examinations that...
This article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the...
This dissertation emerges from an ongoing reflection on the nuance of the Caribbean as an analogy that sheds light on Dominican identity. Thus, it interrogates and interweaves a multitude of themes such as the transnational definition...
This dissertation examines the portrayals of unconventional and "unruly" female characters in two American operas of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Clair de Lune (1984) by Libby Larsen and Patricia Hampl, and Amelia...
Lord, Why Did You Make Me a Black Woman?: Examining the Intersection of Race and Gender for Black Women Senior-Level Leaders at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Historically White Institutions
The representation of Black women in senior leadership positions within higher education hovers at a dismal 5.8% (Wilder et al., 2013). Though Black women's degree attainment has increased substantially in comparison to other racial...
Though historical scholarship on gender and international relations has grown over the last few decades, there has been little work done on women in the Foreign Service. The main objective of this thesis is to examine the role of women...
In the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century, revivalists in Europe, North America, South America, and the Caribbean centered their theology around the doctrine of the new birth. The new birth was the unifying, if contested, theme of...
The two styles that best exemplify the cultural interaction integral to the artistic development of Native American art in the American southwest are Navajo weaving and Hopi silver overlay. These two styles show that the development of...
This study examines the role of women and gender in German and British sections of three antiwar organizations that advocated for a European polity during the 1920s and 1930s: the Pan-European Union (PEU), the New Europe Group (NEG), and...
In the early 21st century, pole dancing entered the context of formalized competitions in the US, where it is often referred to as pole. There competitors contort around poles performing dare-devilish acrobatics for judges who award...
Gregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the...
The Crimean War (1854-1856) followed quickly by the Indian Revolt (1857-1858) caused many civilians to become interested in the affairs of the army and the lives of soldiers. The increased visibility of the army created numerous calls...
The purpose of the present research study is to provide preliminary evidence of validity for the Eating Behaviors and Attitudes Inventory (EBAI) as an educational device and screening tool. The ultimate goal for the development of the...
Class is one of the most frequently invoked analytic categories used in the study of British history. Yet, as recognized by scholar Eileen Boris, class as a category of analysis is pervasive, but taken for granted instead of...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
Poster for the LGBTSU lecture series, Seven Days of Opening Closets, held in Fischer Lecture Hall. Participants include: William J. Cloonan, Michael Ruse, Daniel J. Pullen, Harrison Higgins, Laurel Fulkerson (incorrectly referred to as...
Interest in understanding cohabiting relationships has increased with the rapidly increasing rates of cohabiters in the United States. Despite a large amount of research, little is known about the sexual frequency of women in cohabiting...
This dissertation draws on oral histories from mostly Black women elders along with visual documentation, archival research and ethnography of the historic Black neighborhood of Rondo in Saint Paul, Minnesota to conceptualize memories of...
El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas...
Since 2019, more than 30 states have proposed over 100 pieces of legislation seeking to ban or heavily restrict young transgender and gender minority athletes from participating in sports. Fully aware of the developmental, physical, and...
This study focuses on the period between the late twelfth century and the late fifteenth century and the changes in perception toward sexual relations and gender politics, especially those pertaining to rape. While there is much to be...
I urge here for a reconceptualization of such female protagonists’ embodiments of the trope of strong black womanhood that shows the benefit of troubling these rigid narratives of inclusion which have underwritten and, to wit, regulated...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of...
Physical pain is a gendered experience: Women report higher levels of it than do men. This pattern may stem from differences in experiences of the body. Women are socialized to be attentive to its functioning, appearance, and sensations, ...
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