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"Don't Be Such a Girl, I'm Only Joking!" Post-alternative Comedy, British Panel Shows, and Masculine Spaces
(2017-08-01)
This thesis discusses the gender disparity in British panel shows. In February 2014 the BBC’s Director of Television enforced a quota stating panel shows needed to include one woman per episode. This quota did not fully ...
The Cycle of Exclusion in Local Print News: How News Content Reflects and Reinforces Patriarchy
(2017-05-01)
Print news has been relied upon as a source of information for centuries. Despite recent strides towards gender equality, women are persistently marginalized in news content and newsrooms. This thesis analyzed over 950 ...
Gender and PTSD: An Examination of Socialized Masculinity as Moderator of PTSD Symptom Development
(2022-08-01)
This study seeks to explain observed gender differences in PTSD risk and protective factors and subsequent PTSD symptoms by use of a Masculine Heuristic moderator variable. Drawing from heuristic and gender role theories, ...
Joan Rivers: Comedy and Identity on the Road to Fashion Police
(2021-08-01)
This thesis analyzes how Joan Rivers’ comedy content and style changed during the first 30 years of her career and how these changes impacted Rivers’ presentation of her identity as a Jewish female comedian. This project ...
'Mother Bring the Henna': Kına Gecesi and Fragmented Imaginations of the Nation-state
(2017-05-01)
This research articulates kına gecesi (henna night) as a critical site for the production and reproduction of gendered politics in Turkey. Kına gecesi, as a women’s pre-wedding ritual, is situated at the margins of civil ...
A New Brand of Men: Masculinity in French Republican Socialist Rhetoric
(2018-12-01)
Social theorist and activist, August Blanqui, used his appearance before court in 1832 to lay out an argument that condemned the present political and economic system and demanded emancipation of the male worker. During ...
German-american Wpa Murals at the Milwaukee Public Museum and National Socialist Schultafeln: A Comparative Analysis
(2020-05-01)
The goal of this thesis was to systematically examine and compare the themes and styles present in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) paintings housed in the Milwaukee Public Museum to a selection of National Socialist ...
Head and Shoulders Above the Rest: Birch-Bark Hats and Elite Status in Iron Age Europe
(2015-12-01)
As competition between Celtic elites increased in Iron Age continental Europe (c. 800-25/15 BC), ornamentation of the head figured prominently in status displays across the Celtic world. Mortuary and iconographic contexts ...
Which Activities Count? Gender and Socioeconomic Differences in the Conceptualization of Physical Activity: the Role of Leisure, Housework and Dependent Care, and Paid Work
(2017-06-01)
Survey research on the overall health and physical activity of the United States has relied on self-reports from questions that ask about leisure-only activity. Leisure activity patterns are known to be plagued by social ...
"Murderous Mania": Gender and Homicide in Milwaukee Newspapers, 1840-1900
(2014-12-01)
This study examines the ways in which Milwaukee's newspapers used gender norms to make sense of acts of murder during the nineteenth century. First, women victims of men's violence are examined, particularly through the ...