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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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
"Tales" of Text and Culture: Tropes of Imperialism, Women's Roles, Technologies of Representation, and Collaborative Meaning-making in Rita Golden Gelman's Tales of a Female Nomad, Female Nomad and Friends, and Personal Website
(2014-12-01)
This dissertation examines contemporary travel writing specifically created for a popular reading culture, Rita Golden Gelman's Tales of a Female Nomad, Female Nomad and Friends, and personal website. The project is concerned ...
Queer Literary Criticism and the Biographical Fallacy
(2016-05-01)
“Queer Literary Criticism and the Biographical Fallacy” engages with three fields of inquiry within literary studies: queer literary criticism, modernist studies, and author theory. By looking at the critical reception of ...
Individual, Occupational and Biomechanical Factors That Affect Slip and Fall Risk from Fixed Ladders
(2015-08-01)
Injuries from ladder falls are prevalent and severe. Previous research has examined certain elements of ladder falls such as the ladder base slipping, but few studies have examined the factors that contribute to climbers ...