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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invisible Threads: Fictions of Cotton in the Anglo-Atlantic Triangle, 1833-1863
(2016-08-17)
With a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...
The Portrait of Madame Merle: George Sand, Gender, and the Jamesian Master
(2008-07-31)
Madame Merle is perhaps best known as The Portrait of a Lady’s secret mother, the principal source of mystery for both Isabel Archer and Henry James’s readers. I perceive her character through the lens of another woman’s ...
Gendered Terrain of Migration: Variations in International Migrant Populations
(2013-11-19)
This paper navigates the gendered landscape of international migration by estimating and examining age-standardized gender ratios of foreign-born stocks in 56 countries for years ranging from 1960 to 2008 in order to gauge ...
Beyond Double Standards: How Gender Conditions Political Responsibility
(2021-08-11)
On average, women are both higher-quality candidates and stronger performers in political office, compared to their male colleagues. Yet, men and women perform equally well at the ballot box. Is this because high-achieving ...
How Organizational Logics, Feelings Rules, and Emotional Labor Impact African American Women Professionals’ Navigation of Workspaces
(2017-04-03)
Women within professional organizations and occupations have made substantial strides, including gaining increases in income, advancing into higher level positions, and expanding their presence across a diversity of ...
Lopsided Suzy with the Baby Fine Hair: Black Women and Transformed Bodies after Breast Cancer
(2017-12-11)
This dissertation uses a qualitative approach to study this important topic in the area of intersectionality and health. My primary data are semi-structured interviews I conducted with 49 black breast cancer survivors in ...