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Charlotte Brontë’s Domestic Refusal
(2017-12-19)
What we talk about when we talk about refusal is decidedly masculine in focus and perspective. Standard accounts of refusal locate it in Herbert Marcuse’s avowal that refusal represents the “protest against that which is” ...
Keeping Home: Home Schooling and the Practice of Conservative Protestant Identity
(2006-11-28)
White conservative Protestants (fundamentalists, evangelicals, charismatics, and Pentecostals) in the early twenty-first century United States construct for themselves a religio-cultural identity by which they hold themselves ...
It “Just Happened” One Night: Gender Norms and Consent to Unwanted Sexual Activity on College Hookups
(2014-11-18)
Popular media often portray college hookups (i.e., casual sexual encounters with no expectation or guarantee of commitment) as harmful to young women and beneficial to young men. Research indicates that hookups tend to be ...
The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and Influences on International Recognition of Human Rights Organizations in Latin America
(2018-11-20)
The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are perhaps the most well recognized human rights organizations to emerge in Latin America following the wave of political violence that occurred in the latter portion of the ...
“It’s not part of the religion”: The “Null Curriculum” and the Sexual Identity Development of Muslim American Youth
(2014-12-03)
This paper explores the intersection of religious and sexual identity formation amongst Muslim-American youth, employing psychological theories of identity, sociological theories of performance, and theological perspectives ...
Peer Affiliation and School-based Problem Behavior During Adolescence: A Cross-sectional Evaluation
(2019-11-20)
Peer affiliation is an important factor in the behavioral trajectories of adolescents, and the effect of peer dynamics on problem behavior is especially salient in the school setting. In this paper, the author presents a ...
Luke 18:1-30: The Kingdom of God and Social Relationships
(2021-05-17)
Read together as a narrative whole, the parables and stories in Luke 18:1-30 illustrate various examples of humanity’s call to respond to and participate in the kingdom of God. For generations, biblical scholars interpret ...
The Causes and Consequences of Running Away: What Difference Does Gender Make?
(2007-02-19)
Although gender is the strongest correlate of delinquent behavior, most delinquency theories were formulated to explain male delinquency, and the academic literature has ignored status offenses such as running away, although ...
Representations of Gender in Photographs from People’s Daily: How has China’s Rise Affected Women?
(2015-03-18)
Thirty-five years ago, no one could have foreseen the dramatic changes that would transform China and shift the balance of global power. What started as a series of economic reforms in the late 1970s has redefined a nation ...
When daddies and babies fight back: The processes of stigmatization and destigmatization in online news coverage of Sugar Dating
(2017-08-09)
Founded in 2006 by Brandon Wade, CEO, SeekingArrangement.com currently claims over five million active members. The website criticizes traditional relationships for being too one-sided, and it claims that arrangements offer ...