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Hedged out : the reproduction of elite structures in finance
(2017-05-05)
This dissertation is a study of how and why the “1 percent” remains a bastion of male domination. My focus is the hedge fund industry, a case study of the top earners. Women and minority men are drastically underrepresented ...
Too foul and dishonoring to be overlooked : newspaper responses to controversial English stars in the Northeastern United States, 1820-1870
(2010-05)
In the nineteenth century, theatre and newspapers were the dominant expressions of popular culture in the northeastern United States, and together formed a crucial discursive node in the ongoing negotiation of American ...
Sexing the midlife: women's experiences across same-sex and different-sex couples
(2015-12)
This paper examines the experiences of women navigating sex amidst midlife transitions within same-sex and different sex long term couples. Data from in-depth interviews with women in 18 same-sex and 18 different-sex couples ...
The Poutiatine women : war, revolutions, and exile, 1898-1922
(2012-05)
This is a study of six women who lived in Britain during the early twentieth century. A mother and five daughters, they immigrated to Britain from Russia in 1909, and their letters provide a window into the lives of women ...
Breaking barriers : pioneer women elite at University College, Ibadan, 1948–1960
(2017-05)
Between 1948 and 1960, less than one hundred women attended Nigeria’s first degree-granting university, then called University College, Ibadan. Women’s access to the school was dictated by both their class and gender. ...
Only my revolt is mine : gender and slavery's transnational memories
(2013-05)
This dissertation is a study of how slave rebellions continue to exert a profound political, affective and cultural influence on postcolonial writers. These writers claim histories and memories of such rebellions as strategic ...
The power of makeup : a digital ethnography
(2019-06-20)
The purpose of this study is to investigate how one YouTube makeup tutorial impacted and shaped viewer’s perceptions in one digital community. This study uses ethnographic content analysis to analyze a transcription of The ...
Who sets the news agenda on “Chinese Twitter”? The relationships between the media and opinion leaders on Weibo
(2016-05)
Within the theoretical framework of agenda setting, this dissertation used granger causality analysis to examine the relationships between news agendas of the media outlets and opinion leaders on one Chinese social network ...
Mulheres Brazucas : identity negotiation in the immigration experience of Brazilian women
(2013-08)
This study draws from literature on acculturation, acculturative stress and gender roles as they relate to the experiences of Latin American immigrant groups. It focuses on Brazilian immigrant women, a group which has been ...
"A great army of instruction" : American teachers and the negotiation of empire in the Philippines
(2013-05)
In the summer of 1901, the United States government began a project of colonial education in the Philippines, sending close to one thousand teachers to the newly-acquired colony. These teachers, called “Thomasites,” were ...