Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Gender studies"
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Applications of Coalescent Theory to Introgression Inference and Analysis of Genomic Studies of Sex and Sexuality
(2023-11-21)Coalescent theory uses a backwards-in-time approach to model the genetic ancestry of a sample. The individuals in the sample can be imagined as residing in the same totally mixed population, as in the standard coalescent ... -
BRAVE NEW TURKEY: Contesting the Production and Valuation of Bodies, Urban Space, and Ecology
(2021-09-14)In this ethnography, I examine fragmented urban and social dynamics in Istanbul, Turkey. The issues of the country are mirrored and coalesced into these dynamics. Binaries of proper/valuable versus improper/abjected city ... -
Domestic Pleasures: Dreams of Hope and Fulfillment in American Home Life
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explores American domestic pleasures and duties during the two Gilded Ages that bracket the twentieth century. It draws upon the theoretical work of scholars from several disciplines and analyzes prescriptive ... -
Fiction's Metronomes: Music, Time, and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
(2021-05-14)While the British novel emerges in a century increasingly governed by clocks and schedules, it not only assumes a variety of temporal shapes but also grapples with the antinomies of time as at once countable and defying ... -
For Purity's Sake: Piety and Black Women's Religious Networking in the Digital Age
(2021-09-14)From the turn of the century up to the present, evangelical Christians have given theological and cultural primacy to purity and sexuality, often linking the sexual subject to larger issues in the religious, social, and ... -
From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
(2022-06-06)How do employers set pay for job candidates? The idea that job candidates are paid their “market price” is now widely institutionalized but beliefs about the right way to set pay have varied over time. This dissertation ... -
Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Biodiversity Discourse
(2022-07-28)This dissertation examines the role of gender and sexuality in discourses surrounding the biodiversity crisis that threatens the future of most known species, including humans. I examine the gendered rhetoric that biodiversity ... -
Gendering the Shinto Priesthood in Postwar Japan
(2022-05-17)This dissertation uses archival and ethnographic research to examine how the entrance of women into the Shinto priesthood in 1946 precipitated the formation of a gendered priesthood. Although more than 16% of the priesthood ... -
Getting Real: A Nyāya Epistemological Critique of Race and Gender
(2021-11-16)This dissertation is at once a call toward a pragmatic practice of social and political philosophy as well as a reorientation of key topics within the philosophy of race and gender through the lens of realist world ... -
I Want to Go to the Future Please: Jenny Holzer and the End of a Century
(2013-03-18)The task of this dissertation is to assess the historical conditions that permitted Jenny Holzer to formulate a practice premised on language and conceptions of public space to break from historical avant-garde and ... -
In/voluntary Attachments: Marriage, Caste, and Gender in Tamil Nadu
(2023-05-11)This dissertation examines the relationship between voluntariness, marital kinship, and the production of caste and gender stratification in contemporary Tamil Nadu. Over the last decade, ‘inter-caste marriages’ between ... -
Kisaeng: A Sociopolitical History of Entertainment Labor in Korea, 1900–1950
(2023-06-01)This dissertation is a labor history of the early-twentieth-century kisaeng, a class of women entertainers in Korea whose labor comprised a fluid combination of musical performance and sexual commerce. While the figure of ... -
Motherhood on the Outside: Reintegration and Moral Meaning Making among Ex-Offender Mothers
(2013-09-30)This dissertation examines how formerly incarcerated mothers manage the moral ambiguity associated with their ex-offender identity. In studying this group I address how the event of motherhood shapes how women frame their ... -
Mujeres de Papel: Figuras de la "Lesbiana" en la Literatura y Cultura Españolas, 1868-1936
(2013-03-08)Mujeres de papel examines the representation of female same-sex desire in Spanish literature and culture between 1868 and 1936, drawing on novels, popular sex manuals, sexological treatises, postcards, and illustrations. ... -
Queerly Legal and Legally Queer: The Political Capacity of Law in South Korean Queer Activism
(2023-11-21)South Korean queer movements have increasingly played out as legal campaigns in the past decade. In sharp contrast to its early years from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, law has emerged for activists as the most potent ... -
The Rhetoric of Fashion in Latin America
(2013-03-06)This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. It shows how fashion has helped to advance specific visions of ... -
Scripting Space: Affective Topographies in VALIE EXPORT, Elfriede Jelinek, and Ulrich Seidl
(2022-05-11)This dissertation explores the use of performance spaces and space design for audience engagement in Austrian performance art, theater, and film since the 1960s. Bringing together the works of VALIE EXPORT, Elfriede Jelinek, ... -
The Affective State and Civic Intimacy: Youth Marriage, Public Mediation, and State-Making in Contemporary China
(2023-06-01)In the wake of state-initiated marketization, both urban marriage and social solidarity in China are perceived to be in crisis. My dissertation examines how the Chinese state tackles this perceived crisis by mobilizing ... -
The Sartorial Revolution: Masculinity and Civility in the American Republic
(2023-05-15)At the time of the American Revolution, men’s clothing was colorful and showy, and styles changed frequently. By the eve of the Civil War, it was plain, dark, and uniform. In my dissertation, I show how the historical ... -
Thinking Gender: The Cognitive Dimensions of Household Labor
(2022-06-06)Dissertation Advisors: Alexandra Killewald and Jocelyn Viterna Allison P. Daminger Thinking Gender: The Cognitive Dimensions of Household Labor Abstract Decades of sociological research demonstrates that women in ...