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Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)
The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ...
THE MUSLIM FEMALE BODY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DISCOURSES BY ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
(2014-08-15)
Abstract
The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers employs a culturally symptomatic approach in its reading of various modes of representation of the Muslim female ...
NATIVE STORIES: AMERICAN INDIAN REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN RHETORIC AND LITERATURE
(2018-05-11)
ABSTRACT
In this dissertation, American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature, I examine both positive and negative representations of American Indians in the genres of poetry, fiction, ...
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
(2022-05-13)
This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ...
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)
Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ...
Resisting madness: Women's negotiation of social control in early modern English literature.
(2000)
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as Erik Midelfort's and Michael MacDonald's analyses of mental illness during the Renaissance. This ...
Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...
The Spiritual Rhetoric of Early Methodist Women Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers
(2013)
This dissertation examines the rhetorical features of letters and journals composed by Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers, all prominent and influential women in the early years of the ...
Misogyny and murder: crime fiction by women from 1947-1959
(2022)
This project demonstrates that American women authors from 1947-1959 repurposed the crime genre to critique and engage with misogyny and sexism of the day. Hardboiled crime fiction, which was at its peak popularity in ...
Imagining Choctaw: Self-Imagination and Settler Colonialism
(2017-08-01)
As Native American tribes work towards self-determination, they must first fully imagine who they are and who they want to become. Self-imagination, the act of conceptualizing ourselves, is requisite for self-determination. ...