Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Kates, Susan"
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CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, CRAFTING CRITIQUE: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S SUBVERSIVE USE OF THE TRAVELOGUE EPISTOLARY GENRE
Stallings, Alexandra (2024-05-10)Historically marginalized populations, denied access to traditional forms of political advocacy, have contributed to public discourse through their subversive uses of genres. In the field of Rhetoric and Writing, scholars ... -
"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
Woodward, Jordan (2017-05-12)Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ... -
How the Medical, Legal, and Religious Systems Shaped Gender for Hermaphrodites and Gender Nonconformists to Suppress Trans Presence and Enforce Heterosexuality
Cox, Madeline (2024-05-10)Although sexuality is widely accepted across the United States, being transgender or a gender nonconformist is not. Those across the LGBTQ+ spectrum are not on equal footing and many wonder why. Members of the transgender ... -
IN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING
McRay, Mandi (2018)The United States Marine Corps exists within American popular consciousness as a famed fighting force renowned for its unapologetic and well-earned reputation. Its recruit training process, colloquially known as "boot ... -
LONELINESS AS IT STANDS IN RELATION TO THE HUMAN CONDITION: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S GRAPPLING WITH LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, AND A DESIRE TO LESSEN THE PAIN OF EACH
Billimek, Andy (2024-05-10)David Foster Wallace’s unique writing style hinges on difficulty. His approach to storytelling challenges the reader’s expectations, forcing them to actively engage with the characters and scenes rather than passively ... -
Lottie Moon: Southern Baptist Feminist
Roark, Clara (2024-05-10)Charlotte Diggs “Lottie” Moon is widely acknowledged by Southern Baptists as a key contributor to the mass expansion of Southern Baptist missions during the 19th century. Though the missionary is celebrated for her fierce ... -
Normalcy and Pathology: Biology, Social Reform, and American Domestic Handbooks, c. 1840-1910
Parry, Alexander Ian (2016-05)This article examines the relationships between the biological and social content of the domestic handbooks Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1868-1935) wrote during the mid-nineteenth and ... -
Putting ADHD Into Words (and Images, and Videos): A Transmedial Experience
Chambliss, Jacob (2023-12-15)This project is the culmination of the author’s efforts to put into words, images, and videos, among other things, his attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), which was diagnosed during his time at graduate school. ... -
Rekindled and Other Stories
Jeffalone, Ashley (2019-05-11)"Rekindled and Other Stories" is a short fiction collection that also exercises multiple craft elements of fiction like point of view, voice, form such as flash fiction. Its themes include women and their autonomy, obsession, ... -
Selections from The Milwaukee Tavern
Brooks, Bailey (2021-05-14)Set in Oklahoma beginning in late 1969, Elaine Russell is a young, Black closeted lesbian woman recently hired on as a reporter for a Tulsa area broadcast news station, and Wendy Webster is a young white woman who has been ... -
Tenderhearted
Stevens, Avery (2023-05-12)This is a collection of non-fiction essays and one fictional short story that began with the idea of the psychological phenomenon of undermothering but eventually took shape around ways in which my coming of age was impacted ...