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The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, ...
My proposed MA in American Dance Studies thesis analyzes the power and reach of the online dance world in the 21st Century. The project specifically engages with the past decade’s trend of dance spectatorship’s online presence, fueled by...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
Manual (draft) for Safe Zone Tallahassee, FL. Includes information about member expectations, organization mission, list of terms and definitions, suggestions for "reducing homophobia, facts about the LGBTQ community, stages of sexual...
I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research...
LGBTQ Student Resource Center Policies and Procedures
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Manual for the LGBTQ Student Resource Center, a project of the Pride Student Union. Includes mission statement, non-discrimination statement, information about governance and staff, and other organizational/operational information.
The purpose of this research study is to develop the Eating Behaviors and Attitudes Inventory (EBAI) as a diagnostic tool and educational device. The EBAI is an instrument that measures women's ability to self-regulate eating behaviors...
Blanche Wetherill Walton played a significant role in the development of America’s modernist music culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her legacy has largely been preserved through her roles as a patron and salonnière during this...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of autonomous girlhood in five young-adult (YA) novels that appropriate Shakespearean plots for twenty-first-century girl audiences: Caryl Cude Mullin's Rough Magic (2009), Lisa Klein's Lady...
Though historical scholarship on gender and international relations has grown over the last few decades, there has been little work done on women in the Foreign Service. The main objective of this thesis is to examine the role of women...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
Adrienne Rich explains that the contemporary concept of the home and the domestic sphere is a cultural construct rather than an essential, inherent biological identity. She asserts that the “nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideal of the...
Handbook for the implementation of a Safe Zone program, including information about the program, an "ally contract, list of activities for established programs, and a list of strategic challenges to implementing the program.
This study focuses on the period between the late twelfth century and the late fifteenth century and the changes in perception toward sexual relations and gender politics, especially those pertaining to rape. While there is much to be...
Infosheet for the Pride Student Union and the LGBTQ Resource center, including mission statement, brief history, information about meetings, programs, and contributions.
El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas...
This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of...
This project focuses on the role of gender in Susanna Rowson's seduction novel Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novel Wieland. Incorporating literary analysis, historical information, and the work of other scholars, I...
In this dissertation, I explore retirement income using a sample of Black and White men and women over age 62 who draw Social Security. I examine three of the main sources of retirement income – Social Security, occupational pensions, ...
The Rocky Horror Show is the predecessor of the more widely known The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the former being a musical that debuted in 1973 and the latter being a film that debuted in 1975. Audience participation has become...
This dissertation examines one season of episodes of the television show Extreme Makeover. It focuses on the efforts of the show's producers, managers and staff as well of the majority of makeover candidates to frame their surgeries, ...
Florida judges have the discretion to withhold adjudication for felony offenders sentenced to probation. This sentencing option allows offenders to retain all rights normally lost upon felony conviction within the state of Florida, ...
Info packet for the Safe Zone Tallahassee, FL. Includes information about the organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, a list of local and internet resources, LGBTQ symbolism, information about coming out, ...
Architectural spaces and places within films often work to represent larger themes of the films' stories. This paper explores how films from three different genres, horror, science fiction, and romance, utilize architectural places and...
Recent literature on comparative institutional analysis has found that the set of institutions consistent with the concept of economic freedom correlates with higher levels of per capita income (Gwartney, Holcombe, and Lawson 2004), more...
Fuck Happiness, Give Me Pain follows a year and a half of a theatre artist's journey to find and explore a new way of creating within the realms of performance and live art. She, along with an ensemble of performers, worked over a nine...
Given the expanding role of today’s grandparent within the family, this dissertation seeks to explore the diverse range of grandparenting experiences outside of the commonly studied experience of the caregiving grandparent. Using the...
Steven Conn recently argued that as museums change from warehouses of artifacts focused on public instruction to a different model of education by engagement, their emphasis on objects will become less necessary. This dissertation...
This dissertation argues that representations of masculinity in the Hollywood war/combat films of the Vietnam film cycle reflect the changing and changed mores of the era in which they were made, and that these representations are so...
French choreographer Maurice Béjart used the third space in performance to fracture notions of fixed gender identity by removing it from facile and binary definitions. Postcolonial theorist, Homi K. Bhabha, originated the concept of a...
This dissertation explores contemporary literary representations of the Haitian Duvalier dictatorships (1957-1986), by authors Nadine Magloire, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, and Marie-Célie Agnant. The questions that I explore through...
When Kurt Weill chose to compose a work based on Elmer Rice's play Street Scene (1929), he set out to create a new American operatic idiom crafted for the Broadway stage. Because Weill's writings about Street Scene (1947) are centered on...
This dissertation investigates how gender and sexuality shape people’s perceptions of aging in midlife. The study draws on two narratives about aging discussed by aging studies scholars. Decline—the predominant aging narrative—constructs...
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a...
This project examines the changing shape of femininity and masculinity for Marines from World War I to the Korean War, focusing on the ways that the body serves as a canvas for demonstrating the negotiation of gender roles and the Marine...
The power of Confessional poetry derives in large part from its reputation for telling the truth. Indeed, the very term “confessional” indicates the genre’s status as a discourse of truth. Recent scholarship on Confessional poetry has...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the link between gender identity and engagement in three health behaviors—alcohol consumption, marijuana use, and the non-medical use of prescription stimulants. Historically, health...
We examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the...
Although leisure spaces provide a degree of liberation through their relaxation of norms, women are more likely to experience behavioral and emotional burdens that limit their freedoms in these spaces. Little is known, however, about how...
The two styles that best exemplify the cultural interaction integral to the artistic development of Native American art in the American southwest are Navajo weaving and Hopi silver overlay. These two styles show that the development of...
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