"This book examines the construction of gender identities in different socio-religious contexts in the Indian subcontinent. It explores gender identities across many dimensions, regions and historical periods, touching upon, among others, the Vedas, spirit possession, caste and …
This thesis draws on the experiences of 21 young people transitioning from a special school for students with labels of moderate learning difficulty, to further education college. Taking a disability studies approach, that is, viewing disability as a social and political respons…
Employing critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework, this thesis explores the nature, structure and purpose of Islamophobic discourse, and offers two central contributions to the scholarly debate on Islamophobia. First, it contributes to the literature on th…
This thesis looks at Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi’s 吳明益 2015 novel The Stolen Bicycle (Danche shiqie ji 單車失竊記) and argues that it contests the dichotomous framework assumed in Taiwanese postcolonial theories by revealing contextualized and intertwined complexities. Taiwanese post…
Twentieth-century French scholars have extensively studied postcolonial literature dealing with identity issues rooted in colonialism, yet these studies do not address the emergence of new definitions of Identity found in the controversial literature of today's Francophone women…
Feminist theorists have repeatedly pointed out that the formation of nations, communities and states are gendered processes in which women are appropriated as visible symbols of the “nation”, but then denied equal citizenship with men. The feminist arguments about the centrality…
The following research is a case study of the creation, structure and maintenance of dominant and subordinate identities in Ethiopian imperial and post-imperial society. The study identifies: (1) how dominant and subordinate identities occur, (2) their impact upon sustainable go…
This dissertation explores the impact on the Algerian Jews of French colonialism, the French-Algerian War, and decolonization. In 1962, the year of Algeria's independence from France, almost all of the approximately 130,000 Algerian Jews left the Maghreb for France as part of a …
In the fifteenth century Iberian societies hotly debated the religious identities of the Jews who accepted Christianity under duress during and after the pogroms of 1391. This study looks at the religious practices of two converts from Ciudad Real as a microcosm of the converso …
When international graduate students and their families participate in study abroad experiences, there are many challenges and opportunities that accompany these experiences. Depending on the context of the study abroad experience, some might be characterized as both opportuniti…
Questions of racial and cultural identity have almost become endemic in current Africana, American, cultural and humanistic studies. So too have issues concerning subaltern resistance to, and/or determined self-integration into, dominant cultures. This study has been conceived a…
Self-injury is a growing public health concern that impacts individuals of all ages, genders, and racial-ethnic backgrounds. While research on self-injury has primarily been conducted from a psychological and clinical perspective, this dissertation takes a social psychological a…
This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of the so-called Mudéjar aesthetic in sixteenth century New Spain (colonial Mexico). Its focus on the luxury arts, especially on cloth, clothing, and ceramics, offers a shift from the traditional focus on architectural history to …
In 1909 the neighborhood-turned-metropolis of Tel Aviv was founded by sixty Jewish families from Jaffa, one of the oldest cities in the world. From the start Tel Aviv has been imagined and portrayed by its leaders and residents alike as both a “city from the sands” and as the “f…
Land and landscape art are invariably loaded with connotations fundamental to cultural identification, and urban settings and cityview motifs offer some of the most accessible and sharable cultural associations. Indeed, with their recognizable buildings, cityscapes can provide a…