This interdisciplinary dissertation examines the last century of U.S. housing policy, including the construction and outcomes, as a phenomenon in which a ubiquitous pro-homeownership stance taken by those in power in the U.S. takes shape and is maintained through official rhetor…
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Dance in Bangladesh, a predominantly Muslim country, has not been researched in depth, but its practice poses significant questions about religious, cultural, ethnic and gender identity in a nation that was a British colony for more than two hundred years, and even after indepen…
This dissertation is a social history of Arusha's urban space during and after the British colonial period. Beginning in 1920, when the British assumed administrative authority in the newly created town, and ending in 1967, when the post-colonial Tanzanian government announced i…
The dissertation explores the consumption practices of economic elites in Amman, Jordan, with elites defined as those individuals possessing both the means and the inclination to enjoy the luxuries of a consumer lifestyle. The reciprocal influences of the purchase and use of a w…
This dissertation is a comparative study of early modern English and Spanish literature and historical documents. It focuses on representations of blackness, purity of blood and intersections of theories of purity of blood with those of rank, gender and inheritance. Scholars of …
This dissertation explores the ideas about fashion and luxury in literary texts from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The first chapter reviews the concept of “fashion,” its meaning and implications, and provides an overview of the most important theories t…
This study shade some light in feminist studies by deploying the incorporating comparison model, post-colonial studies and transnational feminist paradigm through long term and large scale analysis, which I call ‘a movement from abstract to concrete’, back and forth. This dialog…
This research examines variations in women's labor force participation among a little known population of Arab-American women. Labor force participation is an important measure of women's achievement levels because it signifies access to economic power, which is strongly correla…
This dissertation examines the relationship between nation and class in a range of postcolonial fiction. The field of postcolonial studies, I suggest, is marked by an anti-nationalist trend that betrays an idealist and ahistorical approach to both politics and literature. In cha…
This study examines the intersections of class, social exclusion and education policy during New Labour’s time in office, with the bulk of its focus falling upon secondary schooling. Working against wider political, academic and popular effacements and recodifications of class, …
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there exists a near total consensus regarding the desirability ofdemocracy. Many see the push towards democracy as encouraged by the increasing interconnectednessusuallyreferred to as 'globalization'-between countries and peoples. Civil so…
This thesis will explore the impact of gender, class and colonialist issues on the life and fictions of Welsh novelist and short-story writer Dorothy Edwards. Although largely a literary analysis, this thesis also includes new biographical material which suggests that the class …
Investigating the (possible) emergence of a ‘New Squirearchy’ in rural England, this research considers the extent of a practical appropriation of the discourse of the country gentleman within the milieu of a specific community in the South East. A process commonly attributed to…
This thesis examines the fiction of Neil Bartlett, Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, considering how they write missing voices of sexuality, gender and class back into history through re-imagining the city space. It examines the ways in which traditional, linear narratives and…
Popularly known as “the seduction of Joseph,” Genesis 39 is a familiar segment of the Joseph Story (Gen 37-50). As Gen 39 involves a Hebrew slave in an Egyptian household, contemporary interpreters tend to mention issues of gender, ethnicity, and class, but most fail to address …
Challenging the widespread perception of Anatolian-German women as economically inactive, the thesis presents two detailed case studies of sites where they figure prominently as economic subjects. Using a Marxian theoretical framework, the study renders visible Anatolian-German …
Numerous scholars of Indonesia have commented on the consumerist ethos of its growing middle class, lamenting the debased, materialistic values of contemporary Indonesian youth and worrying that generations are being lost to unbridled consumerist greed. This concern is understan…