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In this dissertation, I study the depiction of female protagonists' aggressive behaviors in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, and Mary Austin written in the United States between 1892–1929. I examine culture, ideology, and feminis…

Socio-legal literature traditionally juxtaposes the doctrinal "law in the books" model to the sociological perception of "law in action". Building on Foucault's governmentality framework and on Luhmann's systems theory, this project moves beyond the dichotomy to conceptualize la…