This dissertation argues that recent literary representations of migration from Africa to Spain — composed by African authors — hold the potential to create alternative visions of gender, identity, and the nation. I analyze the work of a variety of African writers—Donato Ndongo’…
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of culture influences on performance appraisal as it relates to gender. It sought to determine whether the gender effect on performance appraisal exists outside the bounds of Western culture. The present study focused on subje…
This thesis examines the reading lives of eighteenth-century English men and women. Diaries of the middling sort and the gentry show that reading entwined daily routines and long-term aspirations. This life-writing also demonstrates that readers performed and contextualised read…
This thesis examines narrative constructions of motherhood in popular children’s novels published in the U.K. between 1945 and 1960. The interrogation considers family fictions intended for readers of nine years onwards, alongside narratives of development aimed at a female teen…
The fact of death is universal. So too is the fact of womanhood. Yet each age aims to ameliorate the fear of death, and to cope with the construction of womanhood, in its own way. This study explores the female experience of death in Early Modern England. By tracing attitudes to…
Since Draper & Harpending (1982) proposed that father absence would be associated with a shift in reproductive strategy, a body of literature has accumulated supporting their claims. This thesis explores further aspects of father absence theory, utilising computergraphic facial …
This study examines how working women are represented in the news media, and its main aim is to determine to what extent ‘social class’ figures in the representations of women in news content. Using language, visual and narrative analysis, the thesis comprises four case studies …
This thesis examines the meanings of forms of fashioned femininity in Britain in the post-war period. Drawing on a range of popular, academic and media texts, the widespread social, political and cultural disdain for the feminised decorative is defined and discussed. Modernist r…
niddahThis study of religious change explores how the dialogue with secular, "western," sensibilities shapes a traditional social order. Specifically, I examine how orthodox Jews in Israel negotiate their participation in Israeli culture and its major social institutions while a…
This dissertation examines the problematic location of home, the traditional female activity of homemaking, and the representation of female subjectivity in contemporary cinematic, (auto)biographical, and fictional texts by several contemporary French and Francophone women artis…
Within the social science literature, there is a growing body of empirical studies that show a positive association between gender norms and multiple sexual partnerships (MSP) in the past 12 months. Researchers have identified MSP as the chief sexual behavior that increases the …
Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, I explore how young Lebanese-Canadian women construct health, obesity, and the body within the context of the dominant obesity discourse, which over-emphasizes supposed links between inactivity, nutrition, obesity, and he…
In the 17th and 18th century, a form of novel known as the voyage imaginaire gained tremendous popularity, portraying fantastic worlds at or beyond the margins of known spaces. These texts portray societies set anywhere from the mythical Southern Continent (now Australia and New…
In the decades after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, state-commissioned posters articulated and shaped official models of socialist feminine citizenship. Drawing on graphic propaganda practices of the Eastern Bloc, Cuban posters of the early 1960s mobilized the aesthetics of Socia…
When the archetype of the witch is activated within the cultural complex of prevailing sociopolitical and economic constructs, history has shown that people, particularly women, die. However, in today’s very divisive social, political, and economic discourse, the witch arrives o…
For centuries, people have been captivated by tales of questing knights, fair ladies, and magical encounters. As someone who grew up immersed in the fantasy genre, transitioning from the Brian Jacques Redwall series as a child to George R.R. Martin's A Song of lce and Fire as an…
In this thesis, I explore Anne Lister as a Romantic writer. While much criticism has focused on Lister’s place in queer history, comparatively little has examined her writing itself. Thus, this thesis aims to place Lister’s writings within popular Romantic genres and in conversa…
Scholarship on female representations in hip hop has been predominantly premised on the sexualization of the female body. By focusing mainly on this singular aspect of the genre, we reduce the whole essence of womanhood in the industry to such interpretations. The limited scope …