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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…

The dissertation examines the massive mobilization of female labor that accompanied export-oriented industrialization (EOI) through an exploration of the feminization of factory labor in Indonesia between 1970 and 1997, focusing primarily on the garment, plywood, textile, and au…

The purpose of this study was to examine the literary works of Contanza de Castilla, a fifteenth century Spanish nun, in comparison with those of Catherine of Siena, a fourteenth century Italian saint, and Teresa de Cartagena, another fifteenth century Spanish nun. The compariso…