From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…
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This thesis discusses the discourse on trauma as relevant to both African American female leads within the novels: The Color Purple , by Alice Walker; T heir Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston; and Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison as well as the male leads that we c…
In this work, I examine representation of Native American masculinity in the American film industry. The American film industry began just over a century ago, and one of its earliest subjects was the Native American. Throughout its history, the American film industry has maintai…
Aaron Belkin argues that military men must navigate "binary oppositions" of masculine and anti-masculine or feminine behaviors, mostly of a physical nature, to be considered good soldiers/good men. Embracing these polar behaviors of strong and weak, expressing the masculine aggr…
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’…
The global agenda set at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo called upon researchers and program implementers to address the effects of gender inequality, especially the way inequality shapes sexual and reproductive health and demographic pro…
Focusing on the transnational relations produced through globalization and militarism among the United States, South Asia, and the Middle East, this dissertation explores how literal, potential, and symbolic acts of masculine suicide challenge dominant categories of race, class,…
Pulling Down the House and Tearing Up the Yard: Constructing, Policing and Containing Black Masculinity, 1920-1960 explores the role of the black press, black lifestyle magazines, and selected journalists and publishers in the discursive construction of black middle-class mascul…
This study is committed to a critical analysis of the ways in which constructions of masculinity and national identity intersect in contemporary German cinema. The fundamental premise behind it is that masculinity, or rather male subjectivity, functions as the nodal point for ne…
Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation explores the inextricable relationship of the ordinary and extraordinary which characterizes the lives of U.S. soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and rehabilitating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in …
“Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music” explores Black nationalism as an embodied-social politics, highlighting the ways in which its discourse has been informed not only by a politics of race, but by a …
Prior to the onset of the crusades at the end of the eleventh century, the highest male calling was monastic—to give oneself over utterly to Christ. Though armies were an undeniable fact in medieval existence, it was not until the dawn of the crusades that the military vocation,…
This dissertation examines the recent nuclear security problematique in India under the Hindu Right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. It represents an analytical hybrid of realism and critical social constructivism as its theoretical framework and the concept of post-colo…
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…
The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediated representation of notable athletes of color in order to assess the role their racialized masculinity played in dominant constructions of hegemonic masculinity. The cinematic representation of Muhammad Ali in When We Were King…
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the national imagination. They were idealized as the heroic defenders of the nation, yet they were also stigmatized as brutish, misanthropic, and promiscuous. Naval officers described th…
Under the title “Paisajes masculinos: masculinidades homoeróticas en la narrativa argentina contemporánea” this dissertation explores the complex relationships among diverse, heterogeneous and ever changing masculinities in the works of five Argentine writers: Enrique Medina's L…
Tom Cruise was one of the most financially successful stars of the 1980s and 1990s and remains an important Hollywood player. In his time at Paramount, he negotiated new deals which redefined how stars earned revenue from their films. Yet little substantial study has been made o…
This thesis contends that the post-conflict Northern Irish novel depicts and establishes increasingly diverse and progressive models of masculinity. Utilising a chronothematic approach I analyse how the portrayal of masculinities in these novels, published over the past twenty y…