Findings and Conclusions: This thesis asserts that jus in bello standards for contemporary warfare can be meaningfully adapted to regulate asymmetric conflicts. Although, non-state agents may be forced to resort to acts of terror in order to achieve their aims, empowered states …
This thesis analyzes the misogynist representation of women in three contemporary Latin American crime novels. In Luis Sepúlveda’s Diary of a Sentimental Killer, an international assassin’s relationship with a bourgeois woman nearly costs him his masculinity and his professional…
Noah Berlatsky describes misogyny as a way to manipulate and control both women and men throughout history. Gender discrimination and prejudice are universally prevalent, influencing our technology-driven digital world. We have embedded our biases into everything we create. In t…
Misogyny is at the core of the binary gender order. Female misogyny directly leads to the further strengthening of the patriarchal system. And mass media, as a communication tool, undoubtedly plays an accomplice role in strengthening female misogyny. Based on the study of female…
In the twelfth century, Luxuria, the Vice of Lust, associated with overindulgence in sensual pleasures, was depicted in a variety of ways, from didactic trees to individual personifications. In this thesis, I consider how gender informed two image types, the Trees of Vices and t…
In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
This research examines the nexus of witchcraft and early modern healthcare. It draws on witchcraft studies and history of medicine to frame witchcraft as a public health crisis originating in, and investigated through, misogynistic medical ideologies. This research began primari…