Representations of females in visual media continue to be problematic. As media studies increasingly reveals the influence of visual representation upon our internalized ideologies, the significance of positive female representation only increases. This is especially true for ma…
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This dissertation tracks evolving metaphors about women as objects in the eighteenth-century novel. Objectification of women is an oft-cited concept for feminist theorists, but remains a fluid term among scholars. In “She Objects: On the (Im)Mobility of Women in the Eighteenth-C…
Sexist gossip for women and professional celebration for men is a longstanding, detrimental trend within popular culture, society, and film studies scholarship. While this tendency can be traced consistently throughout film history, it is particularly apparent within the discour…
My aim in this dissertation is to use the Ottoman discourse of the circle of justice as a wedge in an otherwise crippling debate that presumes a post sixteenth-century decline in the ability of the Ottoman empire to control and direct state affairs. While most scholars in the fi…