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 …
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Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
Few images from ancient Egypt more poignantly express the extraordinary differences between modern and ancient notions of the sacred than the juxtaposition of Mary and babe, or Christ on a cross, with ithyphallic Min (or Mut!) or Hapi with liquid streaming from his breasts. For …
This dissertation explores how gender and sexuality were regulated through the legal and social scrutiny of illicit sex in mid-eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia. It examines the legal encounters between the central government, local kadi courts and Ottoman subjects in order to…
Playful Citizens explores the contemporary novel, especially as written by Canadians, in terms of how it deals with ideas about play, game, and sex, and how it relates these ideas to constructions of civic responsibility. Considered as strategies for human interaction, play, gam…
Sex appears as a prominent literary theme in Near Eastern mythology. As a mysterious power that inexplicably draws humans together and that can miraculously result in the creation of new life, sex served in these traditions as a force connected with the most powerful beings in t…
In this dissertation, I examine the bed as word, object, and image in the New Kingdom in order to explore the bed’s function within the semiotic structure of Egyptian art. Like many western cultures today, the Egyptians associated the bed with the concepts of sleep, death, and s…
This thesis conducts a conceptual genealogy of love in sociological thought. It traces the passage of a positive logic of love: a disappearing logic conceived in Goethe's art, cultivated from the social science of Comte and Marx to classical non/Marxist sociology, and finally ex…
Background: Pain is a universally subjective experience influenced by numerous factors and experiences beyond the correlate of pathoanatomic tissue damage and sensory input. In the United States, 1.5 billion individuals suffer from chronic pain alone, with a higher number of pai…
Members of the ancient Mesopotamian cult of Ištar have been subjected to various interpretations by scholars despite only a small number of textual references. In scholarly literature, assinnu have been described as everything from cultic prostitutes, to castrates, to “playboys”…
Introduction: Sexual dysfunction in men following traumatic pelvic fracture is common. However, little is known of how men experience changes in their sexual health after injury and how they interact with the healthcare system to address these issues.
This project studies abolitionist fiction from the first half of the nineteenth-century and its use of sexual narratives. I am interested in exploring the role of sexual narratives in untraditional domestic novels by which I mean novels that take up the structures and themes of …
Psychosis is the defining feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. It encompasses varied presentations, including changes in thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors. It describes a range of presentations in which the mind loses contact with its surroundings and orientatio…
Epidemiological studies have identified myriad differences in cancer burden between people of different sexes, ancestries, and ages. Male individuals are more likely to develop most cancers and die of their disease. While overall cancer incidence is comparable between individual…
α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (α-PVP, Flakka) is a synthetic cathinone that is highly addictive and poses serious risks to the user’s mental and physical health. Despite these dangers, α-PVP remains largely unstudied. The abuse potential of a drug (i.e., its likelihood of self-admi…
This project sought to empower college students to pursue freedom from pornography at Breakaway Ministries in College Station, Texas. Chapter 1 introduces the ministry context of Breakaway Ministries along with the rationale, purpose, goals, research methodologies, definitions, …
Sex, sexuality, and sexual health are integral parts of individuals’ overall well-being which has been shown to also impact their mental health in a variety of ways. However, psychology doctoral training programs have not implemented ways to integrate on sex, sexuality, and sexu…
The purpose of this study was to explore the extent of inequality in the representation of artists by blue-chip galleries. Specifically I examined the impact of the prestige of art school attended, race, sex, location lived, and socioeconomic status on gallery representation and…