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This dissertation examines the rise of consumerism, and in particular, the development of the Egyptian woman as a housewife and consumer from 1863 to 1922. My focus is on middle to upper class urban women, mainly in Cairo and Alexandria. I examine the ways in which both the educ…

This thesis is case study of upper-class formation. It is a biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919), a woman born to a poor farming family in rural Missouri, who became a model of upper-class womanhood to millions of Americans and a prominent leader of reform movements b…

This dissertation draws on the context of an elite suburb in order to understand the transmission of privilege and how an elite space – and its residents – respond to inequality. The suburbs occupy a complicated role in the narrative of U.S. inequality and racial residential seg…