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The primary research question of this dissertation examines how the media, relying on mythical conceptions of femininity and masculinity, both reflect and shape cultural understanding about gendered labor roles within the context of the family. Drawing on theories of gender iden…

On 7 March 203, a young Roman noblewoman, Vibia Perpetua, experienced a series of disturbing visions while she and her slave, Felicitas, awaited execution in a Carthaginian prison. In the first of these revelations, Perpetua witnesses the opening of the heavens and the miraculou…

The law enforcement profession is commonly accepted as one of the most health-hazardous occupations (Alkus & Padesky, 1983; Anderson et al., 2002; Harpold & Feenster, 2002; Hem et al., 2001; Howard et al., 2004; Liberman et al., 2002; Lott, 1995). Law enforcement is a structural…

This dissertation examines the traditions attributed to early Muslim women that are quoted in classical Quran commentaries, and studies their literary functions within such works. Traditions of this type are diverse in literary form, as well as in the exegetical topics that they…