In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
This dissertation analyzes the cultural politics of women’s care labors in America, tracing these politics through the 20th- and 21st-century United States. It devotes a …
This dissertation examines how the food, advertising, and media industries have constructed masculinities through food in the twenty-first-century United States, particularly when attempting to create …
This dissertation explores the role of the pre-Freudian subconscious in reconfiguring concepts of the individual and society for a modernizing age. Using works of academic …