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"Meeting the Needs of Today's Girl": Youth Organizations and the Making of a Modern Girlhood, 1945-1980

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Foley, Jessica L (creator); Buhle, Mari (Director); Self, Robert (Reader); Meckel, Richard (Reader); Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Girlhood; Childhood; Activism; Postwar; Women; Girls; Children; Education
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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"Not the Boss of Me": Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority

Description:: Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Silverstein, Jed Daniel (creator); Estlund, David (Director); Larmore, Charles (Director); Brettschneider, Corey (Reader); Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Parental authority; Political Authority; Children; Parents
Collection:: Philosophy; Theses and Dissertations

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Fictive Kinship and Roman Childhood: A Social History

Description:: This dissertation explores the topic of fictive kinship – defined as a deep, personal connection between two or more individuals which is not biologically or …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Gianni, Gaia (creator); Bodel, John (Advisor); Conant, Jonathan (Reader); Russell, Amy (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Children; Roman history; Parenting; Inscriptions, Latin; Foster children; Foster parents
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Major Depressive Disorder: The New England Family Study & Childhood Learning Ability and Risk of Suicidal Behavior

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Description:: Paper 1: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Major Depressive Disorder: The New England Family Study ABSTRACT Objective: Approximately 350 million people of all ages live with …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Jiang, Tammy (creator); Buka, Stephen (Advisor); Loucks, Eric (Reader); Sullivan, Adam (Reader); Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Depression, Mental; Suicidal behavior; Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status; Children; Learning ability; Birth cohort
Collection:: Public Health; Theses and Dissertations

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Performing the Legacy of War in Uganda

Description:: This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Mulekwa, Charles (creator); Emigh, John (Director); Ybarra, Patricia (Reader); George, Olakunle (Reader); Bogues, Barrymore (Reader); Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Theatre; National Theatre; Stage; State; Song; War; Northern Uganda; Luo; Buganda; Southern Uganda; Colonial Era; Colonialism; Shakespearean; Syncretism; Fate; Uhuru/Independence; Postcolonial; Ruler; Agency; Image; Home; Epistemic; Coup; Crisis; Rebellion; Resistance; Fire; Displacement; Repression; Mirth; Citizen; AK-47; Night Commuters; Point of View; Winds of Change; European; Western World; African; Diaspora; Politics; Culture.; Performance; Drama; Playwriting; Play; Theater; Legacy; World politics; Postcolonialism; Ritual; Time; Bananas; Exile; Violence; Peace; Hope; Children; Revolutions; Hegemony; Jails; Murder; Political persecution; Silence; Child soldiers; AK-47 rifle; Globalization; History; Political science; Culture; Uganda; Uganda--Buganda; Western countries
Collection:: Theatre Arts and Performance Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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The Emergence of the Anime Media Mix: Character Communication and Serial Consumption

Description:: Representative of the phenomenon of media convergence felt across the globe, the state of contemporary Japanese animation (or anime) is characterized by the proliferation, interrelation …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Steinberg, Marc Aaron (creator); Doane, Mary Ann (director); Rosen, Philip (reader); Lamarre, Thomas (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Japanese anime; consumer culture; seriality; Tetsuwan Atomu; media mix; media theory; Character merchandising; Convergence; Communication; Children; Marketing
Collection:: Modern Culture and Media; Theses and Dissertations

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Three Essays on Health Economics

Description:: This dissertation comprises three chapters studying how the healthcare system and health policies work. Chapter 1 examines the effects of primary care physicians' (PCP) retirement …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Zhang, Xuan (creator); Aizer, Anna (Advisor); Oster, Emily (Reader); Shapiro, Jesse (Reader); Brown University. Department of Economics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Children; Economic policy; Medicaid; Medicare; Aging; Health insurance; Technological innovations--Economic aspects
Collection:: Economics; Theses and Dissertations

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Wealth, Health, and Child Education in Developing Countries

Description:: Children in developing countries face a myriad of hardships including poverty, household economic shocks, and high disease burden. These adverse conditions curtail children’s human capital …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Reda, Ayalu Aklilu (creator); Lindstrom, David (Advisor); Short, Susan (Reader); White, Michael (Reader); Jackson, Margot (Reader); Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Social policy; Children's Health; Developing countries; Child health; Development economics; Adolescent; Children; Consumption (Economics); Education; Multilevel models (Statistics); Adulthood; Population; Longitudinal studies; Social surveys; Health surveys; Demography; Economic policy; Poverty; Wealth; Parent and child; Income; Households
Collection:: Sociology; Theses and Dissertations

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