Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
This study examines how various gendered forces?social, cultural, and other?combined to shape a new national identity in France following the Second World War. During the …
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between fathers and daughters in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. While scholarship has examined female characters in their role as daughters in …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between pregnant and pre-gravid women and their fetuses in the Roman Empire. It examines the cultural …
The relationship between education and migration has been consistent across many cultures and societies; the more education one has, the more likely one is to …
The patriarchal Italian father surrounded by his many bambini hardly exists anymore in today's Italy. Although stereotyped as proud of their traditions and ingrained in …
In our approach to understanding the biomechanics of concussions, we have defined head impact exposure as a multifactorial term that includes the frequency, magnitude, and …
Heat has been, and will continue to be, a major environmental hazard, public health concern, and local and national economic and security challenge. Extreme high …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
This dissertation is about changing perspectives on marriage, family relations, and work life among older Italian women in their mid fifties to late sixties. These …
This thesis focuses on how the idea of motherhood was shaped both by state policy and female activism during the Sandinista revolutionary period in Nicaragua, …
My dissertation uses the lens of migration to examine the relationship between mobility and migrant social networks for the black population of South Africa. It …
Positioning the COVID-19 induced transition to working-from-home as the impetus for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as well as the Second Industrialization of the home, this …
This dissertation investigates the way constructions of Americanism enforced heterosexuality in America. Starting in the Red Scare of 1919, and persisting through the 1920s, American …
Despite their colonial legacies of extraction, museums have served as critical sites of engagement in grappling with global issues and hold the potential to propel …