Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
Bangladesh has been globally recognized as a “development” success for its rapid improvement in maternal health, gender parity in education, and economic growth, with women's …
Why does the quality of public childcare services, even when they are ostensibly standardized, vary significantly across neighborhoods? I examine this using the case of …
The HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is both invisible and ubiquitous: seemingly indiscernible on one's face and undetectable within a population, and pervasive in its …
This dissertation connects two seemingly contradictory trends that emerged across the twentieth century: the gradual liberalization of sexual prohibitions and the mounting force of a …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
Black women experience discrimination through their intersecting identities of race, class, and gender (Crenshaw 1993). Despite previous studies utilizing an intersectional frame they still present …
Interwar family magazines formed a novel category of consumption, moreover, one that transformed social practices around reading. The seeds of Japan's postwar love affair with …
Credit and creditworthiness are increasingly consequential in the global North and South alike. For over 139 million people, many of whom are excluded from mainstream …
This dissertation employs contemporary dress theory to reappraise narratives concerning the construction of normative gender roles that appear in Homeric, Classical, and Hellenistic sources. My …
Démasquer la femme au XVIIème siècle: remise en cause de la personne féminine dans les nouvelles historiques examines the unexpected reconceptualization of personhood in feminine …
Many observers believe that wealthy men play a disproportionate role in the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS infection in sub-Saharan Africa through their involvement in informal …
This dissertation tackles gender-based price discrimination, education, and child well-being. Chapter 1 conducts a field experiment to identify gender-based discrimination and how it varies with …
This dissertation evaluates disparities in economic outcomes by gender and ethnicity, with a focus on the underlying causes and the policies that can be used …
This article investigates whether a market for unsafe sexual activity exists among nonmarital, noncommercial sexual relationships in a high HIV/AIDS environment. The exchange of money …
