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- Title
- An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
- Author
- Lowenstein, Teresa
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Women's studies, Sex role
- Description
- This thesis draws attention to the role of women in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the suffrage movement, Irish nationalism, and the Easter Rising. It contributes to historiography with the inclusion of new inf...
- Title
- Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
- Author
- Gaskin, Rachael
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History
- Description
- During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...
- Title
- Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
- Author
- Barros de Redard, Maria
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...
- Title
- Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
- Author
- Robbins, James
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
- Description
- The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...
- Title
- PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
- Author
- Kimbrel, Suzannah
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies
- Description
- This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...
- Title
- Queering Entrepreneurship: An ethnographic study of a women-led tech startup in Berlin
- Author
- Wilson, Miguel
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology, Women's studies
- Description
- With the rise of more women-led firms in the tech industry, the question of how these organizations either differentiate or align themselves with their male-dominanted competitors is of growing interest. I examine whether a women-led tech startup ...
- Title
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...
- Title
- Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
- Author
- Moore, Kate
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History
- Description
- An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
- Title
- THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
- Author
- Battista, Nancy
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Sex, History
- Description
- Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF THE CURSE: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL TABOOS OF MENSTRUATION AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY TODAY
- Author
- Webster, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Religion
- Description
- ABSTRACTSAMANTHA B. WEBSTER The history of the curse: a comparative look at the religious and social taboos of menstruation and the influence they have on American society today. (Under the direction of DR. KENT BRINTNALL).James Frazer, in his lat...
- Title
- The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
- Author
- Del Giudice, Erin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
- Description
- Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...
- Title
- “PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
- Author
- Whittington, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
- Description
- In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...