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Title: A Woman in a Man's World: The Political Attitudes of Women and the Role of Representation
Author: Wemlinger, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Sex role
Description: Gender plays an important role in shaping attitudes, constraining roles, and perpetuating values. Historically women have been removed from the public and political environment, not allowed to vote, to freely work, and to attend educational instit...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF SINGLE-SEX CLASSROOMS ON SELF-ESTEEM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
Author: Hart, Laura
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Sex role, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Overall, research on the effectiveness of single-gender education is inconclusive. However, research does indicate that some benefits beyond academic achievement may be possible. This is particularly true for middle-school girls, who often struggl...

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: COMMEMORATING QUEEN CHARLOTTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, 1750 TO 2014
Author: Gregory, Bethany
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, History
Description: Despite the vast research by historians on Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a person, little research has been conducted on what she meant to the people of regions named in her honor. This thesis seeks to uncover the significance ...

Title: Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author: Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description: During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...

Title: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON HOW DIVERSITY TRAINING HAS IMPACTED THEIR UPWARD MOBILITY INTO SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Author: Crews, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM E. CREWS. Exploring the perceptions of African American women on how diversity training has impacted their upward mobility into senior leadership. (Under the direction of Dr. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The purpose of the present study wa...

Title: Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
Author: Argonauta, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bible, Sex role, Religion
Description: The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...

Title: Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author: Weber, Ryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description: In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...

Title: NO BOUNDARY FOR SPATIAL INTERACTIONS — EXPLORATORY SPATIAL FLOW DATA ANALYSIS
Author: Tao, Ran
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Sex role
Description: Spatial interaction (SI) represents meaningful human relations between areas on the Earth’s surface, such as the reciprocal relations and flows of all kinds among industries, markets, regions, cities, or logistics centers. With the widespread adop...

Title: Playing Ponies: A Critical Evaluation of Religious Elements and Gender Politics at Work in "Brony" Fandom
Author: Mullis, Justin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Religion, Religions
Description: This work aims to illuminate the cultural institution of the fandom by approaching it from the vantage point of Religious Studies while seeking to avoid the obvious similarities of devotion and social organization so often brought to the table wit...

Title: Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
Author: Yates, Sophie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Sex role, Sex
Description: At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Europe bore witness to what Lynne Huffer has termed "a crisis in sexual definition", stemming from the gradual shift in popular conceptions of non-normative sexual acts as behaviors monitored by ecclesi...

Title: Same-Sex Parents' Hypervisibility: Effects of Panopticism and Reactions to Increased Visibility
Author: Bradley-Volz, Kathleen
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Queer studies, Ethnology
Description: The purpose of this project is to determine how same-sex parents in the Charlotte, NC area are affected by homophobia and restrictions on displays of affection. This research is unique to the study of gay parenting in its focus on comparing gay ma...

Title: THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL GENDER BELIEFS ON JOB SELECTION AND SEX SEGREGATION OF OCCUPATIONS
Author: Benson, James
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Sex role, Industrial relations
Description: Moving beyond occupational aspirations to actual selection of occupations, the current research considers the impact of individual gender beliefs on selection of occupations for men who work in male-dominated occupations compared to men who work i...

Title: TRANS COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE: HOW TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS SEARCH FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS
Author: Drake, Amanda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Sex role, Queer studies
Description: The transgender population experience high rates of discrimination in healthcare settings, which has been well documented. Less is known about what is keeping transgender individuals from utilizing healthcare resources or their entry points to hea...

Title: The Warrior and the Maiden: The Participation and Representations of Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous in the Greek Revolution
Author: Mastrokolias, Olympia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Sex role, History, Modern
Description: This thesis explores the participation and representations of two popular and exceptional heroines of the Greek Revolution of 1821-1832, Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous, and how their legacies have been used as symbols of nationalism by...

Title: Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
Author: Schaefle, Jacquelyn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Sex role
Description: Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...

Title: Women and gender in the early modern Low Countries, 1500-1750
Subjects--Topical: Women, Sex role
Description: Women and gender in the early modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the N...