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- 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
- Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
- Author
- Santos, Kristen
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management, Sex role, Management
- Description
- Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...
- 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
- Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
- Author
- Buescher, Holly
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
- Description
- In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...
- 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
- Understanding the Impact of Digital Marketing Capabilities and Female-owner Behaviors on the Performance of Entrepreneurially Oriented Firms in the Digital Economy
- Author
- Johnson-Deberry, Darlene
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Sex role
- Description
- Entrepreneurial enterprises take risks, innovate, and remain proactive in seeking business opportunities. For the past 30 years, entrepreneurial orientation theory has been the basis of exploring organizational behavior and has proven to be a reli...
- 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...