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  • Gender bias & teachers : college students' perceptions of sexual discrimination in their high school

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    Hostetler, Catherine L.
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    The field of gender bias indicates that teachers are a significant source of gender-role socialization for students. This study focuses on post hoc recollections of college students' perceptions of gender bias exhibited by their high school teachers. Specifically, this study asks students to define sex discrimination, as well as describe...
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    sexual discrimination in their high school AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine L. Hostetler for

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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  • Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

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    Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
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    In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
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    emotionally invested in their lives (5). Catherine Nickerson in "Serial Detection and Serial Killers in Twin

  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

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    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    : when Mary I, Elizabeth’s sister, married the Spanish king Phillip, he became King of England

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    restrictions placed upon them. Conversely, however, Lee critic Catherine Maxwell 3 argues that while

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

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    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    contemporaries, detested the idea that females could only be virtuous if they were delicate as much as did Mary

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

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    Forrest, Dodie A.
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    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    etched in the literature and in our minds. (9) Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, and Jill

  • "Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

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    Surface, Samara
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    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
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    ), Lizzie (Ashley Clements), Lydia (Mary Kate Wiles), and Jane (Laura Spencer). Fig. 1. “Home

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    -Poems Case Study: Dedications to Mary Sidney…….. 56 Conclusion………………………………………………………………. 62 Works

  • Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

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    Clark, Jillian
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    This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
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