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  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    Masters Thesis
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    __ _______ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kurstin Finch for the degree ofMaster ofArts in

  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

    Creator:
    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    Masters Thesis
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    classification of family is everything that “[a]n African American family is not (Collins, 47; Young

  • From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

    Creator:
    Gilmore, Jennifer
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    Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and n-iost of it focuses on hazing or the differences between Greeks and non-Greeks in terms of

  • "Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

    Creator:
    Brinker, Rachel K.
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    Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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