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  • The nature of home economics curriculum in secondary schools

    Creator:
    Baldwin, Edith E.
    Abstract:
    As with other areas of the curriculum home economics tends to respond to the objectives of powerful interest groups rather than to the work of recognized scholars and the ideals of democracy. The philosophical orientation of this study is derived from the work of Jurgen Habermas, a dominant figure in...
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    Dissertation
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    hierarchy, providing for political, social, and eco- nomic organization; at the top of the hierarchy is a

  • Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

    Creator:
    White, Andrew
    Abstract:
    Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , as well as other intellectuals and reformers, to "scrutinize the American social and economic order

  • Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

    Creator:
    Simpson, Taylor
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    The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
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    Masters Thesis
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    awakening social anxieties, the late nineteenth century saw a shift in psychiatric and medical thinking

  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

    Creator:
    Bacon, Julie M.
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    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    displayed in full-frontal view so that the observer may have the best and fullest access for visual