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Societal Views of Women as Political Leaders in the Arab World
(2015-11-17)
The Arab World is notorious for its poor track record on issues of women’s rights and women’s representation in society, particularly in the public sphere. Yet women are making gains, particularly in countries such as ...
Litigating Women: The Path to Intermediate Scrutiny in American Law
(2018-04-19)
In the 1970s, the Supreme Court pronounced a new test for laws that treated the two sexes differently. This test, known as “intermediate scrutiny,” was stricter than the Court’s usual standard (the “rational basis” test), ...
How Heloise Halted Heresy: Meta-Commentary on Rhetorical Exchanges (Or, Why I Am Allowed to Write This Thesis)
(2014-09-17)
Meta-rhetoric, or rhetoric that addresses rhetoric itself, is continuously metamorphosing and growing in acceptance. Discussions of this issue date back to ancient times, with Plato’s Phaedrus examining the morality of ...
Framing Feminism: How Catholic Women Use Blogging to Navigate a “Secular” Discourse on Feminism Through a Religious Lens
To overall explore how new media use presents a forum for discussions of inclusivity through personal narratives, this study investigates how religious discourse about feminism influences individual identity by analyzing ...
Policing Gender: The Rhetorical Framing of Sex in Women's Athletics
Literature Review: The relationship between medicine and social understands of embodiment has been complicated for women and those who fall outside of binary gender. It has become hard for authoritative figures in the ...
The Woman-Child of Fairy Tales: Achieving a Balance Between Maturity and Youth
Literature Review: A number of scholars have noticed similarities in what societies within fairy tales expect of women and children and how they treat them, but scholars tend to keep the spheres of childhood and adulthood ...
The Furniture Of An Author's Mind: Women And London In The Poetry Of Jonathan Swift
(1993)
Swift, as an author, has puzzled scholars and critics with his themes of bodily functions, decay, and general nastiness in reference to women. My research into his poems has raised questions like: Why do Swift's poems ...
Her Masculine Strength of Mind: The Influence of Desiderius Erasmus Upon the Education of Women in Renaissance England
(1997)
This research discusses the transition in the thinking of the sixteenth-century monk Desiderius Erasmus on the education of women. At first he regarded women as intellectual inferiors, but eventually he recognized that ...
The Relationship Between Knowledge And Self-Efficacy In The Setting Of Cancer Screenings Among Mexican-American Women
(1995)
As our world becomes more diverse, research that focuses on more than the traditional subject, the Anglo male, is needed. Researchers must expand their focuses to include women and different cultures. That realization ...
In the Eyes of the Beholder: French Perceptions of Women and the Occupation, 1940-Present
(1995)
Film and literature provide a vehicle for the exploration of the issues facing women during the Occupation. Many of the ambiguities of the period are personified through female characters, characters that simultaneously ...