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Table of contents1. Black Men in No Man's Land: Race, Masculinity and Citizenship in World War I Literature2. Integrating LGBTQ African-American Males into Heteronormative Christianity: An Action Research Study3. The Path to Parenthood isn't Always Straight: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Gestational Surrogacy for Gay Men in Canada—Perspectives of Gay Fathers and Surrogates4. Development and Formative Evaluation of the Speak7 African American Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program5. The Performance of Female Sexuality through Sensual Dances among Hong Kong and Japanese Women6. London Partsong Clubs and Masculinities, 1750-18307. Isle of Exceptions: Slavery, Law, and Counter-Revolutionary Governance in Cuba, 1825-18568. Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy and Prenatal Care Attendance in Abuja, Nigeria9. The Misrecognition You Can Bear10. Reawakening Sekhmet: The Experience of African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse with Kemetic Yoga Practice11. Transnarratives of Adults Who Undergo Gender Transitioning Later in Life: Implications for Counselors12. Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies of Digital Performativity in Gendered Network CultureDocument 1 of 12Black Men in No Man's Land: Race, Masculinity and Citizenship in World War I LiteratureAuthor:?Wilder, Blake AaronPublication info:?The Ohio State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10702740.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Nearly 400,000 African Americans served in the U.S. Army during the First World War. At the same time, white servicemen survived wartime injuries at an unprecedented rate. My dissertation explores how these trends reflect a cultural moment that disrupted Jim Crow narratives about race and masculinity. Through an investigation of scenes where black and white men confront each other, both on and off the battlefield, my project reveals that wartime disruptions engendered new formations of race and masculinity as legible identities. I argue that new depictions of black men as assertive or heroic challenged the reductive stereotypes that were used to justify the oppressive practices of lynching and disenfranchisement. And I contend that the depictions of white men as wounded and in need of assistance offered new possibilities for how Americans might relate across the color line. Analyzing scenes where black and white men are brought face-to-face by the movement and disruptions of warfare, my project suggests that these newly legible identities could be deployed to represent a more racially inclusive version of American democracy. Scenes of black and white soldiers meeting in no man's land allow African American authors to reframe the battlefield as a space where Jim Crow racism is defeated through interracial cooperation, while depictions of assertive black masculinity appear as uneasy corollaries for white masculine insecurity in modernist texts. The tensions between white and black masculinities culminate in scenes of confrontation, and the lynching of the black soldiers becomes a symbol for the erasure of the black soldier as a recognizably a heroic figure. My comparative analysis of texts by black war veterans, established figures of the Harlem Renaissance, and famous white modernists complicates the overlapping timelines of the Lost Generation, the Jazz Age, and the Harlem Renaissance by foregrounding the interdependence of blackness and whiteness in this moment of American culture. Although the eventual re-normalization of white masculinity has obscured those World War I disruptions that allowed white and black Americans to imagine new ways of being in the world, my project recovers a period when social turmoil allowed black men to be viewed in new, more positive ways.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Black history; American literature; Military history; Gender studies; Armed forces; War; Cultural identity; Foregrounding; Racism; Men; African Americans; African American studies; Stereotypes; Keresiouan languagesClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0328: Black history; 0591: American literature; 0722: Military history; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences African-American Literature World War INumber of pages:?318Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0168Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-44316-5Advisor:?Friedman, RyanCommittee member:?Gardner, Jared; Williams, AndreaUniversity/institution:?The Ohio State UniversityDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- OhioDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10702740ProQuest document ID:?1994595990Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 2 of 12Integrating LGBTQ African-American Males into Heteronormative Christianity: An Action Research StudyAuthor:?Fisher-Curley, Gerald I.Publication info:?Capella University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10686757.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The integration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) individuals into Christian institutions is dilemmatic in contemporary society where rights for LGBTQ persons are promoted in the secular realm. The Christian church struggles to successfully address the concerns and desires of this group. LGBTQ African-Americans continue to participate in church and historically have been appreciably engaged in religious activities. Despite increased secular acceptance of emerging trends like gay marriage and gays who adopt, the church is reluctant to endorse these activities. Although the church has historically provided a safe haven for the weak, disenfranchised, and peripheral, the church has not adequately incorporated the LGBTQ population. This action research study examined the needs of LGBTQ African-Americans who participate in heteronormative, urban churches and proposed tangible ways that the church may address LGBTQ issues and better acknowledge and involve the LGBTQ community within church processes. Information derived from individual interviews and focus group discussion with gay men who attend “Church X” (a pseudonym) was used to develop practical steps to begin building policies and procedures that accommodate LGBTQ issues at Church X. The study substantiated the expansion of the organization’s governing documents to explicitly address LGBTQ rights and responsibilities; the need for candid discussions about the benefits and challenges of LGBTQ members having parity within the institution; the preference for collaborative activities involving both heterosexual and LGBTQ members; and, the commitment to create and sustain a continuous process improvement mechanism to ensure integration of LGBTQ interests.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African American Studies; Religion; Black studies; LGBTQ studies; Gender studiesClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0318: Religion; 0325: Black studies; 0492: LGBTQ studies; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences African-American Gay men Heteronormative Integration LGBTQ Well-beingNumber of pages:?103Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1351Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-56918-6Advisor:?Palloff, RenaCommittee member:?Braxton, Mavis; Hackstaff, LynnUniversity/institution:?Capella UniversityDepartment:?Public Service LeadershipUniversity location:?United States -- MinnesotaDegree:?D.S.W.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10686757ProQuest document ID:?1994580414Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?Ethnic NewsWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 3 of 12The Path to Parenthood isn't Always Straight: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Gestational Surrogacy for Gay Men in Canada—Perspectives of Gay Fathers and SurrogatesAuthor:?Fantus, SophiaPublication info:?University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10289778.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Background:?Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have facilitated novel family structures and, in turn, have yielded new opportunities to parent for gay men. Recently, Canada has witnessed an increased number of same-sex parent families and a growth of gay father-headed households. ARTs continue to be only ascribed as biomedical interventions to resolve infertility. With the progress of ARTs and the increasing prevalence of gay fathers, the aim of this dissertation is to explore gestational surrogacy for gay men in Canada.Methods:?From January 2015 to January 2016, gay fathers (n=16) and gestational surrogates (n= 6) were recruited through advertisements distributed across same-sex parenting groups, surrogacy consulting services and social media. Using non-probability purposive sampling, three populations were targeted: (1) single or partnered gay fathers who completed gestational surrogacy; (2) gestational surrogates who bore a child for gay men; and (3) gay fathers and their paired surrogate. All participants had to be living in Canada at the time surrogacy was practiced. In-depth semi-structured interviews (~60-90 min) were conducted either in-person or over the phone; informed consent was reviewed and obtained prior to the interview. Textual analysis was conducted by the researcher; emerging patterns were organized from the data manually to generate findings. Triangulation, member-checking and peer-debriefing supported validity.Results:?The three empirically-based chapters will report on: (1) the motivations of gay intended fathers and gestational surrogates to pursue surrogacy; (2) the interpersonal relationships between gay intended fathers and gestational surrogates before, during and post pregnancy; and (3) institutional supports and barriers encountered during surrogacy and post-birth, with respect to both the practice of surrogacy and gay fatherhood.Implications:?This dissertation has implications for social work practice, research and education, as well as policy, law and bioethics. The aim of this dissertation is to advance an understanding of non-normative families, resisting and challenging heteronormative discourses that have framed parenting and reproduction practice and scholarship. Encouraging dialogues with stakeholders, such as surrogates, intended parents, lawyers, fertility specialists and allied health professionals, is critical.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Social work; LGBTQ studies; Gender studiesClassification:?0452: Social work; 0492: LGBTQ studies; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Assisted reproduction Canada Fertility Gay men Intended parents SurrogacyNumber of pages:?300Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0779Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-53055-1Advisor:?Newman, Peter mittee member:?Anstey, Kyle; Brennan, David J.; Logie, CarmenUniversity/institution:?University of Toronto (Canada)Department:?Social WorkUniversity location:?CanadaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10289778ProQuest document ID:?1993455302Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 4 of 12Development and Formative Evaluation of the Speak7 African American Child Sexual Abuse Prevention ProgramAuthor:?Morrow, MiKeiyaPublication info:?University of Kentucky, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10672494.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a complex issue among African American children, who experience significantly higher rates of CSA (Sedlak et al., 2012). Despite this, a dearth of research has examined CSA prevention among African American children. Moreover, there are no established culturally sensitive prevention programs targeted at addressing CSA among this demographic. This study addressed a significant gap in the literature by developing and evaluating the Speak7 African American Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program (Speak7). Speak7 is a culturally sensitive, adult-focused CSA prevention program that aims to enhance the CSA prevention competence of adults who provide for African American children. Speak7 was developed by the principal investigator of this study using the National Standards for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Assault through Education (Carmody et al., 2009). Speak7 was evaluated using a formative approach to assess and enhance the acceptability of this intervention for African American adults. A qualitative design consisting of a pilot intervention with a focus group and key informant interviews was adopted to enable a detailed exploration of African American adults’ perceptions of Speak7’s program design, strengths, weaknesses, cultural congruence, and value. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic content analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Nine themes emerged from the data: (1) acceptable design, (2) identified strengths, (3) identified weaknesses, (4) culturally appropriate, (5) valued by targets, (6) recommendations, (7) appropriate for targets, (8) dynamic engagement, and (9) views of CSA. Findings reveal critical insights into participants’ perspectives regarding the acceptability of Speak7 and inform program revisions.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African American Studies; Counseling PsychologyClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0603: Counseling PsychologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology African American Child sexual abuse Cultural sensitivity Formative evaluation Prevention Program developmentNumber of pages:?145Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0102Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-37354-7Advisor:?Remer, Pamela ? Reese, JeffCommittee member:?Harris, Rosalind; Price, Sonja Feist; Tyler, KennethUniversity/institution:?University of KentuckyDepartment:?Educational, School, and Counseling PsychologyUniversity location:?United States -- KentuckyDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10672494ProQuest document ID:?1992476346Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 5 of 12The Performance of Female Sexuality through Sensual Dances among Hong Kong and Japanese WomenAuthor:?Chow, Shuk YeePublication info:?The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10672401.ProQuest document linkAbstract:In recent decades, belly dance and exotic dances including pole dance, lap dance and burlesque have become increasingly popular in both Hong Kong and Japan as large numbers of women of different ages have begun learning these dances at dance schools and community centres. I describe these dances as “sensual dances” as they all involve dance movements perceived as seductive or sexual and costumes considered to be sexy. I chose to study Hong Kong and Japan because many women in these two societies have financial and cultural capital which allows them to consume sensual dances as a commodity, but Hong Kong women still lack autonomy in expressing their sexuality while Japanese women’s sexuality is considered to be inconsequential and built upon male sexual desire. I argue in this dissertation that sensual dances are packaged as a product which objectifies and disciplines women’s bodies in the context of patriarchal sexual ideologies that shape female sexuality in Japan and Hong Kong. However, these dances also provide women a site to negotiate and resist the boundaries that normally contain their performance of sexuality. In 2011 and 2012 in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Nagoya and Kansai areas in Japan, I conducted participant observation in sensual dance classes and related dance activities, and I interviewed 30 Hong Kong and 40 Japanese women who engaged in these sensual dances. In this study, female sexuality is critically examined using performance theories. Sensual dancers in Hong Kong and Japan are found to have maneuvered within the sexual scripts, the metaphor used by Simon and Gagnon, of their own societies in expressing their sexuality. Through the performance of sensual dances, some of these women expand the boundaries of what is considered to be socially acceptable performances of female sexuality in public spaces, create alternative bodily ideals that challenge the ideal standards of female body shape in their own societies, and resist the actual and imagined male gaze of their audiences.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Cultural anthropology; Asian Studies; Gender studiesClassification:?0326: Cultural anthropology; 0342: Asian Studies; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Dance ethnograpyh Female Sexuality Gothic dance Hong Kong women Japanese women PerformanceNumber of pages:?429Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1307Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-37261-8Advisor:?Nakano, Lynne YukieUniversity/institution:?The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)University location:?Hong KongDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10672401ProQuest document ID:?1992172729Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 6 of 12London Partsong Clubs and Masculinities, 1750-1830Author:?Cencer, BethanyPublication info:?State University of New York at Stony Brook, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10622199.ProQuest document linkAbstract:My dissertation, “London Partsong Clubs and Masculinities, 1750–1830,” examines how the musical activities of all-male singing clubs in London played a key role in the formation of English masculine identities during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This particular time frame usefully demarcates a period of significant transformation from the fluid gender personae of early eighteenth-century society to the rigid gender binaries of the Victorian era. The partsongs sung during the private, weekly club meetings were harmonized settings of English texts (often 3–5 vocal parts) performed without accompaniment. As a genre written primarily by and for men within social settings, partsong serves as a unique lens for understanding how singing reinforced club members’ perceptions of gender identity and male friendship. Chapter one locates the rituals and conviviality of partsong clubs within underlying contexts of Parliamentarianism and Freemasonry. Chapter two argues that the inclusion of Elizabethan madrigals within eighteenth-century collections of glees was an attempt to establish newly-composed club music as the culmination of a longstanding English musical canon, relating to burgeoning ideas of antiquarianism and nationalism. Chapter three applies both eighteenth- and twenty-first-century philosophies of sympathy, sentimentality, and gender to the analysis of commemorative glees written upon the deaths of club members. Finally, chapter four considers how the growing prevalence of women as patrons, consumers, and performers of partsong influenced song material and performance practices. In concluding with women, my project argues that the realization of emergent ideas concerning masculinity was partially dependent upon contemporaneous views on femininity.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Music history; Music; Gender studiesClassification:?0208: Music history; 0413: Music; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Communication and the arts Social sciences Elizabethan madrigals England Gender Masculinity Singing clubs Victorian eraNumber of pages:?206Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0771Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-49285-9Advisor:?Calcagno, MauroCommittee member:?Honisch, Erika; Minor, Ryan; Weber, WilliamUniversity/institution:?State University of New York at Stony BrookDepartment:?MusicUniversity location:?United States -- New YorkDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10622199ProQuest document ID:?1992170111Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 7 of 12Isle of Exceptions: Slavery, Law, and Counter-Revolutionary Governance in Cuba, 1825-1856Author:?Pletch, AndrésPublication info:?University of Michigan, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10670387.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Following the Haitian Revolution, the island of Cuba emerged as the most productive sugar colony in the world. With the wars of independence on the American mainland threatening to spread to Cuba, and with the island’s growing population of enslaved Africans raising concerns that isolated acts of slave resistance might develop into more coordinated rebellions of larger scale, metropolitan officials sought to shield the colony from the transformations of the Age of Revolution by consolidating Spanish sovereignty over the island. As part of a broad effort to develop a mode of counter-revolutionary governance, metropolitan officials ordered the establishment in Havana of a permanent military tribunal known as the Military Commission, aiming to bolster the legal powers of the colony’s captain general to contend with threats to Cuban slavery and Spanish empire.Through a study of Cuba’s Military Commission during the three decades it was in operation from 1825 to 1856, this dissertation demonstrates how colonial officials learned to channel fears of racial violence into an exceptional mode of repressive justice that afforded them the latitude and discretion to pursue the consolidation of sovereign authority within the executive branch of the colonial state. Though metropolitan officials envisioned the tribunal as a bulwark against political dissent, colonial officials regularly used the tribunal to contend with the actual and perceived threats posed by the island’s population of free and enslaved people of color. The Military Commission’s efforts to extend the legal powers of the captaincy general throughout Cuban slave society over three decades thus offers a rich case study for historicizing the roles that juridical exclusion and states of exception played in the development of legal and political regimes capable of abrogating the very norms, laws, and practices they claimed to sustain. By focusing on the way legal practices that evolved in the repression of free and enslaved people of color were institutionalized, becoming fundamental components of the normative administration of justice, this dissertation argues that the legal dimensions of slavery did not disappear with slavery’s demise, but contributed to the emergence of administrative structures and the reconfiguration of inter-institutional relations of power that characterized the development of modern states and empires during the nineteenth century.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; Caribbean StudiesClassification:?0337: American history; 0432: Caribbean StudiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Cuba Empire Law SlaveryNumber of pages:?277Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0127Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-36641-9Advisor:?Scott, Rebecca mittee member:?Alberto, Paulina Laura; Garskof, Jesse H.; Jones, Martha S. S.; Scott, Rebecca J.; Turits, R ichard L.University/institution:?University of MichiganDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- MichiganDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10670387ProQuest document ID:?1990225139Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 8 of 12Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy and Prenatal Care Attendance in Abuja, NigeriaAuthor:?Ezekwe-Anya, Dorothy IjeomaPublication info:?Walden University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10691120.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Intimate partner violence (IPV) among women poses a significant threat to maternal mortality during pregnancy in Nigeria with a prevalence rate of 14% in the southern region versus 43% in the northern region. Early and adequate prenatal care is essential for improving pregnancy outcomes and the reduction of the maternal mortality rate. Previous studies in several countries have demonstrated a unique barrier to healthcare access among women exposed to IPV. This study assessed the association between IPV during pregnancy and prenatal clinic attendance, using a cross-sectional quantitative study design guided by the social learning theory. The modified Conflict Tactile Scale module and the Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization index were used to assess 467 pregnant women attending prenatal care at two government hospitals in Abuja, Nigeria. Results showed a 55.2% IPV prevalence among studied pregnant women in Abuja. A significant relationship was not established between IPV and prenatal clinic visits and its early initiation. However, media exposure (p?= .016) was positively associated with prenatal clinic visits, while parity (p?< .001) and wealth index (?p?= .017) had significant associations with prenatal clinic initiation using a chi-square test of association analysis. Multiple logistic regression analysis further showed that pregnant women who were exposed to IPV were less likely to have inadequate prenatal visits; however, this was not statistically significant (OR?= 0.795, Cl = 0.491-1.287,?p?= .351). Women in the lower wealth index (OR?= 2.297, Cl = 1.101-4.794,?p?= .027) and those with inadequate media exposure (OR?= 1.999, Cl = 1.020-3.916,?p?= .043) were more likely to have inadequate prenatal clinic visits. The impact of the study on positive social change will guide discussions on the need for standardized IPV abuse screening and evaluation at all levels of healthcare entry for Abuja women.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African Studies; Obstetrics; Public health; EpidemiologyClassification:?0293: African Studies; 0380: Obstetrics; 0573: Public health; 0766: EpidemiologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Abuja Intimate partner violence Nigeria Pregnancy Prenatal care attendanceNumber of pages:?170Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0543Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-40907-9Advisor:?Refaat, AmanyCommittee member:?Estes, Larissa; Fufaa, GudetaUniversity/institution:?Walden UniversityDepartment:?Public HealthUniversity location:?United States -- MinnesotaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10691120ProQuest document ID:?1989778341Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 9 of 12The Misrecognition You Can BearAuthor:?Adair, CassiusPublication info:?University of Michigan, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10670222.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The Misrecognition You Can Bear?investigates how gender non-conforming and racialized subjects navigate systems of legal recognition. Through close textual analysis of historical archives, literary fiction, digital media, and public policy, this dissertation examines how technologies of legal recognition—namely, identification papers such as drivers’ licenses, name change orders, and birth certificates—shape gendered and racialized belonging. Identification documents and their attendant public policies persist as controversial topics in twenty-first century U.S. life; voter ID legislation, transgender activists’ appeals for gender marker changes, stop-and-identify policing, and the emergence of an undocumented movement are all instances in which documents index social debates about identity and belonging. These debates are not confined to the headlines, but instead are deeply embedded in the social, aesthetic, and personal lives of those whose identities are contested through state identification.Drawing on early twentieth-century newspapers from Atlanta and Chicago, contemporary short stories by transgender authors Casey Plett and A. Raymond Johnson, archived posts from the early digital communication service Usenet, and a novel by Bengali-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, I demonstrate how state regulatory practices are central concerns in both the political and aesthetic lives of marginalized subjects. I argue that these texts expose the mutually constitutive relationship between the legal apparati of recognition and recognition as a social and embodied practice. As such,?The Misrecognition You Can Bear?intervenes in transgender studies, queer studies, and ethnic studies through understanding recognition as both a legal status and an intimate relationship. This dissertation therefore explains why identification is, for marginalized people, both political and personal.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American studies; Law; LGBTQ studiesClassification:?0323: American studies; 0398: Law; 0492: LGBTQ studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Critical ethnic studies Identification documents LGBTQ studies Recognition Transgender studiesNumber of pages:?232Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0127Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-36476-7Advisor:?Tapia, Ruby mittee member:?Mendoza, Victor Roman; Nakamura, Lisa Ann; Salah, Trish; Tapia, Ruby CUniversity/institution:?University of MichiganDepartment:?English Language & LiteratureUniversity location:?United States -- MichiganDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10670222ProQuest document ID:?1989155138Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 10 of 12Reawakening Sekhmet: The Experience of African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse with Kemetic Yoga PracticeAuthor:?Braxton, Sonasha AusetPublication info:?Saybrook University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10617242.ProQuest document linkAbstract:It has been established that up to 60% of African American women may have experienced childhood sexual abuse (CSA; Liang et al, 2006). Existing literature has neither reconnoitered the traumatic effect of CSA on African American women nor provided effective culturally appropriate therapeutic interventions. The primary research question was:?What can be learned from the lived experiences of functioning African American women adult childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors and their use of culturally-informed Kemetic yoga??The purpose of this study was to explore how and if aspects of Kemetic yoga, created over 12,000 years ago by Africans in Kemet (Egypt), could support healing in survivors.Utilizing semi-structured interviews, eight well-educated, middle-class, women CSA survivors of African ancestry (six born in the US; two currently living abroad; all resided in US during childhood) with average age 36 years (range 23–46) participated in this study. Qualitative descriptive methodology was chosen for its ability to garner in-depth responses and conventional content analysis was used to analyze coded data. Four themes emerged and 13 related categories were identified. The first, Seeing One’s Self Clearly (3):?self in relation to other, resilient and adaptive self, positive views of self.?Second, Experiencing Kemetic Yoga (6):?cultural and/or spiritual attraction, attention and intention as practice benefits, challenges in practice, transpersonal experiences, experiencing strong memories and sensations, instructor as inspiration.?Third, Cultural Congruencies with Kemetic Yoga (4):?link to spirit and ancestors, empowerment and connection in cultural history, safety in community, cultural/spiritual congruency.?Fourth, Kemetic Yoga as Part of the Recovery Process (5):?healing as multi-faceted, recovery prior to Kemetic yoga, managing trauma, seeking healthier relationships, forgiveness.?Two recommendations pertaining to Kemetic yoga for African American women CSA survivors emerged:?discovering and becoming best self, relationship to and management of trauma?. Anecdotal findings included Experiencing Abuse (5):?constellation of abuse, silence, perceived familial support, intergenerational abuse, and making sense of the abuse.Study findings contributes to the relevancy of culturally-specific somato-natural practices; specifically, Kemetic yoga as a tool for self-healing and self-care for African American women survivors of CSA. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African American Studies; Black studies; Womens studies; Psychology; Clinical psychologyClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0325: Black studies; 0453: Womens studies; 0621: Psychology; 0622: Clinical psychologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology African Black women Healing Kemetic yoga Trauma YogaNumber of pages:?225Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0795Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-38602-8Advisor:?Jackson, TheopiaCommittee member:?Johnson, Zonya; Vaughan, AlanUniversity/institution:?Saybrook UniversityDepartment:?PsychologyUniversity location:?United States -- CaliforniaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10617242ProQuest document ID:?1988314493Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?Ethnic NewsWatch; GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Psychology DatabaseDocument 11 of 12Transnarratives of Adults Who Undergo Gender Transitioning Later in Life: Implications for CounselorsAuthor:?Dyer, NaKeshi LaShaePublication info:?The University of Memphis, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10669650.ProQuest document linkAbstract:In this transgender theory life story study, I interviewed male-to-female transgender participants who transitioned between the ages of 40-55, within the last 5 years, and while residing in an urban city in the Mid-South to learn more about the sociocultural and discursive influences of their gendered and embodied experiences. I utilized transgender theory as a lens to view gender transitioning. This theory holds that discourse is contrived and identity is fluid, contextual, and multifarious and that some voices are silenced because of exclusionary societal practices and systems of belief. The longer that a person is subjected to these oppressive systems the harder it can be to move beyond them. This can make acceptance of those who transition as well as transitioning at an older age all the more challenging. I used transgender theory as my primary theory because it takes into account the unique experiences of transgender people, recognizes that sex and gender are not one in the same, questions essential notions of gender and gender identity, and challenges the gender binary. It also purports that identifying with one’s oppressed identity can be empowering and a strong catalyst for personal and social change. I used postructuralism and queer theory in this study to examine concepts of power, discourse, and knowledge about gender. Poststructuralism and queer theory are highly skeptical of any claims of (capital T) Truths and incompatible to any assertion that one or another interpretation of reality is the only way in which it may be understood.I engaged in narrative analysis as outlined by Hole (2007) and Ezzy (2002) and creative analytic practice as described by Richardson (1994) in order to analyze the data as well as amplify the voices of the participants as they detailed their personal journeys of negotiating restrictive discourse. The data from the interviews were then turned into narratives that described the participants embodied, social, and personal experiences with transitioning. Additionally, the participants were also asked to write “Dear Counselor” letters sharing what they thought would be important for counselors to know when working with adults who transitioned later in life.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?LGBTQ studies; Counseling Psychology; Gender studiesClassification:?0492: LGBTQ studies; 0603: Counseling Psychology; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology Counseling Narrative inquiry Older adults Transgender Transgender Theory TransnarrativesNumber of pages:?229Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1194Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United Stat esISBN:?978-0-355-35944-2Advisor:?Lustig, DanCommittee member:?Nishimura, Nancy; Nordstrom, Susan; Ovredo, ElinUniversity/institution:?The University of MemphisDepartment:?Counseling, Educational Psychology and ResearchUniversity location:?United States -- TennesseeDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10669650ProQuest document ID:?1986497544Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Psychology DatabaseDocument 12 of 12Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies of Digital Performativity in Gendered Network CultureAuthor:?Jackson, GeraldPublication info:?University of South Carolina, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10605148.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The question of gender and gender representation has been an issue for STEM fields like computer science and software engineering for decades. This dissertation argues that the impact of labor practices in such fields promotes gender disparity by masking gender, and often sexuality, behind myths of mastery and correctness. In this dissertation, I approach technical objects like computer code and protocol specifications from the BitTorrent and Bitcoin software packages, and argue that gendered forms of labor that have existed since the inception of computer programming as a profession are evident in technical documents like code. Furthermore, I argue that this labor is a communicative labor steeped in political rhetoric and cultural practices. As such, moving past a relative examination of code or software as a text, or as a procedure, invites a performative investigation of code. Drawing from theories in feminist technology and queer computational studies, I argue that gender, activism, and power relations are implicit in these technical objects, and that a rhetoric of gender and computation can emerge as a critical and practical practice in fields such as software engineering and technical communication.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Computer Engineering; Rhetoric; Gender studiesClassification:?0464: Computer Engineering; 0681: Rhetoric; 0733: Gender studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Applied sciences Social sciences Digital rhetoric Feminist technology Queer computation Rhetoric of code Software studies Technical communicationNumber of pages:?142Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0202Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-34411-0Advisor:?Gehrke, PatCommittee member:?Brock, Kevin; Crocker, Holly; Guo, JieUniversity/institution:?University of South CarolinaDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- South CarolinaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10605148Birth control use among women on probation living in Southern New Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border regionAuthor:?Greenwald, Randee C.Publication info:?New Mexico State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10760563.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Women involved with the criminal justice system face higher rates of unintended pregnancy than the general population, yet less than one-third use a consistent method of contraception. One study found that among women leaving detention, 43% had conceived within one year of release. Pregnancies that do occur are often high risk and result in poor outcomes for both mother and child. Lack of focus on family planning needs post-incarceration are due to competing factors women face related to daily survival and the added demands of meeting the requirements of probation.This study examined the influences of pregnancy attitude, reproductive autonomy, personal factors and prior related behaviors on the use of effective birth control among women on probation living in southern New Mexico including the U.S.- Mexico border region. Using a quantitative correlational design framed by Pender's Health Promotion Model, 52 women were surveyed at five different Adult Probation and Parole Offices in two U.S.-Mexico border counties and two additional counties in southern New Mexico. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics and logistic regression (single, multivariate, and hierarchical) to answer the following questions about women on probation: Do personal characteristics (contraceptive self-efficacy, birth control method prior to incarceration, age, ethnicity, and parity) significantly predict current birth control method? Which combination of personal characteristics (ethnicity, contraceptive self-efficacy, age, and parity) best predicts higher negative pregnancy attitudes and higher reproductive autonomy? Do pregnancy attitude and reproductive autonomy significantly predict current birth control method.Results indicated a significant relationship between increased levels of reproductive autonomy (an interpersonal influence) and effective use of birth control among women on probation. While statistical significance was attained for two additional variables, contraceptive self-efficacy and prior birth control use, the results were not decisive due to widened confidence intervals. Use of a hierarchical logistic regression was effective for entering predictor variables into the regression based upon Pender's theoretical framework as a guide. Implications for nursing research, education, and practice were discussed. Future studies using larger sample sizes and additional settings would increase validity and generalizability.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Obstetrics; Womens studies; Nursing; CriminologyClassification:?0380: Obstetrics; 0453: Womens studies; 0569: Nursing; 0627: CriminologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Birth control Contraception Family planning Incarcerated New Mexico United States-Mexico border Women offendersNumber of pages:?232Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0143Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann Ar borCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-66852-0Advisor:?Huttlinger, KathleenUniversity/institution:?New Mexico State UniversityUniversity location:?United States -- New MexicoDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10760563ProQuest document ID:?2001130570Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalTowards a Feminist Reconstruction of Persian SufismAuthor:?Nourbakhsh, SafouraPublication info:?University of Maryland, College Park, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10616450.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Contrary to many claims, Sufism is not a gender-neutral discourse and practice. Although women have been present since the inception of Sufism in the eighth century CE, like most androcentric knowledge, the foundational discourse of Sufism is defined by male interest and male privilege. Seeking to address the gender bias in Persian Sufism, this dissertation offers a feminist interdisciplinary examination of Persian Sufism through various forms of textual analysis—linguistic, psychoanalytic, formal—in different fields of study: religious studies, medieval historiography, literature, and ethnography. Through analysis and interpretation of some of the foundational texts of Persian Sufism written from the 10th to the 13th century CE—Hujwiri’s?Kashf al-mahjub,?Ibn Munavvar’s?Asrar al-tawhid,?Attar’s?Tazkirat al-awliya?and?Illahi-nama,?and Rumi’s?Masnavi—my work offers a map of the construction of gender and women’s participation in the early discourse of Persian Sufism that continues to shape the understanding and practice of Sufism in contemporary times. Following medieval textual analysis, I provide an ethnography of women’s diverse experiences as members of the Nimatullahi Sufi order from an insider perspective. The analysis of early influential texts will reverberate through the ethnographic chapter, since many of the texts that I discuss are still central in Sufi ethos and practice. My aim throughout this dissertation is to address male privilege in Persian Sufism by deconstructing the myth of the exceptional woman in Sufism, highlighting women’s involvements in early Sufi communities, reinterpreting Sufi narratives to engage the gender question meaningfully, turning negative interpretations of women into empowering and inspiring tales of women’s spirituality, and finally, to record and preserve the contributions of contemporary women in Sufism for future generations.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Middle Eastern literature; Womens studies; Islamic StudiesClassification:?0315: Middle Eastern literature; 0453: Womens studies; 0512: Islamic StudiesIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Attar Ethnography Gender Iran Rumi Sufism WomenNumber of pages:?249Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0117Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?Unite d StatesISBN:?978-0-355-30339-1Advisor:?Moses, ClaireCommittee member:?CAUGHEY, JOHN L.; KARAMUSTAFA, AHMET T.; ROSENFELT, DEBORAH; ZILFI, MADELINE C.University/institution:?University of Maryland, College ParkDepartment:?Women's StudiesUniversity location:?United States -- MarylandDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10616450ProQuest document ID:?1993518796Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalHorticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern EnglandAuthor:?Duncan, Claire McEwenPublication info:?University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10241300.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation examines the rhetorical transformation of female bodies into plants and the gendering of plants in early modern English literature and science. Bringing gardening manuals and obstetrical treatises into conversation with a wide range of literary texts, such as Isabella Whitney’s?A Sweet Nosgay, Mary Wroth’s?The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, John Milton’s?Paradise Lost, and William Shakespeare’s?The Winter’s Tale?and?Titus Andronicus, I argue that these horticultural metamorphoses occur when the generative potential of the female body threatens to elude patriarchal containment. Yet, I contend that the plant-women resist objectification by defying the conflation entirely, by wielding authority to metamorphose themselves into female-horticultural hybridity, or by discovering the surprising opportunity to embody new forms of discourse.Early modern ecocriticism and history of science typically detail the relationship between humans and nature, but my research reconceives that link by examining what happens when these two categories are rhetorically conflated. The resulting breakdown of boundaries reveals how early modern women and nature might evade patriarchal restrictions by becoming newly hybrid vegetal bodies capable of speaking from a dual subject position. The intermingling of horticulture and language in early modern England—where books could be gardens, forests, and posies, flowers could be powerful rhetoric, and grafting could be a graphic act of writing—creates room for this evasion to occur. I structure the project thematically, with an opening chapter on books as gardens, and subsequent chapters focusing on the female body as an enclosed garden, a flower, a fruit tree, and a forest tree. Metaphorical language creates these hybrid vegetal-female bodies, but this dissertation argues that the blurring of horticultural generation and literary or linguistic generation allows these feminized plant objects to regain authority over language and to remake themselves as subjects.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?British and Irish literatureClassification:?0593: British and Irish literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Ecocriticism Gender Horticulture LiteratureNumber of pages:?238Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0779Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-44094-2Advisor:?Harvey, Elizabeth mittee member:?Larson, Katherine R.; Nyquist, MaryUniversity/institution:?University of Toronto (Canada)Department:?EnglishUniversity location:?CanadaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10241300ProQuest document ID:?1990707738Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalPostcolonial Intersectional Feminism, Trauma, Whiteness, and Recovery in Michelle Cliff's NovelsAuthor:?Vilouta Vázquez, Bego?aPublication info:?Indiana University of Pennsylvania, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10641850.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation examines two of the most salient characteristics of the Anglophone Caribbean writer Michelle Cliff’s work: one, her analysis of a hegemonic colonial system and, two, her exploration of possibilities for resistance. Regarding the first, I argue that Cliff’s work should be recognized as a significant postcolonial intersectional feminist project that analyzes the traumas of gender and race, especially whiteness, as manifestations of a colonial/gender modern system in the Caribbean. As such, Cliff’s analysis of the impacts of this system’s devastations allows readers to enter the worlds of those whose lives have been, and continue to be, deeply affected by its hegemonic impositions. On the second point, I suggest that Cliff’s works offer valuable strategies for resistance and recovery from these traumas at the different levels of history, bodies, and communities.Throughout the chapters, I will look at these issues through the lens of the theoretical framework outlined in the introduction. I put forward a combination of three theoretical frameworks in order to develop an argument for my own version of postcolonial feminist theory, one that calls for historicizing the complexities of Caribbean societies, and for examining the effects of several oppressive hierarchies I see working simultaneously as sources of individual and collective traumas. For that reason, I develop a combined framework of trauma studies, critical whiteness studies, and postcolonial intersectional feminism, in order to look carefully at the significance of Cliff?s works. This proposal intends to make an intervention in postcolonial feminism, and at the same time, facilitate a multilayered analysis of Michelle Cliff’s novels by opening up the possibility to examine more effectively how she explores and represents the damaging consequences of the interlocking hegemonic categories of the colonial system in the lives of women belonging to non-dominant groups.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Caribbean literatureClassification:?0360: Caribbean literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Caribbean Feminism Intersectional Jamaica Postcolonial Trauma WhitenessNumber of pages:?274Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0318Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-51262-5Advisor:?Comfort, Susan mittee member:?Watson, Veronica; Yang, LingyanUniversity/institution:?Indiana University of PennsylvaniaDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- PennsylvaniaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10641850ProQuest document ID:?1990609897Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global"Princely Feminine Graces": Virtue and Power in Early Modern English and Spanish LiteratureAuthor:?Eccleston, Rachel Anne ? ?Publication info:?University of Oregon, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10623740.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This project analyzes the intersections between representations of female sovereignty used to promote and rethink feminine virtue in both early modern English and Spanish advice literature and literary texts published in the decade after Queen Elizabeth I’s death. I suggest that the question of women’s sovereignty prompted by the rise of ruling queens in Spain and England influences the prominence of regal women as models of feminine virtue in advice literature and reconceptualizes feminine virtue as a political discourse, forming a new category I term “princely feminine virtue”. Scholarship analyzing the relationship between advice literature and literary works has not recognized England and Spain’s shared indebtedness to princely models to advise and represent feminine virtue. By examining the interplay between feminine virtue, tropes of sovereignty, and the advisory mode in both types of texts, this project emphasizes the widespread potential for women’s exemplary virtue across the social spectrum. In addition to recasting feminine virtue through a princely lens, these texts reveal a shared vision of how performances of feminine virtue are invested with agency and power.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Romance literature; Political discourse; Literary criticism; Vision; Spanish; Early Modern English; Women; Rhetorical figures; Literature; British & Irish literature; Spanish literaturePeople:?Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)Classification:?0313: Romance literature; 0593: British and Irish literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Carvajal Feminine virtue Lanyer Sovereignty VirtueNumber of pages:?284Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0171Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-40010-6Advisor:?Bovilsky, LaraCommittee member:?Middlebrook, Leah; Rowe, George; Saunders, BenUniversity/institution:?University of OregonDepartment:?Comparative LiteratureUniversity location:?United States -- OregonDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10623740ProQuest document ID:?1989753748Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalThe Language of the Heart in Troubadour PoetryAuthor:?Doucet, AnniePublication info:?Tulane University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10269044.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This study presents an analysis of the themes of the heart omnipresent in the works of the twelfth-century Occitan lyric-poets, the troubadours, and how these heart themes are indicative of the troubadours’ sense of selfhood. The notion of individual “selfhood” is particularly apparent in the themes of the heart that the troubadours perpetuated through the trope of?fin’ amors,?or courtly love. Moreover, I demonstrate how these metaphors were built into the very language of Old Occitan as in, for example, the ambiguity of the word cors, which could designate either “heart” or “body”—or both. My dissertation thus uses a philological approach to illustrate how the notion of selfhood predates the Renaissance, to which it is generally attributed, and how it was closely related to the way the troubadours perceived their hearts and their bodies.Each of the four chapters is dedicated to an individual troubadour and examines the heart trope or tropes characteristic of his works. The first chapter studies the cansos of Bernart de Ventadorn and the relationship between the heart and the eyes linked to the troubadour’s characterization of self. In Chapter 2, the duality of selfhood is analyzed in the works of Folquet de Marselha as represented in the conflict between the spiritual and the earthly, between the heart and body. The following chapter examines the conflation of heart, body, and self in the works of Arnaut Daniel, while Chapter 4 suggests a progression away from troubadour conventions towards a unique sense of self distinct from both heart and body, as evidenced in the songs of Uc de Saint Circ.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Medieval literature; Occitan language; Poetry; Rhetorical figures; Literary criticism; Metaphor; Self conceptClassification:?0297: Medieval literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Cors Heart Occitan TroubadourNumber of pages:?197Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0235Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-39953-0Advisor:?Poe, Elizabeth mittee member:?Klingler, Tom; Wikstrom, TobyUniversity/institution:?Tulane UniversityDepartment:?FrenchUniversity location:?United States -- LouisianaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10269044ProQuest document ID:?1989133156Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalEconomic Evaluation of Cervical Cancer and HPV Vaccination Programs in the United StatesAuthor:?Nghiem, Van Thi HaPublication info:?The University of Texas School of Public Health, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10601399.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Introduction:?Economic evaluations have helped cervical cancer policy decision-making in the US, yet cost measurement is still a concern. There is a lack of updated estimates of medical costs for cervical cancer patients. Also, there is little knowledge on cost-effectiveness, measured by dollars per quality-adjusted life year (QALY), for behavioral interventions to promote HPV vaccination, especially among heterogeneous populations.Methods:?Three studies address the following aims: 1) critique published economic evaluations of cervical cancer and HPV vaccination programs to examine the age (reported year?minus?year when cost was collected from original sources) of cost estimates and sources of cost data; 2) use the MarketScan dataset to update medical cost estimates (in 2015 US$) for cervical cancer patients and explore cost-associated factors using a mixed-effects analysis of covariance model, and 3) use micro-costing to analyze the cost of a behavioral intervention to promote HPV vaccination among girls seen at safety-net clinics and modify a published Markov model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of this intervention considering age and race/ethnicity heterogeneity (healthcare payer perspective, willingness-to-pay threshold $100,000/QALY).Results:?Study 1 revealed that most reported studies focused on screening, followed by HPV vaccination, and treatment. Overall, liquid-based cytology (LBC) cost was used most often and used in 25 studies. Half of these twenty-five studies had LBC cost age ≥ 5 years. Additionally, we could not identify this age in seven studies because the reporting lacked transparency. Study 2 found the total average annual medical cost for cervical cancer patients was $44,477, primarily for outpatient services. Having a Charlson Comorbidity Index score of ≥ 2 (β=0.485,?p<0.001) and making claims for antipsychotic drugs (β=0.359,?p<0.001) were associated with the highest medical cost. Study 3 found the intervention cost $9 per participant. At base-case, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of the intervention compared with no-intervention was $133,572/QALY. The probabilistic sensitivity analysis showed this intervention had a 94% chance of being cost-effective.Conclusion:?We recommend transparency in reporting costs. We provided recent estimates of medical costs for patients with cervical cancer, which would be helpful in allocating healthcare resources and in future economic evaluations. Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the intervention to promote HPV vaccination, we presented results that will facilitate enhanced cervical cancer policy decision-making.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Economics; Public health; Epidemiology; OncologyClassification:?0501: Economics; 0573: Public health; 0766: Epidemiology; 0992: OncologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Cervical cancer Costing Decision science Economic evaluation HPV vaccinationNumber of pages:?127Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0219Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-33902-4Advisor:?Swint, J. Michael ? Cantor, Scott mittee member:?Chan, Wenyaw; Vernon, Sally W.University/institution:?The University of Texas School of Public HealthDepartment:?Policy & Community HealthUniversity location:?United States -- TexasDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10601399ProQuest document ID:?1986010090Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalIn Search of an Attentive Public and Involvement in the Anti-Trafficking MovementAuthor:?Russell, AshleyPublication info:?The Florida State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10601088.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Research on attentive publics has worked towards identifying who is considered attentive, how the attentive public is different from the general public, and how policy makers should take their views into consideration (Devine, 1970; Adler, 1984). Attentive publics are often the heart of social movements that engage society in a topic through increasing awareness and involvement. The attentive public is not a disconnected elite group, but average individuals who are more likely to be highly knowledgeable on a topic, sustain interest over time, and are more likely to participate as well as encourage others to participate in tangible actions.The size of an attentive public ebbs and flows over time, as society faces multiple issues at once, and it can take years of lobbying and engagement before any tangible results are seen at a higher level. One crime that has increased in awareness and importance is the issue of human trafficking. Accounts of men, women, and children being exploited for commercial sex or forced labor has become a hot topic of interest around the world, with estimates as high as 45.8 million people in some form of modern day slavery (Global Slavery Index, 2016). The current study uses a public opinion survey of Israeli citizens to identify if there is an attentive public, if its members are significantly different from the general and least-attentive public, and to better understand what factors of information sources, knowledge, concern, and efficacy influence an individual to get involved.The findings from this study do identify the existence of an attentive public in Israel. The attentive public is different from the general and least-attentive public on a few characteristics, but the most important one is increased efficacy. Findings suggest that use of information source and the frequency in which they report on trafficking have varying influences on knowledge, concern, efficacy, and involvement. Implications for future research are discussed.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?CriminologyClassification:?0627: CriminologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Attentive publics Human trafficking IsraelNumber of pages:?118Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0071Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-32734-2Advisor:?Gertz, Marc mittee member:?Hay, Carter; Kavka, Martin; Siennick, Sonja E.University/institution:?The Florida State UniversityDepartment:?Criminology and Criminal JusticeUniversity location:?United States -- FloridaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10601088ProQuest document ID:?1985671522Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalInner Strength in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Oral HistoriesAuthor:?Steinberg, Jennifer WeathersbeePublication info:?The University of North Dakota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10639811.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The purpose of this oral history study was to describe the lived experiences of mothers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and to further inform the Theory of Inner Strength in Women (TIS) (Dingley & Roux, 2014). Postmodern feminist oral history methods were used to answer the research questions which included: 1) What are the lived experiences of mothers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? and 2) How do these experiences further inform TIS?Interviews were manually coded directly onto the digital audio files using NVivo11Plus qualitative data management software. Three chronologic phases were identified among the 10 narrators interviewed for the study, including?in the beginning, everyday ASD, and?afterward. Overarching themes identified for each chronologic phase. The phase?afterward?only occurred after a chronologic, physical, or imagined distance from day-to-day activities and responsibilities of parenting a child with ASD. Mothers of children with ASD who participated in this oral history study did not achieve the outcome of the TIS, of living a?new normal?if they were not had not had the chronologic, physical, or imagined separation from day-to-day parenting that mothers in the?afterward?phase did. They did, however, tell stories which illustrated dimensions of inner strength.The findings were consistent with previous research related to mothers of children diagnosed with ASD, but also makes a unique contribution in terms of implications for nursing practice and recommendations for policy. The data collected for the study has also been entered into the historical record for use by future qualified researchers.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Disability studies; Nursing; History; Individual & family studiesClassification:?0201: Disability studies; 0569: Nursing; 0578: History; 0628: Individual & family studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Autism spectrum disorders Inner strength Mothers Oral historyNumber of pages:?235Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0156Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-55439-7Advisor:?Roux, Gayle mittee member:?Foland, Kay; Porter, Kimberly K.; Tyree, ElizabethUniversity/institution:?The University of North DakotaDepartment:?NursingUniversity location:?United States -- North DakotaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10639811ProQuest document ID:?1985666999Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalChivalry and Religion in Three Spanish Pro-Woman Treatises: Para probar la virtud quando la tenta?ión es rresistida...Author:?González, Linda PatriciaPublication info:?The University of New Mexico, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10280673.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Medieval authors repeatedly warned men of the dangers of going to hell due to their interactions with women. The authors listed here discuss the theological question of the act of contrition while warning men that they should repent for defaming women. This topic is present in the three following, pre-modern defenses about women where the men who wrote these treatises glorifiy the opposite sex for her ability to save man. The manuscripts examined in this project are:?MS 9.985 Triunfo de las donas?(1439–1441) by Juan Rodríguez del Padrón (c. 1390–1450),?MS 1.341 Tratado de las virtuosas mugeres?(1441) by Diego de Valera (c. 1412–1448),?MS 207 Libro de las virtuosas et claras mugeres?(1446) by ?lvaro de Luna (c. 1390–1453). Most critics—Julian Weiss and Wendell P. Smith, to name just two, treat these defenses as focused on gender issues or as a means for social mobility and self-refashioning for the author. While these are valuable perspectives on the debate about women, the focus on these topics disregards a major factor, the need to prove identity with Christian society as a counter to increasing tensions toward converts from the Jewish or Muslim religion to Christianity. Various studies misread the role of religion in these treatises. Perhaps it is the obvious nature of the inclusion of religion in medieval works that has caused this oversight, but the presence is more meaningful than a necessary framework or literary style. While the debate discussed the treatment of women, the focus was on males. The men who demonstrated chivalrous and thus society's definition of Christian behavior were the actual subjects of the debate. It is by way of the defense of women that they could overcome the weight of their imperfections. This investigation examines the Spanish debate about women by focusing on the impact the discussion of Christianity in these treatises inadvertently had on national identity and how the structure of the social definition of nobility influenced this rhetoric on the ideological path toward?limpieza de sangre. One achieves this by considering the political unrest surrounding the Spanish debate about women through an alternative perspective via a historical, social, and literary approach.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Romance literature; Religious history; Womens studies; Language; Religion; Politics; Rhetoric; Topics; Spanish; Men; National identity; Women; Ideology; Topic and comment; ManuscriptsClassification:?0313: Romance literature; 0320: Religious history; 0453: Womens studies; 0679: LanguageIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Chivalry Christianity Debate Religion Social identity WomenNumber of pages:?826Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0142Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-33285-8Advisor:?Cárdenas-Rotunno, Anthony mittee member:?Obermeier, Anita; Quinn, Mary B.; Rivera, SusanUniversity/institution:?The University of New MexicoDepartment:?Spanish and PortugueseUniversity location:?United States -- New MexicoDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10280673ProQuest document ID:?1984981483Document URL:? search.docview/1984981483?accountid=14709Copyright:?Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalEssays on Fertility, Contraceptive, &amp; Savings Behaviors in Developing CountriesAuthor:?Gupta, NikhilPublication info:?Princeton University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10619710.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This thesis consists of three chapters, studying fertility behavior, contraceptive behavior, and savings behavior in developing countries, respectively.In the first chapter (with Ishita Rajani), I provide one explanation for the conflicting literatures regarding how family planning programs impact completed and short-run fertility. I first construct a lifecycle model of fertility control choice to show that improved contraceptive access can shift births earlier in the lifecycle due to improved control over fertility outcomes, increasing short-run fertility while decreasing completed fertility. I then empirically confirm these predictions exploiting the legalization of injectables in Zambia. My results suggest that access to modern contraceptives is welfare-improving for women, despite having counterintuitive implications for fertility.In the second chapter (with Ishita Rajani), I descriptively analyze patterns in sub-Saharan African women's lifecycle contraceptive usage. Estimating individual fixed effects regressions, I find a collection of results consistent with women: (1) using injectables and pills primarily to space births when aged 25–40; (2) using implants and female sterilizations primarily to limit births when aged 40–49; and (3) using condoms primarily when unmarried and having less frequent sex than their married counterparts. Together, these results suggest that women's lifecycle contraceptive demand is driven by different fertility needs at different ages of their fertile life.In the third chapter, I propose a proof-of-concept model embedding demand for commitment devices within an intra-personal reputation game to explain why take-up of commitment devices is low, even among individuals exhibiting time-inconsistent preferences. In my model, high and low willpower agents trade-off a desire to forestall future temptation spending with a desire to maintain the belief that they have high willpower. In equilibrium, when high willpower agents refrain from using the commitment savings device, low willpower agents refrain as well. To provide savings devices to such agents, a utilitarian social planner optimally offers a commitment savings device that bundles different types of agents. While a monopolist can (sub-optimally) provide such bundling devices, competitive markets cannot unless the costs of providing flexibility to accounts is low. My results reinforce the importance of understanding how to make commitment accounts with soft commitment features more efficacious.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Economics; Economic theory; DemographyClassification:?0501: Economics; 0511: Economic theory; 0938: DemographyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Commitment savings devices Contraceptive choice Lifecycle fertility Self-reputationNumber of pages:?236Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0181Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-32336-8Advisor:?Vogl, TomCommittee member:?Currie , Janet; Farber, Henry; Fujiwara, Thomas; Kuziemko, IlyanaUniversity/institution:?Princeton UniversityDepartment:?EconomicsUniversity location:?United States -- New JerseyDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10619710ProQuest document ID:?1983990276Table of contents1. Acceptance- and Dissonance-Based Interventions for Body Dissatisfaction and Body Image Avoidance among College Women2. Quasi Alterum Byzantium: The Preservation of Identity through Memory and Culture by Aristocratic Byzantine Women, 1440-16003. Healing through Remembrance: An Embodied Exploration of the Basque Witch Burning Times4. New to America: Immigrant Girls and Bullying5. The Trial of Alice Clifton: Judicial Catharsis in Institutional Bias6. Determined Consent: Female Choice and the Love Plot in British and American Realist Fiction, 1860-19187. Consent to Rape? The Ambiguation of Sexual Consent in Contemporary World Literature8. Representing Colette, Performing Gender: Colette and Jacqueline Audry9. "A Caring Disease" Nursing and Patient Advocacy on the United States' First AIDS Ward, 1983-199510. Mears Christianity: The Birth of the Modern Discipleship Movement11. The Conscience of Arkansas: The Progressive Reform Efforts of Adolphine Fletcher Terry, 1902-197612. Development and Validation of a Self-Efficacy Theory-Based Instrument to Measure Prenatal Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy and Breastfeeding Intention Among Pregnant Women13. Do You Feel This? The Story of a Voice Lost and Reclaimed14. Whole Care: Emerging Themes in Contemplative Therapies for Chronic Pain in Women15. "Not Your Mother's PTA": Women's Political Activism in Twentieth-Century America16. An Examination of Intimate Relationship Development for Women with Visible Physical Disabilities: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study17. Inner Strength in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Oral Histories18. Muted Groups and Public Discourse: The Web of Sexual Violence and Social Media19. An Awful Gladness: African American Experiences of Infant Death from Slavery to the Great Migration20. "Let's Get Together and Chew the Fat": Women, Size, and Community in Modern America21. Understanding the Increase in ACL Injuries in Female Basketball Players in NCAA Division II: A Case Study22. Travelers in Skirts: Gender, Literature, and Travel in the Lives and Writings of Nísia Floresta and Adele Toussaint-Samson, Two Women in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World23. Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth Century America24. A Public Duty: Medicine and Commerce in Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture25. A study of the Rita Sanders Geier case: Efforts to desegregate three state universities in Tennessee from 1990–2006Document 1 of 25Acceptance- and Dissonance-Based Interventions for Body Dissatisfaction and Body Image Avoidance among College WomenAuthor:?Lippman, Brit L.Publication info:?Hofstra University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018. 10690226.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Body image dissatisfaction is prevalent among college women and has been linked to problems such as eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and overall poorer quality of life (Pearson, Heffner, & Follette, 2010). Therefore, interventions to reduce body dissatisfaction in college settings are valuable. Of the various interventions targeting body dissatisfaction among college women, dissonance-based programs have consistently been the most effective (Stice & Presnell, 2007). However, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has recently demonstrated success in treating body image concerns (Pearson, Follette, & Hayes, 2012; Pearson et al., 2010). Studies indicate that ACT has reduced body dissatisfaction in an individual therapy format (Pearson et al., 2010) as well as in a 1-day workshop for adult women (Pearson, 2012). However, its effectiveness as a short-term group intervention for body-dissatisfied college women has yet to be compared with another empirically supported program.The present study sought to determine whether an ACT intervention is as effective as a dissonance-based intervention in reducing body dissatisfaction for a sample of college women. Undergraduate women with high levels of body dissatisfaction were randomly assigned to participate in an ACT intervention, a dissonance-based intervention, or an expressive writing control condition. Each intervention consisted of four sessions and was conducted in small groups for one hour per week. Self-report measures of body dissatisfaction and body image avoidance were administered at pre-intervention, post-intervention, one-month follow-up, and two months follow-up.It was hypothesized that both the ACT and dissonance-based interventions would be superior to an expressive writing control condition in reducing body dissatisfaction as well as body image avoidance. However, the mechanisms of action for the two intervention conditions were expected to be different. Specifically, it was predicted that change in body image outcomes for the ACT condition would be associated with an increase in psychological flexibility, while this would not be the case for the dissonance and control condition. In addition, change in body image outcomes for the dissonance-based condition would be associated with a decrease in thin-ideal internalization, while this would not be the case for the ACT and control conditions. Thus, when compared with the control condition, it was expected that thin-ideal internalization would mediate the effect of the dissonance intervention on body image outcomes, and that psychological flexibility would mediate the effect of the ACT intervention on body image outcomes.In general, the findings did not support the hypotheses. Neither the ACT nor dissonance-based intervention demonstrated any significant effects on body image outcomes compared to the control condition at post-test nor at follow-ups. Notably, however, there were downward trends in body dissatisfaction observed during the course of the ACT and dissonance-based interventions that were not present for the control condition. Although the dissonance-based intervention did succeed in decreasing thin-ideal internalization, these changes did not produce significant effects on body image outcomes, failing to support the predicted mediation model. Further, the ACT intervention was not associated with greater changes in psychological flexibility compared to the control condition, contrary to hypotheses. Finally, no differences were observed when the two intervention conditions were directly compared. Considering this study’s mixed findings, future studies should be conducted to further assess the value of both body image interventions among college women.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Womens studies; Educational psychology; Psychology; Clinical psychology; Higher educationClassification:?0453: Womens studies; 0525: Educational psychology; 0621: Psychology; 0622: Clinical psychology; 0745: Higher educationIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology Education Acceptance-based intervention Body dissatisfaction Body image Body image avoidance College women Dissonance-based interventionNumber of pages:?98Publication year:?2018Degree date:?2018School code:?0086Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-56183-8Advisor:?Novak, Sarah mittee member:?McVey-Noble, Merry; Ohr, Phyllis; Scardapane, Joseph R.; Schare, Mitchell L.University/institution:?Hofstra UniversityDepartment:?Clinical PsychologyUniversity location:?United States -- New YorkDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10690226ProQuest document ID:?1993458112Document URL:? copyright ProQu est LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Psychology DatabaseDocument 2 of 25Quasi Alterum Byzantium: The Preservation of Identity through Memory and Culture by Aristocratic Byzantine Women, 1440-1600Author:?Sloutsky, LanaPublication info:?Boston University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10268598.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation analyzes the preservation of Byzantine culture, memory, and identity after 1453 by a network of aristocratic Byzantine women. By integrating art history, history, and anthropology to follow the lives, social networks, and patronage patterns of these women, this project examines the cultural contributions of this small, yet remarkable population. The first chapter discusses Anna Palaiologina Notaras, who perpetuated Byzantine culture through texts and images in Venice. By negotiating between the Byzantine émigrés and the Venetian authorities, she secured unprecedented privileges and recognition for the marginalized community. The second chapter centers on Zoe (Sophia) Palaiologina, niece of Emperor Constantine XI, who was raised as an exile at the papal court. In 1472, she married the Grand Duke of Moscow and became a vital translator among the visual languages of Byzantium, Italy, and Russia. Through her entourage, objects, and familial connections, the princess solidified Moscow’s connection to the fallen Byzantium. Chapter three focuses on Cantakuzina (Catherine) and Mara Brankovi?, daughters of Serbian Despot, George Brankovi?. In 1435, Mara married Ottoman Sultan, Murad II and became stepmother to Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople. Throughout her life, she participated in a series of diplomatic efforts, which allowed her to become a patron of Byzantine culture within the confines of the Ottoman Empire. Mehmed II relied on Mara to validate symbolically his rule in the eyes of his Byzantine subjects, for whom she was a de-facto spokeswoman. Mara and Cantakuzina negotiated peacefully between Mehmed, the Venetians, Athonite monastics, and prominent post-Byzantine figures. Chapter four discusses Helena Palaiologina, another niece of Constantine XI, and her daughter Charlotte. In 1442, Helena married John II of Cyprus, and became Queen of Cyprus, Armenia, and Jerusalem. Helena applied her power to welcome an important group of post-1453 refugees to Cyprus. Charlotte was forced into exile and ended her life at the papal court, to which she gifted a number of valuable objects. Together, Helena and Charlotte helped preserve the Byzantine imperial traditions of philanthropy and diplomatic gift giving. This dissertation contributes to early modern women’s studies and provides a more nuanced understanding of cultural perpetuation.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Art history; Womens studies; History; Medieval historyClassification:?0377: Art history; 0453: Womens studies; 0578: History; 0581: Medieval historyIdentifier / keyword:?Communication and the arts Social sciences 1453 Byzantine Culture Post-Byzantine WomenNumber of pages:?413Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0017Source:?DAI-A 79/07(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-64429-6Advisor:?Cranston, JodiCommittee member:?Klepper, Deeana; Knust, Jennifer; Maranci, Christina; Zell, MichaelUniversity/institution:?Boston UniversityDepartment:?History of Art & ArchitectureUniversity location:?United States -- MassachusettsDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10268598ProQuest document ID:?2015566299Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 3 of 25Healing through Remembrance: An Embodied Exploration of the Basque Witch Burning TimesAuthor:?Lovig, Heather M.Publication info:?Pacifica Graduate Institute, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10742947.ProQuest document linkAbstract:During the early seventeenth century, the witch hysteria engulfing Europe reached its height in the Basque territory of Spain. There, between 1609–1611, members of the Spanish Inquisition tried and executed a number of the local residents as witches. Though the historical trauma of this “witch burning” time took place over 400 years ago, I believe that it is still impacting me today as an aspect of the personal unconscious that holds past life memories. This research suggests that these past life memories have the ability to influence us through our personal unconscious and when re-activated, can be experienced through cognitive, emotional, and somatic symptomology. Further this may be disorienting for the individual as they may not know how to process trauma that feels very personal in nature but has no frame of reference in this time and space. Exploring how past life trauma may still be held in the body and manifest as physical symptoms is important as it brings awareness to another aspect of the human psyche that has yet to be tended to but that is extremely important and vital in both the personal and collective individuation process. Through using somatic alchemy and visionary art, a series of visual memoirs that capture my individual experience of past life trauma from the Basque witch burning times were created as a way to attempt to reduce and eliminate symptomology, cultivate healing, and bring a sense of closure to the past.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Philosophy of religion; Fine arts; Behavioral psychologyClassification:?0322: Philosophy of religion; 0357: Fine arts; 0384: Behavioral psychologyIdentifier / keyword:?Philosophy, religion and theology Communication and the arts Psychology Alchemy Basque witch trials Depth psychology Past life trauma Reincarnation Visionary artNumber of pages:?238Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1142Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-56494-5Advisor:?Kilpatrick, AlanCommittee member:?Jenett, Dianne; Sloan, LisaUniversity/institution:?Pacifica Graduate InstituteDepartment:?Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Somatic StudiesUniversity location:?United States -- CaliforniaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10742947ProQuest document ID:?1994482912Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Glob alDocument 4 of 25New to America: Immigrant Girls and BullyingAuthor:?Pacifico, VittoriaPublication info:?University of Massachusetts Boston, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10683891.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamic meaning and impact of bullying on the academic and social experiences of immigrant school-age girls at one Catholic girls’ school. Drawing on Ecological Systems Theory and the concept of xenophobia, I conducted a mixed methods study to understand how high school girls at one Catholic girls’ school conceptualized bullying and its impact on their academic and social experiences. Data collected in 2016 and 2017 from a school-wide survey and semi-structured interviews with immigrant girls who reported being bullied in school were analyzed, confirming that immigrant girls were more likely to experience bullying than students who were not first or second-generation immigrants in the United States. Furthermore, students reported that this bullying had negative consequences for their academic and social experiences. They described bullying as being “mean,” manifested in both physical and verbal attacks at school and through social media. Importantly, students cited the perception of difference, the national rhetoric on immigrants and immigration, and the pervasive nature of social media as being major catalysts for bullying immigrant girls. The findings suggest significant areas of concern for Catholic schools, including the potential prevalence of bullying of immigrant girls; the problem of noticeability, particularly in the less structured or monitored spaces of schooling and social media; and the under-reporting of instances of bullying specifically to school actors due to a lack of trust, or fear of retribution.I suggest a framework through which to understand the experiences of immigrant girls with bullying in schools. The Gendered Ecology of Xenophobic Bullying may be visualized as nested spheres or fields, with the individual at the center, nested within her ecological environment, the larger political climate, and historical xenophobia. The spheres are porous; what happens in one often influences and is experienced in another. Furthermore, there appears to be an intersectionality of gender, immigrant status, and other features, such as race and socioeconomic status, that manifest themselves in symbolic markers of difference, as perceived within this xenophobic ecology. The framework offers a way to understand the xenophobic bullying of immigrant girls in Catholic schools and is suggestive of a holistic approach to addressing bullying through policy, practice, and professional training. There is a pressing need for more research on the intersection of bullying, immigrant status, and gender to better prepare educators, administrators, and their communities to more aptly support immigrant students within their school systems. The percentage of immigrants in Catholic schools has increased significantly over the past 40 years, making this a critical issue for this subset of private schools. This study contributes to this end.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Womens studies; Multicultural Education; Education Policy; Secondary educationClassification:?0453: Womens studies; 0455: Multicultural Education; 0458: Education Policy; 0533: Secondary educationIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Education Bullying Girls ImmigrantNumber of pages:?223Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1074Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-56350-4Advisor:?Zakharia, ZeenaCommittee member:?Krueger-Henney, Patricia; Merritt, CorinneUniversity/institution:?University of Massachusetts BostonDepartment:?Urban EducationUniversity location:?United States -- MassachusettsDegree:?Ed.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10683891ProQuest document ID:?1993417651Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 5 of 25The Trial of Alice Clifton: Judicial Catharsis in Institutional BiasAuthor:?Zaugg, Gary LouisPublication info:?North Dakota State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10642621.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This is a critical introduction and rhetorical analysis of a moment of criminal crisis at a time of profound institutional bias: the 1787 infanticide trial of a young Philadelphia slave and rape victim named Alice Clifton. A dramatistic view of the case—in the tradition of Kenneth Burke—reveals the law’s inherent symbolic action in shaping social reality and its cathartic potential when resolving conflict and judging conduct. Judicial catharsis—the official apparatus for channeling the manifold cathartic pathways that converge upon a criminal crisis—is the procedural and ritualistic dramatism of the law. It provides the serial victimage necessary to feed the insatiable appetite of symbolicity’s categorical guilt. Accused persons stand for, or stand in for, generalized fears and tensions on the assumption that labeling and punishing them somehow remediates past events or external conditions. In that sense, the community treats criminals for its own benefit. Whether convicting or acquitting, punishing or pardoning, acting upon a defendant tends to purify the group. But ritual-induced unity is more of a temporary diversion of collective attention than a persistent change in collective attitudes or social conditions. Institutional bias—such as slavery or disparate treatment of unwed mothers—politicizes judicial catharsis by creating underlying circumstantial guilt that cannot be directly discharged through criminal adjudication. Nor is catharsis through judgment the same thing as justice; the ritualistic sacrifice of a scapegoat can bring a false sense of redemption to the community by masking bias and social division. Thus, the rhetoric of the law is compensatory, not curative—a perpetual cleansing of what can never be made clean. In the case of Alice Clifton, the law required a criminal scapegoat and the privileged hierarchy required a political scapegoat. To serve as both, the respective burdens had to be reshaped to match the scapegoat’s back. By condemning and then pardoning—symbolically taking her to the edge of death and then restoring her to life—the process hybridized the resolution, staking claim to the awesome power of justice and mercy to reaffirm the existing social order.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; Law; American literature; Rhetoric; Judgment; Bias; Politics; Parents & parenting; Social factors; Masking; AttitudesClassification:?0337: American history; 0398: Law; 0591: American literature; 0681: RhetoricIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Bias Catharsis Dramatism Justice ScapegoatNumber of pages:?220Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0157Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-56451-8Advisor:?Theile, Verena ? Totten, GaryCommittee member:?Fraser, Gordon; Meister, MarkUniversity/institution:?North Dakota State UniversityDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- North DakotaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10642621ProQuest document ID:?1993197565Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 6 of 25Determined Consent: Female Choice and the Love Plot in British and American Realist Fiction, 1860-1918Author:?Gurman, ElissaPublication info:?University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10266765.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation explores the representation of women in love in nineteenth-century British and American realist novels to demonstrate how the love plot paradoxically precludes the rational consent required for the marriage contract. While the choice of a lover, and the subsequent consent to marriage, is the most significant action available to a heroine in a nineteenth-century novel, this “choice” is consistently portrayed as a dream-like surrender to larger forces, which render the heroine’s will inconsequential. My dissertation probes at these forces by turning to discourses that influenced the love plot: the genre of the romance, Darwinian sexual selection, and pre- and early-Freudian conceptions of dreams and the unconscious. In the first chapter, I focus on scenes of reading in novels by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Dean Howells to consider how feminized, identificatory reading practices “prepare” women for the experience of falling in love. The second chapter turns to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection to explore biological arguments for limited female choice in love in George Gissing’s?In the Year of Jubilee?and Henry James’s?The Portrait of a Lady. In the third chapter, I shift focus to consider how the dream, a common trope of the love plot, functions as a potential space for feminist rebellion and revolution in works by Sarah Grand and Kate Chopin. Finally, in the fourth chapter, I discuss nineteenth-century notions of consent and contract and analyse novels by Thomas Hardy and Edith Wharton. In this project, I work towards an understanding of the Anglo-American “myth” of love, to consider how a love characterized by dream-like irrationality and surrender undermines the legitimacy of the heroine’s agency and consent. This suggests that our contemporary problems with delineating and making space for sexual consent may have origins in an unlikely place: the love stories of the nineteenth century.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American literature; British and Irish literatureClassification:?0591: American literature; 0593: British and Irish literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics American British Determined consent Female choice Love plot Realist fictionNumber of pages:?219Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0779Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-44725-5Advisor:?Bolus-Reichert, ChristineCommittee member:?Jaffe, Audrey; Morgenstern, NaomiUniversity/institution:?University of Toronto (Canada)Department:?EnglishUniversity location:?CanadaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10266765ProQuest document ID:?1991519043Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 7 of 25Consent to Rape? The Ambiguation of Sexual Consent in Contemporary World LiteratureAuthor:?Leach, Justine Tara AmyPublication info:?University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10242968.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation studies that which divides rape from sex: the unstable line formed by the concept of sexual consent. It combines an exploration of the promises, paradoxes and problems associated with locating the liberal subject’s sexual consent at the heart of rape law with an analysis of contested representations of consent and nonconsent in several key literary texts about rape. These texts include the paradigmatic rape novel of the eighteenth century, Samuel Richardson’s?Clarissa, and four twentieth century novels from Africa and North America: J. M. Coetzee’s?Disgrace, Gayl Jones’s?Corregidora, Assia Djebar’s?Fantasia: An Algerian?Cavalcade, and Tayeb Salih’s?Season of Migration to the North. This interdisciplinary and transnational work connecting law and literature draws on the theoretical perspectives of feminism, postcolonialism and trauma theory to fill an important gap in literary analysis of what is constituted as the grey zone of sexual experience between rape and consensual sex. To explore this critical space, I attend to heterosexual representations of sexual violence that cannot be categorized as rape because nonconsent is ambiguous, and to representations that meet definitions of rape, but that critical and cultural commentary identifies as ambiguously consensual sex. Racial, sexual, colonial and national discourses among others overdetermine the female characters whose consent is at stake in these representations, obscuring their nonconsent to sex. An exploration of the problematics of the female subject’s sexual consent reveals that the liberal subject premised by rape law is an unattainable ideal compared to which actual individuals are found to be lacking. What emerges from my analysis is not just the power of rape myths, the rhetoric of seduction, and the denial of female sexual autonomy and desire, but the ambiguating force of narrative itself. The problem of representing rape is not encapsulated by a dialectic of speech and silence. Rather rape appears most indeterminable when it is represented in narrative as a sequence of events over time, for the female subject is treated as though she exists in a state of perpetual consent, and so nonconsent can only ever be a temporary action of no duration and little force.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Sexuality; African literature; Literature; British and Irish literatureClassification:?0211: Sexuality; 0316: African literature; 0401: Literature; 0593: British and Irish literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Psychology Consent Law Postcolonial Rape Sexual violence TransnationalNumber of pages:?270Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0779Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-44714-9Advisor:?Quayson, AtoCommittee member:?Seitler, Dana; ten Kortenaar, NeilUniversity/institution:?University of Toronto (Canada)Department:?EnglishUniversity location:?CanadaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10242968ProQuest document ID:?1991489017Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 8 of 25Representing Colette, Performing Gender: Colette and Jacqueline AudryAuthor:?Hendrix, ErikaPublication info:?New York University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10617358.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project combining gender studies, star theory, and close readings of film and literary works to propose a new understanding of Colette’s significance to twentieth century feminism and French cinema. The thesis takes Colette and the filmmaker Jacqueline Audry’s collaboration as a point of departure for examining representations of “gender education” and gender performance in each woman’s oeuvre, but also at the foundation of their star image. Jacqueline Audry directed her first feature in the late 1940s, becoming France’s only woman director to achieve sustained commercial success in the postwar period. Her first major success was an adaptation of Colette’s novella Gigi, for which Colette supplied the dialogue. Colette’s “adaptor of choice”, Audry reworked two more novels by Colette, sparking a mania for cinematic adaptations of Colette’s fiction at the start of the 1950s. Although Colette was only directly involved in the production of Gigi, critics promulgated the notion of a creative partnership that was all the more significant for the fact that Audry was also a woman. By analyzing the wealth of media constituting their star image (entertainment news, reviews, press portraits, and photographs), I argue the importance of considering Colette and the filmmaker Jacqueline Audry as star figures and “gender-teachers”, reading their bodies as gendered texts onto which they, the media, and the public inscribe meaning. In so doing, I contend that their complex public personae worked both to naturalize and denaturalize gender norms at key moments in the history of French feminism: the Belle ?poque and the 1950s.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Romance literature; Film studiesClassification:?0313: Romance literature; 0900: Film studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Communication and the arts Belle epoque Film adaptation Gender performance Star studiesNumber of pages:?226Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0146Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-40742-6Advisor:?Cortade, LudovicCommittee member:?Evrard, Audrey; Le Gras, Gwéna?lle; Miller, Judy; Polan, DanaUniversity/institution:?New York UniversityDepartment:?FrenchUniversity location:?United States -- New YorkDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10617358ProQuest document ID:?1990238703Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 9 of 25"A Caring Disease" Nursing and Patient Advocacy on the United States' First AIDS Ward, 1983-1995Author:?Milne, Andrea ElizabethPublication info:?University of California, Irvine, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10634939.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation examines the radical activism performed by the nurses who constructed and ran the United States’ first AIDS ward: San Francisco General Hospital Ward 5B. By examining these healthcare pioneers’ emotional, political, and intellectual labor—and the tensions and contradictions that characterized their work—A Caring Disease?re-conceptualizes AIDS advocacy in the 1980s: what it was, and who performed it. It uses the ward’s official records, oral histories, professional publications, media coverage, and legal documents to demonstrate that the nursing staff’s radical practices (and the queer, feminist politics informing them) shaped AIDS care and activism at both a local and national level. Existing literature on the history of AIDS privileges the direct-action advocacy of ACT UP, and in so doing places the start of the People with AIDS (PWA) movement in 1987. In asserting the larger importance of feminized, affective, and paid labor in the politics of the epidemic,?A Caring Disease?reperiodizes and diversifies the movement.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; History; Science historyClassification:?0337: American history; 0578: History; 0585: Science historyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences AIDS Caring HIV Nursing Politics San FranciscoNumber of pages:?217Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0030Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-41424-0Advisor:?Perlman, AllisonCommittee member:?Haynes, Douglas; Highsmith, AndrewUniversity/institution:?University of California, IrvineDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- CaliforniaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10634939ProQuest document ID:?1990212960Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 10 of 25Mears Christianity: The Birth of the Modern Discipleship MovementAuthor:?Tombrella, Joseph AaronPublication info:?Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10758390.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation demonstrates that Henrietta Mears was the forerunner of the modern discipleship movement because she introduced an educational philosophy that emphasized new essentials, while ignoring historic Baptist essentials, and influenced the major leaders who would do the same, igniting the new movement of discipleship.Chapter 1 demonstrates that the modern discipleship movement attempts to fix the problem of the lack of discipleship, but ignores ecclesiology in the process. This all began with Henrietta Mears in 1928 when she started her ministry at First Presbyterian Hollywood.Chapter 2 explains that there are Baptist ecclesiological essentials that are imperative to Christian maturity. These include regenerate church membership, the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, the offices of pastor and deacon, and church discipline.Chapter 3 demonstrates Henrietta Mears's Baptist background through William Wallace Everts and William Bell Riley.Chapter 4 explains that Fundamentalism and Pragmatism had a dominant effect on Mears understanding of both the church and the role of education, informing the presuppositions of the modern discipleship movement.Chapter 5 further investigates Mears's educational philosophy: to know Christ and make Him known. This is through establishing Christian maturity in others through teaching the Bible and training in spiritual disciplines and advancing the establishing of Christian maturity in others through leadership training and pragmatic programs.Chapter 6 explains that her educational philosophy of establishing and advancing Christian maturity was passed on to key leaders Dawson Trotman, Bill Bright, and Jim Rayburn. They ignited the modern discipleship movement through their ministries, the Navigators, Campus Crusade for Christ, and Young Life. Each of these organizations influenced the campuses and the churches through the 1940s, 1950s to today with a unique educational philosophy that has changed the approach of Christian education.Chapter 7 gives a conclusion to the dissertation. This includes implications from the research along with suggestions for further research.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Education; Religious education; Education philosophyClassification:?0515: Education; 0527: Religious education; 0998: Education philosophyIdentifier / keyword:?EducationNumber of pages:?261Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0345Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-61478-7Advisor:?Nason, PatriciaUniversity/institution:?Southwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryUniversity location:?United States -- TexasDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10758390ProQuest document ID:?1990158377Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 11 of 25The Conscience of Arkansas: The Progressive Reform Efforts of Adolphine Fletcher Terry, 1902-1976Author:?Owens Fraley, Dianna LynnPublication info:?The University of Memphis, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10669654.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation focuses on the progressive reform efforts of Adolphine Fletcher Terry, a social activist in Arkansas from 1902-1976. Terry was a white southern woman spurred to action during pivotal moments in Arkansas, southern, and national history. Her story revealed one side of social reform and racial progress in the South. Her reform efforts shed light on regional and women's studies as well as on the intersection among class, gender, and race relations during the segregation era. Terry's life story is a good example of the tug-of-war between southern tradition and modern change that many southern liberals dealt with during the twentieth century. She graduated from Vassar College in 1902, at the beginning of the Progressive movement, and upon her return to Arkansas she became involved in several important social reform efforts. She began her endeavors with public education reform, including the consolidation of one-room schools and addressing the transportation needs of rural students. She then turned her attention to the establishment of a juvenile court system and the founding of the Arkansas Girls Industrial School. Some of the other reform efforts she is known for include: the establishment of a College Club for college educated women in Little Rock, the women's suffrage movement, establishment of the African American branch of the Young Women's Christian Association in Little Rock, the creation of a statewide public library system, the Little Rock Urban League, the expansion of disability services in Little Rock, and many other philanthropic endeavors across the state of Arkansas. On the national stage, she is best known for the formation of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools in 1958. Terry used her social status, network of clubwomen, and the media, specifically newspapers, to reach her goals. Her story explores the role of privileged white society women, who could and did have an impact on these important issues facing the South by agitating for change and working within the white patriarchal system. While some acted from a sense of obligation, Terry made a very conscious choice to address the ills of society and put her efforts into improving the lives of all Arkansans.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African American Studies; Biographies; Black history; American historyClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0304: Biographies; 0328: Black history; 0337: American historyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Adolphine Fletcher Terry Progressive reform Segregation Arkansas Social activism Southern liberal Women's emergency committeeNumber of pages:?210Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1194Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-35948-0Advisor:?Goudsouzian, AramCommittee member:?Bond, Beverly G.; Crawford, Charles W.; Sherman, JanannUniversity/institution:?The University of MemphisDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- TennesseeDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10669654ProQuest document ID:?1986480662Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 12 of 25Development and Validation of a Self-Efficacy Theory-Based Instrument to Measure Prenatal Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy and Breastfeeding Intention Among Pregnant WomenAuthor:?McKinley, Erin MariePublication info:?The University of Alabama, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10600076.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Breastfeeding is the feeding of a child with breast milk, either directly from the breast or by expression. Breastfeeding offers tremendous benefits to both the infant and mother. Individuals choose tasks they feel are within the boundaries of ability. The choice to engage in breastfeeding may be related to the level of self-efficacy a woman has to complete the task. Theoretical constructs have been operationalized to measure perceived self-efficacy for breastfeeding in pregnant populations; however, a guideline based, self-efficacy theory driven, valid, and reliable instrument is lacking. The purposes of this study were to create, test, and validate a new scale to measure prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy, test the reliability of the scale, determine the correlation between prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding intention, and assess the differences in prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy by the sociodemographic factors. One-hundred and twenty-four pregnant women, 18 years or older, participated in this cross-sectional study. All participants completed the survey and any interested participant took a second retest reliability survey home to complete and mail back to the researcher. Confirmatory factor analysis did not confirm the proposed model; therefore, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity using maximum likelihood factor analysis with varimax rotation. This revealed a valid (α=.980) and reliable (r=0.920) four factor questionnaire for total prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy – The Prenatal Rating of Efficacy in Preparation to Breastfeed (PREP to BF) Scale. Total PREP to BF score was significantly correlated to breastfeeding intention (r=.615;?P<.001). Women who had at least some college education (P=.003), were currently married (P=.027), had breastfed previously (P=.035), and planned to deliver vaginally (P=.043) had significantly greater PREP to BF scores than their counterparts. Measuring the level of breastfeeding self-efficacy at the prenatal stage could alert prenatal women and health professionals to particular individual skill sets needed to successfully initiate breastfeeding after birth. A strong understanding of which pregnant women may or may not be at risk for non-initiation of breastfeeding may help healthcare professionals create and provide the most appropriate support to their patients.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Health sciences; Health educationClassification:?0566: Health sciences; 0680: Health educationIdentifier / keyword:?Health and environmental sciences Education Breastfeeding Breastfeeding intention Breastfeeding self-efficacy Instrument development Prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy Self-efficacy theoryNumber of pages:?154Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0004Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-35247-4Advisor:?Knol, Linda L. ? Turner, Lori mittee member:?Burnham, Joy J.; Graettinger, Kristine; Hernandez-Reif, Maria; Leeper, James D.University/institution:?The University of AlabamaDepartment:?Health Education/PromotionUniversity location:?United States -- AlabamaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10600076ProQuest document ID:?1986279270Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 13 of 25Do You Feel This? The Story of a Voice Lost and ReclaimedAuthor:?Taussig, Rebekah G.Publication info:?University of Kansas, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10279947.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Do You Feel This? The Story of a Voice Lost and Reclaimed?is a memoir about learning to navigate the chaotic landscape of disability, shame, sexuality, faith, family, identity, and finding one’s own voice. Following a three-act structure, this book tells my story as a young, paralyzed girl, grappling with what it might look like to grow into a powerful, independent woman in a wheelchair. Spending the first few years of my life undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, and spinal surgeries, I learned early to silence myself and defer to the more authoritative voices of my mother, medical professionals, and evangelical doctrine. This story-arc follows my struggle to define my identity, make my own choices, and reclaim the powerful voice needed to narrate my own story.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Disability studies; Creative writing; Literature; Womens studiesClassification:?0201: Disability studies; 0203: Creative writing; 0401: Literature; 0453: Womens studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Communication and the arts Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Creative nonfiction Life writing MemoirNumber of pages:?265Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0099Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-34652-7Advisor:?Moriarty, LauraCommittee member:?Graham, Maryemma; Kaminski, Megan; Neill, Anna; Tucker, SherrieUniversity/institution:?University of KansasDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- KansasDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10279947ProQuest document ID:?1986227176Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 14 of 25Whole Care: Emerging Themes in Contemplative Therapies for Chronic Pain in WomenAuthor:?Mckinley, Kehiante M.Publication info:?California Southern University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10286029.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The following study is an inquiry into the impact of yoga and meditation on chronic pain, specifically in women. This study utilized theoretical and phenomenological methods under a biopsychosocial framework to investigate the research questions proposed. The phenomenological portion consisted of 6 participant interviews, transcribed, and analyzed using Giorgi’s Four Phase Method. The phenomenon indicated a structure of control and the challenge of learning. The desire for control was represented through the physical and mental aspects of yoga. Challenges and dissenting opinions of yoga and meditation lead to the theme of the challenge of learning. The theoretical portion comprised a review of 16 studies. This review of literature lead to the consideration of the need for Knowledge as a gap in the literature to expound upon yoga and meditation for chronic pain. This knowledge included subthemes of research knowledge, treatment knowledge, and health knowledge. The study provides a structure to understand the physical and mental impact of yoga and meditation; the challenges and dissenting opinions of yoga and meditation; and the impact of yoga and meditation to the field of chronic pain suffered by women. Findings and conclusions indicate the need for educating clinicians and practitioners of yoga and meditation on the mental and physical benefits, as well as pitfalls they may encounter. In addition, the data suggests more rigorous studies on yoga and meditation are needed in order to understand the biopsychosocial elements, and how specific pain diagnosis may be impacted.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Womens studies; Psychology; Physiological psychologyClassification:?0453: Womens studies; 0621: Psychology; 0989: Physiological psychologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology Biopsychosocial Chronic pain Contemplative therapies Meditation Women's health YogaNumber of pages:?202Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1861Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-55816-6Advisor:?Levinson, DanielCommittee member:?McKiernan, Patrick; Pardo, NadiraUniversity/institution:?California Southern UniversityDepartment:?Behavioral SciencesUniversity location:?United States -- CaliforniaDegree:?Psy.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10286029ProQuest document ID:?1985981109Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 15 of 25"Not Your Mother's PTA": Women's Political Activism in Twentieth-Century AmericaAuthor:?McPherson, Jennifer LynnPublication info:?The University of New Mexico, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10606075.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Not Your Mother’s PTA: Women’s Political Activism in Twentieth-Century America?provides the first in-depth study of women’s political activism in the National PTA and its local PTA units. It closely examines how women integrated themselves and their ideas on women’s and children’s welfare reform into government from the 1890s through the 1970s. This project explores the resources, strategies, and methods used by PTA women working for women and children’s interests at the local and national level, primarily in public schools and government agencies. Not Your Mother’s PTA challenges the subtext of the PTA mother/housewife and shows how women used the language and identity of motherhood and later parenthood to expand women’s role in government, increase women’s political activism, and its ability to sustain a Progressive-era, female-led maternalist organization in the face of transformative social, economic, and racial changes in the twentieth century.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; Womens studies; Political scienceClassification:?0337: American history; 0453: Womens studies; 0615: Political scienceIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences PTA Political activism WomenNumber of pages:?213Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0142Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-33311-4Advisor:?Cahill, Cathleen D.University/institution:?The University of New MexicoDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- New MexicoDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10606075ProQuest document ID:?1985694596Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Worldwide Political Science AbstractsDocument 16 of 25An Examination of Intimate Relationship Development for Women with Visible Physical Disabilities: A Consensual Qualitative Research StudyAuthor:?Ruiz, Derek RyanPublication info:?The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10690088.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Personal relationships and intimacy enrich and give meaning to our lives. Relationships and intimacy develop across a lifespan and provide many opportunities for growth and personal discovery. Research indicates that some people with disabilities encounter obstacles in their attempts to develop relationships and explore and express their intimacy and sexuality. Adults with disabilities, who seek appropriate intimate relationships, are not operating on a level playing field. Intimacy, due to its complexity, is a relatively understudied facet of human interaction, and often focuses on those who are able-bodied.As people age, development of intimate relationships, both sexual and non-sexual are important contributors to overall quality of life for people with and without disabilities. Most of the research available on intimate relationship development seems to have been done on people without disabilities, however, since people with disabilities face unique challenges in the development of such relationships, it is important to better understand these difficulties so as to potentially address them.The goal of this consensual qualitative research is to add to the overall knowledge regarding the primary research question: What are the overall subjective experiences of women with visible physical disabilities in developing intimate relationships? Additionally, the research explores the sub-questions (1) What aspects of intimacy and sexuality are most important for women with visible physical disabilities? (2) What are some of the challenges of and facilitators to intimate relationship development that women with physical disabilities have experienced?The women indicated that they experienced delayed intimate relationships, differing levels of sexual self-concept, and a lack of availability of partners. Those interviewed identified aspects of intimacy and sexuality most important to intimate relationships development to be openness to experience, shared values, and validating relationships. The larger scope of this project was to gain a better understanding of barriers and facilitators to intimate relationship development. Various barriers and facilitators to intimate relationship development were identified and those were linked to practical applications for future consideration.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Disability studies; Social psychology; Womens studies; PsychologyClassification:?0201: Disability studies; 0451: Social psychology; 0453: Womens studies; 0621: PsychologyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Psychology Health and environmental sciences Consensual qualitative research Disability Intimacy Intimate relationship development RehabilitationNumber of pages:?139Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0262Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann A rborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-54975-1Advisor:?Rosenthal, David mittee member:?Chan, Fong; Clif, Conrad; Phillips, Brian; Smedema, SusanUniversity/institution:?The University of Wisconsin - MadisonDepartment:?Rehabilitation PsychologyUniversity location:?United States -- WisconsinDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10690088ProQuest document ID:?1985670560Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Psychology DatabaseDocument 17 of 25Inner Strength in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Oral HistoriesAuthor:?Steinberg, Jennifer WeathersbeePublication info:?The University of North Dakota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10639811.ProQuest document linkAbstract:The purpose of this oral history study was to describe the lived experiences of mothers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and to further inform the Theory of Inner Strength in Women (TIS) (Dingley & Roux, 2014). Postmodern feminist oral history methods were used to answer the research questions which included: 1) What are the lived experiences of mothers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? and 2) How do these experiences further inform TIS?Interviews were manually coded directly onto the digital audio files using NVivo11Plus qualitative data management software. Three chronologic phases were identified among the 10 narrators interviewed for the study, including?in the beginning, everyday ASD, and?afterward. Overarching themes identified for each chronologic phase. The phase?afterward?only occurred after a chronologic, physical, or imagined distance from day-to-day activities and responsibilities of parenting a child with ASD. Mothers of children with ASD who participated in this oral history study did not achieve the outcome of the TIS, of living a?new normal?if they were not had not had the chronologic, physical, or imagined separation from day-to-day parenting that mothers in the?afterward?phase did. They did, however, tell stories which illustrated dimensions of inner strength.The findings were consistent with previous research related to mothers of children diagnosed with ASD, but also makes a unique contribution in terms of implications for nursing practice and recommendations for policy. The data collected for the study has also been entered into the historical record for use by future qualified researchers.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Disability studies; Nursing; History; Individual & family studiesClassification:?0201: Disability studies; 0569: Nursing; 0578: History; 0628: Individual & family studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Autism spectrum disorders Inner strength Mothers Oral historyNumber of pages:?235Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0156Source:?DAI-B 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-55439-7Advisor:?Roux, Gayle mittee member:?Foland, Kay; Porter, Kimberly K.; Tyree, ElizabethUniversity/institution:?The University of North DakotaDepartment:?NursingUniversity location:?United States -- North DakotaDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10639811ProQuest document ID:?1985666999Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 18 of 25Muted Groups and Public Discourse: The Web of Sexual Violence and Social MediaAuthor:?Paul Baer, AprilPublication info:?Frostburg State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10686048.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Formative research cite nearly 20% of women and 6% of men will experience attempted or completed sexual assault while enrolled in college (Ali, 2011; Koss, 1988/1989; Krebs, Lindquist, Warner, Fisher, & Martin, 2007). Largely, narratives of college sexual violence are hidden, as reports to college administrators and law enforcement agencies are low and stigma surrounding such crimes often place fault upon survivors (Carrington Wooten & Mitchell, 2016; Fisher, Diagle, & Cullen, 2010). However, stories of college sexual violence have become trending topics via social media outlets (Gringberg, 2014; Kingkade, 2013; Rennison & Addington, 2014). This research study investigates the use of social media by sexual violence survivors. Through rhetorical analysis, public tweets associated with #CarryThatWeight, #IStandWithJackie, and #SurvivingCostMe are analyzed. Data reveal that Millennial college students, referred to as digital natives, use social media to raise awareness and promote hashtivism, shorthand for “online activism” (Blay, 2016; Burkhalter, n.d.; Dookhoo, 2015). However, while seeking to challenge rape culture, these narratives are also open to public speculation and criticism, by lay persons, media outlets, and internet trolls (Phillips, 2015). Hashtivism through computer-mediated communication (CMC) allows survivors to forge communities, provide support, and share strategies as to how to file federal formal complaints while also navigating public shaming, online harassment, and doxxing (Blay, 2016; Boux & Daum, 2015; Boyd, 2008; Dookhoo, 2015; Java, Song, Finin, Tseng, 2009; Parkin, 2016; Ziering & Dick, 2015; Walther, 2011).Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Higher Education Administration; Womens studies; Communication; Web StudiesClassification:?0446: Higher Education Administration; 0453: Womens studies; 0459: Communication; 0646: Web StudiesIdentifier / keyword:?Communication and the arts Social sciences Education College rape Hashtag Hashtivism Sexual violence Social mediaNumber of pages:?152Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1837Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-54734-4Advisor:?Voorhees, Courte C. mittee member:?Caputo, Emily J.; Morris, Jill A.University/institution:?Frostburg State UniversityDepartment:?Educational ProfessionsUniversity location:?United States -- MarylandDegree:?Ed.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10686048ProQuest document ID:?1984585216Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 19 of 25An Awful Gladness: African American Experiences of Infant Death from Slavery to the Great MigrationAuthor:?Muigai, Wangui MonicaPublication info:?Princeton University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10606905.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation examines the history of infant death in African American communities. It traces the medical, scientific, and cultural ideas of the causes and meanings of black infant mortality from the era of antebellum slavery to the height of black migration in the mid twentieth century. By examining infant death in this shifting landscape, this dissertation explores how widening cultural expectations that all babies should survive, alongside African American demands for equal treatment as citizens and patients, and the growing role of government in matters of infant welfare, generated fierce debates regarding who was responsible for protecting young lives and who was to blame for their deaths.Chapter One looks at the nineteenth century, exploring the transformation of black infant death in the antebellum period from a problem of plantation management to a racial trait and evidence that blacks’ newly won freedom was detrimental to their health. Chapters Two and Three analyze municipal and federal government responses to black infant welfare in the Progressive Era, first by tracing the rise and fall of a local Washington D.C. agency responsible for the care of abandoned and destitute infants, followed by an examination of the U.S. Children’s Bureau and how it came to see black infant mortality as intimately tied to debates about the “midwife problem.” Chapter Four delves into the artistic works and public forums through which African Americans shared their experiences with infant loss and debated the racial and gender politics of “saving” black babies in an era of Jim Crow. Chapter Five returns to the rural south by way of the 1953 midwife training film?All My Babies: A Midwife’s Own Story,?to show how black infant welfare concerns became enfolded in growing postwar critiques of the nation’s expanding, but deeply segregated, health care system.To foreground black experiences of infant death, this study draws on a rich array of archival and primary source material, including slave narratives, folk practices, medical articles, government documents, memoirs, songs, photographs, and film. Through its focus on black health, this project contributes to scholarship in history of medicine and African-American history, while also speaking to scholarship on the history of childhood and the politics of reproduction.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?African American Studies; American history; Science historyClassification:?0296: African American Studies; 0337: American history; 0585: Science historyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Medicine Public health Race Social sciencesNumber of pages:?300Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0181Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-32313-9Advisor:?Wailoo, KeithCommittee member:?Gordin, Michael; Hunter, Tera; Roberts, Dorothy; Rodgers, DanielUniversity/institution:?Princeton UniversityDepartment:?History of ScienceUniversity location:?United States -- New JerseyDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10606905ProQuest document ID:?1984326038Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 20 of 25"Let's Get Together and Chew the Fat": Women, Size, and Community in Modern AmericaAuthor:?Serafine, Amelia EarhartPublication info:?Loyola University Chicago, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10283341.ProQuest document linkAbstract:“Let’s Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America” argues that between 1948 and the 1980s, women in America formed communities around issues of size in order to claim agency over their bodies. Primarily concerned with losing weight, many women in these groups nonetheless created new tools and abilities with which to resist oppression based on body size. Some women went as far as to form explicitly positive fat identities and reject compulsory slenderness. This dissertation investigates four cases studies: TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly), Overeaters Anonymous, Weight Watchers, and the Fat Liberation movement of the 1970s to uncover how women within these groups established interpersonal agency and grappled with the meaning of fat for women in America.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; Womens studiesClassification:?0337: American history; 0453: Womens studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Activism Bodysize Dieting Feminism Sexuality WomenNumber of pages:?254Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?0112Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-32005-3Advisor:?Nickerson, Michel leCommittee member:?Bucholz, Robert; Gilfoyle, Timothy; Gorn, ElliottUniversity/institution:?Loyola University ChicagoDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- IllinoisDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10283341ProQuest document ID:?1984051287Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 21 of 25Understanding the Increase in ACL Injuries in Female Basketball Players in NCAA Division II: A Case StudyAuthor:?Santos Andino, PaulinoPublication info:?Northcentral University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10608352.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Women participation in all sports has dramatically increased since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This increase has been a positive factor for society and sport, but at the same time, sports injuries have also increased, threatening female college student- athletes’ careers and success. The specific problem addressed in the qualitative single case study is that the NCAA, female student-athletes’ ACL injuries are increasing despite the efforts of the NCAA prevention services such as bylaws compliance that are used to avoid injuries. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of why female student-athletes’ ACL injuries in the NCAA were increasing despite their efforts. The sample comprised seven female basketball players, one compliance officer, and the basketball head coach from one University of the NCAA Division II female basketball team in Texas. Interview questions were recorded to facilitate the transcription, analysis, and coding through the Dedoose software program. Five themes emerged; (a) ACL injuries are increasing because of overuse, lack of rest periods, and hard workouts, (b) Females have more ACL injuries than men and men are stronger and have more muscles, (c) Student athletes are unaware of NCAA prevention services and bylaws 17.1 to 17.3, (d) Student athletes’ participate in physical activities more than 20 hours a week when they are in season, and (e) Coach and compliance officer were not aware of the prevention services in the NCAA. Recommendations for further research suggest that more studies should be conducted in all divisions of the NCAA, and focus not only on female basketball, but also in all sports, also a multiple case study should be conduct regarding the perception of female student athletics on prevention services, and bylaws 17. to 17.3 in the NCAA DIV I and 3.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Sports Management; Educational administration; Physical educationClassification:?0430: Sports Management; 0514: Educational administration; 0523: Physical educationIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Education ACL ACL injuries Female basketball players in NCAA NCAA injuriesNumber of pages:?112Publication year:?2017Degree date:?2017School code:?1443Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0 -355-32080-0Advisor:?Adams, CandaceCommittee member:?Shaw, Melanie; Wardlow, RebeccaUniversity/institution:?Northcentral UniversityDepartment:?School of EducationUniversity location:?United States -- CaliforniaDegree:?Ed.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10608352ProQuest document ID:?1983989069Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 22 of 25Travelers in Skirts: Gender, Literature, and Travel in the Lives and Writings of Nísia Floresta and Adele Toussaint-Samson, Two Women in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic WorldAuthor:?Souza Maia, Ludmila dePublication info:?Rice University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10673365.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This dissertation investigates the relationships between gender and writing in the personal and intellectual trajectories of the Brazilian woman writer Nísia Floresta (Papary, 1810 - Rouen, 1885) and the French woman writer Adèle Toussaint-Samson (Paris, 1820-1911), in nineteenth-century Brazil and Europe. The core question of this research is how being a woman influenced their experiences as women writers and as female travellers. This work proposes a dialogue between these two writers who lived their long lives through the nineteenth century, shared similar spaces, performed Atlantic journeys, and thought through their writings about what they called the “feminine condition”. The dissertation is divided in three parts according to the chronological order of the authors’ lives and publications. In the first part, I discuss the relationship between domesticity and writing in the beginning of their production of texts and their awakening as authors. In the second part, I deal with the influence of travel both on their lives and in their writings. In the third and last part, I discuss the later years of the writers, analyzing the ways they adressed the subject of aging, the self memories they would leave for posterity, as well as their proximity to death. Throughout their lives, both of them had to negotiate their “female condition” with their performance as writers. This work is also a contribution to the History of Feminism, for through the empirical analysis of the lives of these two women, it adds one more chapter.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?European history; Latin American history; Womens studiesClassification:?0335: European history; 0336: Latin American history; 0453: Womens studiesIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Floresta, Nísia Gender Nineteenth century. Toussaint-Samson, Adèle Women writersNumber of pages:?38Publication year:?2016Degree date:?2016School code:?0187Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-38279-2Advisor:?Chalhoub, Sidney ? Metcalf, Alida C.University/institution:?Rice UniversityDepartment:?HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- TexasDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?PortugueseDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10673365ProQuest document ID:?1991474945Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?GenderWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 23 of 25Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth Century AmericaAuthor:?Cowgill, Brittany M.Publication info:?University of Cincinnati, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 10678546.ProQuest document linkAbstract:In 1969, Americans formally agreed that a "new" diagnosis existed: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The definition they proposed was an infant death "unexpected by history and in which a thorough post-mortem exam fails to demonstrate an adequate cause of death." SIDS may have been a fresh moniker, but the situation it described was not.?Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America?takes SIDS as its subject of historical analysis; it is a narrative "disease biography" of the SIDS diagnosis, which has yet to receive concerted attention from historians.?Rest Uneasy?explores the shifting and often contradictory ways in which professionals, practitioners, and parents—most notably mothers—attempted to answer one pathologist's striking question about SIDS: "how do you deal with a disease whose first and only symptom is death?" Tracing the SIDS diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, this dissertation investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Americans reconceived of the problem of sudden infant death multiple times over the course of the twentieth century. Their various approaches linked sudden infant deaths to all kinds of different causes—biological, anatomical, environmental, and social—and their ideas were consistently shaped by contemporary ideologies about motherhood, medicine, and infant care. "Rest Uneasy" shows how American women, families, and physicians continually reinvented sudden infant death and struggled together in a fraught but consequential effort to overcome SIDS.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American history; Public health; Science historyClassification:?0337: American history; 0573: Public health; 0585: Science historyIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Disease Infant mortality Pediatrics Sleep Sudden Infant Death SyndromeNumber of pages:?513Publication year:?2015Degree date:?2015School code:?0045Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-39823-6Advisor:?Stradling, DavidCommittee member:?Campos-Costero, Isaac; Golden, Janet; Kline, Wendy; Stradling, DavidUniversity/institution:?University of CincinnatiDepartment:?Arts and Sciences: HistoryUniversity location:?United States -- OhioDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10678546ProQuest document ID:?1991511855Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 24 of 25A Public Duty: Medicine and Commerce in Nineteenth Century American Literature and CultureAuthor:?Chacón, Heather E.Publication info:?University of Kentucky, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 10672461.ProQuest document linkAbstract:Using recent criticism on speculation and disability in addition to archival materials, “A Public Duty: Medicine and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture” demonstrates that reform-minded nineteenth-century authors drew upon the representational power of public health to express excitement and anxiety about the United States’ emerging economic and political prominence. Breaking with a critical tradition holding that the professionalization of medicine and authorship served primarily to support and define an ascending middle class, I argue that the authors such as Robert Montgomery Bird, Fanny Fern, George Washington Cable, and Pauline Hopkins fuse the rhetoric of economic policy and public health to advocate that the era’s disenfranchised “ill” (classified as such due to demographic factors or disability/disease) be recognized as worthy citizens capable of enhancing the economic and cultural wealth of the nation.While many nineteenth-century authors drew upon the ability for sickness and death to unify disparate peoples, such instances often tend toward sentimentalism, imparting the message of inclusion by invoking readers’ sympathy. The authors included in my project, however, do not fit this mode. Instead, they used their works to insinuate that looking after the health and welfare of one’s fellow humans was simply good economics. In featuring issues of public health rather than private disability, depicting illness realistically in accordance with medical treatises and beliefs of the period, and showing the widespread consequences of disease these writers rely on their readers’ desire for economic prosperity, rather than affect, as a catalyst for social solidarity in a capitalist society. As such, my project causes us to rethink how the ascent of the novel not only helped define, but also challenged and critiqued, the identity-politics of an emerging middle class. By showing the authors studied in “A Public Duty” used literature’s pedagogical potential to argue the “sick” literally and figuratively had worth, I demonstrates these writers’ works help create and support a reconceptualization of the political body suiting a country poised to assume global prominence and urged their readers to see the variety of people living in the United States as a source of national innovation and strength.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?American studies; American history; American literature; Authorship; Anxiety; Cultural identity; Literary criticism; Business; Novels; 19th century; Politics; Rhetoric; Medicine; Beliefs; Disorders; Social classesClassification:?0323: American studies; 0337: American history; 0591: American literatureIdentifier / keyword:?Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Fiction Language, literature and linguistics Medicine Reform Social sciences SpeculationNumber of pages:?198Publication year:?2015Degree date:?2015School code:?0102Source:?DAI-A 79/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-355-37321-9Advisor:?Clymer, Jeffory mittee member:?Doolen, Andy; Melish, Joanne; Roorda, RandallUniversity/institution:?University of KentuckyDepartment:?EnglishUniversity location:?United States -- KentuckyDegree:?Ph.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?10672461ProQuest document ID:?1990663978Document URL:? copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.Database:?ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalDocument 25 of 25A study of the Rita Sanders Geier case: Efforts to desegregate three state universities in Tennessee from 1990–2006Author:?Jackson-McCoy, Sonja R.Publication info:?East Tennessee State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008. 3340420.ProQuest document linkAbstract:This study focuses on a 2-phase assessment of the desegregation of selected public postsecondary institutions under the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) [Tennessee State University and University of Memphis] and the University of Tennessee systems [University of Tennessee-Knoxville]. The 1st phase involved obtaining and analyzing the annual reports, court cases, legal journals, articles, and books concerning the 1968 Sanders v. Ellington case (better known as Geier v. Alexander); the 1984 Geier Stipulation of Settlement that mandated a desegregation plan; and the implementation of the 2001 Geier Consent Decree. The study also examines enrollment of black students in selected historically white institutions and white students enrolled in the selected historically black institution for the years 1985 (1 year after the 1984 Geier Stipulation of Settlement) through 2006 (5 years after the Geier Consent Decree and the same year the case was dismissed). The 2nd phase of this study involved interviewing administrators and principal actors responsible for the planning of, implementation of, and compliance with the Geier Stipulation of Settlement of 1984. The study reveals degrees of compliance or noncompliance with the Stipulation of Settlement of 1984 as well as the 2001 Consent Decree and examines more successful and less successful efforts to increase minorities enrolled and employed as faculty staff and administrators on each campus.Links:Check Article AvailabilitySubject:?Black studies; School administration; Education history; Higher educationClassification:?0325: Black studies; 0514: School administration; 0520: Education history; 0745: Higher educationIdentifier / keyword:?Social sciences Education Desegregation Enrollment Geier Consent Decree Predominantly Black institutions Predominantly White Predominantly White institutions Rita Sanders Geier Case State universities TennesseeNumber of pages:?147Publication year:?2008Degree date:?2008School code:?0069Source:?DAI-A 69/12, Dissertation Abstracts InternationalPlace of publication:?Ann ArborCountry of publication:?United StatesISBN:?978-0-549-95133-9Advisor:?Tollefson, TerrenceUniversity/institution:?East Tennessee State UniversityUniversity location:?United States -- TennesseeDegree:?Ed.D.Source type:?Dissertations & ThesesLanguage:?EnglishDocument type:?Dissertation/ThesisDissertation/thesis number:?3340420ProQuest document ID:?275649459 ................
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