Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains xxi, 478 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-466).

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Field problem. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--PlanA (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Despite recent interest in masculinities and the Northern Ireland peace process, the gender dynamics of Ulster Loyalism has yet to capture serious interest among scholars. This research attempts to address this omission in the literature that informs our understanding of Loyalism. The research was conducted with groups of UDA and UVF aligned young men, who participated in a series of workshops. Groups of older Loyalist men and Loyalist women also participated in focus groups and semi-structured interviews. The thesis focuses on three aspects of Loyalist masculinity. Loyalism is presented as a highly gendered form of military masculinity, deeply rooted in local community narratives and social and cultural practices. Loyalist masculinity is not monolithic, but instead is understood as multiple and fluid. The thesis addresses how allegiance to patriarchal hypermasculinities damaged the emotions of Loyalist men and left many struggling with relationship problems, substance abuse, and mental health issues relating to the conflict. The thesis also explores the extent to which Loyalist men are engaging in transformation, if and why Loyalist men have changed, and in what forms this change takes. It understands the transformation of Loyalist masculinities as the transcending of patriarchal values and the will to dominate. It outlines the uneven nature of transformation of Loyalist men and describes the factors that influenced their transformation as twin pressures that both simultaneously encourage and discourage change in Loyalist men as Northern Ireland advances further into a post-violent terrain.

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This local study of the impact of political violence on a Maya Indian village is based on twenty months intensive fieldwork. It examines the processes of fragmentation and realignment in a community undergoing rapid and violent change. The thesis relates local, social, cultural and psychological phenomena to the impact of the contemporary "dirty war" on widows' lives. Victims are mostly civilians caught between guerrilla and government forces. Violence is treated not as a socio-culturally fragmented phenomenon occurring "outside" everyday life, but as part and parcel of victims' lives. The thesis combines a narrative, life-history approach with anthropological analysis, emphasizing the ways locals talk about and explain the violence. The cultural articulation of conflict and the expression of anxiety in cultural performance are examined. I explore the mechanisms and effects of continuing terror and repression, silenced and disguised at the local level. The survival strategies of widows and their attempts to reconstruct their lives on a physical level and in terms of meaning are examined. I privilege the unofficial oral testimony of Indian women. Memories are presented in narratives which not only reflect the narrator's perception but actively reconstitute their reality. "Re-membering" is not simply the automatic engagement of the past within the present but a process of self empowerment. Widows discover new possibilities in terms of potential for action and their position in society, though attempts at resistant actions are limited by the risks of further danger.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2005. / Adviser: John Fyler. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;