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221	Altered States of Rurality: Cultural Forays into Southern Ontario Country Walden, Riisa 10 1900 (has links) <p>This dissertation examines contemporary cultural representations of rurality in southern Ontario. It demonstrates how literary and cultural texts construct, support and/or expand our understandings of the social composition and character of rural culture. Examining various literary forms (drama, life narrative, and the novel), music, and photography, my research and analysis responds to Chris Philo’s pivotal call in the field of rural geography “to pay more careful attention to ‘the multiple forms of otherness’ present in . . . rural areas” (“Neglected” 199) and to foreground what he identifies as “neglected rural geographies.” I argue that dominant literary and cultural representations of rural southern Ontario overwhelmingly mobilize and rarely contest white heteromasculinist rural discourses that support rural cultures of sameness and exclusion. As a means of exposing the motivations for and deleterious effects of these discourses, I draw attention to alternative representations of the region’s rural social geography that expand the imaginative scope circumscribed by hegemonic conceptualizations of what it means to be rural in southern Ontario. As such, my project responds to Philo’s call in three ways: first, it repositions southern Ontario as a rural locale of critical relevance; second, it addresses a gap in Canadian literary and cultural studies by taking up new and evolving approaches in rural studies, with respect to rural “others,” being developed in disciplines like geography, sociology, history and political science; third, it intervenes in dominant socio-spatial discourses currently circulating in Canadian literary and cultural studies that eagerly address issues of gender, sexuality, race and class in Canada’s urban environments while too often neglecting how they intersect with discourses of rurality.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) rurality southern Ontario multiculturalism critical race studies gender and sexuality studies Canadian literature and culture Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Other Music Visual Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
222	Gentleman Death in Silk and Lace: Death and the Maiden in Vampire Literature and Film Wilson, Emily 01 May 2024 (has links) (PDF) This thesis contains an examination in the psychosocial significance of Hans Baldung Grien’s “Death and the Maiden” art motif, created during the Renaissance period following the Black Death, and its resurgence in the vampire fiction genre of both literature and film. I investigate the motif in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1976) as well as their film adaptations by Francis Ford Coppola (1992) and Neil Jordan (1994), respectively. By examining the presence of the motif in art, literature, and film, I found that the common threads across all investigated works were the dominant social fears of their relevant historical societies and the allure of the taboo, as described by Georges Bataille and Slavoj Žižek, among others. The significance of these findings lies within the ability to gauge the values and fears of societies through their use of the motif. : art history psychoanalysis vampires death sexuality feminism Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Other Film and Media Studies
223	Bloggers and Their Impact on Contemporary Social Movements: A Phenomenological Examination of the Role of Blogs and Their Creators in the LGBT Social Movements in Modern United States Huen, Bobby K. 01 January 2015 (has links) The Internet is a ubiquitous feature in everyday life, but its application to social movements has yet to be completely understood. This phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of bloggers who focused on the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement in the United States to understand the impact bloggers and their work as online activists have on existing LGBT social movement organization and operation. Data collection is gathered from semi-structured and open-ended interviews with four social movement bloggers using web-conference software over the course of three months. The results of this study indicated that internet has empowered individual activists, allowing them to gather a following and share their views to a large audience over the web, independent from existing social movement organizations. Consequently, bloggers and online activists maintain a relationship with existing social movement structure that is both collaborative and antagonistic. The results of this study contribute to the current understanding of social movement organizations as well as the impact of technological innovations on social movement advocacy. Bloggers and Blogs Conflict Resolution Internet LGBT Social Minority Groups Social Movements LGBTQ studies Political science Alternative dispute resolution American Politics Communication Technology and New Media Critical and Cultural Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Media Social Policy Speech and Rhetorical Studies
224	From Self-Doubt To Inner Peace: An Ethnographic Narrative Fabro, Dakota 01 January 2019 (has links) In the midst of honing my craft as an educator, this ethnographic narrative was done for the purposes of taking an introspective look at the many moving parts of becoming an effective educator as well as developing an ethnographic view of the students who will pass through my classroom during my tenure as an educator. This ethnographic narrative examines my individual background, the educational spaces within which I find myself, communities I serve, and the students I was given the privilege of building relationships with within the classroom. This project serves as an in-depth analysis of the implicit biases one might hold as a teacher and a vehicle for continual introspection on my part as an effective and culturally-aware educator. Accessibility Asian American Studies Asian History Child Psychology Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Developmental Psychology Educational Leadership Educational Psychology Elementary Education Elementary Education and Teaching Ethics and Political Philosophy Ethnic Studies Feminist Philosophy Gender Equity in Education Gifted Education History of the Pacific Islands Liberal Studies Multicultural Psychology Philosophy of Mind School Psychology Social Psychology Special Education and Teaching Theory and Philosophy United States History Women's Studies
225	Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us Vernon, Allie Harrison 16 May 2019 (has links) Looking primarily at two critically acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how do these narratives about citizenship sustain, create, or re-envision American myth? Similarly, how do the narratives interact with the dominant culture at large? Do any of these texts achieve oppositional value, and/or modify the complex hegemonic structure? I use Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital” to investigate the ways in which economic, cultural, and social capital are distributed amongst identity groups of citizens, focusing on its favorable distribution to white upper-class men. Interesting, too, is the way in which these texts relate with one another and evolve over time. As Fitzgerald reaffirms boundary rights to white upper-class social capital to longstanding wealthy white males, Watts celebrates the survival of black individuals through the hard-earned persistence of human connection. Ultimately, as Gatsby fails to repeat the past, Watts succeeds in rewriting it. capitalism race class feminism feminist racial African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Popular Culture American Studies Behavioral Economics English Language and Literature Gender and Sexuality Income Distribution Inequality and Stratification Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Women's Studies Work, Economy and Organizations
226	Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism Benavente, Gabriel 30 March 2017 (has links) This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people. ecocriticism contemporary literature speculative fiction science fiction queer theory feminism english octavia butler janet mock toni morrison audre lorde climate change environmental justice african american activism transgender parable of the talents queer ecology African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Studies Arts and Humanities Continental Philosophy Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English Language and Literature Environmental Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Religion
227	Ideology in California : the role of oppositional interaction as a strategy in the campaign for Proposition 8 Gardner, Kasey Christopher 01 January 2009 (has links) This thesis analyzes the ideologies present the campaign rhetoric surrounding the 2008 California legislative initiative Proposition·8. Using Foss' method of ideological criticism the campaign is read prior after the opposition response to determine if an ideological shift occurs. The study is framed to identify this shift as a potential product of oppositional interaction, a characteristic of rhetoric defined by Smith and Windes. The study concludes that the shift in ideology during the campaign by the supporters of Proposition 8 was a significant development. The response from the Proposition 8 campaign reframed the debate, making the electorate vulnerable to a different ideology. This new ideology places the state education apparatus, not the courts, in the spotlight as the state mechanism that is in dispute in the marriage controversy. When placed in .this context, theories of political economy are employed to explain how the electorate may have interpreted these arguments. One. explanation offered is that the response ideology of the Proposition 8 campaign allowed voters to vote to outlaw gay marriages as a proactive response to a mistrust of education. The discussion section indicates that this could be an adjustment to existing ideologies, or development of an issues specific ideology that is only relevant for one issue in the mind of the individual. Ultimately, this study demonstrated the utility of ideology as a method to analyze political rhetoric and examines the role that oppositional interaction plays in the long-term development of public dialectic. California Proposition 8 (2008) Public opinion Communication in politics Political campaigns Voting Same-sex marriage Political aspects American Politics Civil Rights and Discrimination Communication Critical and Cultural Studies Family, Life Course, and Society Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gender and Sexuality Law Political Science Politics and Social Change Sexuality and the Law Social and Behavioral Sciences
228	THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958 Edmundson, Joshua R 01 June 2016 (has links) The ONE Exhibition explores an era in American history marked by intense government sponsored anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends in 1958 with the first gay Supreme Court case in U.S. history. Central to the story is ONE The Homosexual Magazine, and its founders, as they embarked on a quest for LGBT equality by establishing the first ongoing nationwide forum for gay people in the U.S., and challenged the government’s right to engage in and encourage hateful and discriminatory practices against the LGBT community. Then, when the magazine was banned by the Post Office, the editors and staff took the federal government to court. As such, ONE, Incorporated v. Olesen became the first Supreme Court case in U.S. history that featured the taboo subject of homosexuality, and secured the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech for the gay press. Thus, ONE magazine and its founders were an integral part of a small group of activists who established the foundations of the modern LGBT equality movement. POSTWAR AMERICA THE LAVENDER SCARE MATTACHINE SOCIETY GAY HISTORY QUEER HISTORY MCCARTHYISM American Politics American Popular Culture American Studies Arts and Humanities Civil Rights and Discrimination Contemporary Art Courts Cultural History Defense and Security Studies Diplomatic History Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies First Amendment Gender and Sexuality History Inequality and Stratification Judges Law Law and Politics Law and Society Law Enforcement and Corrections Legal Legal History Legal Studies Legal Theory Legislation Military History Military, War, and Peace Museum Studies National Security Law Photography Policy History, Theory, and Methods Political History Political Science Politics and Social Change President/Executive Department Public Administration Public Affairs Public History Public Policy Sexuality and the Law Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Social History Social Policy Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Supreme Court of the United States United States History Visual Studies

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