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1	The Sunshine State's Golden Fruit: Florida And The Orange, 1930-1960 Hussey, Scott D 02 April 2010 (has links) Neither indigenous nor exclusive to Florida, the orange has nevertheless become an international symbol for the state. This connection between product and place appears in cultural materials regarding Florida. In fact and fiction the orange has operated as metaphor and synecdoche for an Edenic Florida. This thesis analyzes how the orange came to represent a "natural" Florida through the conflation of the commercial product with the state's history by way of political and marketing puffery. A litany of citrus advertisements, tourist ephemera, and historical associations regarding the state acknowledged and expanded the connections between the orange, improved health, and Florida. A critical thirty-year period between 1930 and 1960 solidified these connections through major shifts in the Florida citrus industry and American culture. These shifts caused the state history and the oranges' history to become irrevocably entwined. citrus advertising twentieth century america cultural history American Studies Arts and Humanities
2	Perpetuating Domestic Ambivalence: A Duality of Gender Role Advice in American Women’s Prescriptive Literature, 1920-1960 Lester, Arielle J. 29 May 2013 (has links) No description available. American History American Literature Gender Gender Studies History Literature Pedagogy Reading Instruction Sociology Womens Studies Gender roles prescriptive literature women authors advice manuals gender discourse domestic ambivalence separate spheres domestic sphere public and private gender discourse twentieth century America American women wage gap feminism

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The Sunshine State's Golden Fruit: Florida And The Orange, 1930-1960

Perpetuating Domestic Ambivalence: A Duality of Gender Role Advice in American Women’s Prescriptive Literature, 1920-1960