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That Most Interesting Class of Womanhood: Cultural Representations of Fallen Women and Prostitutes During the Victorian Period in England
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
2011-02 Labor Force Participation, Gender and Work in South Africa: What Can Time Use Data Reveal?
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2011-02. 37 pages.The utilization of time use data for exploring employment issues has received little attention in economic analysis. Using data from the 2000 South African national time use survey we argue that a gender-aware understanding of how men and women organize their daily life can help identify labor market and subsistence work that are missed in labor force surveys, thus complementing the information they provide.Further, information on the time spent in job-related search and household work provide insights on the interconnectedness of gender inequalities in the labor market and within the household.Our analysis of the time use patterns of 10, 465 working age women and men, shows that a non-trivial proportion of men and women classified as either ‟not in the labor force‟ or „unemployed‟ actually engaged in subsistence, temporary and casual forms of employment. Secondly, we find that regardless of their labor force status, women‟s and men‟s hours of unpaid work donot vary greatly. These affect not only employment options of women but also their ability to look for work. Thirdly, time use data helps identify the salient characteristics of these individuals and the type of occupations they are engaged
Olfactory discrimination of short chain fatty acids in rats with large bilateral lesions of the olfactory bulbs
No full textPublished in: Chem Senses., 2003 Jun, 28(5), 361-70.Rats trained preoperatively to discriminate between acetic acid and caproic acid and between acetic acid and propionic acid were tested for their memory of these tasks and ability to discriminate between these odorants and between the enantiomers of carvone after receiving large bilateral bulbar lesions that included most of the fatty acid responsive areas identified in prior physiological studies. Concentrations of acid odorants were varied to insure that discrimination was based on the qualitative difference between acids. Experimental rats performed somewhat poorer than controls on the memory test but had no significant deficits in performing the acid discrimination tasks or discriminating between the enantiomers of carvone. These results demonstrate that removal of most bulbar sites identified as responsive to fatty acids and the consequent disruption of patterned input to the bulb is largely without effect on discriminating odor qualities of structurally similar acids
Gender Politics and Poetic Metamorphosis in Rubens's Interpretation of Titian's Diana and Callisto
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as thesis optio
Tamara de Lempicka's Strategic Conservatism
No full textTamara de Lempicka’s seemingly pious and traditionalist period of the late 1920s and 1930s, exemplified by paintings such as La Polonaise (1933) and The Communicant (1928), appears to be a sharp departure from the Polish émigré’s celebrated erotic nudes of the early 1920s. This thesis contextualizes this stylistic and thematic shift in de Lempicka’s oeuvre within the increasingly fraught, nationalistic, and politically conservative climate of interwar Paris. I argue that de Lempicka adapted her approach to painting to overcome the increased challenges this environment posed to foreign women artists. Her strategy, which relied upon visual ambiguity and a manipulation of conservative taste, secured her financial and professional artistic success. I situate de Lempicka’s transition to traditional subjects and a classical revivalist style as part of a larger cultural trend by discussing her work in relation to her artistic milieu and to the “return to order,” a widespread artistic catalyst of the period. By analyzing the similarities between de Lempicka’s works and those of her contemporaries, including her teacher Maurice Denis and an organization of women artists known as the FAM (Femmes Artistes Modernes), I consider the influences behind de Lempicka’s strategic conservatism. I discuss de Lempicka’s adaptation of the classicizing elements and conservative connotations of the “return to order.” Her inventive use of a “return to order” style allowed her to blur the lines between religious and erotic ecstasy in her work, thereby extending her commitment to transgressive subjects and themes while simultaneously appealing to conservative tastes.Art historyFemmes Artistes Modernes, Maurice Denis, Return to order, Tamara de LempickaArtDegree Awarded: M.A. Art. American Universit
Open Doors: Social Space and the Philadelphians (Revelation 3:7-13)
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Fifth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2020
Sowing the Seeds of Faith in the New World: Evangelization and the Land in the Writings of 17th Century French Missionaries in New France
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Fifth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2020
From Realistic to Abstract: The Details of Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Fifth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2020
SPECTACLE
No full textSpectacle is a book of poems meant to offer the reader a collage of personas that perform in one sense or another. The performances executed in this collection portrays the female body and psyche as spectacle. The assortment of female voices: the speaker, the matriarchal figures in her life, and the women from Junot Diaz’s short story collection This Is How You Lose Her reaches down into dichotomous and seemingly misguided archetypes; archetypes that crash against one another as the book unfolds. The crashing is also a result of the grotesque and vulgar subject matters explored.Creative writingFeminine, Grotesque, Junot Diaz, Performance Art, Raunchy, SpectacleLiteratureDegree Awarded: M.F.A. Literature. American Universit