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Description:: In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval Italy and what insights such prosecutions can give into...
Keyword:: Middle Ages, Fama, Sexuality, Italy, Gender, and Renaissance
Subject:: Medieval history
Creator:: Noll-Syrigos, Kathleen Anne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15846 and etdadmin_upload_860406

Description:: Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to escape rising antisemitism in Europe and Russia. By focusing on Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires, this...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Buenos Aires, Yiddish theatre, Avant-garde, and Modernism
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Markenson, Casey Tova
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756700 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15198

Description:: This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny
Subject:: Gender studies, Dance, and African studies
Creator:: Swanson, Amy Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644

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