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The Cute-Feminine Stereotype: A Social Role Theory Explanation of Sex Differences in Cute Consumption

Description:: Cuteness is a popular aesthetic in product design, yet there is a lack of understanding of who is most likely to engage in cute consumption and, more importantly, why. In this dissertation, I consider the role of sex and gender identity in cute consumption, proposing a strong mental association between...
Keyword:: gender, gender identity, cute product, identity, cuteness, and sex differences
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Keller, Carolyn Wells
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16128 and etdadmin_upload_912062

Understanding and Designing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems to Support Freelancers in the Online Gig Economy

Description:: Millions of people freelance in the growing online gig economy, making it important to advance pay equity and support freelancers in earning their livelihoods online. Compared to offline employment, freelancing introduces at least two challenges that threaten freelancers’ ability to secure work and the equitability of the gig economy: 1)...
Keyword:: equity, gender, human-computer interaction, freelancing, feedback, and online gig economy
Subject:: Computer science and Communication
Creator:: Foong, Eureka
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15400 and etdadmin_upload_780786

In Distress: A Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic

Description:: This dissertation documents the centrality of emotion to Americans’ understanding of, participation in, and critiques of the expanding economy in the first half of the nineteenth century. By then, many people viscerally understood that white men’s attempts to procure credit and escape debt could produce fear, anger, guilt, and sadness....
Keyword:: gender, United States, emotion, and capitalism
Subject:: American history and Gender studies
Creator:: McCoy, Laura
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15273 and etdadmin_upload_764546

(Not) Working to Sleep: Employment's Contribution to Gender and Socioeconomic Sleep Differences

Description:: Sleep is affected by social relationships and institutions, but much research has studied sleep within an individualized framework. In this dissertation, I analyze sleep in a series of specific social contexts to examine how these contexts shape gender and socioeconomic differences in sleep. Given prior findings suggesting the importance of...
Keyword:: employment, sleep, gender, and time use
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Meyer, Jess M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_640262 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14539

"Peaceful Little Revolutions" in the New South: Race, Inequality, and City-Making in Suburban Atlanta

Description:: This dissertation adopts a jointly ethnographic and historical approach to study shifting racial formations and configurations of inequality in the metropolitan U.S. South. Specifically, it analyzes how immigrants and working poor populations are reshaping the social life, privatized spaces, and conservative politics of Atlanta’s white suburbs. It focuses on Sandy...
Keyword:: US South, Latinx, gender, political economy, race/racism, and suburbs
Subject:: Ethnic studies and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Lanari, Elisa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14799 and etdadmin_upload_684799

Magnetic Memory Things: Children’s Toys as Objects of Emotion, Memory, and Femininity in U.S. Public Culture

Description:: Public memory studies in rhetoric have typically neglected how we use shared memories to form, maintain, and pass down social norms through the objects we encounter and the practices we participate in during our everyday lives. This is especially true for children’s toys, because they are understood as essential objects...
Keyword:: public memory, childhood, toys, gender, and rhetoric
Subject:: Gender studies and Rhetoric
Creator:: DeLaCruz, Lauren
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_660506 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14588

Gradient Typicality and Indexical Associations in Morphology

Description:: This dissertation focuses on the topic of pseudowords and how speakers pseudoword processing relates to that of real words. Three main lines of inquiry are pursued with respect to pseudowords and real words: mechanisms of gradient well-formedness, theories of morphological decomposition, and indexical associations for morphemes in complex words. It...
Keyword:: pseudoword, gender, typicality, morphology, and indexicality
Subject:: Linguistics
Creator:: Jeremy Michael Needle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/14/2019
Date Modified:: 10/14/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Penelopian Figures: Narratives of Work and Resistance in American Literature, 1840-1900

Description:: Penelopian Figures: Narratives of Work and Resistance in American Literature, 1840-1900” examines literary representations of workers who engage in covert opposition to their circumstances. In chapters on The Lowell Offering textile magazine, Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, Louisa May Alcott’s “How I Went Out to Service” and...
Keyword:: Penelope, tactics, textile labor, workers, and gender
Subject:: English
Creator:: Kara Arlene Johnson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

"Community Is Wherever These Friends Are”: LGBTQ Friendships and Ambivalent Community in River City

Description:: Using interviews and friendship mapping with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally (LGBTQ+) community members as well as ethnographic observations, this dissertation analyzes post-gay LGBTQ community in River City, a small, Midwestern city. My findings reveal a formation I call ambivalent community: even as participants express a desire for...
Keyword:: gender, community, rural sociology, sexuality, and friendship
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Clare Marie Frostie
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 10/16/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

>"I Love You": Coercion and Consent In Sexual Relations in Postapartheid South Africa

Description:: "I Love You": Coercion and Consent in Sexual Relations in Postapartheid South Africa Judith L. Singleton This dissertation is an ethnographic study which explores and documents several discourses and practices surrounding sexual coercion and consent in the black South African township of Mpophomeni. I trace and examine discourses and practices...
Keyword:: sexual violence, gender, law, South Africa, sexuality, and violence
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Judith Lynn Singleton
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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The Cute-Feminine Stereotype: A Social Role Theory Explanation of Sex Differences in Cute Consumption

Understanding and Designing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems to Support Freelancers in the Online Gig Economy

In Distress: A Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic

(Not) Working to Sleep: Employment's Contribution to Gender and Socioeconomic Sleep Differences

"Peaceful Little Revolutions" in the New South: Race, Inequality, and City-Making in Suburban Atlanta

Magnetic Memory Things: Children’s Toys as Objects of Emotion, Memory, and Femininity in U.S. Public Culture

Gradient Typicality and Indexical Associations in Morphology

Penelopian Figures: Narratives of Work and Resistance in American Literature, 1840-1900

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