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Description:: This dissertation examines how racially, ethnically, and sexually minoritized women embodied and contested competing images of national identity between World War II and the Cold War. I challenge dominant narratives of modern dance, which overlook gender politics as women left the art form and white men gained prominence in it...
Keyword:: Janet Collins, Abstraction, Theatricalism, Pearl Primus, Women choreographers, and Modern dance
Subject:: Women's studies, Dance, and American studies
Creator:: Friedman, Jessica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_960177 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16400

Description:: This dissertation argues that network television was a vehicle for the promotion and enactment of female intellectualism in the US during the period directly following World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, network television included among its offerings programs that were designed to appeal to...
Keyword:: Cultural History, Television, Media Studies, Whiteness Studies, Film Studies, and Middlebrow
Subject:: Mass communication, Women's studies, and American studies
Creator:: Goldstein, Leigh Mathia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_769860 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15320

Description:: This dissertation examines the legal, economic, and social transformations experienced by American widowed women from the Salem Witchcraft Trials to the Civil War to expand how scholars of literature, the law, and American history define women’s citizenship prior to suffrage. Emphasizing literature’s importance to nineteenth-century nation-building during the era of...
Keyword:: nineteenth-century, American literature, coverture, and widow
Subject:: American literature, Women's studies, and American studies
Creator:: Fritz, Meaghan M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14391 and etdadmin_upload_614228

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