This dissertation examines the construction of the feminine Jewish-Mexican subject in relation to the concept of national identity in Angelina Muñiz-Huberman' s Castillos en la tierra (1995), Rosa Nissán’s Novia que te vea (1992) y Sara Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres (1990). These novels question the model of national homogeneity and...
Fewer than one hundred years after the forced conversions of 1500 and very shortly before the impending Morisco expulsion decree of 1609, in the shadow of the rebellion of the Alpujarras and during a time of royal edicts aimed at destroying any visible trace of “Moorishness” in the Morisco populations...
This dissertation provides a detailed examination of African American women’s experiences with intimate partner abuse, the methods used to contend with abusive mates, and the immediate and enduring consequences resulting from the maltreatment. As an exploratory study, these matters were considered as they are framed by Black culture and the...
Sine the 1970s when the battered women’s movement brought increased public attention to the issue of woman battering, a set of domestic violence discourses have emerged. These discourses have been influenced by a variety of social institutions. Through such discourses, the “battered woman” has been represented in specific ways. In...
In this study, I examine the social context surrounding the revival of bluegrass music in the New American West. Drawing on six years of participant observation of bluegrass musical performances and festival settings and interviews with over a hundred bluegrass festival participants, I explain the underlying draw o f these...
Edward Albee, now thirty-nine years old, with seven plays and two adaptations behind him, has become America's most controversial major playwright. His style has changed from time to time over the years, swinging from a naturalistic style to an absurd style and back again. His plays belong for the most...
A prevalent assumption in text comprehension research is that many aspects of text processing are automatic, with automaticity typically defined in terms of properties (e.g., speed, effort). The present research advocates conceptualization of automaticity in terms of underlying mechanisms and evaluates two such accounts, a computational-efficiency account (underlying computational processes...
Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors are prevalent among college age women (Drewnowski, Yee, Kurth, & Krahn, 1994), but the impact of specific domains of eating pathology on young women’s lives has not been adequately studied. This study examined the relationships among domains of eating disordered symptomatology and measures of general...
Representational accounts for errors in reasoning about conjunctions and disjunctions of events were contrasted with accounts based on the algebraic combination of simple event likelihoods. In a series of two experiments, patterns in judgments about complex events were explored when the differing strategies were likely to be used. Evidence was...
This study is concerned with some aspects of the listening of schizophrenics that seem amenable to interpretation in terms of learning theory and current psychotherapeutic approaches to this disorder. It is exploratory in nature and is designed to investigate the effects of "censure," "emotionality," "empathy,” and "type of disorder” on...