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Making Feminism Popular: Audience Interpellation in Late Post-Network Era Television (a Case Study of TNT’s THE CLOSER)
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This dissertation explores the serial design model of The Closer. It answers the following question: How does The Closer offer multiple entry points along a spectrum of views on gender and feminism, appeal to a range of viewers, and thus secure popularity? To generate metadata of how The...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation engages with novels of contemporary Chinese writer Yan Lianke, to explore his formal experiment called mythorealism (神实主义) and investigate how mythorealist form produces textual meanings subverting a totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism and reshaping a diversity of...
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Strategizing About Work-Family Integration During the Transition to Parenthood: Longitudinal Processes and Ideological Influences
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The transition to parenthood is often associated with shifts towards traditional gender roles in families related to women’s and men’s participation in paid work and caring for children. Mothers maintain more responsibility than fathers for the day-to-day care of children and breadwinning remains...
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The dominance of neoliberal ideology in public schooling and possibilities for reconstructing the common good in education
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Neoliberal ideology has transformed education into a market model as competition, deregulation, stratification and the spread of market discourse and market ideology seep into public educational institutions, causing potentially negative social consequences and threatening their democratic...
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The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA
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Following advancements in linguistics in the 1950s and 1960s, second language teaching and research became dominated by the notion that a second language could be learned as naturally as the first, without explicit grammar instruction. This natural or communicative approach, though improving...
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Fall 2020
The term “recognition” is a commonly employed category in the political scene. Colloquially, it designates a moral demand on part of the bearers of injustice to be treated with dignity and respect. But recognition is not merely a demand, but also an action; it has addressors, but also addressees,...