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Spring 2015

Abedinifard, Mostafa

In this dissertation, I read gender humour through the lens of masculinities studies and critical humour studies to contribute to gender studies and humour studies. I engage two crucial problems and propose solutions and possibilities. The first problem concerns the state of the concept of...

Fall 2014

Dergacheva, Elena L

This thesis focuses on text analysis of Russian speaking blogs with the goal to examine critically discussions of femininity and masculinity in modern Russian society. The data corpora are comprised of blogs and comment entries from websites Maxpark.com and LiveJournal Russia. The central...