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  • Dissertations Recently Completed in Related Fields
Anderson, Julielynne Marie. “Prosecuting Vice, etc.: Emma Stirling’s Work for Children, Youth, and Young Women, 1894–1895.” PhD diss., Saint Mary’s University, 2007. Pp. 139.
Arvey, Sarah R. “‘Labyrinths of Love’: Sexual Propriety, Family, and Social Reform in the Second Cuban Republic, 1933–1958.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2007. Pp. 291.
Ball, Jennifer Lynne. “The Twilight of the Era of Hush and Pretend: Contraception, Public Mores, and Police Power in Connecticut, 1940–1965.” PhD diss., Purdue University, 2005. Pp. 339.
Barkum, Deborah. “Art, AIDS, and Collective Identity: Configuring General Idea’s Collaborative Body, 1969–2000.” PhD diss., Bryn Mawr College, 2005. Pp. 214.
Blanco Borelli, Melissa. “A Case of Hip(g)nosis: An Epistemology of the Mulata Body and Her Revolutionary Hips.” PhD diss., University of California, Riverside, 2006. Pp. 246.
Boettcher, Graham Corray. “Domestic Violence: The Politics of Family and Nation in Antebellum American Art.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2006. Pp. 358.
Brozyna, Martha A. “Private Oaths, Broken Promises, and Illicit Relations: Marriage Litigation in the Consistory Court of Fifteenth-Century Gniezno, Poland.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2005. Pp. 204.
Byars, Jana L. “Concubines and Concubinage in Early Modern Venice.” PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2006. Pp. 235.
Clark, Elizabeth Blair. “The Inward Fire: A History of Marital Cruelty in the Northeastern United States, 1800–1860.” PhD diss., University of Houston, 2006. Pp. 406.
Clifford, Amber R. “Queering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City’s Jazz Scene.” PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 332. [End Page 550]
Cooper, Dana Calise. “Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865–1945.” PhD diss., Christian University, 2006. Pp. 276.
Crisafulli, Susan LeCates. “Women of Kynde: The Construction of the ‘Natural’ and the Natural World in Medieval Courtly Narrative.” PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 2006. Pp. 205.
Eckstein, Briony. “British Marital Fertility in the 1930s.” PhD diss., University of Southampton, 2005. Pp. 272.
Fortune, Gabrielle Ann. “‘Mr. Jones’ Wives’: World War II War Brides of New Zealand Servicemen.” PhD diss., University of New Zealand, 2005. Pp. 365.
Franklin, Sarah L. “Suitable to Her Sex: Race, Slavery, and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba.” PhD diss., Florida State University, 2006. Pp. 280.
Freitas, Kripa. “Essay on the Institutions of Caste and Dowry.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2008. Pp. 228.
Giraud, Isabelle. “Women’s Movements and Changes in Gendered Regimes of Political Representation in Quebec and France, 1965–2004.” PhD diss., Université de Montréal, 2006. Pp. 599.
Gormley, Melissa Eden. “Motherhood as National Service: Race, Class, and Public Health Policy in Brazil, 1930–1945.” PhD diss., University of California, Davis, 2006. Pp. 187.
Gregory, Rabia. “Marrying Jesus: Brides and the Bridegroom in Medieval Women’s Religious Literature.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Pp. 392.
Hansen, Nicole Bernadette. “Motherhood in the Mother of the World: Continuity and Change of Reproductive Concepts and Practices in Egypt from Ancient to Modern Times.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2006. Pp. 356.
Helt, Brenda Sue. “The Work of Bisexuality in Modernist Women’s Writing: Sexual Epistemology, Modern Aesthetics, Feminist Politics.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2008. Pp. 344.
Hill, Robert S. “‘As a Man I Exist; as a Woman I Live’: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2007. Pp. 440.
Huber, Karen E. “Sex and Its Consequences: Abortion, Infanticide, and Women’s Reproductive Decision-Making in France, 1901–1940.” PhD diss., Ohio State University, 2007. Pp. 242.
Lawrence, Sarah Raphael. “On Their Own Terms: African Americans and Birth Control in the Rural South, 1900–1942.” PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2007. Pp. 248.
Littauer, Amanda Hope. “Unsanctioned Encounters: Women, Girls, and Non-Marital Sexuality in the United States, 1941–1963.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2006. Pp. 407. [End Page 551]
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