Dissertations Recently Completed in Related Fields

Barnes, Abigail Claire. “Pure Spaces and Impure Bodies: The Detention of Prostitutes in the US during World War One.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2010. Pp. 316.

Brewer, Jimmy Dale. “Jesus’ Distinctiveness in Light of Ancient Jewish Masculinity.” PhD diss., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010. Pp. 221.

Brophy, Matthew. “Of Savage and Sacred Men: Primitive Masculinity and the Making of an American Empire.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2010. Pp. 311.

Casey, Kathleen Bridget. “Cross-Dressers and Race-Crossers: Intersections of Gender and Race in American Vaudeville, 1900–1930.” PhD diss., University of Rochester, 2010. Pp. 320.

Churchill, Lindsey Blake. “Imagining the Tupamaros: Resistance and Gender in Uruguayan and US Revolutionary Movements, 1960s–1980s.” PhD diss., Florida State University, 2010. Pp. 175.

Daniel-Hughes, Carly Dawn. “Dressing for the Resurrection: Modest Dress as Embodied Theology in Tertullian of Carthage.” PhD diss., Harvard Divinity School, 2010. Pp. 269.

Divorski, Staisey Emilie. “At War with Oedipus: Family, Conflict and Sexuality in Italian Literature and Cinema, 1965–1988.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2010. Pp. 302.

Epstein, Pamela Ilyse. “Selling Love: The Commercialization of Intimacy in America, 1860s–1900s.” PhD diss., Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2010. Pp. 222.

Faucette, Michael Brian. “Warner Bros. Forgotten Men: Representations of Shifting Masculinities in 1930s Hollywood.” PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2010. Pp. 314.

Felter-Kerley, Lela Lovett. “Female Public Nudity in Belle Epoque Paris.” PhD diss., University of Florida, 2006. Pp. 404.

Fox, Linda Christine. “Queer Outburst: A Literary and Social Analysis of the Vancouver Node (1995–1996) in English Canadian Queer Women’s Literature.” PhD diss., University of Victoria, 2009. Pp. 396.

Halva, Helen Graves. “Primitivist or Moralist? The Biological Ethos in Boris Pil’niak’s Shorter Prose.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010. Pp. 462.

Hayes, Melissa A. “Litigating Intimacy: The Legal Culture of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Illinois.” PhD diss., Northern Illinois University, 2010. Pp. 338.

Hilson, Mica A. “From Pulp to Plasma Screen: A History of Gay Erotic Fiction, 1965–present.” PhD diss., Indiana University, 2010. Pp. 348.

Howard, Clayton C. “The Closet and the Cul de Sac: Sex, Politics, and Suburbanization in Postwar California.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2010. Pp. 569.

Kim, Jeonguk. “Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1882–1913.” PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2010. Pp. 466.

Kirkland, William Michael. “The Impact of the Cold War on the Representation of White Masculinity in Hollywood Film.” PhD diss., Florida State University, 2009. Pp. 147.

Kosc, Gregory. “Performing Masculinity and Reconciling Class in the American West: British Gentlemen Hunters and Their Travel Accounts, 1865–1914.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Arlington, 2010. Pp. 346.

Lee, Alexis Spiceland. “‘I unsex’d my dress’: Lord Byron’s Seduction of Gender in ‘The Corsair,’ ‘Lara,’ and ‘Don Juan.’” PhD diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 2010. Pp. 179.

Lie, Wenjia. “The Tanci Fiction ‘Feng Shuangfei’: A Female Perspective on the Gender and Sexual Politics of Late-Qing China.” PhD diss., University of Oregon, 2010. Pp. 287.

Livshin, Olga. “Alternative Masculinities in Late Soviet Nonconformist Literature, 1958–1991.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2010. Pp. 224.

Mazaris, Evangelia. “Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics.” PhD diss., Brown University, 2010. Pp. 186.

Miller, Jennifer Munro. “In the Flesh: The Representation of Burlesque Theatre in American Art and Visual Culture.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2010. Pp. 326.

Paice, Brett. “Postmodern American Gothic: The Politics of Fear in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson.” PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 2009. Pp. 262.

Perez, Erika. “Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2010. Pp. 359.

Phares, Dee Anna. “Naked in Bed: Uncovering Patriarchal Power on the Early Modern English Stage.” PhD diss., University of Nevada, Reno, 2010. Pp. 280.

Quintana, Isabella Seong-Leong. “National Borders, Neighborhood Boundaries: Gender, Space and Border Formation in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles, 1871–1938.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2010. Pp. 287.

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