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Jahanbani, Sheyda F.A.
A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968.
Degree: PhD, History, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:87/ 
► This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who…
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▼ This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational
conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct
emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and
administrators who shaped U.S. domestic and international policies
in the 20th century. This conception, stemming from the early 20th
century Anglo-American discourse of race contact and culture
change, has informed subsequent political debate over why those who
are unable to "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" are excluded
from the fruits of modernity. Linking the histories of the
Inter-American Indian Institute, founded in the 1930s, with the
development of the domestic Peace Corps in the 1960s, this project
occupies the space between U.S. history and the history of U.S.
foreign relations, particularly revisiting the traditional
fragmentation of the histories of international development and
domestic anti-poverty policies.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Campbell, James (reader), Engerman, David (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: development
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Jahanbani, S. F. A. (2009). A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:87/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jahanbani, Sheyda F A. “A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:87/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jahanbani, Sheyda F A. “A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968.” 2009. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Jahanbani SFA. A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:87/.
Council of Science Editors:
Jahanbani SFA. A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad,
1935-1968. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:87/
2.
Meltzer, Paige Leslie.
Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960.
Degree: PhD, History, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:213/
► "Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-1960" examines gender, citizenship, and postwar political culture. It focuses on the bi-partisan General Federation…
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▼ "Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the
United States, 1945-1960" examines gender, citizenship, and postwar
political culture. It focuses on the bi-partisan General Federation
of Women's Clubs (GFWC), one of the nation's leading women's
organizations, and its gendered strategy for winning the Cold War.
The General Federation argued that, as mothers, women were
responsible for educating the citizenry in American values at home
and abroad. Charging clubwomen with this task, the GFWC positioned
clubwomen as the arbiters of national character, which the
organization identified with democracy, self-reliance, and free
enterprise. Reflecting the anticommunist zeitgeist as well as
clubwomen's white middle-class privilege, this construction defined
private institutions and actions as more American than state ones.
Locating women's public power in their domestic responsibilities
advanced a brand of maternalist politics. Although clubwomen had
long advocated maternalism ? the belief that women have special
qualities by dint of their motherhood that should be spread to
society at large ? the GFWC's postwar maternalism spoke to the
complexities of postwar political culture. The GFWC's prescriptions
for American homemakers and their local civic activism demonstrate
a deep unease with the shifting relationship between the private
citizen and the expanding welfare state. At the same time, however,
the GFWC's international program imagined clubwomen could conduct
grassroots diplomacy among women overseas to complement their
strong state's international military and diplomatic agenda. The
GFWC's construction of gendered citizenship deftly negotiated this
uncertain political terrain. Claiming maternal authority over
citizenship training, clubwomen framed these priorities as
apolitical "women's work." The project intervenes in the
historiography in several important ways: it adds to our
understanding of mainstream women's political culture; it
highlights gendered fissures in the New Deal order; and it provides
an important counterpoint to the masculinized gender analysis found
in most Cold War literature. "Maternal Citizens" considers the
political work motherhood was able to do during the Cold War in
ways that defies easy political categorization and complicates
traditional postwar narratives.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Self, Robert (reader), Gorn, Elliott (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: women's political culture
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Meltzer, P. L. (2009). Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:213/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Meltzer, Paige Leslie. “Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:213/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Meltzer, Paige Leslie. “Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960.” 2009. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Meltzer PL. Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:213/.
Council of Science Editors:
Meltzer PL. Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United
States, 1945-1960. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:213/
3.
Robbins, Mark Walter.
Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America.
Degree: PhD, History, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:151/
► This dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class…
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▼ This dissertation explores the political, cultural and
social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I
period - their greatest moment of class consciousness then to date.
Identifying as "middle class consumers," they formed "home garden
committees" to combat rising food prices, founded "wear overalls
clubs" to bring down the cost of clothing, organized the first
"middle class" tenant associations to protect themselves from rent
increases, and even attempted to establish a "middle class union."
Feeling "squeezed" between elites and the working class, this
growing contingent of salaried "brain workers" blamed their
situation on capitalist "profiteers" and "unproductive" workers
during a national upsurge of strikes. I argue that in the
post-World War I period, middle class Americans developed and
organized around a shared identity that simultaneously reflected
their acceptance of their roles as consumers and their ambivalence
toward consumer society. Middle class Americans sought to impose a
set of producerist values onto an emerging consumer economy that
seemingly favored the working and elite classes, during a
significant period of transition in middle class identity from a
nineteenth century producerism to a growing consumerist
subjectivity. These Americans drew on the Progressive Era
organizing strategy of state-centered voluntarism, and called for
an even more direct state intervention into the market. They also
separated themselves from the working class, and shifted
progressive goals to reflect their own self-interested values.
These values, they asserted, were those of "consumers"- those of
the "people."
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Self, Robert (reader), Gorn, Elliott (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: organizing
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Robbins, M. W. (2009). Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:151/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Robbins, Mark Walter. “Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:151/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Robbins, Mark Walter. “Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America.” 2009. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Robbins MW. Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:151/.
Council of Science Editors:
Robbins MW. Awakening the "Forgotten Folk": Middle Class Consumer
Activism in Post-World War I America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:151/
4.
Taranto, Stacie.
Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980.
Degree: PhD, History, 2010, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11098/
► This dissertation examines how a conservative definition of "family values" became ascendant in American politics. The project focuses on New York State from 1970, when…
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▼ This dissertation examines how a conservative
definition of "family values" became ascendant in American
politics. The project focuses on New York State from 1970, when
abortion was legalized there, through the elections of 1980 – a span
of ten years when feminists and an emerging conservative family
values movement competed side-by-side to define the family.
Relating local events to national political realignment, the
dissertation illustrates how conservative grassroots activists, led
by Catholic middle-class white women, organized to defend nuclear
families, heterosexual marriage, and traditional gender roles. In
doing so, they created the nation's most robust Right to Life Party
and defeated a state-level Equal Rights Amendment in 1975. These
self-declared average "housewives" were more than conservative
shock troops. They were inventing a new conservatism that the GOP's
right wing seized upon to gain political advantage. By 1980,
conservative, anti-feminist Republicans with suburban appeal had
usurped power from more liberal, pro-feminist Republicans based in
New York City – the so-called "Rockefeller Republicans" in the late
Governor Nelson Rockefeller's mold. Based on oral histories,
archival research, and never-before-seen documents from activists,
the project builds on and revises several important histories of
the postwar New Right in America. These existing works have
disproportionately explored how race and Cold War geopolitics
shaped liberalism's decline and conservatism's rise after the
tumultuous sixties. Few have considered gender – and even fewer have
examined ordinary women working at the grassroots level – as this
dissertation does. The project also offers an important
intervention in related historiography that confines the rise of
modern conservatism to America's Sunbelt region. New York's
political history from the seventies contains strong evidence of
feminist and anti-feminist campaigns; at the time, there was a
clear division in the state between the liberal and conservative
factions of the Republican Party. These factors make New York, as
opposed to a Sunbelt locale, an excellent case study of how family
values campaigns constructed feminism as "anti-family" and moved
the politics of the Republican Party and the nation to the
right.
Advisors/Committee Members: Self, Robert (Director), Buhle, Mari Jo (Director), Shibusawa, Naoko (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Family Values
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Taranto, S. (2010). Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11098/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Taranto, Stacie. “Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11098/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Taranto, Stacie. “Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980.” 2010. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Taranto S. Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11098/.
Council of Science Editors:
Taranto S. Defending "Family Values": Women's Grassroots Politics and
the Republican Right, 1970-1980. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2010. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11098/
5.
Eaton, Nicole M.
Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998.
Degree: PhD, History, 2012, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297666/
► This dissertation argues that the search for a usable past has been a fundamental part of women’s activism and re-examines American feminism through the lens…
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▼ This dissertation argues that the search for a usable
past has been a
fundamental part of women’s activism and re-examines American
feminism through the lens of historical memory. Activists
constructed a political and historical identity by
challenging
women’s historical invisibility, using the past in social
protest
and creating a gendered public history. In order to
investigate the
changes and continuities of generations of activists, this
study
spans 150 years. Beginning with the antebellum women’s rights
movement, reformers lionized queens, amazons, and founding
mothers.
The search for women worthies continued with suffrage protest
during
the 1876 Centennial and through invented traditions such as
Foremother’s Dinners in which reformers harnessed the power
of the
past. Building on this memory work, in the final push for
suffrage,
NAWSA and the NWP waged a battle over history that helped
define the
future of the movement. In the aftermath of this struggle, in
the
1930s and 1940s the campaign to place Susan B. Anthony on
Mount
Rushmore, the World Center for Women’s Archives and the
Centennial
of the Seneca Falls Convention illustrate unsuccessful
ventures into
collective memory by exploring both the limitless ambitions
of women
activists as well as the limits of pubic memory. In contrast,
with
the advent of second wave feminism, an important foundation
for the
movement was appreciating that the “historical is political,”
highlighting the far-reaching success the movement had in
revolutionizing popular historical consciousness about
women’s
history. Finally, in the late 1970s through the 1990s,
coalitions of
activists and public historians worked to preserve women’s
history as
part of the national heritage, including the 1976
Bicentennial, the
fight to relocate the Portrait Monument suffrage memorial,
and the
establishment of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park.
Exploring this popular and public history (as compared to
academic
history) illuminates how ordinary people have found
extraordinary
power in seeing their struggles as part of a collective past.
However, activists had to find a balance between a past that
touched
the heart with unearthing women’s history with all its
historical
complexity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (Director), Lubar, Steven (Reader), Vorenberg, Michael (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: women’s history
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Eaton, N. M. (2012). Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297666/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Eaton, Nicole M. “Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297666/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Eaton, Nicole M. “Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998.” 2012. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Eaton NM. Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297666/.
Council of Science Editors:
Eaton NM. Moving History Forward: American Women Activists, the Search
for a Usable Past and the Creation of Public Memory,
1848-1998. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297666/
6.
Mendes, Gabriel N.
A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960.
Degree: PhD, American Civilization, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:183/
► A Deeper Science explores how novelist Richard Wright and psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, along with an interracial group of intellectuals, doctors, clergy, and artists, attempted to…
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▼ A Deeper Science explores how novelist Richard Wright
and psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, along with an interracial group
of intellectuals, doctors, clergy, and artists, attempted to
establish a progressive model of mental healthcare as an integral
part of the struggle for racial equality in the United States in
the early post-World War II era. The dissertation examines the
emergence and operation of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
(1946-58), the first outpatient mental health clinic in and for the
community of Harlem, NY. Termed "an experiment in the social basis
of psychotherapy" by Wertham, the Lafargue Clinic explicitly
incorporated the experience of racial and class oppression into its
diagnostic and therapeutic work. A Deeper Science shows that in
doing so, the clinic was both a political and scientific gambit,
challenging a racist mental healthcare system, as well as
putatively color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider black
Americans' experience of oppression in their treatment. The
dissertation connects the intellectual biographies of Wright and
Wertham, to the history of race in the human sciences and the
history of African American encounters with psychiatry. The
dissertation, therefore, engages the discourse of social scientific
studies of race and the effects of racism, while also presenting a
much-needed case study of a precursor and model for the community
mental health movement that emerged in the U.S. during the
1960s.
Advisors/Committee Members: Campbell, James (director), Buhle, Mari Jo (reader), Bogues, B. (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Richard Wright
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APA (6th Edition):
Mendes, G. N. (2009). A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:183/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mendes, Gabriel N. “A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:183/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mendes, Gabriel N. “A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960.” 2009. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Mendes GN. A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:183/.
Council of Science Editors:
Mendes GN. A DEEPER SCIENCE: RICHARD WRIGHT, DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM, AND
THE FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN HARLEM, NY, 1940-1960. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:183/
7.
Ryan, Erica J.
Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929.
Degree: PhD, History, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215/
► This dissertation investigates the way constructions of Americanism enforced heterosexuality in America. Starting in the Red Scare of 1919, and persisting through the 1920s, American…
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▼ This dissertation investigates the way constructions
of Americanism enforced heterosexuality in America. Starting in the
Red Scare of 1919, and persisting through the 1920s, American
reactions to the Russian Revolution fostered fears of social and
political instability among economic elites, social conservatives,
Americanizers, and super patriots. This dissertation charts the
ways these groups utilized the patriarchal family as a symbol of
capitalist Americanism, a producer of conservative gender norms,
and as a tool of social control in efforts to achieve a strong and
orderly nation. Chapter 1 analyzes discussions about Americanism
and Bolshevism, capitalism and communism, charting the ways those
discussions moved beyond conventional political and economic issues
to include the most basic and intimate matters of family life.
Chapter 2 examines the ways boosters of capitalism, conservatism
and stability talked about women's status as a way of talking about
radical threats to the family and to the monogamous sexual order.
Chapter 3 explores postwar citizenship models outlined by a
movement for home ownership, uncovering an insistence on
heterosexual behavior and on gender norms that eschewed the culture
of dependence associated with communism. Chapter 4 traces
Americanization efforts directed at immigrant women and immigrants'
children, created to teach, or impose, proper family values and
sexual codes to unadjusted mothers and their children. Chapter 5
investigates the evolution of antiradicalism in the 1920s, tracing
connections made between changing sexual and gender norms and the
persistent radical threat. Amidst a growing clamor over the
dissolution of the institutions of marriage and family, social
conservatives identified sexual modernism with fears of a larger
economic and political revolution. This study illuminates the
multifaceted utility of the heterosexual monogamous family in
efforts to regulate nationalism and citizenship in the face of
social and political challenges, national and international. This
reinforcement of heterosexuality facilitated the maintenance of a
wide array of social and political conventions that at first seem
distant from discussions about sex.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Gorn, Elliott (reader), Dean, Carolyn (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: red scare
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Ryan, E. J. (2009). Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ryan, Erica J. “Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ryan, Erica J. “Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929.” 2009. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Ryan EJ. Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215/.
Council of Science Editors:
Ryan EJ. Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism,
1919-1929. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215/
8.
Burbank-Gilb, Elizabeth.
Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance.
Degree: PhD, American Studies, 2014, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386325/
► Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance considers how love has been used in attempts to sell consumer goods; how cultural…
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▼ Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product
Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance considers how love
has been used in attempts to sell consumer goods; how cultural
ideals of romance, love, and marriage are related to the values of
consumption; and to what degree individuals’ beliefs about love and
marriage adhered to the value system of consumer culture. A
comparison of personal ads to commercial advertisements that relied
on representations of love suggests some of the ways that people
rejected, accepted, or refashioned the values of consumption as
they looked for love within consumer culture. The content
surrounding ads in advertising-supported media (here, magazines,
television, and the internet) is also a valuable source at which to
look for the expression of the values of consumer culture and is
considered here just as it originally appeared: alongside the
advertisements, adding to the chorus of messages that, in one way
or another, virtually all existed in support of consumer
capitalism. The five chapters in this dissertation cover the 1890s,
1920s, 1950s, 1980s, and 2010s, and chart an uneven but visible
progression from individual models of romantic love and marriage
that were strictly utilitarian, and not apparently shaped by the
values of consumer culture, toward an increasing acceptance of
those values by the 1980s and, in the present day, a new framework
within which to search for love – internet dating – that
prioritizes the needs of consumer capitalism.
Advisors/Committee Members: Smulyan, Susan (Director), Buhle, Mari Jo (Reader), Joyrich, Lynne (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: cultural history
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APA (6th Edition):
Burbank-Gilb, E. (2014). Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386325/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Burbank-Gilb, Elizabeth. “Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386325/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Burbank-Gilb, Elizabeth. “Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance.” 2014. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Burbank-Gilb E. Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386325/.
Council of Science Editors:
Burbank-Gilb E. Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and
the Consumption of Romance. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2014. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386325/
9.
Rosenberg, Gabriel N.
Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148.
Degree: PhD, History, 2011, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11312/
► This dissertation examines the influence of voluntary youth clubs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – known popularly as 4-H clubs –…
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▼ This dissertation examines the influence of voluntary
youth clubs administered by the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) – known popularly as 4-H clubs – on the
culture, economy, and politics of twentieth century America. Over
the course of the twentieth century, seventy million children
participated in 4-H clubs in the United States. Based on archival
research at the National Archives and in Alabama, Arizona, and
Iowa, this dissertation traces the development of 4-H clubs from
their origin in progressive-era rural reform movements to the vital
role they played in the federal government's efforts to mobilize
rural Americans during the New Deal and World War II. 4-H clubs
exposed participants to new ideas about their labor, bodies, and
nation through the circulation of scientific agriculture and home
economics, and, in the process, they dramatically redefined shared
understandings of authenticity and the state. In particular, 4-H
clubs tied the concept of American citizenship to the performance
of gendered labor within the structure of the "farm family" and to
the maintenance of a healthy, attractive body capable of laboring
– and reproducing – for the state. This dissertation argues that
the modern American state developed out of these links between
commercial agriculture and rural heterosexuality. The USDA found
this approach so useful for state building that, in the postwar
period, it wove agricultural youth clubs into all of its
development projects, establishing 4-H organizations in Korea,
Vietnam, South America, and elsewhere. In rural American and
abroad, 4-H clubs became sites for the state to govern without
coercion through practices such as raising corn, homemaking, and
charity events – practices understood by youth and their parents
as integral elements of traditional agrarianism and civic
obligation. 4-H clubs and rural America served as laboratories for
the modern American state in which technologies of governance could
be tested and perfected before being globally
applied.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (Director), Jacoby, Karl (Reader), Vorenberg, Michael (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: US History
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Rosenberg, G. N. (2011). Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11312/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rosenberg, Gabriel N. “Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11312/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rosenberg, Gabriel N. “Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148.” 2011. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rosenberg GN. Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11312/.
Council of Science Editors:
Rosenberg GN. Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots
of the Modern Rural World, 1914-19148. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2011. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11312/
10.
Frank, Gillian Avrum.
Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990.
Degree: PhD, American Civilization, 2008, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69/
► Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990 explores how social and political movements redefined the meaning of citizenship…
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▼ Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child
Protection in the United States, 1965-1990 explores how social and
political movements redefined the meaning of citizenship and civil
rights between 1965 and 1990 by deeming certain political and
cultural transformations harmful to children. It shows how three
diverse groups used child protection as a political tool to reject
the expansion of free expression, shape sexual and gender norms,
and transform the meaning of minority civil rights: Anita Bryant's
anti-gay movement, Save Our Children; the anti-pornography feminist
organization, Women Against Pornography; and Tipper Gore's
anti-obscenity movement, Parents' Music Resource Center. It also
traces this process to Nixon-era political discourses on the
"permissive society" and the "silent majority." Save Our Children
argues that these attempts to protect children ultimately served to
regulate the identities, behaviors and rights of adults, while
helping to justify a white middle-class "majoritarian" politics.
Each chapter focuses on national struggles and emphasizes the
intersections between cultural and electoral politics,
identity-based social movements and the mass media. By
demonstrating that childhood became a privileged site to negotiate
sexual mores, this study of the history of child protection also
allows for a deeper understanding of the rise of social
conservatism, the backlash against feminism, racial integration and
gay rights, and the definition of social citizenship after
1965.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Meckel, Richard (reader), Smulyan, Susan (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: history of sexuality
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Frank, G. A. (2008). Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Frank, Gillian Avrum. “Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Frank, Gillian Avrum. “Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990.” 2008. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Frank GA. Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69/.
Council of Science Editors:
Frank GA. Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection,
1965-1990. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69/
11.
Gatewood, James Vernando.
City Lights Books: The History of a Community.
Degree: PhD, American Civilization, 2008, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:286/
► Based upon archival research at the Bancroft Library, Stanford, Harvard and UCLA and oral histories conducted with several prominent booksellers on the West Coast, my…
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▼ Based upon archival research at the Bancroft Library,
Stanford, Harvard and UCLA and oral histories conducted with
several prominent booksellers on the West Coast, my dissertation
research explores the process of community formation at San
Francisco's City Lights Bookstore. Founded in 1953 by Peter Martin
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti as the nation's "first all-paperback
bookshop," City Lights quickly became identified in the public
imagination as the "Headquarters of Beatdom" in San Francisco. The
association between the beat generation and City Lights, while an
important one, undermines the history of an institution that was
stridently independent, proudly cosmopolitan, and uniquely
committed to the public face of San Francisco's arts and poetry
movement in all its diversity. My dissertation, "City Lights Books:
The History of a Community," argues that the bookstore/
publisher is
best understood on its own terms, as part of an informal network of
social and cultural institutions in San Francisco?cafes and bars,
libraries, public radio stations, and even the apartments and
houses where artists and poets frequently gathered?that affirmed
the talents of and fostered a unique sense of community among a
heterogeneous avant-garde that came of age after World War II.
Through its wide selection of little magazines, pamphlets and
paperback books (many of which were published in San Francisco),
its enthusiastic support of poetry readings, musical performances,
and art exhibitions, its cultivation of the bookstore's physical
space as a focal point for community life in the North Beach, and a
publications program that encouraged new voices in American poetry,
City Lights was at the forefront of the postwar arts and poetry
movements.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buhle, Mari Jo (director), Lee, Robert (director), Buhle, Paul (reader), Kaestle, Carl (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: City Lights Bookstore
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APA (6th Edition):
Gatewood, J. V. (2008). City Lights Books: The History of a Community. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:286/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gatewood, James Vernando. “City Lights Books: The History of a Community.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 21, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:286/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gatewood, James Vernando. “City Lights Books: The History of a Community.” 2008. Web. 21 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gatewood JV. City Lights Books: The History of a Community. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. [cited 2021 Jan 21].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:286/.
Council of Science Editors:
Gatewood JV. City Lights Books: The History of a Community. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2008. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:286/
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