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• Politics of the temporary: migrant life in urban Malaysia 

  Muniandy, Parthiban (2015-10-07)

  In this project, I look at an aspect of contemporary migration that has been largely sidelined and marginalized in mainstream debates, policy circles and research work – what happens to ‘host societies’ in the developing ...

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• Rocking the gender boat: resistance to traditional gender norms among Surface Warfare-qualified Navy women 

  Vendrzyk, Judith Marie (2015-10-26)

  Given that the military is widely recognized as one of the central sites of gender definition and production in society, my dissertation explores the ways in which women who voluntarily enter the military, a traditionally ...

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• Salient professionals, a silent profession: the rise, prominence, and marginalization of lawyers in Korea under Japan’s rule 1906-1945 

  Park, Chunwoong (2015-07-14)

  This dissertation examines how lawyers emerged as powerful professionals during the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea (1906-1945) even as the legal profession, as a whole, remained relatively disempowered. After the ...

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• Flawed consumers: understanding the impact of intersectional political consumerism during the Chicago Welfare Rights Era 

  Brown, Nicole Marie (2015-07-10)

  This study explores African American political consumerism during the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Much of the research on consumption fails to adequately engage race. This dissertation incorporates ...

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• Gender, Nation, Pronatalism: Encouraging Births in France, Romania, and Israel 

  King, Leslie Lynn (1998)

  Building on feminist studies that have linked pronatalism with nationalism, I examine right wing nationalisms and more inclusive, citizen-based nationalisms, which are more accepting of "the other," but may still be concerned ...

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