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Wilson, Karen. "Aspects of solidarity between middle-class and working-class women 1880-1903." Thesis, Keele University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293991.
Full textBell, J. Gregory Dossey John A. "A history of mathematics class for middle school teachers." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1992. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9234458.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed January 19, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John A. Dossey (chair), Lynn H. Brown, Franklin G. Lewis, Albert D. Otto, Charles L. VanderEynden. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 644-648) and abstract. Also available in print.
Hall, Catherine. "White, male and middle class : explorations in feminism and history." Thesis, University of East London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532374.
Full textNorth, David L. "Middle-class suburban lifestyles and culture in England, 1919-1939." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302935.
Full textPrendergast, Neil. "American Holidays, A Natural History." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204910.
Full textPettit, Harry. "Without hope there is no life : class, affect, and meritocracy in middle class Cairo." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3673/.
Full textByrne, Frank J. "Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the antebellum and confederate south /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488203158828259.
Full textLoiacano, Catherine Lynn. "Casualties of a Radicalizing Cuban Revolution: Middle-Class Opposition and Exile, 1961-1968." NCSU, 2010. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03262010-104219/.
Full textBorenstein, Bonnie Jill. "Perspectives on British middle class pleasure travel to Italy and Switzerland, 1860-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37192.pdf.
Full textLabosier, James Bruce. "Motion Picture Exhibition and the Development of a Middle-class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4952.
Full textHills, Philip. "Division and cohesion in the nineteenth-century middle class : the case of Ipswich, 1830-1870." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328346.
Full textStone, Joanna. "Going Against the Flow: Middle Class Families and Neoliberalism in Nogales, Sonora." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193238.
Full textLam, Heung-wan. "Social structure, gender consciousness and identity : analyzing the life history of middle class women in Hong Kong in the 1990s /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19852332.
Full textTjeder, David. "The power of character : Middle-class masculinities, 1800–1900." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Univ. : www.tjeder.nu [distributör], 2003. http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:213690.
Full textLeonard, Bayes Kathleen E. "Making Middle-Class Marriage Modern in Kentucky, 1830-1900." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1160578440.
Full textNeiswander, Judith Ann. "Liberalism, nationalism and the evolution of middle-class values : the literature on interior decoration in England, 1875-1914." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1988. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1633.
Full textJenkins, Celia Margaret. "The professional middle class and the social origins of progressivism : a case study of the New Education Fellowship." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1989. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006559/.
Full textLong, Helen Clare. "The British domestic interior 1880 to 1914 : a study of fixed decoration in middle-class housing." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278557.
Full textBarnett, Ashley. "Prudery and Perversion: Domination of the Sexual Body in Middle-Class Men, Women, and Disenfranchised Bodies in Victorian England." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3172.
Full textBraden, April. "Urban Suburb: How The Built Environment Influences Class Identity." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605112902730577.
Full textMcKenzie, Kirsten Elizabeth. "Gender and honour in middle-class Cape Town : the making of colonial identities, 1828-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f00a5b9b-2797-4e6e-9b75-159c1985b74a.
Full textOropeza, Ruth Alejandra. "The Politics of Epidemic: Spain, Disease Management and Hygiene, 1803-1902." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/337269.
Full textMorgan, Simon James. "Middle-class women, civic virtue and identity : Leeds and the West Riding of Yorkshire, c1830-c.1860." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9798/.
Full textHolford, Naomi. "Making classed sexualities : investigating gender, power and violence in middle-class teenagers' relationship cultures." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/43004/.
Full textBiddle-Perry, Geraldine Elizabeth. "Fashioning social aspiration : lower-middle-class rational recreational leisure participation and the evolution of popular rational recreational leisure clothing c.1880-1950." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2010. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6395/.
Full textLara-Betancourt, Patricia. "Conflicting modernities? : arts and crafts and commercial influences in the decoration of the middle-class home 1890-1914." Thesis, Kingston University, 2008. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20276/.
Full textLam, Heung-wan, and 林香雲. "Social structure, gender consciousness and identity: analyzing the life history of middle class women in HongKong in the 1990s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215464.
Full textErlank, Natasha. "Letters home : the experiences and perceptions of middle class British women at the Cape 1820-1850." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22399.
Full textMy thesis is concerned with the experiences and perceptions of British women living in the Cape Colony, South Africa, during the first half of the nineteenth century. My chief source materials are the letters and diaries written by different women in the period 1820-1850. The women in my thesis were members of the British middle class and proponents of its dominant ideology. This revolved around a "separation of spheres" which prescribed particular types of behaviour for men and women. This view was more of an ideal than a reality, and women in this period found ways in which to both resist and enforce its prescriptions. I am interested in the negotiation of identity that occurred when British women arrived at the Cape. In order to tap into their experiences, I examine in detail the writing of several women who lived in Cape Town, and then compare this to women's writing in different parts of the colony. What emerges is a version of South African history in which the experiences of individual women challenge assumptions about the existence of middle class and colonial homogenising discourses. Women in Cape Town, on the eastern frontier and on mission stations lived in different circumstances. The contexts in which they wrote affected the versions of themselves that they revealed in their writing. The different ways in which they wrote, and they ways in which they constructed a d represented their identities, challenge attempts to fit them into the contemporary feminine mould. While they were creating their own identifies through the medium of letters, they were also creating cultural artefacts. Their letters formed the basis of a private literate culture which both represented these women and their particular view of the Cape to the rest of the world. Women controlled what was written in their letters - their self-representations were presented to their readers in a version not mediated through their male relatives. In their own letters, they were not men's wives, they were their own women. Most of the women I discuss had a commitment to Christianity, and the promotion of Christianity. Missionary wives and evangelical women had a code of behaviour that did not always accord with middle class ideology. They measured their behaviour according to religious and moral standards. This allowed them to contravene middle class ethics if they felt these contravened their own codes of morality. Depending on circumstances, women could be called upon to behave either as middle class women or Christian women, and in these instances would conform to the identity under either ideology. I would therefore suggest that not only did English middle-class women at the Cape create their subjectivity in terms of their status as women, as middle class women and as white women, but they also constructed their subjectivity in terms of their religious beliefs - as religious women.
Fish, Cynthia S. "Images and reality of fatherhood : a case study of Montreal's Protestant middle class, 1870-1914." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39271.
Full textDuff, Sarah Emily. "Head, heart, and hand : the Huguenot Seminary and College and the construction of middle class Afrikaner femininity, 1873-1910." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/533.
Full textLaurence-Allen, Antonia. "Class, consumption and currency : commercial photography in mid-Victorian Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3469.
Full textWemp, Brian A. (Brian Alan). "The Paris Commune and the French right : the reaction of the bourgeoisie." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23857.
Full textEnefalk, Hanna. "En patriotisk drömvärld : Patriotic Dreamlands: Music, Nationalism and Gender in the Long Nineteenth Century." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9267.
Full textThe subject of this thesis is Scandinavian nationalism from the late 18th century to ca 1920. The focus lies on that particular aspect of nationalism that was at the same time the most mundane and the most enigmatic: the ever-present depicting of the nation in words, pictures and music, which in effect created a parallel universe, a patriotic dreamland. This creation was highly gendered, and the media in which it flourished most abundantly was the patriotic song. The study therefore uses song texts as its primary source material and builds upon the theoretical foundations laid by, e.g., Joan Scott and Michael Billig.
Geographically, the investigation centers on Sweden, using Norway and Swedish-speaking Finland as objects of comparison. The main producers of the lyrics and their intended target groups are identified, and an in-depth analysis of a large corpus of songs is made.
The main conclusion is that the patriotic songs, in spite of spreading to an ever increasing proportion of the population, were not an expression of the ‘voice of the people’ or even that of the bourgeoisie as a whole. The texts were chiefly written by male academics, and from their formative years during the Napoleonic wars the songs preserved an obsession with a warlike unmarried manhood. Only in the last decades of the period were civilian virtues and national womanhood slightly more emphasized. It is suggested that the songs, apart from being an expression of what Billig has termed ‘banal nationalism,’ also functioned as a bastion of a ‘banal androcentrism.’
The thesis shows that the patriotic dreamland of the patriotic songs was designed in a way that promoted the interests of its producers and reproducers. The seemingly semi-autonomous quality of the discourse is also discussed, employing meme theory as used by, e.g., Daniel Dennett.
Enefalk, Hanna. "En patriotisk drömvärld : Musik, nationalism och genus under det långa 1800-talet." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9267.
Full textHarris, Tony School of History UNSW. "Basket weavers and true believers : the middle class left and the ALP Leichhardt Municipality c. 1970-1990." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19325.
Full textVowles, Michael. "The middle class define their world : some features of the sociology of an early twentieth century Staffordshire town; Tamworth 1900-1914." Thesis, Keele University, 1988. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277137.
Full textMay, Heather. "Middle-class morality and blackwashed beauties Francis Leon and the rise of the prima donna in the post-war minstrel show /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3264313.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1735. Adviser: Ronald H. Wainscott. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2008)."
Wegwert, Joseph Charles. "Democracy Without Dialogue: A Civic Curriculum of “The Middle Class Promise” for Citizens of the Corporation." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1219155784.
Full textMiller, Deborah L. 1960. ""The big ladies' hotel" : gender, residence, and middle-class Montreal : a contextual analysis of the Royal Victoria College, 1899-1931." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20937.
Full textMiller, Jonson William. "Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29135.
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Perkiss, Abigail Lynn. "Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-World War II America." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/89429.
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My dissertation, Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-WWII America, examines the creation, experience, and meaning of intentionally integrated residential space in the latter half of the twentieth century. Entering into the growing historiographical conversations on post-war American cities and the northern civil rights movement, I argue that with a strong commitment to maintaining residential cohesion and a heightened sense of racial justice in the wake of the Second World War, liberal integrationists around the country embarked on grassroots campaigns seeking to translate the ideals of racial equality into a blueprint for genuine interracial living. Through innovative real estate efforts, creative marketing techniques, and religious activism, pioneering community groups worked to intentionally integrate their neighborhoods, to serve as a model for sustainable urbanity and racial justice in the United States. My research, centered on the northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mount Airy, chronicles a liberal community effort that confronted formal legal and governmental policies and deeply entrenched cultural understandings; through this integration project, activists sought to redefine post-war urban space in terms of racial inclusion. In crafting such a narrative, I challenge much of the scholarship on the northern struggle for racial justice, which paints a uniform picture of a divisive and violent racial urban environment. At the same time, my dissertation explores how hard it was for urban integrationists to build interracial communities. I portray a neighborhood struggling with the deeper meanings of integrated space, with identity politics and larger institutional, structural, and cultural forces, and with internal resistance to change. In that sense, I speak to the larger debates over post-WWII urban space; my research, here, implies a cultural explanation complementing the political and economic narratives of white flight and urban crisis that scholars have crafted over the last two decades. This is at once the story of a group of people seeking to challenge the seeming inevitability of segregation by creating an economically stable, racially integrated community predicated upon an idealized vision of American democracy, and it is the story of the fraying of that ideal.
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Turner, Michael J. "The making of a middle class liberalism in Manchester, c.1815-32 : a study of politics and the press." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:77cd7bf3-0dec-4922-a73a-d71a8c9ec853.
Full textKamani, Solinda. "Neglected architectural decoration from the late antique Mediterranean city : public porticoes, small baths, shops/workshops, and 'middle class' houses." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47906/.
Full textWright, David. "The study of idiocy : the professional middle class and the evolution of social policy on the mentally retarded in England, 1848 to 1914." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22403.
Full textCurran, Michele M. "Torn Identity: Workingwomen and Their Struggle Between Gender and Class, 1932-1950." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302505278.
Full textHaslum, Rolf. "Idrott, borgerlig folkfostran och frihet : Torsten Tegnér som opinionsbildare 1930-1960." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-974.
Full textAcosta, González M. Lourdes. "La aparición de una nueva sociedad en la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399647.
Full textNineteenth century society has always interested me greatly, as has the realist novel of the period, which accounts for my choice of the writer, Benito Pérez Galdós, as the object of study in this thesis. This undisputed giant of literature was an expert in portraying not only the society of his day but more specifically the middle classes, their way of being, thinking and behaving. But above all, Galdós captures their most immediate aspirations focused primarily on their embourgeoisement, on their scaling of the social ladder, as far as this lay within their possibilities, as typified by the case of Don Benigno Cordero, one of the main characters to appear in the Segunda Serie de Episodios Nacionales. He also expertly brings to life the groups with whom the middle classes rubbed shoulders and forged relations. It is especially telling to see how, as the century unfolds, Galdós describes a middle class perfectly at ease in this emerging class-conscious society of which it is the principal architect. This thesis attaches considerable weight to the line of research opened up by historians of the importance of C. Seco Serrano, Jover Zamora, Tuñón de Lara, J. Fontana and Antoni Jutglar who, following in the steps of a rich historical tradition, justify the relevance of the overall theme, of nineteenth century society and of the use of literature as a historical source, by considering literary production and, in this case, the work of Benito Pérez Galdós as an invaluable archive for the researcher, since it provides an excellent approximation to and an exhaustive understanding of the middle classes. Moreover, the study serves to demonstrate that although we may start from such different sources, as are those provided by literature and history, we nevertheless reach the same conclusions. The research reported herein has enabled me to test the value of literature as a historical source and the study of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós has helped me to offer a more illuminating vision of nineteenth-century society, where the emergence of a new social group, that of the middle class, and the main point of focus of this analysis, is widely represented.
Whang, Mikyoung. "Nelly Don’s 1916 pink gingham apron frock: an illustration of the middle-class American housewife’s shifting role from producer to consumer." Diss., Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8621.
Full textDepartment of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design
Sherry Haar
Nell Donnelly created a stylish, practical, affordable pink gingham apron frock in 1916, selling out her first order of 216 dresses the first morning at $1 apiece at Peck’s Dry Goods Company in Kansas City. This study investigates the forces behind the success of her dress, and finds that during the early 20th century, woman’s role became modernized, shifting from that of producer to consumer, and that clothing—in particular, the housedress—was a visible reflection of this shift. Specific attributes contributed to the success of the apron frock in design and social perspective. First, her housedress incorporated current design elements including kimono sleeves, empire waistline, waist yoke, asymmetrical front closure, and ruffle trimmings sensibly. Socially, mass advertising and mass media articles promoted fashion consciousness in women to look as pretty as those in the ad or article. As a result, integrating trendy design elements into an affordable housedress along with the growing demand for a stylish, yet practical housedress guaranteed the success of Nelly Don’s pink gingham apron frock. As such, the availability and value of the apron frock provide a vivid illustration of woman’s shifting role: its popularity as an alternative to old-fashioned Mother Hubbard housedresses demonstrates both women’s new consumer awareness as well as their growing involvement in the public sphere.
Karsono, Sony. "Indonesia's New Order, 1966-1998: Its Social and Intellectual Origins." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1367606667.
Full textYazdanpanah, Soheyla. "Att upprätthålla livet : Om lågavlönade ensamstående mödrars försörjning i Sverige." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7762.
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