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Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games in the Obama Era
(2016-12-20)
While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural ...
Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays
(2015-12-09)
This dissertation argues that female characters in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Richard III, Macbeth, and 1 Henry VI function as prophets in the style of the Old Testament. In a culture that venerates Holy ...