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Between prescription and proscription: Adoption, kafala, and abandoned children in Morocco
(1998)
Conventional interpretations agree that Islamic jurisprudence officially prohibits adoption. Anthropologists have thus tended to presume that adoption does not exist in the Muslim world. This dissertation explores a ...
Contrasting portraits: San Antonio v. Rodriguez and the emergent equal protection ideal
(1998)
"Contrasting Portraits" is the history of Rodriguez, the Texas school finance case from 1968 to 1973. The thesis places the case within three contexts: Texas education, Mexican-American rights, and equal protection. Rodriguez ...
Selling without substance: Fraud, feminization, and the foundations of consumer culture in nineteenth-century England
(1998)
This dissertation focuses on women, consumer culture, and crime in England in the early to later nineteenth century (1800-1880). As England's textile industry produced goods, especially cotton, on a larger and cheaper ...
Manly acts: Buenos Aires, 24 March 1996
(1998)
Ethnographic fieldwork and writing are employed to explore how men in Buenos Aires construct and contest masculinity. The fieldwork is focused on three sites of manly performance: asado (Argentine barbecue), soccer, and ...
William Louis Poteat, "A thinker in the South": Religion, reform, and education in the Progressive-Era South
(1998)
William Louis Poteat (1856-1938) was a prominent educator, Progressive reformer, and leader in the Baptist denomination in North Carolina. He was the son of a slaveholder and grew up on a large tobacco plantation in Caswell ...
The move is on: African-American Pentecostal-Charismatics in the Southwest
(1998)
This study is an interdisciplinary history the African American Pentecostal-Charismatic (AAPC) movement in the twentieth century. It aims to place the rise of African American Pentecostal-Charismaticism within the context ...
Private choices vs. public voices: The history of Planned Parenthood in Houston
(1998)
Over the past half century the name Planned Parenthood has become a household term. As its leadership has struggled to create and maintain its identity and to keep it financially afloat, the organization has evolved. This ...
Studies in French cultural and intellectual history
(1998)
Four topics in the cultural and intellectual history of France are presented. The first is a comparative study examining the relationship between seventeenth-century philosophy and literature. It argues that elements of ...
"Separate and apart": Women's public lives in a rural southern county, 1837-1873
(1998)
Nineteenth-century American ideologies and cultural prescriptions dictated that women leave the public sphere responsibilities of business, law, and politics to men. However, statutes throughout the United States allowed ...
Essays in European and American intellectual history
(1998)
The first essay, "Contested Languages of Order: Burke and Wollstonecraft in the Revolution Controversy," argues that Edmund Burke's and Mary Wollstonecraft's 1790 debate over the French Revolution brought into focus two ...