That's No Job For a Woman: Fictional Female Detectives and Gender Roles in American Crime Novels, 1930-1994 by Karlyn Schumacher
History
Schumacher, Karlyn
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2015
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Majors: English, History
Minor: Sociology
River Falls, Wisconsin
History 490 - Senior Seminar
Gendered Madness in Early Modern Drama by Eve Green
Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Madness is a prevalent theme in Early Modern Drama, yet the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) definitions of madness in use during this time suggest that these portrayals of madness may be misunderstood by modern audiences without sufficient contextual knowledge. The OED’s definitions of madness suggest that men and women in Early Modern England may have been identified as mad as a result of their abandonment of traditional gender roles. This paper investigates these forms of madness in the characters of Bel-imperia and Hieronimo in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (1580s), and Hamlet and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600s). Through comparing the portrayals of male and female madness respectively, this paper identifies similarities and gender tropes in these forms of nontraditional behavior resulting in madness: women in the early modern period appear to have been identified as mad when they play the role of truth teller, adopting the role of a man by claiming to possess important knowledge, and men are characterized as mad due to extreme displays of obsessive effeminate grief. This paper suggests that several instances of madness within Early Modern Drama need to be reclassified for contemporary audiences in order to ensure accurate modern portrayals of early modern madness as rejections of gender roles.
Eve Green
Senior Showcase Artistic presentation
Ripon College
April 17, 2018
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Majors: English; Philosophy; Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Lane Cove, Australia
ARMs Capstone
Redefining Gender Roles: The Defense of All Things Feminine by Shelbi Buettner
Communication
This paper uses gender criticism to analyze Jerramy Fine’s book, In Defense of the Princess: How Plastic Tiaras and Fairytale Dreams Can Inspire Smart, Strong Women. Fine uses examples of princesses to convey the differences between the two genders. This paper uses the characteristics of the second and third waves of feminism as guidelines for analysis and finds that Fine’s book argues that second wave feminist beliefs can be counterproductive.
Buettner, Shelbi
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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Majors: Communication and Business Managment
Lodi, Wisconsin
Rhetorical Criticism