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  SUICIDE OF THE SEXES PLAYBOY’S USE OF PSYCHIATRY THROUGH GAY LIBERATION 

  Yaeger, Ellen (Georgetown University, 2017-04-26)

  This thesis examines how Playboy’s use of psychiatry to justify their sexual liberation ideology impacted the publication’s construction of masculinity and homosexuality, while exploring the larger question: can gay ...
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  REMAKING RAPE-REVENGE: NAVIGATING WARTIME MORAL ANXIETIES THROUGH THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972/2009) AND I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978/2010) 

  Troisi, Emily (Georgetown University, 2017-04-19)

  This thesis considers why two rape-revenge horror movies from the 1970s, The Last House on the Left (1972) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), were remade within just one year of each other, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. ...
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  THE PECULIAR KIND OF CLARITY WHICH HELL AFFORDS: DEFINING LOYALTY IN THE WARTIME NORTH, 1860-1865 

  Thompson, Emma (Georgetown University, 2017-04-19)

  The focus of this research is on disloyalty investigations during the Civil War. In this research I sought to understand how disloyalty was defined within these loyalty investigations, navigating the question: what can the ...
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  HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF WEST COAST LIGHTHOUSES AND THE KEEPERS LIVING ON THE LAST FRONTIER, 1850-1900 

  Stingray, Madison (Georgetown University, 2017-04-19)

  Despite the idyllic and honorable view of lighthouses perpetuated by images in the second half of the nineteenth century, a view that continues to permeate the current American expectations of these dwellings in postcards, ...
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  THE BOY WHO LIVED AND THE MOTHER WHO DIED: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEAD MOTHER PLOT IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT 

  Riga, Katherine (Georgetown University, 2016-04-19)

  The dead mother plot, or the motif in which the vaguely benevolent mother is disposed of either before the story begins or before the protagonist can start his/her quest in earnest, reverberates through the centuries, ...

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