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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"battle of the sexes"”.
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James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict
James Thurber, along with others who wrote for The New Yorker magazine, developed the 'little man' comic figure. The little man as a central character was a shift from earlier nineteenth-century traditions in humor. This twentieth-century protagonist was a comic antihero whose function was to …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
"This study expands the account of women's literary production in seventeenth-century England. The story I tell details the complex intersections between class and gender discourse in England during the tumultuous years surrounding the Civil War. Much of the work done on women writers in England …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
Battle of the Sexes Onstage: Explorations of Changing Gender Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout …
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General incentives in finite game theory
… for analyzing finite games will be introduced. The concept of an incentive function will be defined so that it is compatible with the updating protocol defined in Nash's proof of existence of equilibrium in all finite games. A general notion of incentive equilibrium will be defined as the fixed …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre …