The current study adds to field of communication studies by examining male roles in a popular video game commercial. It asserts through textual analysis that the brief advertisement conjures up several salient masculinities that demonstrate a greater . . .

From an early age and consistently throughout the lifespan, men are inundated with messages about what it means to be a man, and consistently discouraged from displaying any vulnerable emotions. Masculinity research has increasingly focused on underst . . .

Man Splay is a book of poems that observes and explores the current state of masculinity in America in order to open an uncomfortable dialogue between “masculine” men. Through exploring gender divides, socio-political states, and Deck’s personal exper . . .

This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of women graffiti writers of California as they navigate within its public spaces. Current literature on graffiti writers focuses primarily on male writers or women writers on the east coast of the . . .

This thesis applies Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of trauma to William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Chapter One of this thesis discusses Freud's theory of archaic heritage, which argues that a trauma can be passed down from one generatio . . .

This thesis analyzes conceptions of gender and sexuality during the progressive and interwar periods by examining Seabury Quinn’s Weird Tales stories. It also examines Quinn’s life and various influences on his storytelling. The pulp magazine Weird Ta . . .

These chapters discuss the power conveyed by clothes and assumed identities and analyze how in As You Like It and Twelfth Night Rosalind and Viola differ in their feelings for and use of this power. Specifically, and to varying degrees, the women use . . .

This thesis examines Walt Disney Theatrical Production’s construction of masculinity in live performance in the original 1994 Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast. Through an analysis focusing on the key male players–the antagonist, Gaston; the fathe . . .

The purpose of this study was to assess whether exposure to gender roles portrayed in the mainstream media affects self-esteem and body image in college students. The experiment was a 2 (biological sex: male or female) x 3 (film clip portraying: stere . . .