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Corinne Alinea - A Potential Role for Programmed Cell Death in the Formation of an In Vitro Neural Stem Cell Niche
Reconstruction of Free Energy Profiles from Fast Nonequilibrium Processes
Stress and the American Toad
Effect of Parental Intervention and Toddler Distress in Fear eliciting Situations
Valuation, Information, and Bidding in Real Estate Auctions
Synthesis of an Analog of the Novel Anti-neoplastic Agent Leinamycin
Classifying Cicero’s Catilinarians
Seismic Station Installation in Isparta, Turkey and Surrounding Regions
Embryonic stem cells cross-correct for defects found in a mutant mouse model for the neurodegenerative disorder known as Batten Disease
Altered Nuclear Gene Expression in Response to Mitochondrial Mutations in Maize
Autonomy, Uncertainty, and Brute Luck Egalitarianism
Clarifying Prehistory
Effects of Endocrine Disrupters on the Zebrafish Embryo
The Benefits of Online Emotional Disclosure
Clean Cells, Liberating Prisons?: American and British Housewives after World War II and Women of Today
Topics:
motherhood
feminism
Amanda Schmid, History
Linda Reeder, Mentor
This project focused on the selling of motherhood, specifically through technological innovations and the medicalization of women, to American and British housewives after the Second World War and examined how the politics of mothering after the war still resonate with women today. My research found that housewives in both America and Britain were remarkably similar in the way they looked at housework as well as how they reacted to the culture of the time. Today, many women in both countries are also beginning to question the feminist goal of “having it all,” yearning to become the typical housewives whom the media portrayed in the 1950s.