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Murder Becomes Her: Media Representations Of Murderous Women In America From 1890-1920, Emily M. Crumpton
Murder Becomes Her: Media Representations Of Murderous Women In America From 1890-1920, Emily M. Crumpton
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis explores the relationship between the media, murderous women, and the concept of separate spheres. Murderous women challenged established gender norms. They did not conform to the societal expectations of their gender, therefore, they were not considered “normal.” As such, women like Alice Mitchell, Jane Toppan, and Amy Archer Gilligan became objects of media, medical, and public curiosity. As defined by medical science and society, newspapers policed the boundaries of “normality” by sensationalizing the lives, actions, and trials of deadly damsels. Newspaper coverage of murderous women reminded the public of the consequences of “abnormality” and non-conformity. This thesis argues …
Religious Outsiders And The Catholic Critique Of Protestantism In America, Bradley Kime
Religious Outsiders And The Catholic Critique Of Protestantism In America, Bradley Kime
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous new religious and irreligious groups arose throughout the United States. These groups were often radical in their assertions of religious authority, their interpretations of scripture, their predictions about Christ’s second coming, their practice of supernatural gifts, their rejection of traditional Christian doctrines, or their rejection of Christianity altogether. American Catholics watched and commented as these groups multiplied and gained momentum. Catholics believed that the growth of radical religious and irreligious groups was the fault of mainstream Protestantism. Over the centuries, Catholics had argued that the Pope’s authority was necessary to provide spiritual …