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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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[Exhibition] Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage

Publication Date
2024-January-09
Authors
Cohen, Miriam, 1950-
Seidl, Mark
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
History Department
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

2020 marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That victory had been the goal of suffrage activists since the middle of the 19th century and was the result of countless...

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College-aged women on Instagram: an analysis of gender and social media

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
McGuire, Hanna
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Through an analysis of gender and image theory as well as data gathered through survey, coding and interviews, I sought to explore how twenty-first century women both perform femininity through social media and challenge gendered stereotypes while doing so. I...

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Role of bank branch locations in minority lending

Publication Date
1998-March-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Chang, Angela E.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Past studies on discrimination in home mortgage lending have focused on the loan approval process, yet results show that most of the variation in minority lending across banks is due to the variation in the volume of minority applications and...

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