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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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Elinor and Anne: Emotional Isolation, Family, and Society in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

Publication Date
2023-December-12
Authors
Cazzaniga, Grace
Department or Program
English Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...

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We're City Lifers: Transformative Community Organizing in Boston's City Life/Vida Urbana

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Bix, Jonathan
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

City Life/Vida Urbana is a base-building community organization committed to structural transformation through racial, economic, gender, and other forms of social justice. Its local work currently focuses on preventing evictions as a result of foreclosures. Most people come to City...

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