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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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“They were real, they were American”: Jeans in Soviet magazines in the 1970s and 1980s

Publication Date
2023-April-14
Authors
Omarova, Assel
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

The 1970s and 1980s saw a significant increase in the popularity of jeans among the Soviet Union's youth. To gain a better understanding of the origins of this trend, the paper analyzes interviews with former Soviet Union citizens, as well...

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Art Is What We Say It Is: "Easy Art" and the Pragmatics of Interpretation

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dylan Josef Kerr
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Since 2009, Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen have run the Jogging, a blog on the popular social media site Tumblr in which they and others post a variety of sloppily rendered and generally silly images to be viewed and shared...

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Olympe de Gouges and Qiu Jin: The Revolutionary Women of France and China

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Ruther, Jennifer
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

The extent to which the reform movements of revolutionary China and France "emancipated" women is difficult to assess. In many ways, French and Chinese women both benefited greatly from the sociopolitical changes wrought by the reformist ideologies of these periods...

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