Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

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.

Camera Work: The Vital Force Behind A New Way of Seeing A Media Studies Program Senior Thesis

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2015-January-01
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Photographer and journal editor Alfred Stieglitz has been credited with evolving an American style of looking at photography. After attempting to develop its recognition as an art form from within the gallery setting, Stieglitz seized an opportunity to instigate change...

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

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2023-December-12
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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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Stripping Autonomy: Coloniality and the Production of Territory vis-à-vis Canada's Exotic Dancer Visa Program

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2014-January-01
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This paper traces the making and unmaking of a unique former temporary visa program in Canada: the Exotic Dancer Visa Program. Using theories of territory and colonialism, I imaginatively analyze the construction of the Canadian state and migrant exotic dancer...

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