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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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Labor market informalization and social policy: distributional links and the case of homebased workers

Publication Date
2004-August-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Lourdes Beneria
Maria S. Floro
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper is based on the notion that the nature of current labor market informalization requires rethinking in order to guide action and formulate social policies for eliminating poverty and reducing economic inequality and job insecurity. It explores conceptually and...

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