Miami University Honors Program
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/5060
2024-03-29T14:26:55ZThe White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women’s Moral Authority
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6712
The White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women’s Moral Authority
Zmuda, Hannah
Despite the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s cultural preoccupation with white women’s sexual vulnerability, another phenomenon managed to take hold of public consciousness: “yellow slavery.” Yellow slavery was the variation of white slavery (known today as sex trafficking) that described the practice when Asian women were the victims. This thesis attempts to determine several of the reasons why Chinese women were included as victims in an otherwise exclusively white victim pool. One of the central reasons was the actual existence of the practice, which this thesis attempts to verify through the critical examination of found contracts and testimony of Chinese women. However, beyond just the existence of the practice of yellow slavery, many individuals used the sexual exploitation of Chinese women for their own cultural, religious, and political ends. Anti-Chinese agitators leveraged the image of the Chinese slave girl to frame anti-Chinese efforts as anti-slavery efforts, as well as to depict Chinese immigrants as incapable of assimilating into American culture and adhering to American ideals of freedom. Additionally, white missionaries created mission homes to shelter and protect the Chinese women and girls escaping white slavery. However, within these homes, the missionaries were then able to push their perceived cultural and religious superiority by pushing the home’s inmates into their ideals of Protestant, middle-class, white womanhood. Finally, suffragists utilized concern for Chinese sex workers to call for women’s suffrage based on women’s unique moral authority to stop immorality, an authority that men did not share.
News Media Reporting of United States Senate Campaigns: The Role of Gender in Local Television Coverage of Elections from 2006 to 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6073
News Media Reporting of United States Senate Campaigns: The Role of Gender in Local Television Coverage of Elections from 2006 to 2014
Fedeli, Sophia
One explanation for the lack of women in elective office concerns the role of media in both shaping and reinforcing gender stereotyping through coverage of elections. Studies have identified gender stereotypes in nationwide television and print media as well as local newspapers, yet none have examined local television news. In this study, I reexamine these findings using a novel data set of local television transcripts of Senatorial campaigns over five election cycles, from 2006 to 2014. The findings reveal that media coverage of female candidates tends to be less biased than previous research shows. Female and male candidates received nearly equal amounts of coverage; however, gender differences in trait and issue coverage remains an issue.
Comparative Education Tier 3 Reflection
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MDLC/12108
Comparative Education Tier 3 Reflection
Banchefsky, Jessica
The Comparative Education Tier 3 Reflection details the educational experience of students of the middle school age in various areas of Southwest Ohio as well as Europe. Specifically, conclusions are drawn based on research and observation to compare educational systems in Austria, Luxembourg, and the United States. Topics such as special needs treatment, student engagement, cultural differences, and technology are included.
2013-05-29T00:00:00ZIt will all fit
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MDLC/12107
It will all fit
Trout, Evan
A collection of poetry that explores the different moods of life, framed by five sections, each introduced by a stanza from a work describing life as a free verse poem written by God.
2013-05-24T00:00:00Z