The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends

In the aftermath of its initial broadcast run, iconic millennial sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) generated some quality scholarship interrogating its politics of gender. But as a site of analysis, it remains a curious, almost structuring absence from the central canon of the first wave of feminist criticism of postfeminist culture. This absence is curious not only considering the place of Friends at the forefront of millennial popular culture but also in light of its long-term syndication in countries across the world since that time. And it is structuring in the sense that Friends was the stage on which many of the familiar tropes of postfeminism interrogated across the body of work on it appear in retrospect to have been tried and tested. This article aims to contribute toward redressing this absence through interrogation and contextualization of the series’ negotiation of a range of structuring tropes of postfeminist media discourse, and it argues for Friends as an unacknowledged ur-text of millennial postfeminism

Conquest and restoration: United States policy on the restitution of personal assets from the Holocaust, a constructivist view

The robbery of Europe's Jews preceded the genocide of the Holocaust and served as a warning of worse events to come. The Nazis, through the molding and construction of a religion meant to supercede the Jewish religion and the Jews as the new "chosen," achieved this robbery, as well as the disenfranchisement, and annihilation of the Jews, first of Germany, and then in the rest of Europe. Following the Nazis' defeat, the United States in concert with its war-time allies, began what would become a decade's long struggle for restitution for these crimes. Together, the robbery of Europe's Jews and the successes and failures of post-Holocaust restitution are explained through Constructivist theory which examines social construction through the interaction of linguistic speech rules.</p

Conquest and restoration: United States policy on the restitution of personal assets from the Holocaust, a constructivist view.

The robbery of Europe's Jews preceded the genocide of the Holocaust and served as a warning of worse events to come. The Nazis, through the molding and construction of a religion meant to supercede the Jewish religion and the Jews as the new "chosen," achieved this robbery, as well as the disenfranchisement, and annihilation of the Jews, first of Germany, and then in the rest of Europe. Following the Nazis' defeat, the United States in concert with its war-time allies, began what would become a decade's long struggle for restitution for these crimes. Together, the robbery of Europe's Jews and the successes and failures of post-Holocaust restitution are explained through Constructivist theory which examines social construction through the interaction of linguistic speech rules.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami, 2004.School code: 0125