Renaissance Fare: Appetite and Authority on the Early Modern English Stage

The politics of food are naturally central to many early modern plays in part because of unstable supply and means of distribution in London. Food is a type of property that can represent a great deal of power, especially in times of scarcity. Drama, as a widely viewed popular form, had great power to affect and reflect common understandings of how bodies were constituted through actions like eating and drinking. Early modern dramatic characters use food and consumption to wield, reveal, and limit power within early modern drama; the consumers of drama did the same within early modern English culture. This study seeks new understandings of how early modern identities were established and maintained through food. In addition to all the things we might expect about the experience of food, its vital importance, availability, perishability, and cost would have been conspicuous to the early modern viewers. The eleven plays analyzed here, selected for the prominence and significance of food and consumption in their plots, include Christopher Marlowe's The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus (1588); Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV (1597), 2 Henry IV (1597), Measure for Measure (1604), Titus Andronicus (1594), and Timon of Athens (1607); Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603); Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613); John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1613); and Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair (1614) and The Magnetic Lady (1632). Knowledge taken for granted by the contemporaries of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Heywood has faded alongside the popularity and availability of many food and drink items, and readers have replaced such knowledge with assumptions informed by their own culture's food beliefs and practices. This dissertation argues that the material components of appetite reflect and recast early modern power structures within drama, destabilizing the patterns of control and ownership in the food market economy, causing political dysfunction in England's body politic, constructing and revealing the social archetype of the pregnant woman, and exploring the social acceptability of extreme forms of justice

Transitioning to Adulthood: An Annotated Bibliography of the PSID-TA Publications

This report provides an annotated bibliography of all 100 publications published to date on the Transition to Adulthood Supplement (TAS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Of these publications, 79 are articles in peer-reviewed journals, 6 are book chapters, and 15 are doctoral student dissertations. In terms of topic area, 40 publications focus on the impact of economics and socioeconomic status, another 18 study the effect of childhood and youth savings accounts, 41 study educational attainment and college-level outcomes, 32 study health and wellbeing, 20 investigate marriage and family dynamics, 31 explicitly attend to race and ethnicity, 10 study work and occupations, 7 neighborhood effects, 7 social capital and trust, 3 criminal activity, and 5 explicitly engage technology (note: since publications often engage multiple topics, these categories are not mutually-exclusive)

A cross cultural study of gender differences in omnichannel retailing contexts

This research examines gender difference in omnichannel experience in modern shopping malls, combining personal, physical and virtual encounters. It proposes a new theoretical model: the gender-based shopping mall omnichannel experience model. Data was collected using 1139 questionnaires completed by millennial shoppers in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. Data was analysed using partial least squares. The results showed a shift in males shopping behaviour as they pay more attention to peer interaction on social platforms, service excellence, convenience, diversity and personalisation in shopping malls than female shoppers, while aesthetics and privacy are more important for female shoppers

'Look What Market She Hath Made': Women, Commerce, and Power in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Bartholomew Fair

This essay examines the effects of women’s roles in early modern English food marketplaces, highlighting ways that ordinary women could use their participation in food transactions to destabilize (and even subvert) power structures and garner authority. In Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) and Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair (1614), food informs a complete understanding of early modern attitudes toward shifting gender roles in the ever-evolving and expanding food economy

Lincoln Monument (Wyoming)

This postcard features an Abraham Lincoln monument in Wyoming.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-postcards/2517/thumbnail.jp