Browsing Department of History (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2017 Fall"
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Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This research looks at Kansas City’s War on Prostitution in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City ... -
From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This thesis examines the creation and response in America to the 1983 nuclear disaster film The Day After. Fueled by renewed nuclear buildup of the 1980s Cold War, the release of the movie became a worldwide sensation, ...