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This dissertation defines a tradition of American and British female modernists whose desire for full emancipation in the early twentieth century compelled them to engage dialectically with their own religious inheritances. Unlike many later twentieth-century feminist thinkers who have advocated a surgical response to gendered religious oppression - one that finds a solution in eliminating religion altogether from women's lives - novelists May Sinclair and Zora Neale Hurston and poets H.D.

This work presents a new numerical method for processing atomic force microscopy (AFM) data to determine the elasticity of cultured adherent biological cells. Raw AFM force-indentation data is commonly interpreted using the Hertz and Sneddon contact mechanics models to fit a Young’s modulus or apparent cell elasticity. This apparent cell elasticity is highly dependent on the method used to identify the first point of contact between the AFM probe and the cell surface.

Mechanical behavior of cells plays a crucial role in response to external stimuli and environment. It is very important to elucidate the mechanisms of cellular activities like spreading and alignment as it would shed light on further biological concepts. A multi-scale computational approach is adopted by modeling the cytoskeleton of cell as a tensegrity structure. The model is based on the complementary force balance between the tension and compression elements, resembling the internal structure of cell cytoskeleton composed of microtubules and actin filaments.

The Lehigh Review is an entirely student-produced research and analytical journal. The staff is dedicated to publishing the best scholarly writing and visual art by Lehigh undergraduates.

The Lehigh Review is an entirely student-produced research and analytical journal. The staff is dedicated to publishing the best scholarly writing and visual art by Lehigh undergraduates.

The Lehigh Review is an entirely student-produced research and analytical journal. The staff is dedicated to publishing the best scholarly writing and visual art by Lehigh undergraduates.

The Lehigh Review is an entirely student-produced research and analytical journal. The staff is dedicated to publishing the best scholarly writing and visual art by Lehigh undergraduates.

The Lehigh Review is an entirely student-produced research and analytical journal. The staff is dedicated to publishing the best scholarly writing and visual art by Lehigh undergraduates.

Feminism has been fraught with backlash since its onset, primarily by men's rights activists. Women's anti-feminism, however, is a more complex issue. One popular Tumblr blog, Women Against Feminism (WAF), began on July 3, 2013 and became a viral sensation in the summer of 2014. The purpose of this thesis is to understand the fundamental reasons why women identify as anti-feminist. A Content Analysis of the Women Against Feminism Tumblr analyzes the prominent motives of women's anti-feminist identities on WAF from July 3rd 2013 to August 31st 2014.

Myosin-generated stresses are responsible for non-equilibrium mechanical behavior of synthesized cytoskeletal networks in vitro. In particular, it is found that myosin stresses can modify the network elasticity. For living cells, it has been suggested that internally generated stress might help cells sense and mimic the stiffness of their environments. However, cellular mechanical responses to intracellular stress are not well understood.