South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, 2016 CUNY John Jay College
South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, Michael W. Yarbrough
Publications and Research
Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the broad outlines of a nuanced theoretical approach for analysing the law-family relationship, which insists that the relationship entails a contingent and dynamic interplay between relatively powerful regulating institutions and relatively powerless regulated populations. …
A List Of Racialized Black Dolls: 1850-1940, 2016 University of Massachusetts Amherst
A List Of Racialized Black Dolls: 1850-1940, Anthony F. Martin
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
Between 1850 and 1940 Black racialized dolls made in Europe and the northern United States saturated the marketplace with the peak years in the 1920s. These dolls were advertised with pejorative names and descriptions that typed cast African Americans as domestics and labors on mythical antebellum landscapes assisted White children in shaping Black people as inferior to Whites. Data mining doll encyclopedias, websites, and catalogs, I have compiled a list of Black racialized dolls. Additionally, I have provided advertisements of positive imagine Black dolls from The Crisis and The Negro World that provided a counterweight to the stereotyped dolls.
Terracotta Pipes With Triangular Engravings, 2016 Conicet, Centro de Arqueología Urbana (FADU-UBA), Instituto de Arqueología (FFyL, UBA)
Terracotta Pipes With Triangular Engravings, Flavia Zorzi, Daniel G. Schávelzon
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
The discovery of two smoking pipes from seventeenth-century contexts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is used to suggest the presence in colonial times of a new set of stylistic norms derived from African traditions that are expressed at a regional scale not only in smoking pipes, but in a variety of items of material culture. These terracotta pipes, recovered at Bolívar 373 and the Liniers House sites, are characterized by their particular geometric decorative pattern, achieved by engravings and incisions. Similar specimens were found elsewhere in Buenos Aires, as well as in Cayastá (province of Santa Fe, Argentina) and Brazil.
Intercultural And Career Experiences Of African American Women Midlevel Leaders At Predominately White Institutions, 2016 Walden University
Intercultural And Career Experiences Of African American Women Midlevel Leaders At Predominately White Institutions, Rabekah Stewart
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African American women leaders positively influence the college experiences of students at predominately White institutions (PWI), but the retention of those women leaders remains an issue. At the time of this study, limited research informed race and gender issues that intersect the career advancement of African American women serving in midlevel leadership positions at PWIs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the intercultural and career advancement experiences of these women. Critical race theory, critical race feminist theory, and intercultural communications theory were used as a framework to understand the participants' intercultural and career advancement experiences, perceived influences, …
Feminist Futures And Campus Changes: Dismantling Ursinus College's Greek Life, 2016 Ursinus College
Feminist Futures And Campus Changes: Dismantling Ursinus College's Greek Life, Jordan Ostrum
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
No abstract provided.
Feminist And Gay Male Politics: New Issues For Political Collaboration And Activism, 2016 Loyola University Chicago
Feminist And Gay Male Politics: New Issues For Political Collaboration And Activism, Adam Hii
Master's Theses
This project looks at political collaboration between people who self-identify as gay men
and those who self-identify as feminists. These two groups have been political aligned on numerous issues since the 1970s. The goal of this project is to see on which issues that political collaboration will continue moving forward. This research draws extensively on oral interviews conducted with gay men and feminists, as well as the current work of national advocacy organizations to see where political interest is high, and where networks already exist to foster future advocacy efforts. By focusing on these areas, this project predicts which issues …
Brooklyn-Queens Chapter Of Now, 2016 City University of New York (CUNY)
Brooklyn-Queens Chapter Of Now, Brooklyn College
Finding Aids
The collection consists of materials dating from 1972 to 2013, with the bulk of the items dating from 1995-2003. It contains the papers of the Brooklyn (later Brooklyn-Queens) chapter of the National Organization for Women, some papers of NOW-New York State, the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition and collected documents. The collection contains primarily meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, as well as periodicals, newspaper clippings and collected posters and brochures.
Shirley Chisholm Collection, 2016 City University of New York (CUNY)
Shirley Chisholm Collection, Brooklyn College
Finding Aids
Within this collection, researchers will find roughly 300 photographs, typed and handwritten correspondence between Chisholm's constituents and members of her campaign team (including James Pitts), magazines and newspapers, various forms of media including CD’s, video cassette tapes, DV-Cam’s, and a DVD, as well as ephemera from Chisholm's historic Presidential campaign. The bulk dates of this collection are from 1968-1982, and the inclusive dates are from 1944-2012.
The Records & Papers Of The New York State Women’S Political Caucus, 2016 City University of New York (CUNY)
The Records & Papers Of The New York State Women’S Political Caucus, Brooklyn College
Finding Aids
The New York State Women’s Political Caucus is a thriving branch of the national organization. Adele Cohen, the creator of this collection, was highly involved with the organization on the state and national level and served as the president of the New York State caucus from 1992-1994. She began her association with NWPC in the 1980s and remained actively involved after her presidency.
The documents in this collection range in date from the late 1980s to the early 2000s and include information on the governance and activities of the organization as well as correspondence, newsletters, and endorsements.
Cybelle Mcfadden. Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, And Maïwenn. Lanham: Farleigh Dickinson Up, 2014. Xii + 233 Pp., 2016 University of Miami
Cybelle Mcfadden. Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, And Maïwenn. Lanham: Farleigh Dickinson Up, 2014. Xii + 233 Pp., Lauren Van Arsdall
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Cybelle McFadden. Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn. Lanham: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2014. xii + 233 pp.
Gender: The Hidden God In Yasmina Reza's Le Dieu Du Carnage, 2016 The Pennsylvania State University
Gender: The Hidden God In Yasmina Reza's Le Dieu Du Carnage, Lauren Tilger
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Most critics have analyzed acclaimed playwright Yasmina Reza’s Le Dieu du Carnage (2007) as a descent into savagery. This close examination of the play points to the role of gender norms and stereotypes in causing the decline in civility. By taking part in a culture that worships gender ideals, the characters in Reza’s play police one another’s actions to ensure that everyone behaves like proper men and women. The act of attempting to successfully perform femininity or masculinity leads to the evening’s disastrous events. In contrast with readings that have erased gender from the power dynamics of the play and …
Marie Darrieussecq’S Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting Of Adolescence, 2016 Duke University
Marie Darrieussecq’S Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting Of Adolescence, Annabel L. Kim
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Marie Darrieussecq's Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel's "bad" language is a foil for Darrieussecq's larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through which it is usually viewed in order to stage it instead as a body in process, as a situation. For this body in process, gender and sexuality are not givens, but deeply unfamiliar experiences that resist the social order’s dominant framing narratives, its scripts for normal …
A Revised Feminist Analysis Of Disordered Eating And Weight Preoccupation, 2016 Western University
A Revised Feminist Analysis Of Disordered Eating And Weight Preoccupation, Angel Leung
2016 Undergraduate Awards
Eating disorders (EDs) are often emblematized by the upper-class young white woman anorexic or bulimic, an archetype that constructs disordered eating as pathological and depicts it in a singular and comprehensible manner. Personal narratives of body dissatisfaction (rooted in both literature and qualitative research), as well as my own subjectivity as a poor East Asian-Canadian woman, will equip me with the theoretical frameworks and insights by which I problematize the homogenization of problematic eating. Subscribing to the tradition of interjecting first-person perspectives into research that is so characteristic to feminist theory, I demonstrate how a subject as visceral and commanding …
A Double-Sided Mirror: "Otherizing" And Normalizing The Silenced Voices Of Appalachian Women, 2016 Coastal Carolina University
A Double-Sided Mirror: "Otherizing" And Normalizing The Silenced Voices Of Appalachian Women, Ashley Canter
Bridges: A Journal of Student Research
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Appalachian region was not only exploited for capitalistic gains, but also put on display by outsider voices for being home to a supposed "backwards" and "barbaric" culture. Appalachians experienced exploitation working in mines and other industries that only benefitted those receiving the resources of the mountains. A once self-sustaining, individualized culture was now forced to be dependent and suffer through the "otherization" of its own people. Voices hidden in the murky skies and distant mountains of Appalachia were not only silenced, but more hauntingly, they were spoken for, manipulated, and marginalized. …
An Examination Of Gender Income Gaps In And Out Of Government, 2016 University of Kentucky
An Examination Of Gender Income Gaps In And Out Of Government, Elisha Comer
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
No executive summary.
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas, 2016 Linfield College
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas, Rachel Norman
Faculty Publications
This essay by Rachel Norman, which originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, discusses contemporary Muslim fiction published in the United States with a particular focus on three novels: Mojha Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, and Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home.
In His Image: A Content Analysis Of Evangelical Youth Books For Their Representation Of Gender Roles And Ideals, 2016 Seattle Pacific University
In His Image: A Content Analysis Of Evangelical Youth Books For Their Representation Of Gender Roles And Ideals, Taryn Renee Vis
Honors Projects
This content analysis discusses the results of the analysis of twelve major Evangelical books for young adults and their representation of gender roles and gender ideals. The background of the Evangelical church’s handling of gender, particularly in relation to media beginning in the 1970s is established and discussed at length in order to situate this analysis amongst previous discussion of Evangelical gender roles. This analysis found that each of the books discussed four main themes of gender roles and relations: biological essentialism, complementarianism, counter-cultural branding of gender, and sexual purity (especially for young women).
Negotiating Gender And Sexaulity In Contemporary Turkey, 2016 Northern Michigan University
Negotiating Gender And Sexaulity In Contemporary Turkey, Jaspal Kaur Singh 2508334, Mary Lou O'Neil
Books
Turkey is often visualized as a modern nation-state having a perfect balance of Eastern and Western cultural mores and traditions within dominant ideological constructions and representations, but on closer inspection, one can detect conflicts and contradictions within various texts - particularly in regards to depictions of gender and sexual identity. Upon its foundation as a nation, Turkey embarked on a state-centered, elite-driven path toward modernization and Westernization while also seeking to produce a monolithic culture. At the time, it was widely believed that Turkey could not rank among modern, Western countries without the emancipation of women. As a result of …
5: Project History, 2016 Western Michigan University
5: Project History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Investigations at the long lost fort were begun in 1998 by WMU archaeologists.
2: Fort History, 2016 Western Michigan University
2: Fort History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
The French established Fort St. Joseph in the 1691 in present day Niles.