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Girls "In Trouble": A History Of Female Adolescent Sexuality In The Midwest, 1946-1964, Charissa Keup
Girls "In Trouble": A History Of Female Adolescent Sexuality In The Midwest, 1946-1964, Charissa Keup
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation attempts to show how Americans reacted to adolescent female sexuality, looking specifically at unwed school-age pregnancy in the post-World War Two decades. It documents the origins of the transition of the conversation about unwed teens from caring for them in maternity homes and boarding houses to discussing their problems on television shows and in popular magazines. Teenage sexual delinquency and pregnancy have always raised innumerable questions about American culture and values. Because they challenged the traditional concept of motherhood, they offer a lens through which to study American sexuality and reveal that an alternate 1950s existed beyond the …
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
Anti-Catholicism And The Gothic Imaginary: The Historical And Literary Contexts, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan
Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Drama And Catholic Themes, Edwin Block
Drama And Catholic Themes, Edwin Block
English Faculty Research and Publications
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The Land Of Give And Take, Tyler Farrell
The Land Of Give And Take, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
In The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrell’s second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish, professors and proles. Their stories are told by an acute narrator, or often by the characters themselves, and as one poem says, “someone buys the story.” The reader buys these stories for their authenticity and pathos. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the churches claims, but recognizing that nothing else gives weight and meaning to the lives of these transient …
Response: The Challenge Of Idolatry And Ecclesial Identity, Bryan Massingale
Response: The Challenge Of Idolatry And Ecclesial Identity, Bryan Massingale
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
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