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Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 799. Letter, 19 May 1862, to his wife from Ray, a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. He expresses concern that his children be properly educated and socialized if he does not return from the war.


Moulder, Valentine, 1836-1906 (Sc 1489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Moulder, Valentine, 1836-1906 (Sc 1489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1489. Chiefly incoming business and personal letters to Valentine Moulder, a Warren County, Kentucky magistrate. Of particular interest are letters from Moulder's brother, Elijah Evans Moulder, that discuss the Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s and matters related to Valentine's son, George W. Moulder.


Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1300. Letter, 16 June 1973, written to Dolores Hayford, Oakland, California, by Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, responding to Hayford's comments about her book "The Kinta Years" and expressing her views on child-parent relationships.


Sex Role Orientation And Its Effect On A Woman’S Decision To Parent, Agnes Van Buren Oct 1983

Sex Role Orientation And Its Effect On A Woman’S Decision To Parent, Agnes Van Buren

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Female undergraduates from a private college on the east coast were surveyed regarding their feelings about having children and were asked to complete the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Eighty-one percent of the respondents indicated a desire to have one or more children. Nineteen percent responded negatively or were uncertain of their feelings at that time. On the BSRI, 12% were classified as Masculine, 38% as Feminine, 37% as Androgynous, 13% as Undifferentiated. Comparison of the Masculine, Feminine and Androgynous groups (the Undifferentiated group was excluded from analysis) showed that the proportion of Feminine women indicating a desire to have …