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Through The Looking Glass: Another Reading Of Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Rebecca H. Bonacchi Aug 2012

Through The Looking Glass: Another Reading Of Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Rebecca H. Bonacchi

English Theses

This project examines Cather’s experimentation with conflicting voices of narrative authority in the presentation of four central female characters in The Professor’s House, using St. Peter and an entity termed the implied narrator as lenses through which we view other characters. The project is broken down into four chapters, each dealing one addressing the central issues involving that specific female character.


Irish American Women: Forgotten First-Wave Feminists, Sally Barr Ebest Jan 2012

Irish American Women: Forgotten First-Wave Feminists, Sally Barr Ebest

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Numerous books have been written about American feminism and its influence on education and society. But none have recognized the key role played by Irish American women in exposing injustice and protecting their rights. Certainly their literary heritage, inherent knowledge of English, and membership in the single largest ethnic group gave them an advantage. But their dual positions as colonized, second-class citizens of their country and their religion gave them their political edge, a trait that has been evident since the Irish first stepped off the boat and that continues to this day. This essay focuses on the first wave …