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Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes
Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The year is 1867 in Paris during the Second Empire. A musician sets off one day from his flat in a building several centuries old situated on the north side of the city. He is mulling over finances, and he feels lucky to have the place. Though the building is six floors tall with a narrow spiral staircase, the ground floor apartment was available when he was looking, and the piano movers were just able to shoehorn in his forty-year- old Erard piano.
He has a package under his arm, and he is on a mission, but he pauses upon …
Gender Identity Disorder, Jennifer Mckitrick
Gender Identity Disorder, Jennifer Mckitrick
Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications
According to the DSM IV, a person with GID is a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable stress because of their actual sex (Task Force on DSM-IV and American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The way GID is characterized by health professionals, patients, and lay people belies certain assumptions about gender that are strongly held, yet nevertheless questionable. The phenomena of transsexuality and sex-reassignment surgery puts into stark relief the following question: “What does it mean to be male or female?” But while the answer to that question may be informed by contemplation …