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"A Situation That Has Existed For Generations": Double Age, Race, And American Juvenile Justice, William S. Bush
"A Situation That Has Existed For Generations": Double Age, Race, And American Juvenile Justice, William S. Bush
History Faculty Publications
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Breaking Away From Reverence And Rape: The Afi Directing Workshop For Women, Feminism, And The Politics Of The Accidental Archive, Philis M. Barragán Goetz
Breaking Away From Reverence And Rape: The Afi Directing Workshop For Women, Feminism, And The Politics Of The Accidental Archive, Philis M. Barragán Goetz
History Faculty Publications
In 1974, the American Film Institute opened the Directing Workshop for Women (DWW). Trying to normalize the idea of a woman director, the program admitted nineteen women, providing each one with the materials to direct two films. Focusing on the DWW's first cycle, this article argues that the DWW's history is a vehicle for understanding the complex ways in which moderate and radical feminists interpreted the role of the women's rights movement in the commercial film industry by examining the controversy and media attention that surrounded it, as well as the ways in which race, class, and fame operated to …
Toward A Legal History Of Children As Witnesses, William S. Bush, David S. Tanenhaus
Toward A Legal History Of Children As Witnesses, William S. Bush, David S. Tanenhaus
History Faculty Publications
This essay offers a selective overview of recent trends in the historical scholarship on American childhood from the origins of the American Revolution to the early years of the Cold War. This overview of the literature has two purposes. First, it highlights recent sociocultural scholarship that presents substantive challenges to the conventional ways of understanding the history of children and the law. Second, in so doing, it points out that legal histories concerned solely with doctrinal matters can, and often do, present a limited and distorted window into the past. Instead, the essay argues that the place of children, historically, …
Representing The Juvenile Delinquent: Reform, Social Science, And Teenage Troubles In Postwar Texas, William S. Bush
Representing The Juvenile Delinquent: Reform, Social Science, And Teenage Troubles In Postwar Texas, William S. Bush
History Faculty Publications
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