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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations In Three Lesbian Novels, Jennifer Jordan
Resisting Marriage: Defying Expectations In Three Lesbian Novels, Jennifer Jordan
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Transformations Of The Turkish Headscarf: An Exploration Of The Political Meaning, Socio-Economic Impact, Cultural Influence, And The Art And Craft Of The Hijab, Kelsey Gabrielle Leuenberger
Transformations Of The Turkish Headscarf: An Exploration Of The Political Meaning, Socio-Economic Impact, Cultural Influence, And The Art And Craft Of The Hijab, Kelsey Gabrielle Leuenberger
Honors Program Theses and Projects
The wearing of hijab by Muslim women is a divisive issue around the world. The history of veiling by Turkish women is important because it is so controversial and because of its global relevance in contexts of economics, politics, and culture. The headscarf, as a form of art and power, has significant influence on the freedoms of women. The goal of this research project is to elevate Western understanding of Turkish women’s headscarf veiling as it is located in economic, political, cultural, and socio-historical contexts and as it intersects with artistic influence and design. This research on the contradictions and …
Apartheid’S Last Hope: The International Fight For Walvis Bay, 1966-1994 History, Lila Quinn
Apartheid’S Last Hope: The International Fight For Walvis Bay, 1966-1994 History, Lila Quinn
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Oleksandr Dovzhenko’S Fight For Ukraine, Vitalina Buchatska
Oleksandr Dovzhenko’S Fight For Ukraine, Vitalina Buchatska
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Katherine Dunn’S Geek Love And The Question Of Being Human In Freak Form, Abigail Hess
Katherine Dunn’S Geek Love And The Question Of Being Human In Freak Form, Abigail Hess
Master’s Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Percy Bysshe Shelley’S The Cenci And The “Pernicious Mistake” Of The Regency-Era Melodrama, Derek Leuenberger
Percy Bysshe Shelley’S The Cenci And The “Pernicious Mistake” Of The Regency-Era Melodrama, Derek Leuenberger
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Collecting Thoughts, Leonid Heretz
Staging A Life: An Interview With John J. Winters, Benjamin Carson
Staging A Life: An Interview With John J. Winters, Benjamin Carson
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political And Legal Problems, Todd C. Harris
Book Review: Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political And Legal Problems, Todd C. Harris
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems, edited by Zahra Meghani. Routledge, 2016.
Book Review: Valued Daughters, First Generation Career Women, Madhavi Venkatesan
Book Review: Valued Daughters, First Generation Career Women, Madhavi Venkatesan
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Valued Daughters, First Generation Career Women, by Alice W. Clark. Sage Publishing India. 2016.
Book Review: Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons, Wendy Wright
Book Review: Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons, Wendy Wright
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons, Anna Carastathis. University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Book Review: Gender Shrapnel In The Academic Workplace, Lisa M. Litterio
Book Review: Gender Shrapnel In The Academic Workplace, Lisa M. Litterio
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace, by Ellen Mayock. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Book Review: Gendering War And Peace Reporting: Some Insights–Some Missing Links, William A. Tringali
Book Review: Gendering War And Peace Reporting: Some Insights–Some Missing Links, William A. Tringali
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights –Some Missing Links, edited by Bertit von der Lippe and Rune Ottosen. Nordicom, 2016
Book Review: Dealing In Desire: Asian Ascendency, Western Decline, And The Hidden Currency Of Global Sex Work, Lara L. Watkins
Book Review: Dealing In Desire: Asian Ascendency, Western Decline, And The Hidden Currency Of Global Sex Work, Lara L. Watkins
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendency, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currency of Global Sex Work, by Kimberly Kay Hoang. University of California Press, 2015.
Book Review: The Case Of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, And The California Courts, Megan M. Connerly
Book Review: The Case Of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, And The California Courts, Megan M. Connerly
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts, by Kathleen A. Cairns. University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Book Review: Beyond Headscarf Culture In Turkey’S Retail Sector, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger
Book Review: Beyond Headscarf Culture In Turkey’S Retail Sector, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector, by Feyda Sayan-Cengiz. Palgrave MacMillan, 2016
Make America Wait Again, Kim Petrovic
Make America Wait Again, Kim Petrovic
Journal of International Women's Studies
As a means of redirecting my own personal grief that stemmed from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Donald J. Trump in the most recent presidential election, I penned the following prose during the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 as Trump gave his victory speech. Like many Americans who voted in the 2016 Presidential Election, I support the right to vote for one's choice of presidential candidate; however, I am not alone in my concerns about the current presidential administration. Not only are Trump's attempts to silence the media and the right to freedom of speech cause for alarm, …
A Syrian Woman’S Story: Her Journey From Damascus To The United States, Jehan Sayed Issa
A Syrian Woman’S Story: Her Journey From Damascus To The United States, Jehan Sayed Issa
Journal of International Women's Studies
This is a story of a Syrian woman who was compelled to leave her home in the disastrous wake of the war and to travel to the USA, pregnant and with her wounded son, leaving behind her husband and remaining children, to seek medical care. She describes her struggles, suffering and triumphs, amidst feelings of loneliness and despair.
Drinking Coffee In Bosnia: Listening To Stories Of Wartime Violence And Rape, Olivera Simic
Drinking Coffee In Bosnia: Listening To Stories Of Wartime Violence And Rape, Olivera Simic
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Sex Wars Revisited: A Rhetorical Economy Of Sex Industry Opposition, Alison Phipps
Sex Wars Revisited: A Rhetorical Economy Of Sex Industry Opposition, Alison Phipps
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper attempts to sketch a ‘rhetorical economy’ of feminist opposition to the sex industry, via the case study of debates around Amnesty International’s 2016 policy supporting decriminalisation as the best way to ensure sex workers’ human rights and safety. Drawing on Ahmed’s concept of ‘affective economies’ in which emotions circulate as capital, I explore an emotionally loaded discursive field which is also characterised by specific and calculated rhetorical manoeuvres for political gain. My analysis is situated in what Rentschler and Thrift call the ‘discursive publics’ of contemporary Western feminism, which encompass academic, activist, and public/media discussions. I argue that …
Eating Disorders And Constitutive Absence In Contemporary Women’S Writing, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
Eating Disorders And Constitutive Absence In Contemporary Women’S Writing, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
Journal of International Women's Studies
Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined by a strong existential component fuelled by women’s paradoxical position in present day capitalist western culture. After a review of social and psychological factors that play a significant role in the development of the disorders, this essay explores the representation of anorexia nervosa in three different first-person narratives. By portraying the psychological intricacies of the illness, these texts provide valuable information regarding its aetiology and cure in the line of recent bio-medical research on eating disorders that stresses the need to treat the disease as a symptom …
Beauty And The Internet: Old Wine In A New Bottle, Piyali Sur
Beauty And The Internet: Old Wine In A New Bottle, Piyali Sur
Journal of International Women's Studies
In the consumer culture of late modernity, young women are obsessed with their physical appearance and attempt to conform to socially constructed beauty standards. Adolescent girls are surrounded by images of beauty through advertising, television, films, magazines and the recent beauty blogs that have burst forth on the worldwide web. This paper is on the use of beauty blogs by adolescent girls of the age group 15 to 19 years living in Kolkata, whereby depicting that there is no escape from feminine embodiment even in the digital world. The researcher has compiled the beauty/fashion blogs that adolescent girls regularly visit …
Gender And Education In Guinea: Increasing Accessibility And Maintaining Girls In School, Rebecca Coleman
Gender And Education In Guinea: Increasing Accessibility And Maintaining Girls In School, Rebecca Coleman
Journal of International Women's Studies
In West Africa, girls’ enrollment in primary and secondary schools has significantly increased since the 1980’s; however, there is still a great disparity between male and female enrollment and participation. This paper will cover the lasting influences of the gap between male and female education accessibility in the country of Guinea. Issues such as teen marriage, gender based violence, funding, and infrastructure will be discussed. Alternatives to address these issues will be compared, focusing heavily on what the Guinean population can accomplish themselves, without generous help from the outside. Solutions to this problem include addressing the cultural bias against putting …
Convicted Without Evidence: Elderly Women And Witchcraft Accusations In Contemporary Nigeria, Friday A. Eboiyehi
Convicted Without Evidence: Elderly Women And Witchcraft Accusations In Contemporary Nigeria, Friday A. Eboiyehi
Journal of International Women's Studies
Concern about persecution of person(s) accused of witchcraft practices has long been recognized as a major issue in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, the persecution of elderly women suspected to be witches is predominantly widespread, and has been identified as one of the most important obstacle to the attainment of the December, 1993 Declaration of the UN General Assembly on elimination of violence against women on the continent. Torturing and various forms of violence against elderly women accused of witchcraft without evidence against them implies major infringements of their fundamental Human Rights as enshrined in Article 5 of the Universal Declaration …
The Exploitation Of Women And Social Change In The Writing Of Nawal El-Saadawi, Muhammad Youssef Suwaed
The Exploitation Of Women And Social Change In The Writing Of Nawal El-Saadawi, Muhammad Youssef Suwaed
Journal of International Women's Studies
Nawal El-Saadawi is an Egyptian writer, a physician by education, who dedicated her life to promote gender equality. She is an activist writer, and the only one in Egypt who point out the connection of women’s sexual oppression to women’s social and political oppression. She boldly pursues women rights, and demands to change the status and image of the Arabic woman. Her writings include novels, studies and educated scholastic articles, focusing on the oppression and exploitation of the Arabic women, particularly customary rules imposed on women in rural Egypt relying on religion, tradition and the regime. Her writings keep the …
Uncertainty And Resistance In Jordanian Women's Perceptions Of Their Positionings In Society, Oraib Mango
Uncertainty And Resistance In Jordanian Women's Perceptions Of Their Positionings In Society, Oraib Mango
Journal of International Women's Studies
In many parts of the world, women continue to face issues of inequality and discrimination. While the plight of Arab women for gender equality has gained media attention, fewer studies have investigated the perceptions of Arab women themselves on this issue. In this study, through discourse and content analysis of face to face interviews, I investigated the meanings that Jordanian women made of how the society viewed and positioned them. While the participants were aware of the dominant Discourse that limited women and positioned them as inferior to men, their talk also expressed their resistance to this discourse. A post-structuralist …
Women In Political Positions And Countries’ Level Of Happiness, Stefane Kabene, Said Baadel, Zahra Jiwani, Vanessa Lobo
Women In Political Positions And Countries’ Level Of Happiness, Stefane Kabene, Said Baadel, Zahra Jiwani, Vanessa Lobo
Journal of International Women's Studies
This study discusses the relationship between a country’s happiness, and relevant country characteristics including gender inequality, levels of corruption, and the percentage of women in parliamentary positions. The aim of the study is to understand how these variables change according to female representation in political leadership. Secondary source data was collected and correlation analyses were performed between the variables using the SPSS statistical program. Results show that the lower the Gender Inequality Index, the higher the percentage of Women in Parliament Positions and the higher the Happiness Index. Furthermore, the results indicate that a higher number of women in leadership …
Nepal Himalaya: Women, Politics, And Administration, Tulasi Acharya
Nepal Himalaya: Women, Politics, And Administration, Tulasi Acharya
Journal of International Women's Studies
The paper is a qualitative analysis of the status of women and women in politics and administration in Nepal Himalaya. The paper reviews data on women in civil service and in administrative levels. Looking at women in Nepali politics, policy on women, and women in administration, the paper highlights some social and cultural issues that have “othered” women as the “second sex.” As the country is heading towards modernity, gender friendly approaches are being instituted. Although some data reflects the progress of women’s status and their increasing political and administrative participation, the data is insufficient to predict if there is …
Eating Burnt Toast: The Lived Experiences Of Female Breadwinners In South Africa, Bianca Rochelle Parry, Puleng Segalo
Eating Burnt Toast: The Lived Experiences Of Female Breadwinners In South Africa, Bianca Rochelle Parry, Puleng Segalo
Journal of International Women's Studies
In South African society, many women have overcome traditional notions of gender by becoming primary breadwinners in their homes and providing primary financial support for their families. Employing a Phenomenological viewpoint, this paper contextualises the individual lived experiences of South African female breadwinners, utilising data collected from ten female breadwinners from the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces respectively using in-depth, semi structured interviews. Taking into consideration their intersectional experiences of gender, race, as well as cultural, traditional and patriarchal societal pressures, the study represents voices that have for a long time been silenced and marginalised, to understand how these women make …
Indigenous Communication: Socio-Economic Characteristics Influencing Contemporary Female Political Participation, Kehinde Oyesomi, Abiodun Salawu, Bankole Olorunyomi
Indigenous Communication: Socio-Economic Characteristics Influencing Contemporary Female Political Participation, Kehinde Oyesomi, Abiodun Salawu, Bankole Olorunyomi
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper takes into account the exceptionality of the socio-economic characteristics (age, income, education, marital status, occupation) of female participation in politics through the use of indigenous communication. The theory was laid on democratic-participant theory. Four communities were selected in Lagos and Ogun states. Survey design, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and in-depth interviews (IDI) were adopted to generate both quantitative and qualitative data for the study. Structured and semi structured copies of the questionnaire were administered on 800 purposively selected respondents but only 775 copies of the questionnaire were used for analysis. Four (4) focus group discussions, made up of …