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Alterite, Performance, Hybridite: Une Esthetique De La Troisieme Vague Feministe, Michèle A. Schaal
Alterite, Performance, Hybridite: Une Esthetique De La Troisieme Vague Feministe, Michèle A. Schaal
Michèle A. Schaal
France has recently experienced a renewed interest in feminist and gender-related issues. Both in academia and society at large, a younger generation of theorists, authors and activists, influenced by American third-wave feminism and gender studies, has reasserted the necessity to fight for equal rights. My research reveals that as early as the mid-nineties, French writers Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes and Nina Bouraoui anticipated these feminist discourses in their early novels. In particular, they mirrored the concepts of alterity, gender performance, and hybridity currently at stake in this third wave of French feminism. My dissertation investigates the literary manifestations of these …
For One Am Ready To Do My Part: The Initial Motivations That Inspired Men From Northern Illinois To Enlist In The U.S. Army, 1861-1862, Wayne Duerkes
For One Am Ready To Do My Part: The Initial Motivations That Inspired Men From Northern Illinois To Enlist In The U.S. Army, 1861-1862, Wayne Duerkes
Wayne Duerkes
In April 1861, in response to the firing on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five-thousand volunteers to fill the ranks of the U.S. army. The response was immediate and overwhelming. Men residing in the northern states enlisted in such numbers that thousands had to be turned away, many then joining units from other states. During the first two years of the war, Illinois mustered over eightythousand men into Federal service. Of these men, seventeenthousand or 21 percent came from the fourteen northern most counties of the state, excluding Cook County. During the first two years of the war, …