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Constructions Of Domesticity In Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, Lee Joan Skinner
Constructions Of Domesticity In Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, Lee Joan Skinner
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It is by now a commonplace that in nineteenth-century Spanish American literature the family serves as a metaphor for the nation and that authors express their political agendas through allegories of courtship and marriage. In such readings, potential love matches symbolize the reconciliation of contesting political or ethnic groups and point toward ways for the newly-formed Spanish American nations to negotiate difference without falling into civil war. Most notably, Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America succinctly explains her project-subsequently taken up and adapted by a generation of critics-as one that wishes "to locate an erotics of …
Gender As An Impediment To Labor Market Success: Why Do Young Women Report Greater Harm?, Heather Antecol, Peter Kuhn
Gender As An Impediment To Labor Market Success: Why Do Young Women Report Greater Harm?, Heather Antecol, Peter Kuhn
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
Compared to older women, young female job seekers are more than three times as likely to report that their ability to find a good new job is compromised by their gender. This phenomenon cannot be statistically attributed to observed personal or job characteristics, or to any “objective” measure of discrimination. Further, women's reports of gender‐induced advantage, and men's reports of gender‐induced harm, are also more prevalent among the young. A possible interpretation of all these patterns is that young people are more likely to interpret a given departure from gender‐neutral treatment as causally affected by their gender.
Le Défi Théâtral Dans Antigone De Félix Morisseau-Leroy Et La Tragédie Du Roi Christophe D'Aimé Césaire, Marie-Denise Shelton
Le Défi Théâtral Dans Antigone De Félix Morisseau-Leroy Et La Tragédie Du Roi Christophe D'Aimé Césaire, Marie-Denise Shelton
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
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