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The American Board's Single Missionary Women In American Indian Missions, 1810–1860, Lisa Jacqueline Travis

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Between 1810 and 1860 in American Indian missions, single missionary women comprised half of the female workforce in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Because the ABCFM operated as a business for converting and assimilating American Indians, it hired single women to perform vital and various tasks. Missionary couples requested that the ABCFM appoint single women to teach, perform domestic work, and care for mission children. Biographically, they resembled each other, but their reasons for becoming missionaries varied. Some single women became missionaries after lifelong dreams, but others because the suggestion was made. As workers, some were …

Gender And Privacy In Cyberspace, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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Re-Visioning Renaissance Women: On The Perils And Pleasures Of Re-Viewing The Past, Sara Jayne Steen, Susan Frye

Quidditas

Two years ago, editor Sharon Beehler and the editorial board of the jour- nal Quidditas (formerly the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association) requested that we—Sara Jayne Steen and Susan Frye—edit a gathering of essays on women in the Renaissance as one way to mark the journal’s new name and critical directions. The gathering printed here, even more than we had hoped, announces this journal’s position as interdisciplinary, historically grounded, and willing to ask of history, literature, and the arts both familiar, recurring questions and those newer questions occasioned by a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Inventing The Wicked Women Of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, And Anne Stanhope, Retha M. Warnicke

Quidditas

In Tudor histories, perhaps more than in other histories, writers have failed to distinguish, as Judith Shapiro has pointed out with reference to anthropological literature, "consistently between the sex bias emanating from the observer and the sex bias characteristic of the community under study.” The sex and gender bias of early modern society was, of course, pervasive and ubiquitous. Prescriptive works instructed women to confine their activities to domestic and family matters. Even as litigators in the courts of law, they were disadvantaged. Generally defining women as the inferior sex, their male contemporaries judged women’s worth by their chastity, silence, …

Allen D. Breck Award Winner: “Ples Acsep Thes My Skrybled Lynes”: The Construction And Conventions Of Women’S Letters In England, 1540–1603, James Daybell

Quidditas

The central themes of this essay are delineated by the contrasting examples of two female correspondents. Both women are from similar gentry backgrounds and wrote in the late 1570s to early 1590s. The first is Mary Harding, the court maid of Lady Bridget Manners, herself the daughter of Elizabeth, countess of Rutland, famed for her marriage to Robert Tyrwhit in 1594, which so greatly incurred the wrath of Elizabeth I. Only four of Mary Harding’s letters have survived, all of which were sent to her mistress’s mother in order to keep her abreast of court news, her daughter’s progress, and …

Review Essay: The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe, Albrecht Classen

Quidditas

Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Trans. and ed. Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996. xxxii + 109 pp. $33.00.

Cereta, Laura. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. Transcribed, trans. and ed. Diana Robin. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. xxvii + 216 pp. $45.00/$19.95.

Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Worth of Women. Wherein is Clearly Revealed their Nobility and their Superiority to Men. Trans. and ed. Virginia Cox. The Other Voice in …

The Unrealized Power Of Mother, Dorothy E. Roberts

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The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen

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Autonomy's Magic Wand: Abortion And Constitutional Interpretation, Anita L. Allen

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Women And Evil, Nel Noddings, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

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Tribe's Judicious Feminism, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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Surrogacy, Slavery, And The Ownership Of Life, Anita L. Allen

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On Being A Role Model, Anita L. Allen

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Privacy, Surrogacy, And The Baby M Case, Anita L. Allen

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Review Essay: Mary Beth Rose, Ed., Women In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance, Joan M. West

Quidditas

Mary Beth Rose, ed., Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Syracuse University, 1986.

Correspondence With Women: The Case Of John Knox, A. Daniel Frankforter

Quidditas

The Reformation opened an ambiguous era for women. There were risks of losses and opportunities for gain for women who made the transition to Protestant faith. Protestant women gave up some traditional religious supports. The Virgin Mary and the female saints, who provided Catholic women with role models and sisterly patronage, were thrust aside. Priestly intercession ended, the Protestant women, like men, stood alone with their consciences in the presence of God. Women were denied the option of careers as nuns in self-governing female communities, and virginity ceased to be a respected female vocation. All women were expected to marry, …

The Preferential Hiring Of Women As Compensatory Justice, Carolyn W. Nicander

Honors Theses

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