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“Work What You Got”: Political Participation And Hiv-Positive Black Women’S Work To Restore Themselves And Their Communities, Monica L. Melton Aug 2014

“Work What You Got”: Political Participation And Hiv-Positive Black Women’S Work To Restore Themselves And Their Communities, Monica L. Melton

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

Black women’s rates of HIV/AIDS infection have skyrocketed in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups over the past thirty years. Despite these rates, HIV-positive Black women’s perspectives are rarely sought regarding best practices to eradicate and interrupt HIV/AIDS among African American women, even though historically Black women have often proved phenomenal agents of social change. HIV-positive Black women’s activism has been understudied and input from the community in crisis has rarely been deemed as valuable to public health officials in HIV/AIDS prevention and interventions. Through the narratives of thirty HIV-positive Floridian Black women, I present HIV-positive Black women’s political …


Flores-González, Nilda, Et. Al. Immigrant Women Workers In The Neoliberal Age., Linda M. Crawford Phd Aug 2014

Flores-González, Nilda, Et. Al. Immigrant Women Workers In The Neoliberal Age., Linda M. Crawford Phd

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

No abstract provided.


Transformational Learning: Influence Of A Sexism And Heterosexism Course On Student Attitudes And Thought Development, Judy Ouellette Jun 2014

Transformational Learning: Influence Of A Sexism And Heterosexism Course On Student Attitudes And Thought Development, Judy Ouellette

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The current study investigated whether a course regarding prejudice toward homosexuals and women impacted student attitudes and thought development (compared to a controls). Students completed measures of social dominance, attitudes toward homosexuals and obese persons, and modern sexism. Compared to controls the experimental group had less negative attitudes post course.


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014 May 2014

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Female Intercession And The Shaping Of Male Heroism In The Roman D’Enéas And Le Chevalier Au Lion, Gillian Adler May 2014

Female Intercession And The Shaping Of Male Heroism In The Roman D’Enéas And Le Chevalier Au Lion, Gillian Adler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Jansen, Sharon L. Reading Women’S Worlds From Christine De Pizan To Doris Lessing: A Guide To Six Centuries Of Women Writers Imagining Rooms Of Their Own, Misty Urban May 2014

Jansen, Sharon L. Reading Women’S Worlds From Christine De Pizan To Doris Lessing: A Guide To Six Centuries Of Women Writers Imagining Rooms Of Their Own, Misty Urban

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Barking Abbey And Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship And Authority In A Female Community, Mary Dockray-Miller May 2014

Barking Abbey And Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship And Authority In A Female Community, Mary Dockray-Miller

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014 May 2014

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Gender And Class Differences In 19th Century French Prostitution, Mounica V. Kota Ms. May 2014

Gender And Class Differences In 19th Century French Prostitution, Mounica V. Kota Ms.

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper goes over the ways in which class and gender roles intersected in the roles of prostitutes in 19th century France.


Atatürk's Balancing Act: The Role Of Secularism In Turkey, Patrick G. Rear Jan 2014

Atatürk's Balancing Act: The Role Of Secularism In Turkey, Patrick G. Rear

Global Tides

The intersection of religion and politics in the form of a civil religion has been present since time immemorial. This paper looks specifically to the relationship between Turkey’s development of a secular civil religion after gaining independence and the advancing of women’s rights and democratic values. In examining the intersections of state and religion in a secular Islamic society, it draws parallels to the French civil religion as it came to be following the French Revolution. Though Atatürk and other secularists were strong forces in developing the civil religion, the paper also examines liberal democratic and conservative Islamic groups in …