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Una Guerra Contra La Mujer: Chicana Feminism And Vietnam War Protest, Arica Roberts
Una Guerra Contra La Mujer: Chicana Feminism And Vietnam War Protest, Arica Roberts
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Chicana women, especially those in the East Los Angeles chapter, began this autonomous feminist consciousness to challenge sexual oppression within cultural nationalism as they resigned from the Brown Berets, created their own organization, Las Adelitas, continued antiwar efforts with the National Chicano Moratorium Committee and fought for the social, economic, and political liberation and equality of the whole Raza.
German Women In The Wild West: Contradiction In Post-Wwii Gender Roles, Romy Franks
German Women In The Wild West: Contradiction In Post-Wwii Gender Roles, Romy Franks
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
While postwar German women were portrayed as gritty and strong from their lived experiences, West German newspapers articles reiterated the contradictory roles proffered to women in German society. Rather than speaking up against the genre’s masculine dominance, popular western novels, films, and the press continued to reinforce widely held opinions and norms by encouraging women to be content with the ideal female character offered them.
Good Girl, Erin Kaseda
Woman With Birds, Vanessa Palmer
Brave, Erin Kaseda
Language Lessons: Gender-Based Material Signifiers Of Social Intent In Better Off Dead, Elizabeth Brady
Language Lessons: Gender-Based Material Signifiers Of Social Intent In Better Off Dead, Elizabeth Brady
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While there is significant evidence of Lévi-Strauss’s model of women as material signifiers of male intent present in Better Off Dead, two characters undercut the absoluteness of this theory. Monique freely dwelled outside of the realm of the system, indicating that there are alternate models. Lane’s willingness to and success in denying the system and departing from it indicates that even those within the system are not inevitably bound to the tenets of the theory.
City/ What My Mother Told Her Daughter, Me, Kristin Perkins, Lexi Johnson
City/ What My Mother Told Her Daughter, Me, Kristin Perkins, Lexi Johnson
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
artwork and poetry
Yale Joel, Tina Leser, And Factory Fashions: Rethinking Women’S Roles In The 1950s, Emaline Maxfield
Yale Joel, Tina Leser, And Factory Fashions: Rethinking Women’S Roles In The 1950s, Emaline Maxfield
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
In postwar America, women challenged tradition by continuing a trend started in the Second World War, asserting their presence in the workforce both physically and visually with the advent of Tina Leser’s designs. Leser’s designs reached the everyday woman, and Joel’s photographs reached the average American, bringing greater awareness to the ongoing question as to women’s role in society. Both Yale Joel’s photographs and Tina Leser’s designs take part in the changing definition of femininity. Yale Joel’s photographs for LIFE Magazine illustrate how women were encouraged to negotiate a more modern yet also traditional identity, demonstrating the nuances of this …
Real, Vanessa Palmer
Prime Of My Life, Roxanne Harmon
Prime Of My Life, Roxanne Harmon
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A creative reflection on mathematics and body image.