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Building Leaders For The Future: Women In The Middle East, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger
Building Leaders For The Future: Women In The Middle East, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Equality News (Autumn 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Autumn 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of Jack: Gay Cowboys And Fairy Actors In Brokeback Mountain And Will & Grace, C. Heike Schotten
In Defense Of Jack: Gay Cowboys And Fairy Actors In Brokeback Mountain And Will & Grace, C. Heike Schotten
Political Science Faculty Publication Series
An investigation of the gender politics of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
Equality News (Summer 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Summer 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
No abstract provided.
Naccs 33rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 33rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Linking Local and Global Struggles for Social Justice: Transnational Chicana and Chicano Studise
June 28-July 2006
Hotel Fénix and Hotel Morales
I Am What I Wear: The Use Of Dress In Constructing And Evaluating Sexual Identity, Jean Stevens
I Am What I Wear: The Use Of Dress In Constructing And Evaluating Sexual Identity, Jean Stevens
Honors Capstone Projects - All
This thesis explores different disciplinary studies and discussions of dress, and more specifically, the use of dress in constructing a gendered identity and sexual identity. To conduct this research, I performed a literature review and referenced various social psychological, sociological, and/or feminist theoretical frameworks. I argue that dress cannot serve as any sort of innate or accurate indicator of sexual identity; rather, the meanings associated with dress are socially produced and vary across time and place. Evidence for this argument emerges only after a literature review, as one can recognize a common theme linking the literature, or perhaps a commonly …
Introduction To Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews
Introduction To Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews
History
The disappointment of feminist aspirations in 1848 nevertheless demands more thoroughgoing explanation than its impracticality in politically charged times. We must not lose track of the fact that during the July Monarchy a truly remarkable intellectual revolution took place. For the shy twenty years of Louis Philippe’s reign the formerly unthinkable became relatively commonplace: women’s equality came to be a central tenet of the most avant-garde intellectual and political movement of the day, romantic socialism. Given its integral importance to the earliest pronouncements of socialist philosophy, the totality of feminism’s neglect during the moment of political opportunity afforded to socialism …
Making Meaning Of Megan’S Law, Rose Corrigan
Making Meaning Of Megan’S Law, Rose Corrigan
Rose Corrigan
This study of Megan's Law contrasts scholarly narratives that describe and analyze sexual predator laws with a case study of implementation in New Jersey. A critical feminist perspective shows that Megan's Law employs a radically underinclusive notion of sexual violence that conflicts sharply with feminist arguments about the cultural and institutional roots of sexual violence. The law excludes many of the most common offenders from reach of the law, thus deflecting attention away from assaults committed by family and friends in favor of reviving stereotypes about deviant strangers. The most significant effect of Megan's Law is not to expand the …