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Ocr Gender Equity Complaint Against Umaine Closed, Joe Carr Nov 2002

Ocr Gender Equity Complaint Against Umaine Closed, Joe Carr

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Citing progress toward achieving gender equity in intercollegiate athletics, the U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Civil Rights has closed its five-year-old complaint against the University of Maine.


Major Women's History Researcher To Speak At Umaine, Joe Carr Oct 2002

Major Women's History Researcher To Speak At Umaine, Joe Carr

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

“Feminist Reverberations: Critiques of Power and Forms of Resistance in the Age of Globalization” will be the topic of this year’s Howard Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture at the University of Maine.


Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 10 (Fall 2002), Maine Times Staff Sep 2002

Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 10 (Fall 2002), Maine Times Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Issues In Maine Family Planning (Summer 2002), Maine Family Planning Association Staff Jul 2002

Issues In Maine Family Planning (Summer 2002), Maine Family Planning Association Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


News From Maine Vol. 23, Nos. 10-11 (Jul-Aug 2002), National Association Of Women In Construction - Maine Chapter Staff Jul 2002

News From Maine Vol. 23, Nos. 10-11 (Jul-Aug 2002), National Association Of Women In Construction - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Wome In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program 2001-2002, Womein In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program, University Of Maine Staff Jun 2002

Wome In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program 2001-2002, Womein In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program, University Of Maine Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Welfare, Work And Raising Children - Conversations Withtwenty-One Maine Families (2002), Christine Hasted, Rebekah J. Smith May 2002

Welfare, Work And Raising Children - Conversations Withtwenty-One Maine Families (2002), Christine Hasted, Rebekah J. Smith

Academic Literature and Research Reports

No abstract provided.


News From Maine Vol. 23, No. 6 (Mar 2002), National Association Of Women In Construction - Maine Chapter Staff Mar 2002

News From Maine Vol. 23, No. 6 (Mar 2002), National Association Of Women In Construction - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Les Soeurs Grises Of Lewiston, Maine 1878-1908: An Ethnic Religious Feminist Expression, Susan Hudson Jan 2002

Les Soeurs Grises Of Lewiston, Maine 1878-1908: An Ethnic Religious Feminist Expression, Susan Hudson

Maine History

Lewiston, Maine's first public hospital became a reality in 1889 when the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, the “Grey Nuns,” opened the doors of the Asylum of Our Lady of Lourdes. This hospital was central to the Grey Nuns' mission of providing social services for Lewiston's predominately French-Canadian mill workers. Susan Hudson explores the obstacles faced by the Grey Nuns as they struggled to establish their institution despite meager financial resources, language barriers, and in the face of opposition from the established medical community. Susan Pearman Hudson is a Ph.D. candidate at Catholic University of America and a member of …


The Persis Sibley Andrews Black Diaries, William David Barry, Stephanie Philbrick Jan 2002

The Persis Sibley Andrews Black Diaries, William David Barry, Stephanie Philbrick

Maine History

No abstract provided.


Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 8 (Winter 2002), Mainely Girls Staff Jan 2002

Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 8 (Winter 2002), Mainely Girls Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Picturing Nature: Education, Ornithology And Photography In The Life Of Cordelia Stanwood: 1865-1958, Cynthia Watkins Richardson Jan 2002

Picturing Nature: Education, Ornithology And Photography In The Life Of Cordelia Stanwood: 1865-1958, Cynthia Watkins Richardson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The field of environmental history, with a few exceptions, has neglected gendered analysis; in addition, several women's histories have analyzed a few environmental issues, but disregard environmental scholarship. In the joining of women's and environmental history, this dissertation examines the life of one woman, Cordelia J. Stanwood of Ellsworth, Maine (1865-1958), to determine how a woman could use nature to transcend the social limits of domesticity in the early twentieth century. Research of her correspondence, published writing, photography and forty years of field notes reveals that like many other women, she took advantage of technology and evolving ideas about womanhood …