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The History Of Vera House: Planting Seeds: Expanding Roots, Erin Elizabeth Wolfe
The History Of Vera House: Planting Seeds: Expanding Roots, Erin Elizabeth Wolfe
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This thesis tracks the development of Vera House Inc., a sheltering domestic violence agency inSyracuse,New York, from its conception in 1973 to its opening in 1977 to its programmatic development 1980's-present. The introduction provides the historical context of Vera House's opening with an overview of the Battered Women's Movement and its formation in the 1970's. The body of the thesis is broken into two sections: Planting Seeds and Expanding Roots. The first section, Planting Seeds, discusses the historical development of Vera House as a sheltering service inSyracuse,New York. The second section, Expanding Roots, covers the programmatic growth of Vera House, …
Naccs 32nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 32nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Visión: Articulating, Imagining, and Contextualizing Chicana/o Spaces
April 13-17
Hyatt Regency
Gender Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives On Drugs, Department Stores, Feminists, And Adoption In The Americas, Ageeth Sluis
Gender Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives On Drugs, Department Stores, Feminists, And Adoption In The Americas, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
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Incest Laws And Absent Taboos In Roman Egypt, Anise Strong
Incest Laws And Absent Taboos In Roman Egypt, Anise Strong
Anise K Strong
For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full sisters and raised families with them. During the same era, Roman law firmly banned close-kin marriages and denounced them both as nefas, or sacrilegious, and against the ius gentium, the laws shared by all civilized peoples. In Egypt, however, Roman officials deliberately chose not to enforce the relevant marriage laws among the Greek metic, hybrid, and native Egyptian populations; the bureaucracy also created loopholes within new laws which tolerated the practice. This policy created a gap between the absolute theoretical ban …