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Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural Discourses Of Maternity, Angela M. Moe

Angela M. Moe

I’m waiting backstage. The last minute checks… Shoes? I can’t bend down far enough to reach them. Hip scarf? I can’t reach across far enough across myself to adjust it. Veil? If I turn around to ensure it’s draped correctly, I’ll bump into and move the stage curtains. Warm up hip shimmy? No need. I’m always warm nowadays. My time is close, in more ways than one. The music, and the flutter in my belly, serve as reminders… I’m 26 weeks along and I’m still dancing. I’m proud of myself. I enter the stage feeling voluptuous and ripe...what as odd …

Place For Personhood: Individual And Local Character In Lifestyle Migration, Brian A. Hoey

Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.

While drawing on literature of narrative interpretations of the construction of self and place-based, embodied identity, this article will explore the impact of invasive market forces on intertwined processes of person, self, and place-making. It considers how resources for these projects have changed in the face of translocal market forces and neoliberal ideals. Despite numerous proclamations of an essential placelessness to contemporary American society, place continues to be a basic part of the construction of the person. In fact, a variety of place-making practices are increasingly pursued as ways of negotiating tension between personal experience with material demands in pursuit …

Growing Cricket In Tasmania: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Elizabeth Ann Stanford

Honors Theses

Sports are an integral part of life in societies throughout the world. Cricket is one of Australia’s two major sports and is a significant aspect of its culture, in a fashion similar to baseball being America’s “national pastime.” Despite its isolation, Tasmania, the small island state of Australia, shares the same mania for cricket as mainland Australia. While in Tasmania for ten weeks interning with the Tasmanian Cricket Association (TCA), I studied the role of cricket in the day-to-day lives of Tasmanians, from the pervasive television, newspaper, and the radio coverage, to pick-up cricket games as a popular leisure time …

Pursuing The Good Life: American Narratives Of Travel And A Search For Refuge, Brian A. Hoey

Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.

Can Developing Women Create Primitive Art? And Other Questions Of Value, Meaning And Identity In The Circulation Of Janakpur Art, Coralynn V. Davis

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article, I examine the values and meanings that adhere to objects made by Maithil women at a development project in Janakpur, Nepal – objects collectors have called ‘Janakpur Art’. I seek to explain how and why changes in pictorial content in Janakpur Art – shifts that took place over a period of five or six years in the 1990s – occurred, and what such a change might indicate about the link between Maithil women’s lives, development, and tourism. As I will demonstrate, part of the appeal for consumers of Janakpur Art has been that it is produced at …

From Pi To Pie: Moral Narratives Of Noneconomic Migration And Starting Over In The Postindustrial Midwest., Brian A. Hoey

Brian A Hoey

Research introduced here examines the impact of social and structural transitions during the past three decades on middle-class working families in the United States. Through the telling narrative of an especially iconic case of urban-to-rural migration and career change, this article explores the meaning of relocation away from metropolitan areas and corporate careers to growing ex-urban, small-town communities. The author interprets this life-style migration as a manner of personally negotiating tension between experience of material demands in pursuit of a livelihood within the flexible New Economy and prevailing cultural conventions for the good life that shape the moral narratives that …

Bodies In Motion: Contemplating Work, Leisure, And Late Capitalism In Japanese Fitness Clubs, Elise M. Edwards

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Review article of:

Laura Spielvogel. 2003. Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Bryant Medley during his freshman year at WKU. Includes event invitations and broadsides, awards, newspaper clippings regarding social life at WKU in 1983-1984.

Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A science fiction (“sf”) fan is an individual whose interest in this literary genre has extended past reading into involvement in such things as local science fiction clubs, fan magazines (“fanzines”), and sf conventions (“cons”). Science fiction fandom is the loosely-structured, geographically-dispersed organization of these fans. Drawing on both written sources and field interviews with eight informants, the history, composition and structure of sf fandom is examined from a folkloristic viewpoint. The forms of folklore which serve to bind the individual fan to the larger social entity of fandom are detailed.

Despite its literary orientation, fandom is primarily a social …

Ua94/5/1 Thirteeners Pledge Book, Richard Minton

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pledge book for the Thirteeners fraternity belonging to Richard Minton. The book contains duties of the pledge, class schedule, notes from Thirteener members, addresses of members and other pledge notes. The members address section includes their major, class, office held, nicknames and girl pinned to as applicable.

Ua94/5/1 Roa's Communique, Vol. 3, No. 1, Rho Omega Alpha

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the Rho Omega Alpha fraternity

Ua94/5/1 Beta Omega Chi Dance Card, Beta Omega Chi

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Beta Omega Chi dance program and card for the spring formal belonging to George Wells. Includes program, menu, list of members and officers, Beta Omega Chi song lyrics and dance card.

Ua94/5/1 Kappa Beta Pi Backward Dance, Kappa Beta Pi

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Kappa Beta Pi backward dance, dance card belonging to Leone Brewer. It includes a list of officers and members, ads from Bowling Green merchants and a dance card.

Ua94/5/1 Pi Tau Nu Autograph Card, Leone Brewer

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pi Tau Nu autograph book belonging to Leone Brewer. It was possibly used as a dance card or party favor for an unidentified event.

Ua94/5/1 Fifteeners Dance Card, Fifteeners

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Fifteeners dance card belonging to Leone Brewer. Includes names for 21 dances.

Ua94/5/1 Barons Formal Of Forty-Two, Barons Fraternity

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Barons fraternity dance program and card belonging to member George Wells. Includes program, menu, list of members and officers, dance card and Barons song lyrics.