Lgbtq Studies! Introduction To Women's & Gender Studies: Special Topics On Lgbt Studies: Fall 2015: Wgs 1040:02 [Poster],
2015
University of Northern Iowa. Women's and Gender Studies Program.
Lgbtq Studies! Introduction To Women's & Gender Studies: Special Topics On Lgbt Studies: Fall 2015: Wgs 1040:02 [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Women's And Gender Studies Program.
Women’s and Gender Studies Program Documents
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Toni Hobbs,
2015
Morehead State University
Michael Biel,
2015
Morehead State University
David Bryant,
2015
Morehead State University
From Private To Public Women’S Cooperatives And The Construction Of A Public Sphere,
2015
SIT Graduate Institute - Study Abroad
From Private To Public Women’S Cooperatives And The Construction Of A Public Sphere, Cecilia Garza
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This independent study project will explore how participation in the economy benefits women in more ways than just economically. Using the example of five cooperatives functioning in the Moroccan Rif, this paper will investigate how access to the economy not only provides women with supplemental income but also allows them to leave the home and build networks within their communities. These examples will illustrate how illiterate, rural women, who would usually be seen as powerless in the public eye, are taking advantage of the trainings, income and communities they gain from their participation in cooperatives to claim independence and prove …
The Alteration Of The Image – Women And Japanese Society (1600-2000),
2015
CUNY Queensborough Community College
The Alteration Of The Image – Women And Japanese Society (1600-2000), Frank Jacob
Publications and Research
A survey paper on the development of the female image in Japan's society from the Tokugawa period until the 2000s.
Wsq: The 1970s Editor's Note,
2015
CUNY College of Staten Island
Wsq: The 1970s Editor's Note, Cynthia Chris, Matt Brim
Publications and Research
This Editor's Note introduces the WSQ issue "The 1970s," co-edited by Shelly Eversley and Michelle Habel-Pallan, which explores the decade of the 1970s, its dynamic social movements and radical cultural shifts, from the rapid boom in feminist publishing to the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
"Happily Ever After": The Tragic Queer And Delany's Comic Book Fairy Tale,
2015
CUNY LaGuardia Community College
"Happily Ever After": The Tragic Queer And Delany's Comic Book Fairy Tale, Ann Matsuuchi
Publications and Research
Discusses the formulations of queer futurity and normativity in Samuel R. Delany’s autobiographical graphic novel Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, drawn by artist Mia Wolff. This love story that is depicted via an interplay of text and imagery resists clichéd homonormative recasting of existing familial templates and questions how expectations queer happiness are bounded by a persistent set of social norms (race, class, education, and income) and their intersections. Also suggests how happy endings can function as a renegotiation of the utopian impulse into something more complex and realistic.
Family Affairs Newsletter 2015-10-01,
2015
University of Southern Maine
Family Affairs Newsletter 2015-10-01, Zack Paakkonen
Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)
FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.
Women In Transition: Fighting Mentalities And Ensuring Political Participation In Post-Revolutionary Tunisia,
2015
SIT Graduate Institute - Study Abroad
Women In Transition: Fighting Mentalities And Ensuring Political Participation In Post-Revolutionary Tunisia, Hayley Schultz
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Although democracies look different across the world, they all share a few things in common. One of the biggest factors which contributes to a strong democracy is an active and engaged civil society. Without people upholding the government and keeping them accountable for their actions, government officials feel they can do as they wish. Tunisia has recently undergone a democratic transition and is working on forming a stable democracy. Since the fall of the Ben Ali regime, civil society organizations have sprung up all over the country. These organizations are working to safeguard the principles of the new constitution and …
Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa,
2015
CUNY John Jay College
Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa, Alexander M. Schlutz
Publications and Research
This essay presents a close analysis of P.B. Shelley’s fragmentary ekphrastic poem “On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery.” It places Shelley’s text in its aesthetic, mythological and historico-political contexts to demonstrate how Shelley aims to undo the ideological and representational structures of power that inform human language, art, and history, and which turn Medusa into the monstrous Other as which she appears. In Shelley’s text by contrast, Medusa becomes a figure for a revelatory beauty that cannot become visible in the distorting parameters of a discourse of power that informs our very perception of what …
Goddesses Versus Gynecologists: An Analysis Of The History Of Women’S Healthcare,
2015
Gettysburg College
Goddesses Versus Gynecologists: An Analysis Of The History Of Women’S Healthcare, Marion A. Mckenzie
Student Publications
Starting from the downfall of Goddess cultures in Europe, women's health care has been negatively impacted for generations. The rise of the white, male Indo-European "dominator model" along with the witch craze, caused the end of widespread wise women traditions and pharmacopeia methods. After women's traditional voice was silenced, medical colleges were established to pronounce new, "professional" knowledge. Only those who attended these universities were allowed to legally practice medicine; however, during this time, medical research and treatments for women primarily included mutilation and painful, nonsensical regimens. The horrifying state of women's healthcare has since improved, but was originally a …
The Circle Of Empowerment: The Nzinga Group's Approach To Empowering Afro-Brazilian Adolescent Girls And Women Through The Cultural Tradition Of Capoeira Angola,
2015
SIT Graduate Institute - Study Abroad
The Circle Of Empowerment: The Nzinga Group's Approach To Empowering Afro-Brazilian Adolescent Girls And Women Through The Cultural Tradition Of Capoeira Angola, Sofia Stafford
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Around the world gender and racial inequality leads to lower levels of empowerment related to self-esteem, autonomy, and self-confidence. These difficulties are exacerbated for girls and women who are faced with overcoming the double-stigmatization of being both black and female. However, Afro- Brazilian girls and women, when given the tools and support to empower themselves will empower their communities. Through a mixed-method approach of participatory research, observations, and nine interviews, this paper explores how the tradition of Capoeira Angola and specifically the roda, empowers Afro-Brazilian girls and women. More specifically, I examine how, through Capoeira, the process of “empowerment” can …
Breaking Away From Reverence And Rape: The Afi Directing Workshop For Women, Feminism, And The Politics Of The Accidental Archive,
2015
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Breaking Away From Reverence And Rape: The Afi Directing Workshop For Women, Feminism, And The Politics Of The Accidental Archive, Philis M. Barragán Goetz
History Faculty Publications (Archived)
In 1974, the American Film Institute opened the Directing Workshop for Women (DWW). Trying to normalize the idea of a woman director, the program admitted nineteen women, providing each one with the materials to direct two films. Focusing on the DWW's first cycle, this article argues that the DWW's history is a vehicle for understanding the complex ways in which moderate and radical feminists interpreted the role of the women's rights movement in the commercial film industry by examining the controversy and media attention that surrounded it, as well as the ways in which race, class, and fame operated to …
Two-Spirit Indigenous Americans: Fact Not Fiction,
2015
Gettysburg College
Two-Spirit Indigenous Americans: Fact Not Fiction, Casey S. O'Higgins
Student Publications
This paper examines the narratives of Two-Spirit Indigenous Americans who have been oppressed by heteropatriarchal norms of colonization. Two-spirit creation stories are explored to show the prevalence and importance of their identities prior to contact with Euro-American settlers and the evolution of violence, exclusion, and marginalization due to colonization.The term "Two-Spirit" is examined as a cultural identity of the Indigenous Americans. Finally, the paper looks at how Two-Spirit scholars are looking to combine Queer Theory with Indigenous Studies to deconstruct colonial heteropatriarchal America.
Muslim Head Coverings,
2015
Gettysburg College
Muslim Head Coverings, Raven C. Waters
Student Publications
I researched female head coverings in the Muslim culture, to see how the veils affected society and society's response to the covering.
A Dispositional Account Of Gender,
2015
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A Dispositional Account Of Gender, Jennifer Mckitrick
Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications
This paper argues that one’s gender is partially constituted by extrinsic factors. In Sect. 2, I very briefly explain my understanding of sex, gender, and transgender. In Sect. 3, a survey recent accounts of gender as a socially constructed or conferred property, ending with Judith Butler’s idea that gender is a pattern of behavior in a social context. In Sect. 4, I suggest a modification of Butler’s idea, according to which gender is a behavioral disposition. In Sect. 5, I develop my dispositional account by responding to a worry that it is too essentialist. In Sect. 6, I defend my …
The Justice-Seeking Power Of Women Who Experience Sexual Violence In Uganda,
2015
SIT Graduate Institute - Study Abroad
The Justice-Seeking Power Of Women Who Experience Sexual Violence In Uganda, Caren Holmes
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This six-week study explores the justice-seeking power of women who have experienced sexual violence in Uganda, by examining a diversity of avenues used to pursue justice. The research includes three unique case studies: examining (1) the formal prosecution system in the rural, eastern region of Kapchorwa, (2) the internal judiciary framework within Makerere University and (3) the unique alternative projects being brought forward by FIDA Uganda in post-conflict Gulu and the greater Acholi regions. The study looks to understand and evaluate each of the frameworks for justice considering the extent to which they are able to serve survivors of sexual …
Canadian Women In Prison: A Racial And Gendered Discursive Analysis,
2015
Wilfrid Laurier University
Canadian Women In Prison: A Racial And Gendered Discursive Analysis, Eva Osazuwa
Social Justice and Community Engagement
Research shows that women are the fastest growing prison population worldwide, and this trend proves no different in Canada (Balfour, 2008; Pate, 2006; Pollack, 2003; Sudbury, 2005). According to the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Manitoba (n.d.) (CAEFS), this past decade has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of women who are federally incarcerated in comparison to the 15 percent increase for men. More specifically, Sudbury (2005) argued that poor, young, racialized women and girls are amid the fastest growing population in Canadian prisons. That said, the goal of this paper is to examine government documents …
Is There A Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission Of Care Work,
2015
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Is There A Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission Of Care Work, Maria Charles, Corrie Ellis Grosse, Paula England
Environmental Studies Faculty Publications
Most research on intergenerational social reproduction has been concerned with upward and downward movements across rank-ordered, “big-class” categories or along continuous gradients of status, income, or skill. An exception is the more nominal conceptualization of the social structure offered in recent research that focuses on qualitative differences in life conditions across occupational “micro classes.” The present analysis broadens this nominal approach by considering social reproduction across an important qualitative dimension that bridges multiple occupations: whether or not one’s work centrally involves care. Based on data from the U.S. General Social Surveys, results provide little evidence that care work is transmitted …
