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American Women's Clubs In The Nineteenth Century: The Case Of The Female Relief Society Of Nauvoo (1842-1844), Adithi Nythruva

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Throughout the nineteenth century, women’s clubs provided American women with the space to influence the patriarchal-dominated public sphere and venture beyond their traditional domestic roles. This paper demonstrates that the Relief Society women developed a more nuanced relationship with feminist agency through their initiatives. Through an analysis of 33 sets of meeting notes from the society’s early years, this paper argues that the Relief Society women established feminist agency by exercising female authority, addressing scandals and injustices, and building a sisterhood. Additionally, through feminist agency, the Relief Society paralleled, and pre-dated the activities of many popular women’s clubs during the …

The Constant Cause Of Friction: Maud Mosher And Gendered Authority In The Indian Service And At Ellis Island, Ella Morton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis focuses on the federal career of Maud Mosher, who, from 1893 to 1907, worked as an Indian Service boarding-school teacher, then a matron at Ellis Island. By analyzing Mosher’s extensive, complaint-driven correspondence and personnel files, as well as an unpublished memoir, I claim that her grievances represent a rare form of agency available to women in maternalist roles at Progressive Era federal agencies. Though Mosher’s superiors branded her complaints trivial, the substance of them reveals gendered hypocrisy and institutional contradictions inside two federal institutions dealing with racialized populations.

In both the Indian Service and the Immigration Service, Mosher …

Sometimes I Picture You Dreaming: How American Female Directors Use Women-In-Prison Films As A Pathway For Public Education And Activism In The Era Of Mass Incarceration, Nicolette Natale

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines the role of female directors in creating media that showcases how prisons perpetuate sexism or gender-based violence. As mass incarceration began to take off in the 1970s, this paper begins with an analysis of Jack Hill’s The Big Doll House (1971), which often served as the model for women-in-prison (WIP) exploitation films. While Hill perpetuated the white and male gaze in The Big Doll House, Stephanie Rothman subverts oppressive gazes in her WIP film, Terminal Island (1973), and demonstrates a concern with the historical gendered realities of prison – moving beyond representations of prison on the …

The Gendered Duality Of Coldness In The Portrayals Of Eliza Hayley, Francesca Blanch-Serrat

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

In the eighteenth century, coldness was defined, on the one hand, in relation to the body and the senses (a body that is lacking in heat) and on the other, to emotion (an individual lacking in passion). It was linked to illness and disability (Turner, 2012), equated to death, seen as both a cause and effect of physical decline and older age, and used as a synonym for low libido and infertility (Toulalan, 2015). In contrast to these negative connotations, coldness was also regarded as a remedy to temper the passions and to ensure longevity (Yallop, 2015), and taking cold …

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, The Council Of National Defense, Florida Division

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, State Chairman of the Colored Women's Section of the Woman's Committee of The Council of National Defense, Florida Division. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau, Vacuum Cleaning, Rugs, Carpets, Etc. Best of Help Furnished for all kinds of Employment. Verso - Handwritten note.  Undated.

Miss Eartha M.M. White Business Card, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau, Vacuum Cleaning, Rugs, Carpets, Etc. Best of Help Furnished for all kinds of Employment. Handwritten note, verso:  Mrs. Estilla Johnson, 57465 J, 125 North , work. Undated

Miss Eartha M.M. White Business Card, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau, Vacuum Cleaning, Rugs, Carpets, Etc. Best of Help Furnished for all kinds of Employment. Verso: Handwritten note - "8 [Ballon 1339 Laura upstairs"  Undated.

Miss Eartha M.M. White Business Card, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, House Cleaning & Employment Bureau, Vacuum Cleaning, Rugs, Carpets, Etc. Best of Help Furnished for all kinds of Employment. Handwritten note on verso. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, War Camp Community Service

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Miss Eartha M.M. White Business Card, Coordinator Of Recreation

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, Coordinator of Recreation. President Clara White Mission and Old Folks Home. Handwritten note on front: I was in distress. They passed by on the other side of the street and on my side did not say a word of comfort. Do you call that a christian. [illegible]  Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, Coordinator Of Recreation

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White, Coordinator of Recreation. President Clara White Mission and Old Folks Home. Handwritten note on front: [illegible]- Page 4. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, Department Store

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White Department Store Shoes, Dry Goods, Notions and Milliner Goods, Dress Making, Pressing, & Wood Yard Annex. Eartha White opened a  dry goods store at 1050 Florida Ave., Jacksonville, Florida. Undated.

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Business Cards (Personal): E. M.M. White Real Estate Licensed Broker City and Country Property a Specialty. Handwritten notes on both sides. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, President

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White President Old Folks Home and City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, head of Dept of National Juvenile Court, State Treasurer F.C.W. Clubs. Handwritten notes on both sides. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, President

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White President of the Old Folks Home and City Federation of the Colored Women's Club. Undated.

Miss Eartha M. M. White Business Card, The Clara White Mission

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Business Cards (Personal): Miss Eartha M.M. White 233 W. First Street, Fla. President Clara White Mission an Old Folks Home. Undated.

Unsigned Letter To Mr. H. C. Perrin, Manager, Heard National Bank Building

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Correspondence: Unsigned letter to Mr. H. C. Perrin, Manager, Heard National Bank Building, City, regarding discriminatory practices in the building. Envelope included. Undated.