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Review Of The Lay Of The Land: Metaphor As Experience And History In American Life And Letters, Jeannine Dobbs

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters by Annette Kolodny. The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Kolodny, a colonial American literature specialist with extensive training in psycholinguistics, examines the recurring personification of the American landscape as both mother and mistress.

Review Of We Become New: Poems By Contemporary American Women, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

We Become New: Poems by Contemporary American Women edited by Lucille Iverson and Kathryn Ruby. Bantam, 1975.

An anthology of 43 contemporary poets, this one is frankly "feminist" in its orientation. The editors chose poems that define "those themes at the core or root of the new and vital image of woman emerging from our present women's movement."

Closeup: Michigan State University, Barrie Thorne

Women's Studies Quarterly

Since the end of spring term 1975, Michigan State University has had a formal undergraduate program in women's studies. The program is called a "thematic concentration ," a new device at M.S.U. for facilitating interdisciplinary work in selected areas at no extra cost to the university (there are also thematic concentrations in Jewish, Islamic and film studies). For the student, this entails completing a minimum of 0 credits, or five to seven courses, chosen from at least three disciplines from an official list of women's studies courses approved by the university curriculum committee. Upon the student's graduation, the assistant dean …

Women In High School History Textbooks, Phyllis Arlow, Merle Froschl

Women's Studies Quarterly

Concerned about the inclusion of women in the secondary school's social studies curriculum, we are interested in locating those aspects of women's lives that have been most neglected in standard history texts and in assessing the quality of such information that is included.

We began this study by examining 14 currently used textbooks (see bibliography) for the following: the listings of women in the index and table of contents; the amount of coverage given to prominent women; the inclusion of minority women; the choice and number of illustrations of women; and the suggested further readings on women. We looked for …

Escape In Thurber : From Delight To Delirium, Carol Richardson Boyko

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

James Thurber (1894-1961) is the outstanding American literary humorist of the twentieth century, whose writing spans two periods of American humor: pre- and post-World War II. Pre-war humor is characterized by a debunking of traditional values: the sanctity of women and marriage, patriotism, hero worship, and the supremacy of common sense. The hero of this era is the victim, the slightly neurotic man who does not fit into high-pressured city life. Post-war humor moves from playfulness to bitterness, from misogyny to misanthropy, from man's displacement in inhuman society to man's displacement in the world.

The theme of escape in Thurber …

Gay Community News: 1975 February 01, Volume 2 Issue 32, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 2 Issue 32 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1973 December 15, Volume 1 Issue 26, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 1 Issue 26 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 47, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Lawrence, Ron. Bill Proposing Student Regent in Committee
• McDaniel, Mike. Modern Theater Must Conform to New Appetite – John Houseman
• Finals Slated Saturday for Miss Western Title
• Zeh, John. Freedom of Speech Not Legislature’s Concern
• Anthony, Richard. Lyndon Johnson’s Silence on Draft Causing Constant Chaos
• Inspection May Slow Traffic Death Rate
• Editorial Cartoon re: Car Inspections
• Ex-editor Scores Victory – Gary Dickey
• Informed Students Interested in Hearing Relevant Lectures
• Preiksat, Jon. Questions Excessive Profits – Student Store
• Frey, Ted. Likes Tete a Tete
• Leeper, Dan …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Impressions Of The Vienna Congress-1964, Eva M. Laburn

Woman C.P.A.

No abstract provided.

Woman C.P.A. Volume 27, Number 4, June, 1965, American Woman's Society Of Certified Public Accountants

Woman C.P.A.

No abstract provided.

The Orion, Volume 7, Issue 4, Lanier Literary Society, The Orion Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The March 1923 edition of the Anderson College journal of literature, The Orion.

The names of the known editors for the Lantern Literary Society's issue of The Orion were Gladys Atkinson, Virginia Cowherd, Alice Pope Harris, Lula Lee Leathers, Bessie V. Jones, Lydia Burriss, Martha White, May Bell Barnhill, Bonte Phillips, Kathleen Foster, Marjorie England, Caroline Parnell, Bobbie Phillips, Malvina Hopper, and Babbie Sullivan.