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Carmen Naranjo, Cesar Valverde Sep 2011

Carmen Naranjo, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur Jan 2011

Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important. Therefore, understanding the college curriculum and how it is changed and shaped helps us to understand the overall dynamics of knowledge in contemporary society. This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. It details the broader history of their development as knowledge fields and then …


Work-Family Conflicts And Policies, Rachel Hile Dec 2010

Work-Family Conflicts And Policies, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.


“Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin As A Modern Bluebeard”, Karen Stein Dec 2010

“Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin As A Modern Bluebeard”, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

No abstract provided.


Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde Dec 2010

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …


Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En "Sanctuary" Y "Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada", Cesar Valverde Dec 2010

Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En "Sanctuary" Y "Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.