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Women In The Workplace In Accounting: Perspective Vs. Reality, Stephanie Lynn Cuningkin
Women In The Workplace In Accounting: Perspective Vs. Reality, Stephanie Lynn Cuningkin
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
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Double Victims: Fictional Representatives Of Women In The Holocaust, Shauna Copeland
Double Victims: Fictional Representatives Of Women In The Holocaust, Shauna Copeland
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
Traditional Holocaust studies have largely overlooked women's unique voices, instead treating the eloquent and moving narratives of such renowned authors as Elie Wiesel and Tadeusz Borowski as definitive sources on "the" Holocaust experience. Recently, scholars have addressed the absence of women's voices in Holocaust studies, arguing that women's experiences, and their reactions to those experiences, were in fact very different from those of men. This topic is a controversial one, and some scholars argue that women's suffering should not be focused upon in the context of an event that sentenced all Jews to death. With such controversy surrounding this issue, …
Chinese Women Unbound: An Analysis Of Women's Emancipation In China, Karilyn Moeller
Chinese Women Unbound: An Analysis Of Women's Emancipation In China, Karilyn Moeller
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
"Chinese Women Unbound" gives a brief historical background of the status of women in China and presents a well documented history of the evolutionary process of Chinese women's emancipation-from the first missionary school for girls in the 1840s, to the first females admitted to Beijing University in the late 1920s, the marriage law of 1950, and the divorce rate in the 1990s, among other events. The paper also discusses Chinese women's involvement in the 1911-1912 revolution, the Communist revolution, and the modernization of Chinese economy. In narrating this evolutionary process, Moeller analyses the various forces behind the changes, as well …
A World Of Their Own: Woman And Folklore In Inter-War Britain, Natalie Holub
A World Of Their Own: Woman And Folklore In Inter-War Britain, Natalie Holub
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
The period between the First and Second World Wars was an unsettling time for women in Great Britain. After the First World War, the media, governmental acts, and everyday society urged women to return to the home. This was an especially difficult concept for women to accept after they had played a very public role during the war actively contributing to the war effort. My thesis explores three novels of interwar England that feature female characters seeking purpose in places outside of the traditional role of housewife. Ashe of Rings by Mary Butts, Harriet Hume by Rebecca West, and Lolly …