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Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann Oct 2003

Blues For Ron, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala May 2003

Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala

Dr Matilda Arvidsson

The article pins down problems of urbanization, poverty, and youth at risk, focusing on the situation of young women in African slums.


Blood And Dirt: The Politics Of Women’S Protest In Armagh Prison Northern Ireland, Leila Neti May 2003

Blood And Dirt: The Politics Of Women’S Protest In Armagh Prison Northern Ireland, Leila Neti

Leila Neti

No abstract provided.


Review Of Sheryl Grana, Women And (In)Justice: The Criminal And Civil Effects Of The Common Law On Women’S Lives, Rose Corrigan Mar 2003

Review Of Sheryl Grana, Women And (In)Justice: The Criminal And Civil Effects Of The Common Law On Women’S Lives, Rose Corrigan

Rose Corrigan

No abstract provided.


Authorizing The Wife/Mother In Sixteenth-Century Advice Manuals, Carolyn Nadeau Mar 2003

Authorizing The Wife/Mother In Sixteenth-Century Advice Manuals, Carolyn Nadeau

Carolyn A Nadeau

From Amazon.com: Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain addresses the important methodological and conceptual issues surrounding the lives, works, and representations of women in the literature of Early Modern Spain. It offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of feminine identity and discourse both in the writings of both women and men. The essays move beyond the theme of women and literature in Early Modern Spain to reassess the economic, legal, political, and religious systems that articulate the parameters of women's access to power and self-determination in the past as well as in the present. Written by internationally …


Science, Identity, And The Construction Of The Gay Political Narrative, Nancy J. Knauer Jan 2003

Science, Identity, And The Construction Of The Gay Political Narrative, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

This Article contends that the current debate over gay civil rights is, at base, a dispute over the nature of same-sex desire. Pro-gay forces advocate an ethnic or identity model of homosexuality based on the conviction that sexual orientation is an immutable, unchosen, and benign characteristic. The assertion that, in essence, gays are "born that way," has produced a gay political narrative that rests on claims of shared identity (i.e., homosexuals are a blameless minority) and arguments of equivalence (i.e., as a blameless minority, homosexuals deserve equal treatment and protection against discrimination). The pro-family counter-narrative is based on a behavioral …


Looking Good : College Women And Body Image, 1875-1930, Margaret Lowe Dec 2002

Looking Good : College Women And Body Image, 1875-1930, Margaret Lowe

Margaret Lowe

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read 1873 book Sex in Education, "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system." For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's place …


From Megaphones To Microphones : Speeches Of American Women, 1920-1960, Sandra Sarkela, Susan Ross, Margaret Lowe Dec 2002

From Megaphones To Microphones : Speeches Of American Women, 1920-1960, Sandra Sarkela, Susan Ross, Margaret Lowe

Margaret Lowe

Until recently, scholars assumed that women stopped speaking after they won the vote in 1920 and did not reenter political life until the second wave of feminism began in the 1960s. Nothing could be further from the truth. While national attention did dissipate after 1920, women did not retreat from political and civic life. Rather, after winning the vote, women's public activism shifted from a single-issue agenda to the myriad social problems and public issues that faced the nation. As such, women began to take their place in the public square as political actors in their own rights rather than …


Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald Dec 2002

Out Of It: Alienation And Coercion In D. H. Lawrence, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

No abstract provided.


Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin: A Left-Handed Story, Karen Stein Dec 2002

Margaret Atwood’S The Blind Assassin: A Left-Handed Story, Karen Stein

Karen F Stein

No abstract provided.


Resisting Subjects: The Politics Of Spectacular Style In Women's Subcultural Production”, Doreen Piano Dec 2002

Resisting Subjects: The Politics Of Spectacular Style In Women's Subcultural Production”, Doreen Piano

Doreen M Piano

No abstract provided.


African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison Dec 2002

African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process. The scope of this inquiry examines the qualitative domain of the LASS in which participants were visually primed with a narrative description of a student athlete that has made transition out of sport successfully. Five …


My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2002

My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2002

Ladies Reading And Writing: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers And The Gendering Of Critical Discourse, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.