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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - November) No. 5, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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“The Power Of Combination”: Emmeline B. Wells And The National And International Councils Of Women, Carol Cornwall Madsen

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Women Of Covenant: The Story Of Relief Society By Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon And Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Women And Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism Edited By Maxine Hanks; Natural Allies: Women's Associations In American History By Anne Firor Scott, Mary Stovall Richards

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - August) No. 4, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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The Empowerment Of Women: Water And Sanitation Initiatives In Rural Egypt, Samiha El Katsha, Susan Watts

Faculty Books

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Between Female Dialogics And Traces Of Essentialism: Gender And Warfare In Christa Wolf's Major Writings, Sabine Wilke

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The relationship between memory, writing, and the question of how we define ourselves as gendered subjects is at the center of Christa Wolf's work. Her literary production, starting in the late fifties with a rather naive and un-selfconscious love story, has undergone a dramatic shift. In her more recent texts, Wolf sets out to rewrite classical mythology to make us aware of those intersections in the history of Western civilization at which women were made economically and psychologically into objects. The present essay seeks to locate Christa Wolf's evolving conception of gender and warfare within the contemporary theoretical discussion on …

They Also Served : The Women Of Southwestern Virginia During The American Revolution, Rebecca A. Vaught

Master's Theses

This thesis looks at the legal status and the daily lives of the women living on the Virginia frontier in the counties of Augusta, Botetourt, Montgomery and Washington during the period of the American Revolution. All ages and all levels of society are given consideration in developing the theme that the service performed by the women who survived the rigors of frontier life during this crucial period in American history was as valuable in its own way as was the service performed by their male contemporaries. Court records give insight into the plight of servants and slaves. Court records also …

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - April) No. 3, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - March) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Her Stories: Lives Of Women In The Detroit River Region, Madelyn Della Valle

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Her Stories pieces together the lives of eleven women who lived or traveled through the Detroit River region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Unfortunately, some of these women did not leave behind any records of their own making. Like so many other women from the past, some of their stories must be told using scraps and pieces of the better known histories recounted by men; a booklet based on the exhibition at the Francois Baby House: Windsor's Community Museum.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - January) No. 1, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend, Donna Jean Kessler

Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach

In an examination of American texts produced from 1804 to 1989, this dissertation delineates that Sacagawea became a legendary figure because she has exemplified critical elements of narrative traditions recounting the nation's sacred beginnings. As a plethora of works have portrayed Sacagawea as the Indian princess of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, she became an important emblem of manifest destiny. Flexible within its mythic framework, the Sacagawea legend has additionally enabled proponents to confront timely cultural issues, such as women suffrage, taboos against miscegenation, and modern feminism.

Chapter one provides a review of American frontier myths, concepts of sacred mission …

Sisters Under The Skin: Utah's Mormon And Non-Mormon Women And Their Publications, Sherilyn C. Bennion

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Edgy Laughter: Women And Australian Humour, Dorothy Jones

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

Feminism And Islamic Tradition, Winifred Woodhull

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

"Feminism and Islamic Tradition" explores the territory mapped by Fatima Mernissi in Sultanes oublées (1990) and Le Harem politique: Le Prophète et les femmes (1987) in relation to that charted by Assia Djebar in her latest novel Loin de Médine (1991). The aim is to see why Maghrebian feminists as different as Mernissi and Djebar—a liberal democratic sociologist and a postmodern writer—have begun to move into Arab-Islamic cultural-political spaces which, until recently, have been occupied mainly by various Islamic fundamentalist factions and other right-wing groups such as conservative nationalists in the Maghreb. The essay delineates the change between these writers' …

Introduction, Laurie Edson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Introduction to the special issue

Mariama Bâ And The Politics Of The Family, Laurie Edson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The Senegalese woman writer, Mariama Bâ, chronicles a changing society in post colonial Senegal, caught between the attraction of modernization and the resistance of traditional beliefs. Her award-winning novel, Une si longue lettre, is examined as an example of the kind of subversive "journalism-vérité" proposed by Paulin Hountondji: an anecdotal reconstruction of facts combined with organization and interpretation that leads readers to an awareness of the real conditions of daily life and exposes the structures that make them possible. Bâ's novel exemplifies this "return to the real" not only because Bâ speaks about and exposes the all-too-common reality of …