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Maine Now Times (Fall 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Fall 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Women have been involved in the writing, illustrating, and production of comic books at almost every step of the genre’s development. The years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s were tumultuous for the comic book industry. At the societal level, these years were saturated with changes that challenged normative ideas of sex roles and gender. The goal of this study is two-fold: it documents the specific contributions to the comic book industry made by the women interviewed, and it addresses research questions that focus on gender, change, and comic books. This project asks: What was the role and …
Maine Now Times (Spring 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Becoming A Nun, Becoming A Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation, Hillary Crane
Becoming A Nun, Becoming A Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation, Hillary Crane
Faculty Publications
This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women's spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender cosmology as a means to accommodate textual contradictions without rejecting any textual statements. This strategy allows the nuns to assert that they have spiritual abilities equal to those of men without rejecting or contradicting textual statements that they do not. Without denying that they are women (and that they are therefore threatening to men) the nuns primarily identify with the male gender. Compartmentalizing and contextualizing gender …