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The Tearful Gaze In Elizabeth Gaskell’S Ruth: Crying, Watching And Nursing, Rosemary Langridge

Journal of International Women's Studies

Using the complex figure of Mary Magdalene, in her various guises as sexualised sinner, repentant weeper and observant watcher, this essay addresses the complexities and contradictions found in Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1853 novel Ruth. Although presenting a largely sympathetic view of the ‘fallen woman,’ the eventual catastrophic and puzzling demise of the protagonist casts a bleak picture of the likelihood of redemption for such women in nineteenth century British society. As several feminist critics have pointed out, the narrative is frequently disrupted by the unspoken presence female sexuality suggesting Gaskell’s uncertainty about the nature of her heroine’s fall; was Ruth’s sexual …

Gulf Cooperation Council (Gcc) Women And Misyar Marriage: Evolution And Progress In The Arabian Gulf, Tofol Jassim Al-Nasr

Journal of International Women's Studies

Women’s status continues to undergo rapid evolution in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC). The modernization policies sweeping the energy-rich region has resulted in unintended social and gender imbalances. Partly due to the wealth distribution policies and the vast influx of foreign labor into the GCC, the region’s indigenous people are facing several challenges as they adapt to their surrounding environment. Improvements to women’s education have resulted in an imbalance of highly educated women relative to their male counterparts in the region, tipping the scales of gender roles. While both men and women accept predominantly paternal values, the strides in women’s …

Women And The Kuwaiti National Assembly, Muhamad S. Olimat

Journal of International Women's Studies

Kuwaiti women’s long struggle for a seat in the National Assembly culminated with remarkable success on May 16, 2009. For the very first time in Kuwait’s political history, the women’s movement managed to send four female representatives to the National Assembly. Their electoral success ushers a new phase in Kuwait’s political process in which women finally become active participants. The goal of this article is to examine women’s struggle for political rights, their electoral success, their role in current Kuwaiti politics, their accomplishments, and their future in politics in Kuwait.

Attitudes Toward Women’S Participation In Public Life In The United Arab Emirates, Husein Mohammad Al-Othman

Journal of International Women's Studies

The goals of this study are to identify attitudes of university students toward women’s participation in public life (social, economic, and political), and to determine the effect of independent factors on their attitudes. To achieve these goals, I used a self-reported questionnaire to collect data from a stratified random sample (1260 students), as well as descriptive statistics (percentages) and inferential statistics (forward stepwise regression). Results of the study revealed that the majority of respondents support women’s participation in public life in UAE society. Also, university students supported the right of women to have equal educational opportunities, as well as equal …

Feminism And Democracy, Louis Edgar Esparza

Human Rights & Human Welfare

After work on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks walked onto a bus that was to take her home that night. She ended up on a trip to jail instead, for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. The event triggered resistance to bus segregation, the founding of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and the election of the then-unknown Dr. Martin Luther King as its leader. The success of the campaign is an integral battle in our historical retellings of the US African American Civil Rights Movement. Fewer recount the sexual harassment against black women by white …

Un-Blocking Hedda And Medea Through Feminist “Play” With Traditional Staging Forms, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Hedda walks to the center of the room clutching to her belly a gun wrapped loosely in red and gold leaves. She sinks to the floor, her black satin dress ballooning around her. Only feet away, the audience can see her expression and interpret her thought process. Hedda looks vaguely around the space for an exit. She responds to Judge Brack (Ibsen 246), her focus less on him than on the gun which she lets rise to her line of vision, trailing leaves as it comes. She raises it slowly to her head and pulls the trigger, then falls gently …

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Ideological Criticism Of The National Football League's Increase In Helmet To Helmet Discipline, Dante Joseph Gentile

Communication Studies

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When Helping Hurts: How To Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting The Poor And Yourself (Book Review), John Visser

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself. Chicago: Moody, 2009. 230 pages. ISBN:978-0-8024-5705-9.

Father Death And Adult Success Among The Tsimane: Implications For Marriage And Divorce, Jeffrey Winking, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan

ESI Publications

Human fathers are heavily involved in the rearing of children around the world. While there is great cross-cultural variation, the father is a recognizable role in all populations. This deviates from the standard mammalian pattern of little paternal investment. A logical explanation offered early by evolutionary theorists is that human fathers evolved the capacity for paternal concern because human children are remarkably needy and impose a great encumbrance on the mother (Lancaster & Lancaster, 1983; Lovejoy, 1981). Thus, fathers have greater opportunity to enhance the wellbeing of child and mother, as there is a deeper well of need to fill. …

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East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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Leroy Colombo: The Deaf Lifeguard Of Galveston Island Part Ii: The Later Years (1943-1974), Jean F. Andrews

East Texas Historical Journal

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Keeping Schools Open In Depression Era Texas: The Cwa And The 1933-34 School Year, Lynn M. Burlbow

East Texas Historical Journal

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A River Creeps Through It, Milton Jordan

East Texas Historical Journal

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Oil Well Blues: African American Oil Patch Songs, Joe W. Specht

East Texas Historical Journal

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Liberty And Slavery: The Peculiar Institution In Liberty (And Chambers) County, Texas, Ronald D. Traylor

East Texas Historical Journal

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What Is Africa To Me: Visions Of Africa In Lillian Bertha Jones's Five Generations Hence (1916): A Gendered Means To A Political End, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev

East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton And The Notion Of A Legal Class Of Gender, Tracy A. Thomas

Akron Law Faculty Publications

In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement with the law of domestic relations to collectivize women. This recognition of a gender class was the first step towards women’s transformation of the law. Stanton’s stories of working-class women, immigrants, Mormon polygamist wives, and privileged white women revealed common realities among women in an effort to form a collective conscious. The parable-like stories were designed to inspire a collective consciousness among women, one capable of arousing them to social and political action. For to Stanton’s consternation, women showed a lack of appreciation of their own …

Latter-Day Saint Poetry And Songs Of The Utah War, Kenneth L. Alford Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

During the Utah War (1857–58), Latter‐day Saints wrote and published a large number of poems and song expressing their loyalty to the Church, anger at the federal government, and defiance of the United States soldiers who were marching toward Utah Territory. This article places those poems and stories in context and shares many of them.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (February 28, 2011), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 035, Number 23, February 28, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2010-2011, Volume 35

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Letter From The Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film To The Dominican Fathers And Sisters, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Letter from the Department of Theatre, Dance & Film to the Dominican Fathers and Sisters inviting them to a production of Gypsy.

February 28, 2011

2010-2011 Master Class - Elmar Oliveira (Violin), Elmar Oliveira, Tao Lin, Vasile Sult, Zhen Yang Yu, Adam Diderrich, Evgenia Zharzhavskaya, Kelsey Lin

Master Classes

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Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers, Etc.), 1861-1890 (Sc 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 104. Deeds and papers for land in the Kentucky counties of Butler, 1877 (1 item), Warren, 1861-1886 (4), and Edmonson, 1890 (1). William P. Beard and the Porter family are involved in many of these transactions.

Logan County, Kentucky - Tax Receipts (Sc 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 142. Tax receipts, 1825-1834, issued to John P. Mize and William Mize, Logan County, Kentucky.