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Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers Jun 2020

Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Crafting Girlhoods emphasizes nineteenth and early twentieth century British and American girls' agency and creativity within the prescribed limits of educational crafts—including sewing and periodical-making. My first section shows how girls use psychological means to resist the cultural and gendered imperatives of sewing and tidiness, while my second section shows how girls resisted the censorship and harassment that the newspaper and periodical forms allowed by creating intimate communities in the pages of their periodicals that could help them negotiate these difficulties. In both cases, I will show how the craft forms themselves were their own antidote to the constricting force …


From Maycomb To The Nation: Narrative Perspective And Social Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird, Madison Boyd Apr 2020

From Maycomb To The Nation: Narrative Perspective And Social Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird, Madison Boyd

Senior Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Paideuma (University Of Maine) Records, 1981-1985, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Paideuma (University Of Maine) Records, 1981-1985, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Finding Aids

Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship was first published in 1972 by the National Poetry Foundation. In 2002, its focus was expanded, as indicated by its current title Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. The record group includes papers for publication, manuscripts, typescripts, page proofs.


Panel Discussion: The Right To Education: With Liberty, Justice, And Education For All? Jan 2020

Panel Discussion: The Right To Education: With Liberty, Justice, And Education For All?

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.