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Rural Gays And Lesbians: Building On The Strengths Of Communities. James D. Smith And Ronald J. Mancoske (Eds.).

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for James D. Smith and Ronald J. Mancoske (Eds.), Rural Gays and Lesbians: Building on the Strengths of Communities. New York: Haworth Press, 1998. $ 29.95 hardcover, $ 14.95 papercover.

Ua12/2/74 Lambda Times, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Leffler, Matthew. Louisville's First Circuit Party Draws Hundreds
• James, Elizabeth. WKU Lambda to Host Faculty & Staff Dinner
• Lockhart, Shaun. Letter from the Editor
• Events Calendar
• Leffler, Matthew. President's Perception
• Leffler, Matthew. Louisville Passes Fairness Ordinance. What Happens Next?
• WKU Lambda Book Club Selection
• Take It from Dorothy
• Rice, LaVon. Radio Commercial Adds to Stereotypes about Gays & Lesbians
• ProCreatia. Brighter Stars
• Leffler, Matthew. Year In Review in May?
• Matthews, Bryce. Lambda Asked to Help in Panels

Mlgpa News (February 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Politics, Pedagogy, And Shaping Public Policy, Jill Dolan

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

We never exactly know when history is going to catch up with us, when we'll be in the midst of a crucial moment to which posterity will refer as key, as significant, as a lynchpin on which other moments, other decisions, other understandings were founded. The impeachment hearings recently conducted in the House of Representatives dragged us all, unwilling and amazed, into a dark hour of American politics, one in which partisan fury and ideological hatred are translated into strategies of power that disregard and reverse electoral politics. There's much to say about the disappointing performance of Bill Clinton as …

Passing Performances: Conference Opens Closet Of American Theatre, James Wilson

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Coincidentally, CLAGS's one-day symposium "Passing Performances: History, Evidence, Identification" occurred just as Hollywood's biggest film star publicly rejected the long-standing and wide-spread claims that he is gay. In a high-profile legal battle that concluded this past fall, Tom Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman settled their libel suit against a London tabloid, which asserted that their eight-year marriage is actually a ruse constructed to conceal Cruise's alleged homosexuality. The couple reportedly settled for more than $500,000, and they hoped to quash rumors once and for all that their marriage is a sham. Even in this "post-Ellen" era, the suit reflects …

Mlgpa News (January 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Quny Notes, Linda Camarasana

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

QUNY, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer student group at the CUNY Graduate Center, has recently elected Robert Kaplan (English) to join Manolo Guzman (Sociology) as the graduate student representatives to the CLAGS board. QUNY and CLAGS have also been working together to develop an interdisciplinary concentration in lesbian and gay studies at the GSUC.

Questions Of Race And Gender: Evangelina Cisneros And The Spanish-Cuban-American War, Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

At the turn of the century, the name "Evangelina Cisneros" (known in Cuba as Evangelina Cossio) was a household term throughout the United States. Newspapers and books described her daring escape from a Havana prison, and pleas on her behalf flourished--including a request for clemency by Queen Victoria and an eloquent letter from the wife of Jefferson Davis. Although the Cisneros saga has all but disappeared in the general historical references to the eighteen nineties, her prison predicament and her prominence in the press of the times reflect fundamental issues of race and gender that are part of the socio­-political …

A Mirror Of Political Culture In Contemporary Egypt: Divisions And Debates Among Women Activists, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

Faculty Book Chapters

The fourth of four volumes, this volume covers contemporary political and social issues in Egypt. The contributors include: Mona Abaza, Nadje Sadeg al-Ali, Iman Hamdy, Noha el-Mikawy, Reem Saad.

Ivy Leaves, 1998-1999, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1999 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Asa Moran, Christopher Fyock, Jennifer Brown, Andy Burleson, Brian Gaines, David Parker, Emily Reese, Jill Roberts, Heather Rollins, Jeanna Simmons, Susan Wooten, and Wayne Cox. Cover art by Jill Roberts.

Globalization, Migration And Class Struggles: Ngo Mobilization For Filipino Domestic Workers, Lisa Law, Kathy Nadeau

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper contributes to post-Marxist discussions on the relevance of class as a social category in a postmodern world. Rather than marginalize this issue of social positioning, the authors explore the relevance of an Althusserian perspective which acknowledges the importance of class as it articulates with other social/identity issues such as gender and ethnicity. The substantive context for this discussion is gendered labor migration from the Philippines, and the advocacy work conducted by Filipino non-government organizations (NGOs) working with migrants in Pacific Rim countries. It focuses on NGOs in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and their efforts to contest the gendered …

The Two Worlds Of Belle La Follette, Nancy Unger

History

Case La Follette, it has been frequently noted, was deemed "my wisest and best counselor" by her husband, Wisconsin progressive great Roberi M. La Follette. She chose to fulfill that counselor's role in remarkable ways throughout their forty-three years of married life, perhaps most significantly by earning a law degree, yet never practicing law herself. This decision was one of many that allowed her to function as her husband's equal in the professional matters that affected him publicly, while reserving for herself a more private and personal role. Belle Case La FoUette's lifetime of decisions reflect her wish to fulfill …

Clags Forms New Advocacy Committee, Elizabeth Freeman

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

During the 1990s, attacks on the arts and higher education have demonized Women's Studies and Gay/Lesbian Studies, as well as those courses designed to make higher education available to academically underprivileged students. The CLAGS Board of Directors has come to feel that CLAGS should be taking a leading role in debates that use homophobia, racism, and sexism to justify cuts in funding for the arts and education, restrictions on freedom of academic and artistic expression, and policies that restrict access to higher learning. For this reason, we have formed a Board committee for advocacy in the arts and education.

Beyond The Rhetoric Of Dirty Laundry: Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren L. Hutchinson

Faculty Articles

Several historical reasons explain opposition to the airing of internal criticism by scholars and activists within progressive social movements and by members of subordinate communities. Opponents often contend that such criticism might reinforce negative stereotypes of subordinate individuals and that reactionary movements and activists might appropriate and misuse negative portrayals of the oppressed. A related fear holds that internal criticism will dismantle political unity within oppressed communities and progressive social movements, thereby forestalling social change. While these concerns provide some context for understanding the resistance to internal criticism within progressive social movements, I argue in this essay that they do …

Born And Made: Sisters, Brothers, And The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

We are--almost all--born into families, born into relationship. Like Mary Ann Evans, I was born a little sister--but had I encountered her "Brother and Sister" sonnets at twelve, I might have thrown the book across the room. George Eliot's fantasy of a perfected brother-sister relationship in these sonnets rings hollow and yet resonates profoundly with me. As a little sister myself, I wonder what could make the relationship--so often fraught with competition, envy, and neglect, yet potentially so richly rewarding--seem so powerfully right, so important to and adult woman's self-identification? For the narrator of the sonnets is certainly an adult …

Possible Predictors And Effects Of Rape During The First Semester Of The First Year Of College, Christine Ellen Frydenborg

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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A Woman's Field Is Made At Night: Gendered Land Rights And Norms In Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Gendered social norms and institutions are important determinants of agricultural activities in southwestern Burkina Faso. This paper argues that gendered land tenure, in particular, has effects on equity and efficiency. The usual view of women as holders of secondary, or indirect, rights to land must be supplemented by a more nuanced understanding of tenure. Women's rights are in fact considerably more complex than the simple right to fields from their husbands. First, women's rights to property obtained from men may be coupled with other rights and obligations. In many ethnic groups, women have share rights to the harvest of their …

[Introduction To] Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals And Contested Identities Among Lauje Of Indonesia, Jennifer W. Nourse

Bookshelf

For most of the Lauje' of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, birth spirits are of primary importance. The spirits inhabit a mother's birth fluids and placenta, nurturing fetuses in the womb and children after birth---or bringing sickness and death if rituals are neglected.

Jennifer Nourse describes how Lauje' from both modernized coastal and isolated highland villages attribute to birth spirits competing meanings that hinge on an individual's gender, social class, and religion. At the beginning of her fieldwork, Nourse collaborated with two Lauje' men whose concepts of birth spirits as divided into good and bad, male and female, or local and foreign …

Single Mothers, Income, And Health: An Analysis Of Risk And Protective Factors, Melanie Quickfall

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This study examined the relationships between single mothers, income and health, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects that certain risk factors (low income, stress, public housing, financial stress, education, home satisfaction, single parenting) and protective factors (neighbourhood satisfaction, social support, program participation, community integration) had on both the physical and mental health of single mothers. In the quantitative component, statistical analyses (a series of two-way mixed ANOVA’s and linear regressions) were conducted on interview data from 276 mothers who were involved in the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project in Highfield-Etobicoke, …

Southern Sudanese Women In Refuge, Christine Mori Nyoka

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Karen, Mattias. Fraternity Houses May Ban Alcohol
• Clark, Ryan. Cigarette Use on Rise
• Harper, Molly. Gift Means Vision Alive & Well – Gordon Ford College of Business
• Goddard, Holly. Student Government Association Passes Legislation
• Hall, Jason. Suicide Hotline Opening
• Wilson, Misty. Area Code Changing in April
• Harrison, Christy. Drunken Driving High During Holiday Season
• From Santa’s Little Helpers
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: WKU Christmas Gifts
• Leffler, Matthew. Letter Prejudged Lambdas – Evangelist, Gays
• Waggoner, Brandon. Kappa Alpha Questions Student Government Association’s Motives
• Ramge, Jim. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Goddard, Holly. Student Fees Could See Annual Increase
• Wilson, Misty. Ruins of Kappa Alpha House Removed
• Wilson, Misty. Exploring Potential – Explorers, Bowling Green Police
• Harper, Molly. Regents Hold Closed Meeting
• Sisco, Scott. Athlete Alcohol Policies Under Review
• Free Speech - Evangelists
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: Thanksgiving with Darth Vader & Big Red
• Wasting Time – Regents
• Brown, James. Traffic Tickets Don’t Solve Problem
• Wilder, Bill, et al. Wilder Family Thanks Western for Love, Caring – Jason Wilder
• Holloway, Todd. Crowd’s Treatment of Preacher …

Mlgpa News (December 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Sexual Politics And Subversion: Feminist Utopia As Praxis, Jennifer Sue Boyers

Dissertations

Literary studies meets up with sociology as feminist utopian fiction Is examined for what sociologist Dorothy Smith (1990) labels normal narrative and counter-narrative articulations of gendered structures of power. The method of analytical Induction Is used both In the choosing of the four novels for study and the resulting textual analysis. Ursula Le Guln's The dispossessed (1974), Marge Plercy's Woman on the edge of time (1976), Suzy McKee Chamas's Motherllnes (1978), and Sally Miller Gearhart's The wandereround (1979) are examined for their constructions of dystopian normal narratives, as well as for their reconstructions of subversive utopian counter-narratives, both articulating gendered …

Ua12/2/1 Coming Out Of The Shadows, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special women's basketball issue of the College Heights Herald.

• Lady Toppers 1996-97 Schedule
• Moore, Leigh. With Two Stars Gone, Whole Team Ready to Shine
• Brewer, Jerry. Smaller Lineup Will Rely on Quickness, Athleticism
• Brewer, Jerry. Sun Belt Gains Power
• Mayo, Travis. More to Lady Tops Than Basketball
• Sisco, Scott. Wendi Kitsteiner Relishes Family, Mothering Role
• Moore, Leigh. Katashia Witcher’s Goal This Year: To Be Family’s First Graduate
• Moore, Leigh. Low-key Shea Lunsford Could Be Dominant for Lady Toppers
• Mayo, Travis. Kristi Hartley Fighting Injuries
• Brewer, Jerry. Jaime Walz Looking to Cut Loose
• Mayo, Travis. Jamie Britt Scraps for Success
• Brewer, …

Mlgpa News (November 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Harper, Molly. Western May Have Overpaid for Personal Computers
• Wilson, Misty. Shuttle Driver Files Harassment Charge Against Student – Eustace Grant, Wanda Spillman
• Magarian, Sharyn. Tessie Adams to Share Story of Escaping Violence
• Lucas, Fred. Bob Dole: In Tight Race, Every Vote Counts
• Lucas, Fred. Youth vs. Experience in Senate Race – Ron Murphy, Bret Guthrie
• Alvles, Sawna. Alcohol Policy Should Allow All or Nothing
• Meinhardt, C.W. Western Should Keep Alcohol Off Campus
• Jordan, B.J. Editorial Cartoon re: Speed Bumps
• Sweets, Jeremy. Bible Explicitly Says …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 73 [74], No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Back, Shannon. University Boulevard Back in State’s Hands
• Batcheldor, Matt. Alcohol Policies Diverse
• Darr, John. The Fixer – Dennis Felton
• Karen, Mattias. Overtime Cutbacks Opposed by Staff
• Harper, Molly. Proposed Policy to Evaluate Tenured Faculty
• Anti-gay Violence Destroys Principles
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: Hate Crimes
• Lobo, Maxx. Responses to the Oct. 6 Letter Forum Coverage Unfair by Lloyd Davies – University Boulevard
• Ransdell, Gary. University Boulevard
• Goddard, Holly. Student Government Association Proposal Fails – University Boulevard
• Fedyk, Nicholas. Smiles on Their Faces – Bowling …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Harper, Molly. State Struggles to Solve Fire Problem
• Harper, Molly. Western Online Used by Porn Site
• Lanter, Charlie. Western’s Tuition Continues to Climb
• Karen, Mattias. New $18.5 Million Building Will Be Smaller Than Planned – Mass Media & Technology Hall
• College, Beer: Deadly Combo
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: Big Red Drinking Beer
• Lucas, Fred. Politics, Morality Are More Than Cliché
• Goddard, Holly. Student Government Association Approves Checklist to Help Simplify Student Advising
• Goodard, Holly. Western Receives Funding for Water Treatment Center
• Karen, Mattias. Speed …

Mlgpa News (October 1998), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.