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Dame Zaha Hadid, Architect: Her History, Style, And How They Uniquely Qualified Her To Design The Guangzhou Opera House, Allison Foster May 2017

Dame Zaha Hadid, Architect: Her History, Style, And How They Uniquely Qualified Her To Design The Guangzhou Opera House, Allison Foster

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This paper provides a brief background on the accolades of Dame Zaha Hadid, architect, and expresses the significance of her international acclaim in light of being a woman architect. Hadid’s experiences developing into a successful, professional architect, despite existing gender and cultural minority biases working against her, are compared to the city of Guangzhou’s economic success, despite a history of foreign occupation. Hadid’s personal experiences of working and living in areas with strong multicultural influences relate to Guangzhou’s multicultural population, as it exists as a hub for immigration and trade into mainland China. Hadid’s personal style, as inspired by her …


Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa May 2017

Black Woman, Noemia De Sousa

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No abstract provided.


Front Matter May 2017

Front Matter

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No abstract provided.


Redefining Representations Of Black Female Subjectivity Through The Erotic, Sylvia Cutler May 2017

Redefining Representations Of Black Female Subjectivity Through The Erotic, Sylvia Cutler

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With the release of singer-song writer Beyoncé Knowles’s self-titled album in 2013 and her subsequent branding of herself as a feminist, many feminist critics questioned the validity of Beyoncé’s sex positive feminism in the context of the longstanding sexualization and objectification of black women. This article seeks to reconcile Beyoncé’s brand of sex positive feminism with black feminist theorists and re-appropriating the erotic for black women. Analyzing the 2013 album Beyoncé and examining the history of black female entertainment, this article argues that Beyoncé’s brand of sex positive feminism is a necessary step in reclaiming and redefining black women’s expression …


Canterbury Cathedral, Madeline Rupard May 2017

Canterbury Cathedral, Madeline Rupard

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artwork


The Children Of Reverend William Anderson Scott: A Portrait Legacy, Madeline Duffy May 2017

The Children Of Reverend William Anderson Scott: A Portrait Legacy, Madeline Duffy

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The painting of Robert, Calvin, Martha, and William Scott, and Mila (known as The Children of Reverend William Anderson Scott) is not just a family heirloom or a portrayal of Reverend William Scott’s four children and their caretaker, Mila. On the contrary, nearly two hundred years after it was painted, The Children of Reverend Scott functions today as a historical document in that analysis of it records the contemporary roles and status of children, parents, and slaves in nineteenth-century Southern life. This paper explores the personal convictions of Reverend Scott as recorded in the portrait—namely his roles as a father, …


Glam, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Glam, Tara Neuffer

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Ana The Prophetess In The Temple, Adelia Prado May 2017

Ana The Prophetess In The Temple, Adelia Prado

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poetry


Looking Toward The Light, Abigail Remington May 2017

Looking Toward The Light, Abigail Remington

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No abstract provided.


Reclaiming Female And Racial Agency: The Story Of Dido Elizabeth Belle Via Portrait And Film, Madison Blonquist May 2017

Reclaiming Female And Racial Agency: The Story Of Dido Elizabeth Belle Via Portrait And Film, Madison Blonquist

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This paper explores the complex relationship between artists and their subjects, particularly with regard to race and gender. Using Niki Saint-Phalle’s definition of “truthful representation,” I consider the issues that race and gender pose to this ideal using the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century aristocratic woman of mixed race. The intriguing life of Dido Elizabeth Belle is especially relevant to today’s evolving definition of intersectional feminism. Her portrait Painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her Cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray (1779, formerly attributed to Johann Zoffany) challenges the idea of “truthful representation” because it was presumably painted by a …


Magyar Woman, Madeline Rupard May 2017

Magyar Woman, Madeline Rupard

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artwork


End Matter May 2017

End Matter

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No abstract provided.


Awe Volume 4 May 2017

Awe Volume 4

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No abstract provided.


Mother Of Mankind & Of The World, Kardo Bestilo May 2017

Mother Of Mankind & Of The World, Kardo Bestilo

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poetry


Silver Lining, Abigail Remington May 2017

Silver Lining, Abigail Remington

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artwork


Golden Contemplation, Abigail Remington May 2017

Golden Contemplation, Abigail Remington

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painting


“Woman, Awake!”: How Lds Doctrine On The Fall And The Practice Of Polygamy Created A Suffragist Culture In Nineteenth-Century Mormonism, Sarah Dunn May 2017

“Woman, Awake!”: How Lds Doctrine On The Fall And The Practice Of Polygamy Created A Suffragist Culture In Nineteenth-Century Mormonism, Sarah Dunn

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This paper addresses the question of why Mormon (LDS) women in Utah were so involved in the women’s suffrage movement of the late nineteenth century. This paper explores how two factors in particular—the LDS doctrine concerning Eve and the practice of polygamy—gave those of the LDS community a perspective on women’s role in society that empowered women rather than suppressed them. This empowering perspective on the role of women in society both diverted from the widely-followed protestant traditions of the time and closely paralleled the beliefs and ideologies of the women’s suffragists. With a perspective on women’s role in society …


La Llorona, Kristen Evans May 2017

La Llorona, Kristen Evans

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Fiction work


Shoes, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Shoes, Tara Neuffer

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No abstract provided.


“The Scourge Of The Bourgeois Feminist”: Alexandra Kollontai’S Strategic Repudiation And Espousing Of Female Essentialism In The Social Basis Of The Woman Question, Hannah Pugh May 2017

“The Scourge Of The Bourgeois Feminist”: Alexandra Kollontai’S Strategic Repudiation And Espousing Of Female Essentialism In The Social Basis Of The Woman Question, Hannah Pugh

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In The Social Basis of the Woman Question, Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai responds to bourgeois feminists’ essentialist calls for female solidarity to resolve the “woman’s question”—the question of women’s status in society— by presenting the woman question as a struggle defined not by gender but by the intersection of class and gender. Kollontai appropriates and extends their essentialist rhetoric, engaging in the classed and gendered essentialism of the particular socioeconomic position of the female worker. I argue that, by placing the essentialized woman worker at the heart of the woman question, Kollontai suggests that the woman question is an economic …


Silent Emergency To The Children Of Africa, Vera Duarte May 2017

Silent Emergency To The Children Of Africa, Vera Duarte

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poetry


Old World, Madeline Rupard May 2017

Old World, Madeline Rupard

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No abstract provided.


Baby Guru, Tara Neuffer May 2017

Baby Guru, Tara Neuffer

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artwork


Una Guerra Contra La Mujer: Chicana Feminism And Vietnam War Protest, Arica Roberts Apr 2016

Una Guerra Contra La Mujer: Chicana Feminism And Vietnam War Protest, Arica Roberts

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Chicana women, especially those in the East Los Angeles chapter, began this autonomous feminist consciousness to challenge sexual oppression within cultural nationalism as they resigned from the Brown Berets, created their own organization, Las Adelitas, continued antiwar efforts with the National Chicano Moratorium Committee and fought for the social, economic, and political liberation and equality of the whole Raza.


Woman With Birds, Vanessa Palmer Apr 2016

Woman With Birds, Vanessa Palmer

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artwork


Good Girl, Erin Kaseda Apr 2016

Good Girl, Erin Kaseda

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poetry


Yale Joel, Tina Leser, And Factory Fashions: Rethinking Women’S Roles In The 1950s, Emaline Maxfield Apr 2016

Yale Joel, Tina Leser, And Factory Fashions: Rethinking Women’S Roles In The 1950s, Emaline Maxfield

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In postwar America, women challenged tradition by continuing a trend started in the Second World War, asserting their presence in the workforce both physically and visually with the advent of Tina Leser’s designs. Leser’s designs reached the everyday woman, and Joel’s photographs reached the average American, bringing greater awareness to the ongoing question as to women’s role in society. Both Yale Joel’s photographs and Tina Leser’s designs take part in the changing definition of femininity. Yale Joel’s photographs for LIFE Magazine illustrate how women were encouraged to negotiate a more modern yet also traditional identity, demonstrating the nuances of this …


(W)Hole Apr 2016

(W)Hole

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Memoir experience of an abuse survivor.


Language Lessons: Gender-Based Material Signifiers Of Social Intent In Better Off Dead, Elizabeth Brady Apr 2016

Language Lessons: Gender-Based Material Signifiers Of Social Intent In Better Off Dead, Elizabeth Brady

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While there is significant evidence of Lévi-Strauss’s model of women as material signifiers of male intent present in Better Off Dead, two characters undercut the absoluteness of this theory. Monique freely dwelled outside of the realm of the system, indicating that there are alternate models. Lane’s willingness to and success in denying the system and departing from it indicates that even those within the system are not inevitably bound to the tenets of the theory.


Awe Volume 3 Front Matter Apr 2016

Awe Volume 3 Front Matter

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No abstract provided.