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Remarks By Ann Blum About Rita Arditti, The Abuelas, And Latin American Studies, Ann Blum

Archives of an Activist: Celebrating the Donations of Rita Arditti to UMass Boston

From Ann Blum's remarks:

My own area of research is family history. Students and other scholars sometimes ask me why I study the family when there are other far more important, more politicaltopics. Rita’s activism and scholarship provide a ringing rejoinder. The family is political and it is key to our understanding of politics on intimate, national and global scales. Rita’swork with the Grandmothers centered on family. Her study embraced the complex interactions among three generations as family relations were projected onto national and international politics. The Argentine military regime was brutally astute: they made state terrorism a family affair. …

Choosing Sides: The Gender Dilemma, Center For Public Service

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“You can’t check a box between male and female; you are either a boy or a girl.”

My professor makes this statement often. It is pretty easy to see why he would use gender in this example: he is trying to give us a simple, understandable explanation of a binary. When explaining the binary, he just wants to show that it is a two-option classification: from his experience, male and female fits. [excerpt]

Chasing The Ghost Of Melesina Trench: A Film By Qina Liu In Collaboration With Katharine Kittredge, Katherine Kittredge, Qina Liu

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench. The story tells of remarkable coincidences, documents lost and found, and the emergence of Trench's descendants in the project's final chapter.

Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

When Mary Shelley began writing The Last Man in 1824 in the wake of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s untimely death, she drew from her close circle of family and friends as models for her main characters. Although it is tempting to view this novel as an autobiographical expiation of the profound sorrow that overwhelmed Shelley at her husband’s death, to do so is to underestimate her prescient political insight and to risk overlooking the complex implications of class and rank that suffuse the position of the narrator, Lionel Verney. While Shelley’s emotions give a passionate appeal to this novel, …

The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade. Arabella’s romances prompt her to expect certain power structures from English society; she invites others to see her body as a spectacle and expects that her actions will solidify her status as a powerful woman. Yet Lennox reveals that English society sees Arabella’s body not as powerful, but as an object upon which they may construct their own potential site for the exchange of knowledge, an objectification that neither Arabella nor Lennox are prepared …

Yolanda Barco's Impact On The Cable Television Industry, Piper L. Peteet-Kilgore

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to take a detailed look into the life of cable television pioneer Yolanda Barco and demonstrate that her achievements in cable telecommunications have directly impacted the success of the cable telecommunications industry.

The daughter of cable television pioneer George Barco, Yolanda Barco worked alongside her father advocating for the rights of cable television during the early years of the industry. Following a biographical story framework, this research follows a timeline of her career discussing her family life, education, how she became involved in the cable television industry, achievements in cable television and the lasting …

Continuums: Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Leadership Program, Jacob Smallegan

Honors Theses

In 2011, Western Michigan University was one of three Michigan universities to be ranked in the Top 25 Gay Friendly Universities according to Newsweek and the Daily Beast. This is not surprising considering WMU’s current 4.5 out of 5 score on the Campus Pride Index. The Campus Pride Index lists 362 universities and WMU is one of 22 with a score of 4.5. In the LGBT-Friendly Campus Report, there are only eight areas identified that are not currently in place at WMU, one of which is an LGBT studies program. I decided, given my interest in the Student Affairs …

Mobile Activism: What Your Profile Picture Says About You, Laura J. Koenig

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I know you’ve all been seeing this image all of your Facebook news feeds. All of the sudden a few weeks ago it became everyone’s profile picture. People were sharing it, along with other images, explaining why Prop. 8 and the Defense Of Marriage Act should be repealed, and were generally expressing their support of marriage equality. [excerpt]

Family Affairs Newsletter 2013-04-15, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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The New Science And Women’S Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein, Ed. By Judy A. Hayden, Laura Miller

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Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz

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Dutch And Flemish Masterworks From The Rose-Marie And Eijk Van Otterloo Collection Mfa-Houston (Nov. 13 2011-Feb. 12, 2012), David Mazella

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The Experience Of Domestic Service For Women In Early Modern London, Ed. By Paula Humfrey, Marisa Iglesias

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Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, And The Emergence Of Virtual Reality, By Peter Otto, Stacey Kikendall

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Separated By Their Sex: Women In Public And Private In The Colonial Atlantic World, By Mary Beth Norton, Leigh Johnson

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Living In A Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, And Open Access, Sheila Cavanagh

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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In Search Of Lady Isabella’S Library; Or, A Question Of Access, Patricia L. Hamilton

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Digitally Reconstructing The Reynolds Retrospective Attended By Jane Austen In 1813: A Report On E-Work-In-Progress, Janine Barchas

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Place And Contemplative Pedagogy, Laura Runge

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Gender & Genre, Sharon Harrow

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Dangerous Delusions, Nora Nachumi

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Accessing Liberal Education, Alison Conway

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Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature As A Feminist Scholar In The New Millennium, Alison Conway, Sharon Harrow, Nora Nachumi, Laura Runge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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‘The Only Beguiled Person’: Accessing Fantomina In The Feminist Classroom, Kate Levin

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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A Reflection On Teaching, Multiculturalism, And Access, Srividhya Swaminathan

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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’A Strange Sympathy’: The Rhetoric Of Emotion In The History Of The Nun; Or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Elizabeth J. Mathews

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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The Limits Of Genre: Women And ‘History’ In Frances Sheridan’S The Memoirs Of Miss Sidney Bidulph And Elizabeth Griffith’S The History Of Lady Barton, Kaley Kramer

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Fatally Enjoy’D: Rape, Resilience, And The Accessibility In Aphra Behn’S The Dumb Virgin, Emily Bowles

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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At The Precipice Of Community: Feral Openness And The Work Of Mary Robinson, Anne Milne

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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