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Note From The Editor: Issue 2, Open Access, Laura Runge

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

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Finishing The Job: A Partnership For Diversity In The Construction Workforce, Susan Moir, Liz Skidmore, Janet Jones, Brian Doherty

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

The Policy Group on Tradeswomen’s Issues (PGTI) is a regional collaboration of construction industry stakeholders working together since 2008 to tackle the persistent failure of policies enacted to open up good paying jobs in the construction trades to women. Our focus on women explicitly supports efforts to increase all forms of diversity in the construction industry. Following the publication of our 2011 founding document, Unfinished Business: Building Equality for Women in the Construction Trades, PGTI has focused on the development and implementation of best practices for a diverse construction workforce in public and non-profit construction.

Projectserve, Kenneth Andejeski, Kenyora Johnson, Projectserve, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

The mission of Strong Women, Strong Girls is to utilize the lessons learned from strong women throughout history to encourage girls and young women to become strong women themselves. By building communities of women committed to supporting positive social change, Strong Women, Strong Girls works to create cycles of mutual empowerment for women and girls.

Project Serve engages UMass Boston students and community organizations in a variety of civic engagement activities in order to create positive change in Massachusetts. There are many ways to get involved in this program ranging from being a leader, coordinator, or a participant in our …

Loretta Lynn: Voicing Feminism, Kayla L. Fox

Undergraduate Research Conference

The goal was to examine country music artist Loretta Lynn – how did her music reflect feminist ideals of the ‘60s and ‘70s, how did her life correspond to these ideals, and what impact did she have for women in country music?

An Open Letter To Netflix, Elizabeth A. Rupert

SURGE

If there is one thing that I will be absolutely ashamed in admitting to you, it’s that I love television. Love it. Not in a turn-it-on-watch-whatever-all-TV-rocks kind of way, but in an I’m-overly-obsessed-with-15-shows-at-a-time kind of way, to the point where I could say that being able to watch the latest episode of Suits or Community could easily be the highlight of my day (week, year…). [excerpt]

They Can: Gay Atheletes Come Out--And Help Change Colby Culture, Ruth Jacobs

Colby Magazine

In what is a national trend, gay athletes are finding acceptance and support on Colby teams.

Madam Britannia: Women, Church, And Nation, 1712-1812, By Emma Major, Kathryn Stasio

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

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A Political Biography Of Eliza Haywood, By Kathryn R. King, Kristin M. Girten

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

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Reading Jane Austen, By Mona Scheuermann (2009) ; Reading Jane Austen, By Mona Scheuermann (2012) ; Why Jane Austen?, By Rachel M. Brownstein, Karen Gevirtz

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

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Orlando: Women's Writing In The British Isles From The Beginnings To The Present, Edited By Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, And Isobel Grundy, Melanie Bigold

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

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Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, And The Rise Of Sensibility, 1670-1730, By Laura Linker, Courtney Beggs

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

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Interactive Aphra: Skyping Behn Into Your Classroom, Cheryl Wanko

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

Beginning by asking how teachers manage the presence of the author in their literature classrooms, this article describes the classroom experiment of interviewing Karen Eterovich, an actor who portrays Aphra Behn, using Skype. It describes the planning and scripting processes, explains the particular interests of this group of students, and assesses the final activity. Questions arose about topics for the interview, appropriate ways for Behn to respond, and the need for a script. The pedagogical opportunities for preparing students as interviewers and of expanding their understanding of performance, historical reenactment, and the construct of the author are discussed. Possible extensions …

Creating An Online Exhibit In A First-Year Seminar: “Luxury Objects In The Age Of Marie Antoinette”, Janie Vanpée

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

How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of the French aristocracy and nascent bourgeoisie of late eighteenth-century France? This is one of the challenges that students face in the first-year seminar, Re-Membering Marie Antoinette, as they study the multiple and conflicting ways that Marie Antoinette was and has been represented in biographies, portraits, memoirs, fiction, film, fashion, plays and pornographic pamphlets, records of her trial in 1793, and the spaces and activies that shaped her daily life. This article focuses on a series of scaffolded assignments that lead students to …

Inviting Twenty-First Century Students To The Eighteenth-Century Party, Kathryn Strong Hansen

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

This article describes a classroom activity that increases students’ connection to literary characters, and by extension, texts. The activity, constructed as a party attended by literary characters, tasks students with taking on the point of view of one character in an assigned novel. This can encourage a student to see the viewpoint of a character that differs from him or her in gender, social status, or any other category of difference. In heightening students’ relationship to eighteenth-century characters, I argue, instructors can bring the eighteenth century closer to contemporary students as well as increase students’ sensitivity to viewpoints that differ …

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713, By Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, R. Mark Jackson

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

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Populism, Gender, And Sympathy In The Romantic Novel, By James P. Carson, Elizabeth J. Mathews

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

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Teaching British Women Playwrights Of The Restoration And Eighteenth Century, Edited By Bonnie Nelson And Catherine Burroughs, Judy A. Hayden

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

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Masters Of The Marketplace: British Women Novelists Of The 1750s, Edited By Susan Carlile, Emily Bowles

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

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Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Linda Zionkowski

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

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Transatlantic Stories And The History Of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions, By Eve Tavor Bannet, Dustin E. Hannum

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

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Funding, Grants, Hiring, Programs: Sharing Advice On How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Srividhya Swaminathan

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

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Staffing: ‘The Part-Time Crisis In The Classroom’, Judith Bailey Slagle

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

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A Deeply-Felt (And Somewhat Revised) Rant: Women, Children And Funding In The Ivory Tower, Nora Nachumi

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

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Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Julie Candler Hayes

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

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Cultivating Resources In Hard Times, Catherine Ingrassia

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

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Getting It Done, Lisa A. Freeman

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

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Intersectionality Of Race, Gender, And Class In The ‘Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession', Christine Clark-Evans

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

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Supporting Women Scholars: How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Mona Narain

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

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Locked In The Classroom: Teachers Coming Out To Students, Alicia Vann

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

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The use of the "S" word among students and teachers can become quite controversial. Sexuality is becoming a topic of open discussion, but also one of avoidance. The process of "coming out" about one's homosexuality is a long and hard progression. This is largely due to people assuming that heterosexuality is the sexual identity of those around them. Due to the assumption of heterosexuality, homosexuals have a harder time "coming out" to others. This course becomes harder for teachers than for other homosexuals, as teachers are seen …

Women In Medicine, Tierney Sullivan

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper.

It seems that most individuals regardless of gender, race or ethnicity are in a constant rat race to keep up with the demands of modern day society and be as successful as possible. Looking at a college population, everyone has high goals and ambitions and is hoping to be the best in the field they enter. However, women are faced with the dilemma of what to do when life puts another barrier up around us. Women have gained the access to equality of education that we hoped …