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Review Of Giving Birth In Eighteenth-Century England, By Sarah Fox, Chelsea Phillips
Review Of Giving Birth In Eighteenth-Century England, By Sarah Fox, Chelsea Phillips
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
A Review of Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox
Exposing The Governmental Amnesia Of The Human Rights Violations That Occurred In The Magdalene Laundries, Sarah G. Gallagher
Exposing The Governmental Amnesia Of The Human Rights Violations That Occurred In The Magdalene Laundries, Sarah G. Gallagher
Student Theses
Throughout history, Ireland is not regarded as a champion in the area of human rights discourse, but in recent years it has found itself present in it. Pre-secularized Ireland violated human and women’s rights in institutions such as the Magdalene Laundries. Within these institutions, girls and women were subjected to various types of abuse (e.g., sexual, physical, emotional, and mental). After their time in the Laundries, they faced a life of silence and shame due to the stigma of being incarcerated in a Laundry. Due to the stigma, survivors were unable to discuss their experiences in the Laundries as they …
Translating The Enlightenment: Women Translators In Eighteenth-Century France, Marissa Gavin
Translating The Enlightenment: Women Translators In Eighteenth-Century France, Marissa Gavin
Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines women translators in Enlightenment France for their strategies to achieve publication. Elite, French Enlightenment women appropriated oppressive structures and norms, redeploying them to expand their own roles. This paper examines Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Louise d’Epinay, and Anne LeFevre Dacier as exemplars of elite women translators who exploited gendered assumptions to gain access to print. Each of these women came from differing backgrounds, received differing levels of support from their patriarchal relations and expressed differing societal concerns through their writing. Despite such differences, Riccoboni, Dacier and d’Epinay all utilized similar strategies alongside translation to disseminate their concerns. Operating within …
The Women Of Salò: Roles And Expectations In The Italian Social Republic, Johnathon N. Keller
The Women Of Salò: Roles And Expectations In The Italian Social Republic, Johnathon N. Keller
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This thesis aims at investigating the national discourse around women in the Italian Social Republic (RSI) in three distinct spaces: urban, family, and rural. During the RSI, women were primarily constructed as one of three symbols: exemplary wife and mother, militant woman citizen, and woman soldier. The re-emergence of the urban, working-class woman was accelerated by the socializzazione program and the crisis the Italian nation faced. The RSI saw a shift away from family planning and a new emphasis was placed on family assistance and care of the existing young. Finally, during the RSI, rural spaces, central during the 1930s …