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“Slaves Of The State:” The Exploitation Of Women Through Convict Leasing, Beth F. Newton
“Slaves Of The State:” The Exploitation Of Women Through Convict Leasing, Beth F. Newton
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter: The Life And Work Of Celia Laighton Thaxter, Haley J. Parker
The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter: The Life And Work Of Celia Laighton Thaxter, Haley J. Parker
Honors Theses and Capstones
Living on the edge of the American empire, Celia Thaxter explored the dimensions of her life in ways that transcended, yet never fully abandoned traditional gender boundaries by cultivating her lifelong relationship with nature through creative expression. The lighthouse keeper's daughter constructed her identity based on the experiences that shaped her on the very edge of civilization. Coming of age on the Isles of Shoals, Celia reveled in flexibility and unrestricted freedom of her natural environment isolated from the cultural spheres on the mainland that reinforced the ideology of domestic femininity. This ideology was dominant in the 19th century in …
Nineteenth-Century Female Protagonists Resisting Architectural Confinement, Taylor R. Alcorn
Nineteenth-Century Female Protagonists Resisting Architectural Confinement, Taylor R. Alcorn
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Relationship Between Sexology And The Lesbian Identity In Early 20th-Century Britain, Shaina Paige Maciejewski
The Relationship Between Sexology And The Lesbian Identity In Early 20th-Century Britain, Shaina Paige Maciejewski
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
Convict Voices: Women, Class, And Writing About Prison In Nineteenth-Century England, Anne Schwan
Convict Voices: Women, Class, And Writing About Prison In Nineteenth-Century England, Anne Schwan
University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books
In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and conventional literary texts, such as Adam Bede and The Moonstone. Not only does Schwan demonstrate strategies for interpreting ambivalent and often contradictory texts, she also provides a carefully historicized approach to the work of feminist recovery. Crossing class lines, genre boundaries, and gender roles in the effort to trace prisoners, authors, and female communities (imagined or real), Schwan brings new insight …
Refusing “To Lie Low In The Dust”: Native Women’S Literacies In Southern New England 1768-1800, Renee Poisson
Refusing “To Lie Low In The Dust”: Native Women’S Literacies In Southern New England 1768-1800, Renee Poisson
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
At Home In The City: Urban Domesticity In American Literature And Culture, 1850-1930, Elizabeth Klima
At Home In The City: Urban Domesticity In American Literature And Culture, 1850-1930, Elizabeth Klima
University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books
An interdisciplinary study of urban literature and domestic architecture in the United States from 1850-1930. With chapters on the hotel, Central Park, tenement houses, and apartment buildings, At Home in the City juxtaposes literary criticism with a history of the built environment to show the inception of American modernity. Works treated include: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern, The Bostonians by Henry James, How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist urban utopias, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.
Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow
Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow
Law Faculty Scholarship
This Essay considers ways in which female attorneys confront sexism and stereotyping in the legal profession and in life, and strongly endorses embracing feminism, and wearing comfortable shoes.