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Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Dec 2016

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat Dec 2016

French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20th century. I discuss pre-historical …


South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.


Women Of The Incan Empire: Before And After The Conquest Of Peru, Sarah A. Hunt Oct 2016

Women Of The Incan Empire: Before And After The Conquest Of Peru, Sarah A. Hunt

Student Research

This paper contrasts the life of Incan women before and after the Spanish conquest of Peru by Pizarro. Spanish colonization of Peru had a significant, negative impact on Incan women, across social, economic, and religious sectors. Before the conquest, women held fairly complimentary, rather than subordinate roles to men in society. Spanish rule introduced a strict patriarchy, which reduced Incan women to second-class citizens. The Spanish exploited women within the economy, and destroyed the once revered female religious institutions. Examining women in conquest history provides an intimate look at gender and power relations, socio-economics, and the shifting familial and cultural …


The Mount Katahdin Peaks: The First 12 Women Climbers, 1849-1855, William W. Geller Oct 2016

The Mount Katahdin Peaks: The First 12 Women Climbers, 1849-1855, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This article traces the chronology of the first twelve women to climb Mount Katahdin in Maine, using historical accounts and clues to identify women mentioned only with pseudonyms in newspaper accounts during the era of 1849 to 1855.


History Of Key Events In Women’S Health Care, Zoё M. Chambliss Oct 2016

History Of Key Events In Women’S Health Care, Zoё M. Chambliss

Student Publications

In 1973, ninety-three percent of all American doctors were men (Ehrenreich and English). Gender based inequity permeates all spheres of women’s health care from employment to access to treatment to biologically-based myths of male superiority, yet women once presided over the health and spirituality of their communities and their own bodies. All of the earliest human societies worshipped the Earth Goddess and respected women as holy givers of life. This tradition persisted until the rise of the patriarchy and Western “Civilization” increasingly forced women out of positions of power and rewrote the religious stories to give supremacy to male sun …


Beneath The Mulberry Tree: Sarah Edmonds And Women In Memory, Anika N. Jensen Sep 2016

Beneath The Mulberry Tree: Sarah Edmonds And Women In Memory, Anika N. Jensen

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In her memoir Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Sarah Emma Edmonds, a woman fighting in the Union Army disguised as a man, employed florid diction and a subtle romantic flare to illustrate an emotional and confounding moment in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam: discovering another woman undercover. Edmonds writes of the “pale, sweet face of a youthful soldier,” of a boy trembling from blood loss who, she knew, had only a few more minutes on earth. He tasted his last sip of water, and with his remaining breaths the soldier beckoned Edmonds closer and uttered a …


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff Jun 2016

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Taking On The Man: Female Rebellion Against Gender Roles In Classical Greek Drama, Gabrielle Killough Apr 2016

Taking On The Man: Female Rebellion Against Gender Roles In Classical Greek Drama, Gabrielle Killough

Senior Honors Theses

The portrayal of women in Ancient Greek drama seems at times opposed to the societal gender roles within Classical Athens. In the plays, women are strong and dynamic figures who enact change and upheaval in their world. Ancient dramas, like Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and Lysistrata, portrayed women with strong autonomy and minds which matched their male counterparts; whereas the women in Classical Athens found themselves in more limited circumstances. In analyzing the nature of these disparities, it seems that the constant factor is that the plays concern the violation of the household. The female characters respond in one of …


Marriage, Legitimacy, And Intersectional Identities In The Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire, Jennifer Brooks Apr 2016

Marriage, Legitimacy, And Intersectional Identities In The Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire, Jennifer Brooks

History Honors Projects

This project explores the intersections of gendered, classed, and racialized identities in the sixteenth-century Spanish empire, focusing particularly on their elaboration within the institution of marriage. Through an analysis of transatlantic Spanish, and Spanish-Indigenous unions in Mesoamerica and the Andes, this thesis considers how intersectional identities interact with dominant narratives and both limit and expand the opportunities available to individuals.


Social And Economic Factors Influencing Japanese Women's Decision About Childbearing In Post-Bubble Japan, Rebecca L. Richko Mar 2016

Social And Economic Factors Influencing Japanese Women's Decision About Childbearing In Post-Bubble Japan, Rebecca L. Richko

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For the past twenty-five years, Japan’s population decline has been a domestic and global concern. A common discourse on the issue of Japan’s low birth rate tends to focus on the role of women, specifically indicating that women should change their behavior to prioritize motherhood. This thesis argues that Japan’s low birth rate is the result of a nexus of social and economic influences that are experienced in contemporary society. In order to provide a nuanced analysis of the influences on a woman’s childbearing decision, motivators of and challenges to population growth will be explored. The dynamic struggle that women …


Gemini 15 Memories, Karen Mahaffey Mar 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Karen Mahaffey

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Answers given by Karen Mahaffey to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire in spring of 2016. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 75 Memories, Jeff Jones Mar 2016

Gemini 75 Memories, Jeff Jones

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Jeff Jones' answers to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Cron Feb 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Cron

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Answers given by Nancy (Hill) Cron to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire in spring of 2016. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman Jan 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pam (Livingston) Thurman's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard Jan 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Nancy (Baker) Pollard's answers to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus Jan 2016

Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Karen (Warren) Matchus' answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.


Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert Jan 2016

Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Merry Herbert's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.