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Pompa Banerjee, Burning Women: Widows, Witches And Early Modern European Travellers In India. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Palgrave, 2003, Andrea Major Jun 2006

Pompa Banerjee, Burning Women: Widows, Witches And Early Modern European Travellers In India. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Palgrave, 2003, Andrea Major

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity In The Texts By Two Decadent Women Writers, Viola Parente-Capkova Jun 2006

Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity In The Texts By Two Decadent Women Writers, Viola Parente-Capkova

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

My concern is the way in which women writers whose work can be characterized as Decadent and/or Symbolist used the figures of Narcissus, Medusa and Ophelia, as well as the imagery of femininity and water. When analyzing this aspect of their work, I am looking at the ways in which these writers created and co-created the Decadent imagery, what strategies they adopted in their representations of woman and the construction of female subjectivity.

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The Heart Of Undine: The Im/Possibility To Love Under Water, Ulrike Hugo Jun 2006

The Heart Of Undine: The Im/Possibility To Love Under Water, Ulrike Hugo

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This short story plays upon the myth of the water nymph, who out of love for a man gives up her previous existence and becomes mortal. Traumatized women, especially, often experience love in this tension of devotion and self-sacrifice. The text plays with a metaphorical language bordering lyricism and kitsch, it plays with exaggerated notions of love and projections and culminates in an ending which is predictable yet deviates from the myth.

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Images Of Water And Woman In The Arts, Zdenka Kalnicka Jun 2006

Images Of Water And Woman In The Arts, Zdenka Kalnicka

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Archetypal connection of woman and water is ambiguous: it includes the connection of water and woman with life as well as with death. The paper explores the ways, how two sides of this connection were depicted in the artworks created by women and men artists, focusing on their gender differentiated approach (Albín Brunovsk_ and Germaine Richier, Edward Burne-Jones and Edith Rimmington). As an inspiration for reconsideration of the relationship between Life and Death, the potential of old symbol of the frog as the symbol of birth, death and re-birth is examined (Susan Makov).

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The Ladies Of The Water: Iemanjá, Oxum, Oiá And A Living Faith, Cláudia Cerqueira Do Rosario Jun 2006

The Ladies Of The Water: Iemanjá, Oxum, Oiá And A Living Faith, Cláudia Cerqueira Do Rosario

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The orishas Iemanjá , Oxum and Oiá are related to the forces of salt and fresh waters, and to the storms, and are objects of living worship not only in Brazil but also in parts of Africa - where they came from - and Americas. Based on their archetypal representations, this paper will be a reflection on the archetypes of the relationship woman/water and its symbolic implications, both in “sacred” and “profane” ways, still alive in contemporary culture.

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The Changing Role Of Women In Watermanagement: Myths And Realities, Nandita Singh Jun 2006

The Changing Role Of Women In Watermanagement: Myths And Realities, Nandita Singh

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Women and water are linked in several ways, an important pragmatic linkage being their role in water management. Several continuous efforts at positively transforming this role have been made during the last three decades, ranging from their improved role as domestic water managers to eliciting their greater participation in water management initiatives at community level. Studies tend to indicate that the anticipated ends of such exercises are universally achievable, in isolation of the prevailing social and cultural contexts where the women are placed. This paper seeks to unfold the realities underlying the universalistic claims regarding a transformed role for women …

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How Beneficial Has Water Technology Been For Rural Nepalese Women?, Bhawana Upadhya Jun 2006

How Beneficial Has Water Technology Been For Rural Nepalese Women?, Bhawana Upadhya

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper aims to explore the effect of irrigation technology on women of rural Nepalese terai communities. This is done by looking at the effect of technological change on rural women of three different classes in terms of their absolute and relative access to income, food consumption and workload. The article also explores how technology adoption helps enhance rural women's bargaining power and how division of labor is gendered. Case study approach together with other participatory rural appraisal techniques had been used to gather field information.. The study reveals that even in a small social setting, gender identities prevail over …

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Mmatshilo Motsei, Hearing Visions Seeing Voices, 2004, Jacanamedia, South Africa. Isbn 1-919931-51-1, R139.95, Pp. 189., Mechthild Nagel Jun 2006

Mmatshilo Motsei, Hearing Visions Seeing Voices, 2004, Jacanamedia, South Africa. Isbn 1-919931-51-1, R139.95, Pp. 189., Mechthild Nagel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

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Announcements, No.41 2006 Jun 2006

Announcements, No.41 2006

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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'We Were Not Ladies': Gender, Class, And A Women’S Auxiliary’S Battle For Mining Unionism, Caroline Waldron Merithew Jun 2006

'We Were Not Ladies': Gender, Class, And A Women’S Auxiliary’S Battle For Mining Unionism, Caroline Waldron Merithew

History Faculty Publications

“We Were Not Ladies” uses the 1930s dual union fight between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Miners to challenge the historiography on women’s auxiliaries in the United States. While most labor and women’s historians have focused on the traditional and supporting roles that non-wage-earning women played in male unions, I show a more radical side to working-class housewives’ activism. Through the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners, coal miners’ daughters and wives recognized that conventional gender roles could neither gain them political and economic power in their communities, nor could these roles encompass their evolving political …

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Choctaw Women In A Chaotic World: The Clash Of Cultures In The Colonial Southeast, Greg O'Brien Jun 2006

Choctaw Women In A Chaotic World: The Clash Of Cultures In The Colonial Southeast, Greg O'Brien

Faculty Publications

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In A Short Time There Were None Almost Left: The Success And Failure Of The Tudor Conquest In Ireland, Sean Mcintyre Jun 2006

In A Short Time There Were None Almost Left: The Success And Failure Of The Tudor Conquest In Ireland, Sean Mcintyre

Senior Honors Projects

There are few periods in the history of any nation as tumultuous as the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries in Ireland. The following paper examines the social and religious upheavals of this period and identifies an emergent national identity among ‘Gaelic Irish’ and ‘Anglo-Irish’ Catholics. Although English forces defeated the Irish ‘rebels’ in the two major military conflicts of the period, the Desmond Rebellion (1579-84) and the Nine Years’ War (1595-1603), the means employed by England to achieve victory, cultural continuity among the Irish (and Gaelicised English), as well as the conflict over religion throughout Europe ensured that Ireland would remain …

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Women, Water And The Reclamation Of The Feminine, Colleen Kattau Jun 2006

Women, Water And The Reclamation Of The Feminine, Colleen Kattau

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper examines the relationship between water and women particularly in terms of representative cultural expressions that underlie women's recovery of water as a fundamental human right, and explores how deep knowledge and trust of earth's bounty sustains viable and effective social change campaigns such as the right to water movement. Drawing principally upon the sociocultural analysis of ecofeminist thinkers such as Vandana Shiva and Carolyn Merchant, as well as William Marks's work on water, I critique the nature-culture dichotomy underlying approaches to water as a 'resource', and try to undermine the accepted hierarchy of 'power over nature' which by …

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Symbols Of Water And Woman On Selected Examples Of Modern Bengali Literature In The Context Of Mythological Tradition, Blanka Knotkova-Capkova Jun 2006

Symbols Of Water And Woman On Selected Examples Of Modern Bengali Literature In The Context Of Mythological Tradition, Blanka Knotkova-Capkova

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Woman-water homology appears in modern Bengali literature (namely poetry) in various aspects: as the archetypal symbol of creation and destruction, symbol of the womb as the beginning and end of life and rebirth (connoting both physical womb and eternal womb), and also of the womb as dark mysteriousness; a symbol of the continuation, preservation of life, symbol of transience and elusiveness, traditional male written poetic symbol of charm and beauty. In the demystifying, subversive (not only female) poetic imagination, it may also construct the symbol of eternal unity with the female principle, articulate a specific concept of female identity.

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Legislative Delegation And Two Conceptions Of The Legislative Power, Robert C. Sarvis Jun 2006

Legislative Delegation And Two Conceptions Of The Legislative Power, Robert C. Sarvis

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "The current federal government, with its burgeoning administrative agencies, does not embody what most Americans would recognize as the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. This is, in part, due to the Congress’s frequent practice of delegating legislative powers to the executive branch, i.e., giving administrative agencies the power to promulgate rules regulating private behavior and having the force of law. Legislative delegation has been the subject of academic, legal, and political wrangling since the early congresses and clearly calls into question whether modern practice adheres to constitutional norms. This article discusses legislative delegation in terms of some core …

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Review Of Silvia Federici Caliban And The Witch: Women,The Body And Primitive Accumulation (2005, Autonomedia,Nyc), Ann Fergusun Jun 2006

Review Of Silvia Federici Caliban And The Witch: Women,The Body And Primitive Accumulation (2005, Autonomedia,Nyc), Ann Fergusun

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

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The Camden African-American Heritage Project, Lindsay Crawford, Ashley Guinn, Mckenzie Kubly, Lindsay Maybin, Patricia Shandor, Santi Thompson, Louis Venters Jun 2006

The Camden African-American Heritage Project, Lindsay Crawford, Ashley Guinn, Mckenzie Kubly, Lindsay Maybin, Patricia Shandor, Santi Thompson, Louis Venters

Books and Manuscripts

This report is divided into six sections that present a history of African Americans in Camden, South Carolina from the perspective of historic preservation. The first three sections constitute the historical narrative, organized into three general time periods: the colonial period through the Civil War, emancipation and Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, and a short section on the recent past since about 1970. Within each of these sections, the report assesses political participation, economic life, the impact of war, education, religion, and the built environment. Section four offers a set of recommendations for how the information in this report …

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Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer Jun 2006

Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The story of the Ammann family of Schaffhausen sketches a cross section of the history of that town from the middle of the 15th century into the end of the 20th. Likewise, the events of history as they played out in Schaffhausen during those times very much shaped the history of the Ammann family.

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Smfs & Mff Directory (Summer 2006) Jun 2006

Smfs & Mff Directory (Summer 2006)

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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New Light On The Economic Practices Of Cistercian Women's Communities, Constance H. Berman Jun 2006

New Light On The Economic Practices Of Cistercian Women's Communities, Constance H. Berman

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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The Lost Pasts Of Women's History, Judith M. Bennett Jun 2006

The Lost Pasts Of Women's History, Judith M. Bennett

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, No.41 2006 Jun 2006

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, No.41 2006

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Elizabeth Makowski, "A Pernicious Sort Of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women And Canon Lawyers In The Later Middle Ages. Catholic University Of America, 2005, Tanya Stabler Jun 2006

Elizabeth Makowski, "A Pernicious Sort Of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women And Canon Lawyers In The Later Middle Ages. Catholic University Of America, 2005, Tanya Stabler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Muncuqlutəpə Nekropolu, Bəhlul Ibrahimov Jun 2006

Muncuqlutəpə Nekropolu, Bəhlul Ibrahimov

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe Jun 2006

Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Review Of Livestock Hotels: America's Historic Stockyards By J’Nell L. Pate, David Nesheim Jun 2006

Review Of Livestock Hotels: America's Historic Stockyards By J’Nell L. Pate, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Heretofore, historians have overlooked the stockyards' role in the development of the meat industry, choosing to focus on railroads and the packing giants. Livestock Hotels, although not definitive, is the first comprehensive examination of the stockyard industry. Complete with a glossary of stockyard terminology, several statistical tables, photographs of most of the stockyards mentioned, and a map, Livestock Hotels offers an important compendium of data while suggesting many questions for further research.

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English Calvinism And The Crowd: Coriolanus And The History Of Religious Reform, Peter Iver Kaufman Jun 2006

English Calvinism And The Crowd: Coriolanus And The History Of Religious Reform, Peter Iver Kaufman

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. “The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling … crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches,” Greenblatt suggests, is a “key to the whole spectacle” of crowds in the playwright's histories and tragedies. To be sure, his little excursions in London left their mark on his scripts, yet he scrupulously sifted his literary sources from which he drew characters and crises onto the stage. He prowled around Plutarch and read Stow and Hollinshed on the wars …

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Sylvia Thrupp: The Making Of An Early Social Historian, Caroline M. Barron Jun 2006

Sylvia Thrupp: The Making Of An Early Social Historian, Caroline M. Barron

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Kathleen Nolan, Ed., Capetian Women. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, Sharon Farmer Jun 2006

Kathleen Nolan, Ed., Capetian Women. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, Sharon Farmer

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Dorsey Armstrong, Gender And The Chivalric Community In Malory's Morte D'Arthur. University Press Of Florida, 2003, Kevin J. Harty Jun 2006

Dorsey Armstrong, Gender And The Chivalric Community In Malory's Morte D'Arthur. University Press Of Florida, 2003, Kevin J. Harty

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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