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The Disabling Nature Of The Hiv / Aids Discourse Among Hbcu Students: How Postcolonial Racial Identities And Gender Expectations Influence Hiv Prevention Attitudes And Sexual Risk-Taking, Bruce H. Wade Jun 2007

The Disabling Nature Of The Hiv / Aids Discourse Among Hbcu Students: How Postcolonial Racial Identities And Gender Expectations Influence Hiv Prevention Attitudes And Sexual Risk-Taking, Bruce H. Wade

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

This analysis reveals how some African American college students respond to the discourse on HIV / AIDS as a social disability. The methodology includes surveys (n = 217), focus groups and interviews with convenience samples of students attending a consortium of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. The findings show that the perceived risk of HIV is high in this community, that nearly half of students use condoms inconsistently even though they are well aware of the risks of unprotected sex and their levels of HIV / AIDS knowledge are high. Social stigma, gender role expectations, an …

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The Technology Of Immortality, The Soul, And Human Identity, Richard A. Jones Jun 2007

The Technology Of Immortality, The Soul, And Human Identity, Richard A. Jones

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

In this paper, I argue that human beings will soon achieve immortality, but that that immortality will be neither the theistic promise of resurrection of the body nor the soul. Rather, I suggest that technological immortality—the ability through pure techné to reproduce any human life ever lived—is not only possible, but inevitable. Moreover, more than a cursory survey of the biological sciences, computer technology, and fictive literature, this essay also examines the normative dimensions of this near-future reality; ought we or ought we not?

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Editorial, Pushpa Parekh Jun 2007

Editorial, Pushpa Parekh

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

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Table Of Contents Jun 2007

Table Of Contents

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Researching And Writing A New College History, Thomas R. Turner Jun 2007

Researching And Writing A New College History, Thomas R. Turner

Bridgewater Review

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Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.43 No.1 2007 Jun 2007

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.43 No.1 2007

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Continuing The Discourse: Feminist Scholarship And The Study Of Medieval Visual Culture, Rachel Dressler Jun 2007

Continuing The Discourse: Feminist Scholarship And The Study Of Medieval Visual Culture, Rachel Dressler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Reflections On The Life Of A Scholar Looking For The Woman's Part In Renaissance England, Carole Levin Jun 2007

Reflections On The Life Of A Scholar Looking For The Woman's Part In Renaissance England, Carole Levin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Up Against The Great Traditions: The Career Of Sheila Delany, Lynn Arner Jun 2007

Up Against The Great Traditions: The Career Of Sheila Delany, Lynn Arner

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Kathy Lavezzo, Angels On The Edge Of The World: Geography, Literature And English Community, 1000-1534. Cornell University Press, 2006, Robert Barrett Jun 2007

Kathy Lavezzo, Angels On The Edge Of The World: Geography, Literature And English Community, 1000-1534. Cornell University Press, 2006, Robert Barrett

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Valerie G. Spear, Leadership In Medieval English Nunneries. Studies In The History Of Medieval Religion Series. Boydell, 2005, Katherine L. French Jun 2007

Valerie G. Spear, Leadership In Medieval English Nunneries. Studies In The History Of Medieval Religion Series. Boydell, 2005, Katherine L. French

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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E. Jane Burns, Ed., Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Cloth Work, And Other Cultural Imaginings. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, Kathy Krause Jun 2007

E. Jane Burns, Ed., Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Cloth Work, And Other Cultural Imaginings. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, Kathy Krause

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Wybren Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women In The Low Countries: The Modern Devotion, The Canonesses Of Windesheim, And Their Writings. Boydell, 2004, Mary Suydam Jun 2007

Wybren Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women In The Low Countries: The Modern Devotion, The Canonesses Of Windesheim, And Their Writings. Boydell, 2004, Mary Suydam

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Anne Bagnall Yardley, Performing Piety: Musical Culture In Medieval English Nunneries. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillian, 2006, Cynthia Cyrus Jun 2007

Anne Bagnall Yardley, Performing Piety: Musical Culture In Medieval English Nunneries. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillian, 2006, Cynthia Cyrus

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark T. Tebeau Jun 2007

Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark T. Tebeau

History Faculty Publications

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Research Note: The Irish International Exhibition Of 1907 - Ireland's World Fair, Patricia J. Fanning Jun 2007

Research Note: The Irish International Exhibition Of 1907 - Ireland's World Fair, Patricia J. Fanning

Bridgewater Review

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Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship And Gender In Anglo-Saxon Literature. University Of Notre Dame Press, 2006, M. Wendy Hennequin Jun 2007

Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship And Gender In Anglo-Saxon Literature. University Of Notre Dame Press, 2006, M. Wendy Hennequin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Katharina M. Wilson, Women In The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2004 , Chris Africa Jun 2007

Katharina M. Wilson, Women In The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2004 , Chris Africa

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Nicholas Watson And Jacquelin Jenkins, Ed., The Writings Of Julian Of Norwich: A Vision Showed To A Devout Woman And A Revelation Of Love. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, Candace Gregory-Abbott Jun 2007

Nicholas Watson And Jacquelin Jenkins, Ed., The Writings Of Julian Of Norwich: A Vision Showed To A Devout Woman And A Revelation Of Love. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, Candace Gregory-Abbott

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.43 No.1 2007 Jun 2007

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.43 No.1 2007

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Disability As Embodied Memory? A Question Of Identity For The Amputees Of Sierra Leone, Maria Berghs Jun 2007

Disability As Embodied Memory? A Question Of Identity For The Amputees Of Sierra Leone, Maria Berghs

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

This paper examines the problematic construction of amputee identity in Sierra Leone society after the decade long civil war through discourses and imagery of amputees presented in the media. Empowerment by NGO’s and other charities lead to a reaffirmation of amputee identity in which notions of class, ethnicity, and age may not play a big role, but gender certainly remains a relevant cultural marker.

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Isolation And Companionship: Disability In Australian (Post) Colonial Cinema, Kathleen Ellis Jun 2007

Isolation And Companionship: Disability In Australian (Post) Colonial Cinema, Kathleen Ellis

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

Despite reflecting a postcolonial rethinking of identity throughout the 1990s, disability was positioned as ‘Other’ in Australian national cinema. The intersection between culture, gender, nationality, and disability is evident in films located in traditional colonial spaces (The Well, The Piano). This article concentrates on the fascination 1990s Australian filmmakers had with disabled women; otherwise strong characters who redundantly fulfill cultural expectations of femininity. A disability perspective illustrates the link between disability and sexism in Australian Cinema.

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I Don’T Ask God To Move The Mountain, Just Give Me The Strength To Climb It”: Disability Stories Of Southern Rural African American Women, Aline Gubrium Jun 2007

I Don’T Ask God To Move The Mountain, Just Give Me The Strength To Climb It”: Disability Stories Of Southern Rural African American Women, Aline Gubrium

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

In this article, I focus on the life stories of African-American women living in a rural community in the South, particularly on their career trajectory stories. Life in this small community leaves little to offer in terms of work, with most women working either in a clothing factory in town, in the state prison located on the outskirts of town, or working in nearby University Town as nursing assistants or custodial workers—all jobs which rely on the participants’ strenuous labor and which often result in disabilities (often related to back or hip injuries) and the participants’ consequent inability to work …

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Monsters In The Closet: Biopolitics And Intersexuality, Nadia Guidotto Jun 2007

Monsters In The Closet: Biopolitics And Intersexuality, Nadia Guidotto

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

In this paper, I focus predominantly on the hermaphrodite (intersex, in modern discourse) and its relationship to other abject bodies in history to show how biopolitics creates and regulates populations of monsters in order to establish and sustain a particular structure in society. This particular structure is based on what Judith Butler has called the heterosexual matrix, which I will extend to include racial and liberal elements.

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Review Of Kounandi (Film From Burkina Faso) By Apolline Traoré, Barbara Hoffman Jun 2007

Review Of Kounandi (Film From Burkina Faso) By Apolline Traoré, Barbara Hoffman

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

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Entremundos/ Among Worlds: New Perspectives On Gloria Anzaldúa Edited By Analouise Keating, Colleen Kattau Jun 2007

Entremundos/ Among Worlds: New Perspectives On Gloria Anzaldúa Edited By Analouise Keating, Colleen Kattau

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

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Cultural Rehabilitation: Hansen’S Disease, Gender And Disability In Korea, Eunjung Kim Jun 2007

Cultural Rehabilitation: Hansen’S Disease, Gender And Disability In Korea, Eunjung Kim

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

This essay explores how leprosy was used to enforce cultural inferiority, which resulted in the oppression of affected people in Korea. The literature shows that images of lepers as cannibals infiltrated family lives in the communities and made institutionalization inevitable. Contemporary cultural representations depict marriage between disabled men and nondisabled women as a symbolic bridge between the segregated space of "lepers" and the "healthy." Such efforts reinforce the normative power of heterosexual marriage.

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Colonial Discourses Of Disability And Normalization In Contemporary Francophone Immigrant Narratives: Bessora’S 53 Cm And Fatou Diome’S Le Ventre De ’Atlantique, Julie Nack Ngue Jun 2007

Colonial Discourses Of Disability And Normalization In Contemporary Francophone Immigrant Narratives: Bessora’S 53 Cm And Fatou Diome’S Le Ventre De ’Atlantique, Julie Nack Ngue

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

In this paper, I examine recent Francophone immigrant narratives in a disability studies framework to reveal the ways in which colonial discourses of illness and disability on the Black female body haunt contemporary discussions of immigration and integration. While these novels portray female immigrant bodies as subject to constant surveillance and examination within multiple institutions of ‘normalization,’ they also expose oppressive discourses of illness and disability in order to challenge the paradigms of normality and homogeneity which undergird French treatment of immigrants.

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Vitalism: Subjectivity Exceeding Racism,Sexism And (Psychiatric) Ableism, James Overboe Jun 2007

Vitalism: Subjectivity Exceeding Racism,Sexism And (Psychiatric) Ableism, James Overboe

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

Liberal discourse has argued against the pathology of differences that stem from being gendered or racialized. Yet, liberal discourse continues to pathologize the differences that derive from disabilities whether physical, mental, and/or developmental. This paper considers the position of a woman who is the site of the coming together of being gendered, being aboriginal, and being psychiatrized, and argues that her vitalism that has been psychiatrized benefits her subjectivity.

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Gender, Disability And The Postcolonial Nexus, Pushpa Parekh Jun 2007

Gender, Disability And The Postcolonial Nexus, Pushpa Parekh

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

This study will focus on intersecting gender, disability and Postcoloniality nexus and will foreground the contributions to and interventions from gendered disability perspectives within selected postcolonial cultural works in India and the Indian diaspora, including literary works, films, performances and activism. The articulation of intersecting identity perspectives, inclusive of disability, is a significant though ignored area within Gender, Disability or Postcolonial studies. Bringing these areas together within the current modes of interdisciplinary inquiry involves crossing the boundaries of identity categories and cultural locations.

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