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Cordelia Beattie. Medieval Single Women: The Politics Of Social Classification In Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, 2007., Kate Kelsey Staples

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Continuity In Iranian Leadership Legitimization: Farr-I Izadi, Shi’Ism, And Vilayet-I Faqih, Tamara C. Mackenthun

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The ancient Iranian belief in a mythological force that God bestows on kings in the form of a mystical light that validates their rule, the farr-ī īzadī, has persisted in Iran for millennia, and continues to influence Iranian concepts of leadership legitimization. The Islamic conquerors who overthrew Iran’s Sassanian Empire in the seventh century adapted this myth of Iranian sacral kingship to Islamic political culture, and used it to build a distinct Iranian Islamic political identity that persisted through centuries of regime changes. Iran’s Shi’i Muslims drew upon the concept of farr-i izadi in both of Iran’s twentieth century revolutions, …

Self-Actualization In The Lives Of Medieval Female Mystics: An Ethnohistorical Approach, Cherel Jane Ellsworth Olive

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This dissertation explores the cultural and psychological factors that permitted six medieval female mystics to assume positions of leadership and innovation in a world marked by extreme gender inequality. Women religious have often been charged with being neurotics, hysterics, narcissists, and nymphomaniacs whereas males with similar experiences are rarely subject to the same degree of criticism. It is argued here that the women may well have been seeking to achieve the form of self-actualization described by humanist psychologist, Abraham Maslow, as a result of the "conversion" experience analyzed by William James. Furthermore, applying modern categories of mental illness to these …

Stigma Cities: Dystopian Urban Identities In The United States West And South In The Twentieth Century, Jonathan Lavon Foster

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This dissertation examines how historical events and representation of those events relative to the wider historical context have allowed the media, opinion setters, and the ordinary public to use the names of San Francisco, California, Birmingham, Alabama and Las Vegas, Nevada as denigrating adjectives and the effect of this usage on those cities. Exploration of Birmingham’s image as a racist city, San Francisco’s as a gay Mecca, and Las Vegas, Nevada’s as an adult playground or sinful city serves this purpose. These case studies support a central argument that the nature of place-based stigmatization’s influence depends upon ever-shifting cultural values …

Pcf: Voice Of The People, Raisa Vilensky

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

The French Communist Party (PCF) played an instrumental role in giving a voice to a segment of the population that was otherwise poorly represented in democracy. This paper attempts to illustrate the origins of communism in France by drawing on French history to connect a unique and separate branch of thought, beginning with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. From Rousseau's ideals on the evil of private property and his disdain for the rule of law being merely a tool to support the existing ruling class, through the Jacobins of the French Revolution, and continued by the French Socialists of the Nineteenth Century, it …

Armor During Wwii: The Defeat Of The Superior Panther, Phillip D. Clark

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

It is the popular opinion among the masses that the Soviet Union's T-34/76 battle tank was the superior weapons platform during World War II when compared to the United States M-4 Sherman and Germany's Mk V Panther tanks. Through a combination of research and personal military knowledge and experience, I will demonstrate that the German Panther was indeed the superior battle tank in mobility, firepower, armor, and could, on a individual level (one on one), defeat not only the Soviet Union's T-34 tank, but all allied armor employed against it. I will further demonstrate that the economic stress placed on …

An Environmental Biography Of Bde Ihanke-Lake Andes: History, Science, And Sovereignty Converge With Tribal, State, And Federal Power On The Yankton Sioux Reservation In South Dakota, 1858–1959, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Lake Andes sits at the center of the Yankton Sioux Reservation in south-central South Dakota and might be described as a prairie pothole, except it encompasses nearly 5,000 acres when full of water, stretching twelve miles long by a mile to a mile and a half wide in a quasi-crescent shape. Originally carved out by a receding glacier during the Wisconsin glaciations, for its entire history the lake has gone dry during low precipitation -- a cycle interrupted after the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) commissioned several artesian wells beginning in 1896. As the lake expanded, the U.S. Fish Commission …

Allison Levy. Re-Membering Masculinity In Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning And Portraiture. (Women And Gender In The Early Modern World.) Ashgate, 2006., Elizabeth L'Estrange

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: August 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from August 2009. These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: August 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from August 14 and 28, 2009.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.45 No.1 2009

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Notes & Announcements, Vol.45 No.1 2009

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Women And The English Morality Play, Douglas Bruster

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Ramona Bressie, The Study Of Manuscripts, And The Chaucer Life-Records, Thomas H. Bestul

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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"Individually, And On Behalf Of All Others Similarly Situated", Dolores Frese

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Getting Anecdotal, Sheila Delany

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Jo Ann Kay Mcnamara, Feminist Scholar: A Pioneer In Transforming Medieval History, Dorothy O. Helly

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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A Delightful Inheritance: Female Agency And The Disputatio Tradition In The Hortus Deliciarum, Sarah Celentano Parker

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Representing The Body In Poems By Medieval Muslim Women, Marla Segol

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Afterward: Memory In Feminist Cultures, Bonnie Wheeler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Susan Mosher Stuard. Gilding The Market: Luxury And Fashion In Fourteenth-Century Italy. (The Middle Ages.) University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2006., Kim M. Phillips

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Monica H. Green. Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise Of Male Authority In Pre-Modern Gynaecology. Oxford University Press, 2008., Wendy R. Larson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Yossef Rapoport. Marriage, Money And Divorce In Medieval Islamic Society. Cambridge University Press, 2005., Monica Green

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Melissa Franklin Harkrider. Women, Reform And Community In Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess Of Suffolk, And Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580. Boydell Press, 2008., Julie Chappell

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Berea Christian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 270. Membership registers of Berea Christian Church, 1854 to 1895 (see scans under "Additional Files" below). Photocopy of deed to first church property included.

Robert Eckley, Robert Eckley, Nathaniel Strauss '10

All oral histories

Dr. Eckley was President of Illinois Wesleyan University from 1968-1986.

Nell Eckley, Nell Eckley, Walter Farris '10

All oral histories

Nell Eckley is the wife of Dr. Robert Eckley, President of Illinois Wesleyan University from 1968-1986.

Sea Of Stories, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

Ananya Vajpeyi reads Wendy Doniger's capacious study of the diversity of Hindu tales and traditions, which serves as a riposte to the self-appointed guardians of Indian culture by celebrating the multiple varieties of Hindu religious experience.

Julia E. Collins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

A Few Reading Recommendations

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. The new Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is out—and all its articles are available for free in PDF at its website. Those of possible interest to CB readers include:

“Beijing Bubble, Beijing Bust: Inequality, Trade, and Capital Inflow into China” (by James K. Galbraith, Sara Hsu, Wenjie Zhang); “Realpolitik Dynamics and Image Construction in the Russia-China Relationship: Forging a Strategic Partnership?” (by Maria Raquel Freire, Carmen Amado Mendes); “The Regulation of Religious Affairs in Taiwan: From State Control to Laisser-faire?” (by André Laliberté); “Nationalism to Go – Coke Commercials between Lifestyle and Political Myth” (available only in German, by …