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Full-Text Articles in History of Gender
Men And Masculinities In Contemporary China (Book Review), Wenqing Kang
Men And Masculinities In Contemporary China (Book Review), Wenqing Kang
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Queer And The Bodily: Explorations Of Power In Women's Visionary Writing In The Book Of Margery Kempe 2014, Jayne Emerson Stacconi
The Queer And The Bodily: Explorations Of Power In Women's Visionary Writing In The Book Of Margery Kempe 2014, Jayne Emerson Stacconi
Master's Theses
The provocative Book of Margery Kempe is a seminal text in the history of female authorship. Claiming to be the first written autobiography, The Book serves as a literary representation of womanhood during the late fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries when Margery was writing, and also speaks to circulating medieval discourses of religion, pilgrimage, and sexuality. Participating in medieval women’s visionary writing as a genre, Margery’s visionary power is a tool by which she is able to emancipate herself from the limiting roles of wife and mother. Additionally, by working within the conventions of visionary writing, Margery is able to …
Gender And Class Differences In 19th Century French Prostitution, Mounica V. Kota Ms.
Gender And Class Differences In 19th Century French Prostitution, Mounica V. Kota Ms.
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
This paper goes over the ways in which class and gender roles intersected in the roles of prostitutes in 19th century France.
Roosevelt, Boy Scouts, And The Formation Of Muscular Christian Character, Gordon J. Christen
Roosevelt, Boy Scouts, And The Formation Of Muscular Christian Character, Gordon J. Christen
Religious Studies Honors Projects
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many prominent Christians and political leaders saw a degenerative influence in industrializing America. For them, urban culture had eroded gender roles, personal strength, and moral fiber. So-called “Muscular Christians” prescribed physical exertion and wilderness experience to cure these ills. I argue that these values were embodied in idealized characters such as Theodore Roosevelt, Jesus, and the Boy Scout to give a form to cultural remedies. In the process, they became the terms upon which proper Americanism, and proper Christianity, were constructed.
From Pants To Pearls: Rodgers And Hammerstein’S Affect On Post Wwii Women, Alison Dees
From Pants To Pearls: Rodgers And Hammerstein’S Affect On Post Wwii Women, Alison Dees
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
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