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Healing Through Mother Earth, Taylor A. Russell

Dance (MFA) Theses

This thesis deals with mental health, with a focus on Black women. Historically, Black women are often so compromised, being constant caregivers and helping everyone else, that they forget to help themselves, not having the time and financial means to do so. If we go back in the time of slavery, many Black women were taking care of slave owners' children and suckling the white women’s babies instead of their own. By the time they got home and after diligently caring for other people’s children they were focused on their own children, who they had been away from for hours …

Mothers, Morals, And Godly Motivations: Conservative Women’S Activism From Anticommunism To The New Christian Right, Kaitlyn C. Phillips

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The modern conservative movement cannot be understood without investigating women’s activism. Women’s political participation sustained the transformation of the Republican party from an emphasis on economic issues to a focus on social issues, especially throughout the mid-late twentieth century. One key point of transformation was in the 1950’s, when Communism posed a very serious danger. Conservatives claimed that in Communist countries, women gave their children to government funded programs and went to work.1 This policy took women away from their assigned roles as wives and mothers. Another important turning point was in the 1960’s, when the United States saw sweeping …

Imagining A New Nation: Patriotism And National Identity In The Writing Of Late-18th Century American Women, Aysia S. Brenner

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Benedict Anderson defined the nation as “an imagined political community” that is “imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.” The research for this paper began with a desire to know how American women in the time leading up to, during, and immediately after the American Revolution and War of Independence did or did not imagine themselves as members of the newly emerging political community eventually known as the United States of America. As tensions between the Colonies and Great Britain increased, as tea was dumped in Boston harbor, and as independence was declared in 1776, how did women make sense …

Interpretresses: Native American Women Translators In Colonial America, Faith Clarkson

Undergraduate Research Awards

Underlying all the disputes and treaties between native Americans and Europeans was the need for an understanding of what the groups were saying to each other. Translation was the common denominator throughout the numerous interactions between native tribes in America and colonists coming over from Europe. In colonial America, translators were crucial to establishing relationships between native Americans and the Europeans that came to North America to create colonies. These interpreters operated in the in-between of two different cultures and they needed to be knowledgeable enough about both of them to correctly convey meaning to either side. It was also …

Mamas, Miners, & Movements: Women And Gendered Labor In Central Appalachia During The 20th Century, Devan M. Mullins

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis seeks to better analyze the contributions and experiences of women within the central Appalachian region through the work they participated in during the 20th century. It lays the foundational understandings of gender roles that crafted the society of the area and connects labor evolution for women within Appalachia and the US as a whole – highlighting similarities and differences. It also discusses Appalachian women’s move from the household to waged labor within the coal mines. Special attention will be paid to the reactions of men and other women to women coal miners to understand what gendered labor means …

Limitation, Liberation, And The Latter-Day Saints: The Establishment Of Mormon Womanhood In The Woman’S Exponent, 1872-1890, Meaghan Harrington

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Navigating the establishment of Mormon womanhood from 1872-1890 in the Exponent shows how Mormon women related to their outer world, their inner world, and themselves. This thesis analyzes the thoughts, feelings, and desires of a complex sociocultural grouping, and asks the reader to question their own attitudes towards gender and culture. The rhetoric of Mormon womanhood in the Exponent and the culture from which it stemmed have implications for understanding both “the rights of the women of Zion, and the rights of the women of all nations.”

The Spinster (2016), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Charles Lewis Cocke Papers, Beth S. Harris

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

Personal and professional papers of Charles Lewis Cocke, educator, founder and first president of Hollins University, and Baptist layman.

The Civil War In Southwest Virginia, Darlene Richardson

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

Ellen Adair was a sweet, somewhat silly 17-year-old and well into her second year at Hollins Institute when one day in January 1863, with the Civil War showing no sign of ending anytime soon, her father unexpectedly showed up to take her home. Ellen’s idyllic days as a Hollins student were ending, and fate held cards it had yet to show. Diary entries from the period show the impact of war on a formerly quiet part of the state.

The Spinster (2013), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University

Madame Tussaud And The Women Of The French Revolution, Leah Craig

Undergraduate Research Awards

A critical examination of Madame Tussaud's life, especially focusing on self-representation in her memoir and her methods of surviving the French Revolution. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay from the 2013 Undergraduate Research Awards.

I Must And Will Survive: The Civil War-Era Diary Of Virginia Daniel Woodroof, Class Of 1866, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

Virginia Daniel Woodroof's diary covers many themes, including romantic love, duty to family and God, fear for those at war, college life, worry about the future, and the struggle to do the right thing. Virginia attended Hollins Institute 1864-1866. The diary covers February 1860 to October 1894..

Unfinished Agenda, Mildred Emory Persinger

Mildred E. Persinger Papers

(excerpt) Why am I still working in the campaigns for civil rights and human rights after seventy years? The question has never come up—until now. Yet it is to be expected. Even as a child I was upset by hearing disparaging remarks about cherished black friends. In college I was stunned to learn that others had raised questions about the propriety of my invitation to a young Japanese student to spend the weekend with me. Later I was ashamed and worried for her that in Virginia she might have been rejected because she was not white enough.

John Rutherford Everett, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

Biographical article on Hollins University's fourth president, John "Jack" Everett (1950-1961).

The Lasting Importance Of Ephemera: What Scrapbooks, Diaries, Newspapers, And Receipts Tell Us About Life At Hollins During The Civil War., Karen Adams

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

The University Archives and Special Collections at Hollins University contain a rich collection of documents, from academic catalogs, newspapers, and diaries to receipts, scrapbooks, and other artifacts. Together they tell a story of life at Hollins during the Civil War.

The Spinster (2012), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Leader Of The Constitutional Women's Suffrage Movement In Great Britain, Cecelia Parks

Undergraduate Research Awards

Examines Millicent Garrett Fawcett's leadership of the National Union of Women‟s Suffrage Societies and her role in the enfranchisement of British women. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Awards.

The Spinster (2011), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Discovering The Unexpected: The Margaret Wise Brown Collection At Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

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The Spinster (2010), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

The Spinster (2009), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

The Spinster (2008), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Hollins Columns (2007 May 2), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Campus security responds to tragedy
• Temporary appointments fill empty SGA positions
• QEP and SSLs: The ABCs of first year seminars
• Examples of QEP Seminars
• Hollins Students take a voluntary vow of silence
• Indie folk artist performs at Hollins
• Students frustrated with new email system
• Library extends hour for exams
• Spring 2007 exam schedule
• Hollins Alumni reappropriates porn
• Virginia tech victims are remembered
• Students question gun control policies
• Shapiro: A pretty good band
• Quality TV comes from "Mars"
• Media behavior shameful
• Columns Comic:
• Tennis team finished 3rd in ODAC
• In-House show offers friendly competition
• Fitness tips
• Hollins names …

Hollins Columns (2007 Apr 16), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins elects new SGA officials
• Hollins riding places first in region, third at zone
• "Balanced Way" program offers healthy options
• Hollins golf team finished season
• "Smashed" author speaks to campus
• Renovations approved; said to start summer 2007
• Hollins professor receives George Garrett Award
• Students Participate in creating graffiti art
• Lee Smith: A true Hollins woman
• Green and gold go after the bra
• Hollins students venture "Into the Woods"
• SRLA Penny War Raises Money for SOS Fund
• A Night Out With the Drag Kings and Queens
• Porterdavis rocks our stacks
• Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in time at 84
• Fight …

Hollins Columns (2007 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Mrs. Degree teaches homemaking skills
• Hollins prepared for terrorist attacks
• Golf team sports Loch Ness Monster in pond
• Hollins students strip tease to success
• Out with Sodexho, in with Food Network Chefs
• Campus takes up cause to free Spears and Lohan
• 50% of Olsen Twins admitted to Hollins
• The gavel shares his life story
• "300" film embraced by Republican party
• This spring: Fugly is the New Black
• The straight and narrow path
• Columns Comic: Smokers vs. Capt Squirell
• Hollins wins Division III basketball title
• Fitness tips for bikini season

Hollins Columns (2007 Mar 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Grapheon presents 74th annual lit. fest
• Stables prevent spread of equine herpes
• Wilson Museum presents Godey's Lady's Book
• Students lend a helping hand in Lucea
• Housing Sign-ups Spring 2007
• Richard Rudolph conducts a new tune
• For students, Mrs. Dee means breakfast
• FBI Profiler speaks at Hollins
• OUTLoud sponsors drag king event
• Fans excited about "the Neon Bible"
• No excuse for smoking
• Hollins Comic: Critters vs. Smokers Part 1
• Varsity Tennis off to a promising start
• Lacrosse welcomes new members
• Fitness tips

Hollins Columns (2007 Feb 26), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• O'Toole acquitted of misdemeanor charges
• "Vagina Monologues" takes center stage
• Spinster staff prepares for book's release
• Wasserstein Festival held at Hollins
• Vaccine mandate under security
• Travelogues
• What's new in the study abroad programs?
• From Greece
• Share participates in service project
• Poet Brian Henry visits campus
• Hollins Columns: The new regime
• Staff Spring 2007
• Hollins Comic: Another night in Tinker
• Basketball team ends season
• Swim team exceeds expectations
• Fitness tips

The Spinster (2007), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Hollins Columns (2006 Dec 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Faculty approves leadership program
• HUTV prepares for spring launch
• Women discuss careers in male-dominated fields
• Students debate faculty involvement in senate
• Safety tips for the holidays
• Class, students raise environmental awareness
• Students underrepresented at polls
• "The Queen" examines British politics
• Indie artist releases new EP
• Hollins Columns Manifesto
• Letter to the Editor: Message to Seniors
• Support the Basketball Team this January

Hollins Columns (2006 Nov 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Dining services address student concerns
• HPV Vaccinations available on campus
• J-Term offers new opportunities
• SGA offers student endowment
• Campus Construction
• Students speak against marriage amendment
• Curious critters cause stir on campus
• Hollins Alum leads sex discussion
• Riders focus on teamwork, skills
• Local Columnist visits class
• Intercultural center reaches out to community
• Fall Formal Enchants
• "The Prestige" creates bigscreen magic
• Virginia Coalition promote new album in Roanoke
• 7 fun ideas for bored first-years
• Join the Hollins Columns Staff for Spring '07