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#Aminext: The Link Between European Colonization And Gender-Based Violence In Contemporary South Africa, Jenna Meredith Pagel

Capstone Showcase

Alarmingly, the female murder rate in South Africa is five times the global average (BBC News 2019). According to data from 2017 and 2018, a woman is murdered every four hours in South Africa (Wilkinson 2019). More than 30 women were killed by their spouses in August 2019, and at least 137 sexual offenses are committed per day in South Africa (Francke 2019).

For this thesis, and in order to understand why South Africa has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world, I consult a number of scholars who conclude that the overall issue of …

Divorce As Liberation: Marital Expectations Among The Working-Class In The 1950s, Kristin M. Catrone

Theses and Dissertations

Divorce was a remedy employed by working-class Americans in the 1950s when their marital expectations went unmet. Spouses left emotionally, physically, or sexually abusive marriages. Expectations for marriage also centered around assumptions based on gender. Working-class women showed how divorce could be used as a tool of liberation and empowerment.

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 …

German And American Transnational Spaces In Women's And Gender History, Shelley Rose

History Faculty Publications

Books Reviewed:

Michaela Bank. Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women’s Rights, and Nativism, 1848–1890. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. vi.+ 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-85745-512-3 (cl).

Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, eds. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. vii. +397 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1413-3 (pb).

Lynne Tatlock. German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866, 1917. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2012. ix.+ 347 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-8142-1194-6 (cl).

"Casting Aside That Ficticious Self.": Deciphering Female Identity In The Awakening 2015, Anne L. Dicosimo

Master's Theses

Kate Chopin’s female protagonists have long since fascinated literary critics, raising serious questions concerning the influence of nineteenth-century female gender roles in her writing. Published in 1899, The Awakening demonstrates the changeability of the various representations of woman. In the nineteenth century, the subject of women may be divided into two categories: the True Woman and the New Woman. The former were expected to “cherish and maintain the four cardinal virtues of piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity” (Khoshnood et al.), while the latter sought to move away from hearth and home in order to focus on education, professions, and political …

From Marilyn Monroe To Cindy Crawford: A Historical Analysis Of Women’S Body Image Depicted In Popular Magazines From 1952 To 1995, Jayme S. Nobles

Honors Theses

For this study, the researcher viewed advertisements in popular magazines from 1952 to 1995 that focus on women’s body image. The sample consisted of advertisements found in Life and Cosmopolitan magazines. Instead of observing every issue throughout the forty-three year period, the researcher chose a few issues from each magazine every five years. 180 advertisements were viewed in this study. The researcher observed three different elements found in the advertisements: the product being sold, the appeals of sexuality, if any, in the ads, and the appearance of the advertisements’ models. This research attempted to prove that over the course of …

Maine Now Times (Fall 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (Spring 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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The Role And Effect Of Advertising On Women During World War Ii, Laura Elizabeth Francis

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Advertising had an overwhelming effect on women during World War II; many women were influenced by advertising in the media to behave a certain way, buy certain products, and also support the war effort in a variety of ways. In the 1940s while many American women’s husbands, fiances, boyfriends, brothers, and sons were going off to fight in the War abroad, many women were fighting a war of their own on the home front. While men could prove they were active patriotic citizens by fighting in the military and taking government positions, female’s roles were re-written to show what they …

Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 16 (Spring 2005), Mainely Girls Staff

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Maine Now Times (Spring 2005), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 15 (Winter 2005), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 14 (Summer 2004), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 13 (Winter 2004), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 12 (Fall 2003), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 11 (Spring 2003), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 8 (Winter 2002), Mainely Girls Staff

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Maine Now Times (Spring 2001), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 5 (Winter 2001), Mainely Girls Staff

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Mainely Girls Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fall 2000), Mainely Girls Staff

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Maine Now Times (Fall 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (Summer 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (Winter 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (May 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (Spring 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Feminist Voices (Jan 1998), Greater Bangor Chapter Of The National Organization Of Women Staff

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Maine Now Times (Winter 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Feminist Voices (Fall 1997), Greater Bangor Chapter Of The National Organization Of Women Staff

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Maine Now Times (Fall 1997), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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Maine Now Times (Summer 1997), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff

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