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Pamphlet: Hemispheric Conference For Women ‘76 Aug 1976

Pamphlet: Hemispheric Conference For Women ‘76

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Information about the Hemispheric Conference for Women’76 held in Miami. Includes conference sit and housing, registration directions, list of speakers and workshop leaders and a program. Conference theme: Women of the Western Hemisphere: Their Interdependent Destiny. Date: August 1976.


Roster Of Participants, Hemispheric Conference For Women, August 5-8, 1976. Aug 1976

Roster Of Participants, Hemispheric Conference For Women, August 5-8, 1976.

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No abstract provided.


Information To Participants In The Hemispheric Conference For Women “76” Jan 1976

Information To Participants In The Hemispheric Conference For Women “76”

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No abstract provided.


Homosexuals And The Death Penalty In Colonial America, Louis Crompton Jan 1976

Homosexuals And The Death Penalty In Colonial America, Louis Crompton

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This article traces the legislative history of statutes prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in dropping the death penalty.

As the nation prepares to celebrate the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, the question of the status of the homosexual in pre-Revolutionary America comes to mind. The Body of Liberties approved by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1641 welcomed refugees seeking to escape "the …