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Benjamin Wallin: A Respectable Minister's Proclamation of the Gospel in Eighteenth-Century London
This dissertation introduces the work of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist London minister Benjamin Wallin. After providing an overview of Wallin's life and ministry, the dissertation turns to an examination of his teaching and preaching. Benjamin Wallin was a known close associate of John …
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Respectable militants : the Lancashire textile machinery makers, c.1800-1939
Lancashire's textile machinery industry developed with the mechanisation of its cotton industry, and by 1914 was the leading branch of mechanical engineering in Britain. Throughout this industry's history its artisans retained characteristics of respectability and militancy allied with a strong …
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Woman is a Parable
… the Parable of the "Ten Maidens" from an African Womanist Perspective consonant with an Epideictic Rhetoric approach. Through this perspective the social position of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is challenged by a womanist perspective. …
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The life stories of a woman from Rosebud: Names and naming in 'Lakota Woman' and 'Ohitika Woman' (Mary Brave Woman Olguin, South Dakota)
Lakota Woman (1991) and Ohitika Woman (1994) are the consecutive life stories of Mary Brave Woman Olguin (also known as Mary Crow Dog and Mary Brave Bird). The books portray Mary's telling of her life and its connection with Lakota history and tradition. Non-Native artist and writer, Richard …
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Lee Miller. Beyond the muse. A very modern woman: a woman of her time
Fashion model, surrealist artist, muse, photographer, and war correspondent. This discourse of simple transition from model to war correspondent, influenced by Antony Penrose and the Miller estate, has dominated the reading of Miller‟s life and work, as exemplified by the Imperial War Museum‟s …
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A reflexive understanding of woman/woman marriages among the Gikuyu of Kenya
This study concerns the practices of woman/woman marriage among the Gikuyu of Kenya. Though widely practiced, such marriages have seldom been studied, and virtually not at all among the Gikuyu. Such practices had been only lightly, and inadequately, addressed over five decades ago by Leakey …
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Woman to woman : relationships in the Hebrew Bible
… of the past. It is an exploration of the woman to woman relationships that are presented in the Hebrew Bible. In the entire corpus, there are only three such relationships portrayed with any details, these being the ones between Leah and Rachel, Sarah and Hagar, and Ruth and Naomi. The …
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BEING A WOMAN IN THE WORKPLACE
This research examines the current number of women holding CEO positions within the Fortune 500 companies. It takes a deeper look into this gender gap and fully examines the hidden barriers that women face when progressing through their careers. I examine this through an analysis of articles, …
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Identity of a Single Black Woman
<p>There is not much literature that speaks to the identity of singles, considering this is a growing group in our society today. Singleness may be by choice or by circumstance; nevertheless, this is a group worth investigating. Over the course of the last decade there have been various media …
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A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books
The study examines sexism in siSwati school prescribed books. The study takes the view that textbooks as cultural artifacts are important in the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering of identities. The selected prescribed books for …
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Woman in Islam: A Stereotyped Westernized Imagee in Nawal Al Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero"
… stereotyped and Westernized image of Muslim woman as exemplified in the literary work of the Egyptian writer, Nawal Al Saadawi. The thesis focuses on how Nawal Al Saadawi, through her novel Woman at Point Zero, believes, as the Western world, feminists and readers do, that Islam has degraded …
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Woman in Islam: A Stereotyped Westernized Imagee in Nawal Al Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero"
… stereotyped and Westernized image of Muslim woman as exemplified in the literary work of the Egyptian writer, Nawal Al Saadawi. The thesis focuses on how Nawal Al Saadawi, through her novel Woman at Point Zero, believes, as the Western world, feminists and readers do, that Islam has degraded …
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The Lorca Woman
University of Washington Abstract The Lorca Woman Olga Kravtsova Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Jeffrey Fracé School of Drama The Lorca Woman is a piece about a woman’s journey through the obstacles of life and social barriers in order to gain acceptance from “the audience” and herself. This …
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The woman as a victim of patriarchy
Patriarchal Discrimination and other forms of Discrimination and related intolerance continue to threaten women's' enjoyment of their rights and fundamental freedoms. In situations of poverty, economy, education violence against women, power and decision making, Human Rights of women, and Health …
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'Swetnam the Woman-Hater': A Critical Edition
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6607730.pdf: 13584551 bytes, checksum: a73a5e5e14c71f88c6aaf7efc600cb29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Respectable from their intelligence: the education of Louisiana's gens de couleur libres, 1800 to 1860
This study provides a historical analysis of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that influenced the unprecedented educational attainment of Louisiana’s gens de couleur libres (free people of color) from colonization to the dawn of the American Civil War. Many in this community came to …
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Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing <i>Madame Bovary</i>
… overtly represent the impossible conditions of womanhood and domestic life in nineteenth century France. Further, I will expose the ways in which Flaubert, through these killings, aims to release his woman characters from their lives of oppression and imprisonment, detailing their increasingly …
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Julia Gardiner Tyler: A nineteenth-century Southern woman
… the fundamental question of how an ambitious woman could fulfill personal aspirations without openly defying gender conventions and focuses on a variety of themes affecting American women including: education, domesticity, slavery, politics, and religion.;Julia was a northerner by birth and …
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