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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American Girl"”.
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"And that's what I think being an American girl is all about!" : girls' reflections on American Girl and contemporary American girlhood
… part of their 2007 “What Does it Mean to be an American Girl?” exhibit. Inspired by-- and anchored with-- the fictional protagonists of the wildly popular American Girls Collection, the exhibit “celebrate[d] the spirit of girlhood in America” through its displays, living history events, and of …
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The Ordeal of The American Girl: Female Initiation in Henry James' Fiction
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7811208.pdf: 9675952 bytes, checksum: d6638ac72872330c1453e789b017ab6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The originals
… in the historical figure Samantha Smith--an American girl who is accredited with helping to end hostilities between the U.S.S.R. and the United States in the mid-1980's through a letter she wrote to Prime Minister Yuri Andropov in 1983. As events in Magpie's present escalate, she realizes …
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Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities
… structures.</p><p>My research focuses on the American Girl Dolls Collection, a line of toys that claim to teach American history to girls between the ages of 8 and 12. Rather than investigate the way children engage with these objects, I have focused on adults who both purchase the toys for …
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, Bishop, Plath, Rich, and Sexton pursued in their poetry and prose an investigation of self and social formation that was simultaneously …
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The Restinga
… Henderson-James, author of: “At Home Abroad: An American Girl in Africa”</li> </ul> <p>(<a href="http://nancyhendersonjames.com/">http://nancyhendersonjames.com/</a>)</p> <p><em>The Lover</em>, a novel by Marguerite Duras, influenced the author in her writing of <em>The Restinga</em>. This ex-pat …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
<p>Girl power is a complex and multi-dimensional phrase. It is a term that celebrates the positive development of girls' self-esteem, while simultaneously recognizing the shifting social positioning of girlhood in the late twentieth century. It is a call to re-write girls' passivity but …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… the widespread notion that nineteenth-century American literature, especially popular novels, publicized and enhanced the ""Cult of True Womanhood"" (Barbara Welter) and the ""Cult of Female Invalidism"" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, Ann Douglas Wood, etc.) via portrayals of weak, …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
… for national attention and as contributors to American cultural achievement. Using Bourdieu’s theory, I argue that opera represents an international cultural field in which the United States was historically a periphery. America participated by importing singers and later by establishing an …
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Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans
… officer, killed a fourteen-year-old African American girl named Hattie McCray in a New Orleans restaurant when she refused to consent to a sexual relationship after repeated coercion. In response, three African American organizations, the New Orleans branch of the National Association for the …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
… concept of historical trauma as it relates to American Indians, whereby she found that trauma due to unresolved grief, disenfranchised grief, and unresolved internalized oppression could continue to manifest itself through many generations. This thesis will examine the intergenerational effects …
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Blood money: The commodification of menstrual education in the United States
<p>girl’s first menstrual cycle is often considered the first step of the seemingly ritualistic passage into womanhood. However, most girls within the United States who experience menarche fail to view it as a rite of passage, and instead see it as an event they must <em>endure</em> rather than …