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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Female Heroism"”.
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Female heroism and self-fashioning in young adult adaptations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers
… barriers and social mores demanding appropriate female behaviors and activities. In this study I examine the sporting contributions of Vancouverite Ruth Wilson, whose involvements in the sport of women’s basketball from the mid 1930s through the 1960s was significant. Though several studies have …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… perplexing problems. One of these is that the "heroism" or "greatness" of the heroine is measured by means other than her action, for as victim she can do or move very little. Her heroism is measured instead by the pity and sympathy she elicits from other and by the extent to which she moves …