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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Modern Woman"”.
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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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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
… goddesses can act as archetypal bridges between modern woman and the primordial feminine. An examination of Margaret Atwood's novels using Bolen's theory reveals the development of women's search for unification with the Goddess archetype. In Surfacing, Atwood's narrator attempts to return to a …
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Like Water, Like Clouds
… and of itself, because it implies that to be a woman is to be feminine in the traditional sense, or feminist in the revolutionary sense – rarely do the connotations allow for much in between. But I choose this term over “womanhood," for example, because it is more difficult, and culturally …
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StarSung: A Timeslip Novel
… the present and ancient times. Several modern women independently experience an out- of-time incident, feeling as if they had just barely survived a genocidal event in the distant past.</p> <p>The unifying agent of StarSung is a mysterious music score. The novel begins at a Christmas …
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Graphic sensations: Vogue and the politics of the body, 1930-1945
… Vogue magazine, a publication dedicated to the modern woman, during two tumultuous decades before the mid-century. In the 1930s, images of the female body, as well as the composition of the page, radically changed, as snapshots, streamlined design, and modern dress reform energized the look and …
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Η σεξουαλική ζωή της γυναίκας της νοτιοδυτικής Ελλάδος και οι επιπτώσεις στο γυναικολογικό της ιστορικό
… Gynecologist is very rare. 18. The model of the modern woman (smoking, many partners, living by herself) in combination with low sexual education level, leads too often to gynecological complications. 19. The education level is a major factor of sexual activity. 20. The older unmarriage women …
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Competing and contesting constructions of ‘modern’ womanhood: A vertical case study examining the effects of international development discourse on marriage and education in rural Upper Egypt
… This dissertation examines how conceptions of womanhood are framed at varying levels of the international development landscape, and the extent to which they affect and are affected by national policy considerations (represented by the UNGEI and the Ishraq Program) and local understandings …
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La subjetividad femenina y la modernidad en Puerto Rico y Brasil (siglos XIX y XX)
… Feminine Subjectivity and Discourses of Modernity in Puerto Rico and Brazil (19th and 20th century), explores the construction of modern feminine subjectivities during the social, cultural and industrial modernization of Puerto Rico and Brazil throughout the 19th century. With this …
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Gender and Unpaid Work During Lockdown
… work has not narrowed to the same degree; the modern woman continues to do more unpaid labour than the modern man. The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant changes in people’s paid working practises, with remote work becoming widespread for the first time, and with many people furloughed. These …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… war work. She volunteered, as president of the Woman's Munition Reserve, to sew silk bags and fill them with smokeless gun powder at Seven Pines outside Richmond. Later she helped save a peach crop from ruin during the war labor shortage. In the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic which …
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The economic well-being of married women in a comparative perspective: The effect of income, work and union on financial satisfaction.
… major determinants of economic well-being of a modern woman: 1) individual financial resources 2) decisions about work and career, 3) the choice of partnership. The economic well-being is thus reflected in both individual achievements (income and work) and collective conditions (partnership). I …
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Transfiguring the female: women and girls engaging the transnational in late twentieth century Japan
… from Japan. Rather, it was integral to being a modern woman within Japan. More significantly, among women and girls in the uman ribu movement, the rezubian community, and the queer shojo manga sphere—and, ultimately, beyond it—the act of transfiguring Western cultural practices into something …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… the turn of the twentieth century to the postmodern era. My second chapter addresses feminism of the Progressive Era and argues that focusing on productive discourse systematically disempowers women. The Progressive Era is primarily imagined as a period of social and labor reform. As such, the …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… Im young still can I” – as she reminds us that a woman can be her own access point to modes of sexuality rooted in the body. It is precisely this shift in literary representations of a woman’s voice in relation to her sexuality that I chart in my dissertation. “Embodied Female Voices: Sexuality …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
… America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential cultural factors which occurred during the early twentieth century like urbanization and world war. This interdisciplinary analysis of …