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Nancy Spero: printing, writing, collaging
… argues that works by American artist Nancy Spero made feminist interventions into the medium of painting and into exclusionary patriarchal narratives as they are presented in museums. The result is an oeuvre visualizing what Gertrude Stein called a “continuous present,” revealing how …
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Nancy Huston in Self-translation. An Aesthetics of Redoublement.
… research leading to universal considerations. Nancy Huston is a prolific bilingual author of both fiction and non-fiction writing, born in Anglophone Canada but living in France since the early Seventies. While secondary bibliography exploring single couples of her self-translated texts …
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Création et procréation : métaphores chez Hélène Cixous et Nancy Huston
… Cixous (1977) et Journal de la création de Nancy Huston (1990). Au croisement de la réflexion sur la métaphore d’usage et des débats sur l’essence féminine dans la création littéraire, nous nous interrogeons sur le rôle que joue cette métaphore dans une prise de parole souhaitant revaloriser …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… Englishness and the English aristocracy in Nancy Mitford’s novels through a detailed analysis of their symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, geographical, architectural and social …
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Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot
… of “community”: Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly a century. Georges Bataille’s importance as a political thinker and writer …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963) and her daughter Nancy Hale (1908-1988) built successful careers during a period of transition in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential …
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The Spirit of the Spitfire: Creating the Role of Nancy Shedman in Romulus Linney's "Holy Ghosts"
… by Caleigh Keith while portraying the role of Nancy Shedman in Romulus Linney’s <em>Holy Ghosts</em>. Included are chapters of historical research, character analysis, and a production report, which includes a scored script, rehearsal and performance journal, and a self-evaluation of the …
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Assistência de enfermagem fundamentada no modelo de Nancy Roper: estudo de casos de clientes infectados pelo HIV
Discusses the validations of Nancy Roper Model for rendering nursing care to Human Immunodefyciente Vírus (HIV) infected clients. Study was carried out through qualitatively approached case study. I have cared to eight HIV positive clients on hospital, clinic and home level on nursing terms, …
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"""Imagines Mundi"": The Aesthetics of Globality in Jorge Luis Borges, A. R. Ammons, and Jean -Luc Nancy"
… aesthetics and globality in Borges, Ammons and Nancy. It also indicates the relevance of studying the aesthetics of globality for discussions of globalization's impact on the humanities.
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The Women and Peace Hypothesis in the Age of Nancy Pelosi: Can Female Leaders Bring About World Peace?
<p>The women and peace hypothesis suggests that women are more likely than men to choose peace and compromise over violent conflict, whether as ordinary citizens or as government leaders. I test this concept by analyzing the percent of women in the parliaments and executive cabinets of 93 nations …
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Multiple Ways of Playing Serena and Blair: How Gossip Girl Revises the Role of Nancy Drew for a New Generation of Desiring-Machines
… Girl relates to its series predecessors, like Nancy Drew, demonstrates how the popularity of Gossip Girl is not unique, but rather fits in with the established series pattern while receiving the same harsh criticism. As a result of analyzing the "bad" reputation Gossip Girl has earned, we can …
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First Ladies of the United States-Advocates for Children, Women Leadership and Social Causes: A Historical Examination of Nancy Reagan and Hillary Rodham Clinton
… this study was to examined how two First Ladies, Nancy Reagan and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have developed, promoted and advanced social change for our nation's children and families to achieve measurable change. This study used documentary research to analyze their work and determine the leadership …
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Mass and Distance Estimation Simulations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Using PyLIMASS and a Case Study on Intellectual Property Frameworks in Space Collaborations
… to transit or radial velocity methods. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out the Galactic Exoplanet Survey to detect thousands of microlensing events with the cadence and precision necessary for statistical exoplanet population studies. To verify Roman’s ability to meet its …
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A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance and Listening in the Work of Charlie Chaplin
… a question of listening posed by Jean-Luc Nancy, “Is listening <br/> something of which philosophy is capable” (Nancy 2007:1)? Drawing on the <br/> work of Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak, I consider a claim that <br/> philosophy has failed to address the topic of listening …
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Getting out of town
This collection of stories is centered around Nancy McKinnon, a young woman who unconsciously struggles to break free of the close-knit yet restricting society she was born into. Set in small-town Nova Scotia, these stories offer a glimpse into a world where traditional and conservative values …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
… of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to fully appreciate this, however, I must necessarily also provide a summary overview of the central theme which …
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Understanding Behavior and Nest Box Usage in Three Species of Owl Monkeys: Azara's Owl Monkey (Aotus Azarai), Spix's Owl Monkey (A. Vociferans) and Nancy's Owl Monkey (A. Nancymaae)
… owl monkeys: Azara's owl monkey (Aotus azarai), Nancy Ma's owl monkey (A. nancymaae) and Spix's owl monkey (A. vociferans). The subjects were housed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson: Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research Core and Animal Resources, Bastrop, TX. Five family …
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The Edges Of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis Of Three Seneca Iroquois Structures At Letchworth State Park, 1796-1831
… 19th centuries: the Caneadea Council House, the Nancy Jemison cabin, and the "Buffalo Tom" Jemison cabin. Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) provided more precise construction dates for the council house and cabins. This technique indicated a date for the council house's construction of ca. …
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Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht imöffentlichen Diskurs der Gleichstellungspolitik: eine Analyse von Textenzum niedersächsischen Gleichberechtigungsgesetz
… werden besonders für Frauenministeriums mit Nancy Frasers Überlegungen Organisation Wandels erklärt. Im letzten alternative Strategien eine feministische Praxis vorgestellt.
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