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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"Women's History"”.
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Filmic Fabulation: The Imagining of pre-Nakba Palestinian Women's History Beyond the Archives
… a filmic representation of Palestinian women’s histories in the pre-1948 Nakba period, during British colonisation of Palestine (1920–1948). The research underpinning this work is interdisciplinary, drawing on a range of scholarship spanning creative archival practice, feminist …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
… of Jessie Carney Smith's Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women's and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
… of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk …
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Later Nineteenth Century Marriage And Divorce Law: The Changing Historiography Of The Law And British Women's History
<p>This thesis examines how the historiography of women's history and legal history with regard to later nineteenth century England have failed to interact in an appreciable way. In failing to do so a gap has gradually emerged between these two related but separate areas of historical inquiry. …
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Ways of seeing women's history: an action research study of student responses to a document-based lesson sequence centring black women in a historical narrative
… enquiry as a way of integrating the teaching of women's history in the classroom. This need arises given women's misrepresentation, marginalisation, and erasure by history teaching practice and curricula in high schools in South Africa and further afield. Existing research shows students resist …
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Criminality of women in the 18th century in the South West of England
… Debates and Developments in the fields of Crime History and Women's History: Frameworks, Methodolozies and Consolidation. This chapter falls into three sections. The first outlines some key issues in Crime History. The second examines the development of women's history and discusses the …
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The Effects of Women's Health and Life Experiences on Surgical Intervention
Research suggests that violence against women is a significant public health problem that has reached catastrophic levels. Women who are abused use health care services at higher rates than those who are not abused and continue to experience health problems long after the original trauma. Few …
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… to expand our knowledge of Russian and German women's history under totalitarian systems by comparing women's fashioning by the state and their self-fashioning in Germany and Russia during the Third Reich and Bolshevik and Stalinist rule respectively. I argue that processes of women's …
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Women, men and sports : planning for change
… sports and in sports in general. An account of women's history in sport and research literature from the 1960's to the present, indicate that resistance to the male control of sport, have occurred. As well, there have been changes in many areas of sport. However, sport is still very much a male …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
Vigorous scholarly interest in gender studies, women's history and feminist theory in the 1980s and 1990s has generated a vast amount of recent material on cross-dressing. Yet, despite cross-dressing's present favor within academia, a paucity of historical analysis exists regarding perhaps the most …
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"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens
… gardens demonstrates the limitations imposed on women's history by "separate spheres” historiography and contributes to our understanding of women's work because it shows that women worked outside a domestic economy. In pleasure gardens, middling and working women encountered each other while …
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Women of the big house families in Ireland and marriage, 1860-1920
This study of women and marriage, during the last sixty years of the British imperial regime in Ireland (a period that witnessed social and political change, national rebellion and the multifaceted impact of the First World War), was deliberately chosen to concentrate on just such a middle-ground …
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Understanding the history of women's lives in Zanzibar through song and story: a gendered perspective
… and the accompanying performance explore women's history through the song genre dandaro learned from women's singing groups in present-day Zanzibar. The study aims to show that songs, a part of oral tradition, are an effective way of adding to the minimal understanding we have of women's …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the Revolution affected women, whereas the history of American …
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Shaping the City from Below: Urban Planning and Citizens' Battle for Control in Roanoke, Virginia, 1907-1928
… areas in the urban North. By combining urban history, women's history, and southern history, this thesis seeks to understand how diverse citizens in a small city of Southwest Virginia shaped the city. Beneath the surface of John Nolen and professional city planning, upper-class white women, …
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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
… specific protections for pregnant and laboring women. These prayer rolls have been designated as "birth girdles." During the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, both hand produced and printed birth girdles could be found circulating in England, offering their divine protections to Christian …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… strategies of survival that enslaved New England women used to fashion an identity which enabled them to cope with and sometimes to mitigate the effects of racial prejudice, gender inequality, sexual and labor exploitation, and economic and political disempowerment. Other histories have defined …
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Elizabeth Drinker's Revolution
A central concern in the field of women's history has been what effect, if any, did the American Revolution have on the lives of women. One way to further our knowledge of women in the eighteenth century is to study individual women. Elizabeth Drinker is an ideal individual to study in this regard …
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The lives and works of the women artists at the Della Robbia Pottery Birkenhead in late Victorian and Edwardian England
… the larger issues concerning the employment of women, particularly working and middle-class women, in the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian England. The findings are analysed in the light of interpretative models employed by feminist historians, particularly the view that women's …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… in, and attitudes toward, the campaigns for women' s enfranchisement over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of the gendered nature of political activity and identity through an examination of the women' s suffrage campaigns, in …
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