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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Women’s history"”.
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Association between the magnitude of the immune response and recurrent major depression disorder in humans and depression-like behavior in animals
… and <em>in vitro</em> immune reactivity with women’s history of recurrent MDD (rMDD) and their current symptoms of anhedonia. The potential moderating role of women’s history of childhood abuse was also examined. Study 2 and 3 focused on animal models of the influence of adolescent stress on …
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On The Shoulders of Giants
… web addresses, http://<a href="http://www.womenofhistorv.com">www.womenofhistorv.com</a> and/or <a href="http://www.historvofwomen.com">http://www.historvofwomen.com</a>.</p> <p>The web site focuses on the historical period between 1770 and 1870 in the countries of England, France and the …
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No Longer Your Best Black Friend (BBF): The Roles and Expectations of Black Women in Contemporary Television
… are still certain expectations held about black women and certain roles that they are expected to fit into. This is heavily prevalent in the film and television industry. This study aims to analyzes the black female lead characters in Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, Chewing Gum, and …
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"It's hard to recall those things when life is so different today:" the role of discourse, memory, and agency in uncovering experiences of southern Alberta war brides
… group of Southern Alberta war brides, European women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War, this thesis demonstrates and contests the discursive constructions of historical knowledge. Within this context, fundamental issues of agency, discourse, memory, and experience are …
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Gender Equity in High School World History Curriculum Support for a Balanced Perspective
… with an unbalanced, inaccurate view of world history, This can lead to greater social injustice. The purpose of this paper is twofold. 1) examine the reasons for and issues with providing a gender balanced view of history in order to lead to a more well rounded illustration of history; 2) …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… creates a background for studying white women in the Transvaal between 1877 and 1899. Legal documents are used as primary sources, as they are invaluable for researching women’s history, in that they provide a new perspective. When writing women’s history, it must be grounded in theory, …
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Chicana politics: Maria Cardenas and La Raza Unida Party, 1935-1993
… of María Cárdenas, as a way to reveal a complex history of Chicanas in electoral politics and their relationship with the larger feminist movement in Texas. By examining the life of María Cárdenas, I make two arguments. First, even though María Cárdenas participated in traditional gender roles …
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History Electives in High School: Making Social Studies Engaging
… school students in California are missing out on history. Many students may not see it that way, but that is because they have little understanding of what it means to appreciate history. The traditional high school history survey courses, US History and world history, provide an overview of …
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Predictors of College Women’s Prosocial Bystander Intervention: Personal Characteristics, Sexual Assault History and Situational Barriers
… prosocial bystander behavior, in both men and women, can play a role in the prevention of sexual assault (Banyard, 2007). However, little research focuses on women as bystanders in situations of sexual assault. There are certain situational barriers that make it difficult to engage in prosocial …
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The instrumental music of British Women Composers in the Early Twentieth Century
… detail on instrumental chamber music produced by women in the early twentieth century, a particularly fertile and under-represented period with regard to this topic and it draws on aspects of women’s history, British music history and feminist musicology. It argues that the Cobbett competitions …
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Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization
… it is just as justified when performed by women as by men. Second, militant feminists hold that militant action can be justified in the pursuit of aims consistent with feminist values. Shortly after the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mid-1960’s, there is a surge of militant …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… that bound together the late-nineteenth-century women’s temperance and suffrage movements in Scotland. The importance of women’s temperance reform in the women’s movement has been discussed in other Anglophone contexts, however there has been little scholarly analysis of these links in British …
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… features in the lives of black and white women in history, there is less discussion of how these women’s unique challenges led them to alter the traditional domestic space. This dissertation first assesses a range of nineteenth-century American newspapers to understand the prevalent social …
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Demythologizing the sixties; reappraising the British groupie and her relationship to feminism, 1965-1974
… and 1970s. This period saw radical changes in women’s lives, but roles for women were still restricted and historical accounts of the period continue to underplay and devalue their experiences. By examining groupie representation across a range of sources, including novels, films, newspapers …
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Women in the Demotic Legal Landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt (332–30 BC): Participation, Property Rights and Change as Reflected in Documents for Money from Upper Egypt
This thesis explores women’s role in the demotic legal landscape of Ptolemaic Upper Egypt, and, in doing so, it aims to understand better their overall position in society. Social, cultural and economic contexts have shaped women’s lives throughout history. With its longevity and wealth of …
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Making women magistrates: feminism, citizenship and justice in England and Wales 1918-1950
This thesis addresses the subject of women magistrates in England and Wales from their introduction in 1919 and the work subsequently performed by the early women JPs until the late 1940s. Surprisingly, despite the great volume of work on women’s history during the last few decades, historians have …
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The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers
… was the legacy of the Sisters of Charity in the history of philanthropy, women’s history, medicine and nursing? The Sisters of Charity was a Catholic religious order that provided volunteer nurses, and became highly visible, during the American Civil War. Several hundred Catholic sister nurses …
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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence
… linguistics, early modern rhetoric, paleography, women’s history and letter-writing, as well as for the Thynne family more specifically. Following the theoretical introduction and a short biography of the Thynne family, there are five analytical chapters. The first, Chapter 3, asks how the …
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Fulfilling roles: Midland women, developing roles and identities C.1760-1860
… thesis examines the lives of a group of Midland women in the period c. 1760-1860. They were the wives, sisters, daughters and mothers of the middle-class entrepreneurial and professional men of the region. During this period the Midlands produced individuals who expanded production and commerce, …
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Gender as a resource of power at the early modern court of Württemberg, c. 1580-1630
… He was forced to let the majority of these women go again quite quickly, keeping only one suspected procuress in custody, whose case was to drag on until 1618. Johann Friedrich's mother Duchess Sibylla, who had borne fifteen children to Friedrich and thus became the Stammesmutter of a new …
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