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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"brides"”.
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Cultural Assimilation : Case Studies of the Experiences of Post-War G.I. Brides
… cultural and conceptual assimilation as G.I. brides. English immigration, however, provided its own set of arduous cultural challenges that have been generally disregarded due to cultural similarities and common language that would appear to promote a seamless absorption into U.S. culture. …
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"Virtuous love: messages for brides and grooms in the fifteenth-century ""Otto Prints"""
A series of forty-two circular and oval engravings dating from 1465 to 1475 depict playful scenes of lovers, putti, and exemplary women. These engravings, known to scholars as the “Otto prints,” were likely pasted onto small boxes called forzierini, which were presented to women after their …
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Between the Left and the Right: Jihadi Brides' British Media Frames Post ISIS Fall
… women who migrated to ISIS, known as "Jihadi Brides," after the fall of ISIS in December 2017. ISIS is a terrorist group that used attractive strategies and techniques in recruiting Western women to join ISIS as Jihadi Brides, building on the promises of the perfect life within the Islamic …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
This thesis explores how three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, …
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Gender and Desire in Thomas Lovell Beddoes' The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest-Book
… are scrutinized and found wanting. In The Brides' Tragedy, Floribel and Olivia, the eponymous brides, represent archetypes of innocence, purity, and Romantic nature. Their bridegroom, Hesperus, embodies Romantic masculinity, desiring the feminine and aspiring to androgyny, but ultimately …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
… early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women settled in Montana, in both urban and rural areas of the state. This thesis examines the women’s lives in Europe, Australia, and Asia before their …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
… early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women settled in Montana, in both urban and rural areas of the state. This thesis examines the women’s lives in Europe, Australia, and Asia before their …
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Brides of Christ, royal marriage and the conversion of the English in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica
This thesis is an attempt to determine the role of marriage and women in the overall context of Bede’s HE. It is not intended to comment on the position of women or the importance of marriage in Anglo-Saxon society, although at times this will be referred to, but will endeavour to read Bede’s text …
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Brides of Drought: (Un)tying the Knots Between Climate, Cane, and Early Marriage in Western India
This thesis examines the tensions and interactions between social reproduction and the trajectories of accumulation in India’s historically drought-affected Marathwada region. By drawing connections between everyday experiences and broader socio-ecological shifts, it focuses on the high prevalence …
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Online Marriage and "Buhay Ko" (My Life): Views from Filipino Prospective Brides, Wives, and their U.S./British/Australian Husbands
… accounts of prospective Filipino online brides, wives and their husbands. The goal is to build understanding of the multiple and multi-faceted factors that contribute to the practice by focusing on the voices of potential online brides as well as online wives and husbands. Drawing on …
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Second weddings : a new kind of fairy tale
… addressed the changing market toward second-time brides in the 1970s and 1980s and etiquette books published during the same two decades, which offer a more conservative view of American culture. In addition this study looks at how brides who remarried during this time felt about their wedding and …
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Dukungan keluarga terhadap pelaksanaan pemeriksaan kesehatan pranikah sebagai upaya pembentukan keharmonisan keluarga: Studi di Desa Sangen, Kecamatan Geger, Kabupaten Madiun
… to create family harmony before marriage the brides must be prepared it. one of that must be prepared is health check before marriage. In a health checks as an effort to form a family harmony there must be support from family. From the problems above, the researchers want to know how the …
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… examines the status of these “cross-region” brides in their conjugal homes. It argues that the spread of the neoliberal market economy in India has led to the hyper-commodification of the female body; intensified gender subordination; eroded women’s bargaining ability around their labour and …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
… desperately looking for an escape. These “brides of Bluebeard” find different ways to cope with their predicament. While most never truly escape, many use (1) religious devotion, (2) masochism, and (3) homosocial relations as “coping mechanisms” in their plight. I identify each of these …
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A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution
… group interview with fifteen Korean military brides, participant observation, and survey with the congregation of a Mid-Western Korean immigrant church, the study reveals that through a new social space, Korean military brides not only created more exclusive, closed, and homogeneous community …
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
… of two generations of Japanese women, "war brides," who married U.S. GIs and moved to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to examine, reflect on, and …
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The impact of electronic word-of-mouth in social networking sites on a high-involvement purchase : an empirical study of South African brides' intention to purchase the "once-in-a-lifetime" wedding dress
… of wedding dresses, with 57.1% of South African brides having purchased a new wedding dress from a bridal boutique in 2013. Previous research has looked at the effect of social media, in the form of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), on purchase intention. However, few studies have analysed this …
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