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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"chastity"”.
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A Study of the Vow of Chastity
… taught that in living their life of consecrated chastity, they are not doing violence to nature, but rather are developing and fulfilling the instincts of womanhood to the fullest capacity.</p>
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Chastity and moral uplift in salient novels of China and the West
The first Chinese novel to be translated into a Western language, Hau Ch'iu Chuan by Meng-chiao Chung-jen (known in English as The Fortunate Union), was instantly hailed by Goethe and others as a masterpiece of imaginative fiction and was in large measure responsible for Goethe's formulation of the …
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Dominance and radical submission in seventeenth-century drama: chastity, fairness, and silence in portrayals of Mar(r)iam(ne), Sophonisba, and Cleopatra
… portraying their men as reducing them to their chastity and fairness, or lack thereof. Despite the inactivity of these objectified women, the qualities that these men obsess over catalyze masculine irrationality. The other model, which Cleopatra embodies, encompasses blackness and defiance. …
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
… between abstinence from economic activity and chastity; yet at the same time, the men of city comedy frame female chastity as a valuable commodity made visible within the public marketplace. All three of these plays ends with a festive marriage celebration as if to mask or erase such …
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Images for the bride: the Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence
… the images were meant to display the virtues of chastity, loyalty, and obedience. The story does not provide a strong positive role model for the intended viewer, the bride. The Chastelaine is not married, and she is involved in a secret love affair. However, she is better guided than the …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… their emphasis on a singular feminine virtue – chastity – and were related to a sitter’s marriage, this thesis argues that these portraits of writing women expand on the existing feminine virtues of piety and chastity to include the emerging feminine virtue of erudition. This expansion of …
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
… in Tristessa Jack Duluoz attempts a return to chastity. Additionally, Kerouac's treatment of women as vehicles for his and his characters' own convenience appears to be typical of the Beat Generation and its permeating attitude toward women.
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Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
… a suffering that necessarily entails poverty, chastity, obedience, and—above all—persecution. The importance of Kierkegaard's embrace of asceticism was not only personal; this commitment to suffering was at the same time a rejection of Christian nationalism and the selfish aims of the modern …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… vision sustained that marriage and vowed chastity were two valid Christian lifestyles, the latter giving women an opportunity for greater autonomy than their Protestant counterparts. This project explores how religious life was a complement to marriage in the Catholic tradition and what …
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Religious Life
… she submitted a dissertation on the vow of chastity. This was the first step in a project being undertaken by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Dominic, Congregation of the Holy Cross. The plan called for a similar study of the vow of poverty, another for the vow of obedience, and …
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"Virtuous love: messages for brides and grooms in the fifteenth-century ""Otto Prints"""
… behavior. Many of the engravings encourage chastity, especially for the bride, and discourage lust outside of the marital union. Three subjects found on six of the “Otto prints” will be examined in detail, Judith and Holofernes, the punishment of Eros, and a woman stealing her lover’s heart. …
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Experiences of an LDS Spouse when her Partner used Pornography: a Phenomenological Study
… considered a violation of their beliefs about chastity and moral cleanliness. With the rise of the use of pornography within the membership of the LDS Church, it is important for the ecclesiastical leadership of the Church and clinicians alike to understand the experiences of LDS spouses of …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
… or intervention – the preservation of their chastity being a common justification for the suppression of people of color – but also as instruments of imperial beckoning in their own right. In short, this dissertation complicates the dominant narrative of power in the Americas, which pits a …
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Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
… and social change alongside discourses of chastity and sexual morality. Drawing on these discourses, single mothers and their families used complex strategies to construct respectability. Good mothering identities were taken up alongside neoliberal concerns and sexual stigmatisation was …
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Truth, objectivity and subjectivity in accounting
… are entangled in thick ethical concepts such as 'chastity' or 'courage'. We recognise that the descriptive aspect of accounting can not be neatly distinguished from the normative and dealt with separately. Furthermore, following Williams, we argue that difficulties associated with the objective …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… and thereby incorporated the sacred pillars of chastity, obedience, and poverty into Republican parables of wifely valor. The convent play, a precursor of romantic theater, both reflected and advanced the new social order outside the playhouse, where civil authority replaced the divine right of …
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Precarity and pastoral care : nuns and bishops in the fifteenth-century diocese of Lincoln.
… considers the gendered dynamics of the vow of chastity, arguing that concerns about reputation were different for male religious than for female religious and this impacted women's pastoral care. The fourth chapter examines female monastic houses and the vow of poverty, arguing that bishops …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… body is not wholly symbolic of futurity, chastity, or even heterosexual desire. In queer readings of Shakespeare’s plays and in the methodological debates that inform them, the pregnant body has been conspicuously absent, despite being often subsumed into definitions of heteronormativity …
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The Social Change Model Of Leadership Development: Differences In Leadership Development By Levels Of Student Involvement With Various University Student Groups
<p>The development of students as leaders is a priority for most institutions of higher education and research suggests that students' leadership skills increase as a result of engagement in the collegiate environment. Given the scarcity of leadership models and instruments designed specifically …
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Constraints on the mother foundresses : contrasts in Anglican and Roman Catholic religious headship in Victorian England
… a "hidden life". The religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience were unduly condemned as undermining family values. And their relationship with the clergy was problematic: bishops were most concerned with their own jurisdiction and authority and parish priests with their own influence. …
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