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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"famous women"”.
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Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women
… all 1,976 recorded features are named after famous women, female first names, heroines, or goddesses. However, 45% of those names are European in origin — and only 2% come from South America.</p> <p>My capstone project, Naming Venus — which can be accessed at this link: <a …
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Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85
… Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward …
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Images of Jenny Lind and the Construction of Identity for the Nineteenth-Century Female Performer
… a level of success that made her one of the most famous women of the mid-nineteenth-century. She was known not only for her talent as a performer but also for her morality and piety. Examining the Lind images in the context of nineteenth-century social codes and feminist theatre history, it …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: Cabaret History In The Making
… genre, specifically focusing on some of the famous women, songs, stories, lives, and important contributions. The cabaret show will cover information and art from cabaret's inception in the Paris Montmartre district in 1881 to its height in Germany during the Weimar Republic and will …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… that we know Harriet Tubman (1820--1913): slave, famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, spy, nurse, and suffragist. Her successful, secret journeys into the slave states to rescue bondwomen, men, and children have immortalized her in the minds of Americans for over one hundred …
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Power, language, and culture: Teresa de la Parra in Latin American feminism
… language, and the revision of historical women's stories. In Ifigenia and Las memorias de Mama Blanca, the mother figure symbolizes maternal authority and submission to paternal power, whereas the daughters, who are rebellious and liberal-minded, struggle against the traditional role of …
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Shunpon: Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan
… of the 17th-century Meijo nasake kurabe (Famous Women: Comparisons of Affection), a collection of stories which has so far been considered a minor work. Chapter Two takes up the 18th-century rewritings of Makura no sōshi (The Pillow Book), a work that is considered canonical today. Chapter …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: The Genre Of Cabaret
… genre, specifically settling on some of the famous women, songs, stories, lives, and important contributions. The cabaret will cover information, music, and spoken-word art from cabaret's inception in the Paris Montmartre district in 1881 to its height in Germany during the Weimar Republic. …