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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"history of women"”.
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A History of Women at Georgia Tech
A research thesis on the history of women at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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The Hidden History of Women Editing Shakespeare, 1800-1950
… a major and necessary course correction for a profession that had been dominated by men for over three centuries; however, the discussion it sparked focused primarily on women’s connections with the present and future of editing, allocating only limited time and resources to the past. Thus, until …
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Women and Crime in Nineteenth Century Ireland
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nineteenth century. Contemporary writing on the subject was very limited despite the great interest in the whole area of criminology.1 Much of the reason for this, surely lies in the fact that crimes by …
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An Analysis of Major Facilitators to Their Success as Reported by Successful Women Administrators.
… qualitative study was designed to review the history of women in leadership and to evaluate the identified facilitators of success for women in leadership positions. Participants were asked to identify the facilitators that they considered important to their success. The facilitators were then …
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A place where all things are spoken : making the Vernon BC Stake Relief Society a place for her voice
… research project aimed to examine women's leadership capacity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The research question guiding this inquiry was: How might women in the Vernon BC Stake Relief Society enthusiastically take up their roles as leaders in the Church of …
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
<p>The history of women is inseparable from the rest of the human experience. It is, therefore, only to be expected that their role in pre-Petrine Russia was the result of events and forces which originated in and acted upon the whole society. Between the decline of the Kievan Rus unity and the …
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Women engineers in Britain, 1945-2000
This thesis looks at the work of women engineers in the period 1945-2000. Its central focus is the impact gender had on the likelihood of a woman making such a career choice, on the training to become an engineer and on women's lived experiences in the work place. It discusses the impact of the …
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‘Invaded by Daughters of Eve’: Women Playing American Football, 1890-1960
This thesis examines the history of women playing American football in the United States in the period 1890-1960, a sport that from its very beginning was a means for men to demonstrate their manliness and masculinity. The thesis is primarily a media study which uses an extensive range of newspaper …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
"This study expands the account of women's literary production in seventeenth-century England. The story I tell details the complex intersections between class and gender discourse in England during the tumultuous years surrounding the Civil War. Much of the work done on women writers in England …
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism
… it traces stories and representations of feminism’s recent past (from the 1960s onwards) which are constructed and reproduced through these sites, analysing where and how issues related to race and racism are located within - and outside of - such narratives. It is based on empirical …
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The Mothership: Multiplanetary Becomings and Reproducing Worlds
… 16th, 2022, NASA launched Artemis I, the first of multiple missions propelling humanity toward a multiplanetary future in which we will build new worlds, terraforming environments both physically and ideologically. These “moon to mars” missions mark a new era of deep space exploration, the first …
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“Making ends meet”: Working-class women’s strategies against poverty in West Oxfordshire, c. 1850 – 1900
This thesis seeks to contribute to two areas of historical enquiry: the history of women and the history of poverty, by investigating the strategies used by women to cope with poverty. It attempts this in a systematic way by applying a taxonomy of strategies to the case study area of West …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… by disability studies to analyze representations of female madness in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Isabel Allende’s “If You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that Bertha, Antoinette, and Hortensia are framed as …
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"Feed my lambs" : the spiritual direction ministry of Calvinistic British Baptist Anne Dutton during the early years of the evangelical revival.
… (1692-1765) contributed a transatlantic ministry of spiritual direction to the Evangelical Revival in the early 1740s. The first chapter provides a historiographical review of Dutton's reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the state of contemporary scholarship of Dutton. The …
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Explaining Gendered Participation in Computer Science Education
… (CS) is the only one in which the percentage of women undergraduates has decreased since the 1980s; in the US and Canada, this percentage has hovered around 15%. Since the 1990s, a great deal of effort and resources have been put toward trying to improve the representation of women in …
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Mentor Teaching in Four Communities of Catholic Sisters in the Mid-Twentieth Century (1940-1965)
… study that explores mentoring experiences of Catholic teaching nuns– hereafter called sisters and/or women religious– who served in parochial schools in the mid-twentieth century in the Diocese of Syracuse, NY. Teaching sisters comprised the majority of the professional workforce in …
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Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano and Decameron
This dissertation explores the representation of maternity in two of Boccaccio's works, the early idyllic poem, the Ninfale fiesolano, and the author's later magnum opus, the Decameron, through readings in the social history of women and the family and medieval medical literature of obstetrics and …
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Token or full member of the team? : an examination of the utilization and status of women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
It is argued in this thesis that because of the androcentric nature of the military institution women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America are or will be tokens. In order to investigate and support the hypothesis several areas …
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Cervical cancer studies on prevention and treatment
… most common reason for cancer death amongst women worldwide, with 500 000 new cases every year. Most of these women live in developing countries. Cervical screening programs can reduce the incidence by 50%, but are not common in the developing world. In Sweden there are approximately 400 new …
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Academic Women and the Institutionalisation of English at the University of Cambridge, 1898-1938
The development of ‘Cambridge English’ has become a fundamental part of the semi- mythologised origin story of modern literary study. However, existing narratives of the ‘Rise of English’ rarely incorporate any substantial discussion of women who taught, researched and studied at Cambridge in the …
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