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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"singleness"”.
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Secular singleness and Paul's response in 1 Corinthians 7
… examines Paul's discussion of marriage and singleness in 1 Corinthians 7 in light of non-ascetic or secular singleness in the early Roman Empire. The thesis builds upon a proposal advanced by Will Deming that Paul's discussion in 1 Corinthians 7 is best understood against the backdrop of …
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Identity of a Single Black Woman
… this is a growing group in our society today. Singleness may be by choice or by circumstance; nevertheless, this is a group worth investigating. Over the course of the last decade there have been various media programs that depict or explore the idea of singleness and the challenges singles may …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… the constituency of unmarried women whose singleness fueled this debate. Mainstream rhetoric classified Victorian women as true, fallen, widowed, blue-stocking, married—any number of designations—with the facility that Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor and innumerable blue book …
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Threshold
… American Midwest to the American South, and from singleness to marriage. This thesis also contains poems about the journeys of others, from the Irish Papar to a runaway teenager to Rapunzel, and these journeys echo the main speaker's journeys. Collectively, many of these poems deal with notions of …
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Unclaimed flowers and blossoms protected by Thorns: never-married women in the United States, 1880-1930.
… through the 2000 census. However, lifelong singleness was not attractive or even plausible for all women in the United States. Race, ethnicity, class, and location had a profound impact on a woman's marital decision. The racial and/or ethnic group with which a woman identified defined, to a …
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D.H Lawrence's mysticism : a study of Lawrence's metaphysics in 'Women in Love' with reference to Mawalana Rumi and other Persian Sufi masters
… and at the same time Lawrence insists on singleness, as the orbit image of star-equilibrium in Women in Love shows. How close this experience, which is amplified with Biblical symbolism, can be compared and contrasted with Rumi’s ecstatic love and annihilation is a prominent theme of the …
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Gay Christian? A Progressive Covenantal Response to David Gushee, James Brownson, and Matthew Vines
… chapter closes with a discussion of marriage, singleness, and typology, proposing progressive covenantalism’s theological method for defining the nature of marriage and human identity. Chapter 4 briefly critiques both Gushee’s and covenant theology’s methodology in sexual ethics. The chapter …
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Celibate pleasures: convents, asexuality, and women's agency in British literature, 1660-1760
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Older Single Women in Transition: Moving to a Supportive Retirement Community
This study explored role changes, resilience, social, and health challenges encountered by older women who transitioned to a retirement community that provided social, health, and safety support structures. The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the transition from the viewpoint of the …
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Aldo Rossi, autobiografia scientifica: scrittura come progetto. Indagine critica tra scrittura e progetto di architettura
… Gilles Deleuze knows, “things” may only last as “singleness”: more frequent the repetition is, more singular is the memory phenomenon that recurs, because only what is singular magnifies itself and happens endlessly forever. Rossi understands that “to raise the first time to nth forever”, …