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The mire of womanhood
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Six Types of Womanhood Found in Browning
Before discussing the six types of womanhood which I have chosen for this thesis, I wish to state my twofold object in making the selection that I have made. First: I wish to prove the scope of Browning's knowledge and his optimism, in the character delineation he presents, and secondly, I wish to …
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Rewriting Hmong womanhood: literacy that mediates borders
In “Rewriting Hmong Womanhood,” I argue that the revision of cultural gender roles for migrant women comes about through relocating literacies: moving family and home literacies across borders to public spaces such as schools, workplaces, and political realms while also using those same literacies …
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… of performing a sectarian Anglican Womanhood which is both self-evidently artificial yet supposedly innate, naturalising a brutal Protestant hegemony which condemns her family and friends. Her romance plots, centring on disputed inheritances and disrupted lineages, reflect her early …
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Womanhood is Finally Unbound: The Impact of Disaffiliation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Identity and Womanhood
… Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints conceptualize womanhood. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 women who voluntarily chose to disaffiliate from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Data were analyzed using interpretive phenomenology, informed by hybrid identity theory. …
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Precarious womanhood: Maternal instinct’s role in gender-related anxiety
… parallel phenomenon in women (i.e., “precarious womanhood”), the existence of which previous authors have dismissed. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either high scores, low scores, or no scores following a supposed maternal instinct questionnaire. Then, their subsequent mood and …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… global connections and constellations of Korean womanhood through patchwork, I complicate and trouble the constitutive practices of Korean womanhood through these polyvocal approaches, while imagining the possibilities for the Korean woman through an alternative ontology of ornamental existence. …
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Visual humor : female photographers and modern American womanhood, 1860-1915
The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of humor, photography, and rampant gender debates. This dissertation was founded on an attempt to make sense of a period in American history that was messy and confusing. The United States was going through a growth spurt that, at times, as been …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… virtuous medieval qualities in art, society and womanhood will allow us to more fully, effectively and usefully understand Ruskin and his times.</p>
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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles
<p>Since starting the War, Diplomacy, and Society program, my interests have included a focus on the soldier’s experience in war, women’s changing roles in war, and the study of war journalism, ranging from World War II, the Cold War, to the Vietnam War. This thesis project is a culmination of …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
My dissertation looks at Shaw Brothers’ historical epics and huangmei musicals that dominated the Chinese film market in the 1960s. Shaw Brothers’ historical epics and huangmei musicals often center on female characters. Sometimes the male protagonist is cross-dressed by actresses. Hence they are …
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Performing Young Womanhood in Neoliberal Britain: Discursive Constructions of New Femininities
… negotiate the meanings and dilemmas of young womanhood in Britain today. Gender, womanhood and young adulthood have been variably defined and understood. This thesis will investigate how young women negotiate contemporary discursive constructions of femininity, taking a broadly social …
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Performing radical black womanhood: Black women artists as critical public pedagogues
… counter stereotypical representations of Black womanhood, the role that art and performance play in maintaining or countering those representations, as well as how artistic endeavors transform the social, cultural, and political experiences of Black women. The findings demonstrate that by …
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From Womanhood to Sisterhood: The Evolution of the Brigham Young University Women's Conference
… (LDS or Mormon) the opportunity to go beyond womanhood and share sisterhood. Spurred by the women's movement of the 1970s, LDS women were pressed to define for themselves what it meant to be a woman in the Church. This discovery and defining process often brought confusion, criticism and …
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Contrasting conceptions of womanhood in the comedies of Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1935. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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The 'Civilizing Process' and the Politics of Conservative Womanhood in America, 1890-1930
This dissertation examines the race, gender and sexual politics of conservative white women in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century, and explores how these women utilized the concept of the civilizing process to advocate for a more conservative society. Harking back to Victorian …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
<p>This dissertation explores the practices and possibilities of Black women’s identity performances on social media. Despite claims that the United States is now “post-racial,” in recent years there have been several examples of negative perceptions and hostile receptions to Black women’s …
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Strong Black Womanhood, Stress, and Coping: A Quantitative Investigation of a Culturally Encapsulated Phenomenon
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Strong Black Woman attitudes on how African American women perceive and cope with stress. The study included 100 Black female faculty, staff, and students from five universities in the eastern region of the United States including a large, …
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