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  • Composing ourselves : women's use of personal journals for freedom, creativity and autobiography

    Creator:
    Perkins, Audrey L.
    Abstract:
    Scholars are ushering autobiographical writing of all kinds into the world of literary and scholarly writing: in course titles and syllabi, in academic journals and on bookshelves, autobiographical writing is flourishing. People's real stories offer insights into how people really live and view this life. They offer perspectives which necessarily...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

    Creator:
    Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
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    Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
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    Indian women rewriting themselves : the representation

  • Spirituality and Aging Among Women

    Creator:
    Orcutt, Nancy Wilson
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    The term, spirituality, as used in this study, refers to that part of our lives that has the deepest meaning, that which nurtures each of us and moves us toward wholeness. It is the basis for which we live out our lives, following our own truths with honesty and commitment....
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    Spirituality and aging among women AN ABSTRACT OF THE

  • In the words of a woman

    Creator:
    Rose, Kerin G.
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    I am a woman who writes. I am a writer who is a woman. In the Words of a Woman is an exploration of how these two facts of my life merge and influence each other. It is a work written to mediate between the supposed dichotomies of creative and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Women Studies presented on June 26, 1997. Title: In the Words of a Woman. Abstract approved: Lisa Ede

  • Traversing the displaced: incarcerated women's writing selves

    Creator:
    Maybaum, Lenore D.
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    This quasi-ethnographic research documents the autobiographical utterances of incarcerated women taking part in a narrative writing course, Life Writing, at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The purpose of this research was to cultivate a better understanding of how incarcerated women move through different discourses of identity via narrative writing, and how,...
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    documents the autobiographical utterances of incarcerated women taking part in a narrative writing course

  • Parangiya, Kotte giya

    Creator:
    de Soyza, Kushlani
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    Parangiya, Kotte Giya is collection of linked short stories, focusing on the experiences of a young Sinhalese-Dutchburgher woman growing up in Colombo Sri Lanka, in the years following the nation's independence from British colonial rule.
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    despite the symphony of rain, but the women of Balapitiya knew better. Kingfish mothers, many as long as

  • The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

    Creator:
    Schmuhl, Emily J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
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    explore the related issues of property and ownership rights, particularly those of wealthy women and

  • Islam, Feminism, and Third-Worldism: Women's Equality in Muslim Spaces

    Creator:
    Ghanizadeh, Azadeh
    Abstract:
    This project investigates the ways in which conceptions of women and gender in Islam are articulated within discourses of modernity, freedom, and justice. Considering the ways in which third-world literature and scholarship interacts with, and creates, multiculturalist discourse, this paper examines representation, spokesmanship, and the role of the cosmopolitan humanities...
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    investigates the ways in which conceptions of women and gender in Islam are articulated within discourses of

  • 'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

    Creator:
    McGrory, Suzette L.
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    Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
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    , adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in

  • Women's individual accounts of the romantic content in glamour and cosmopolitan and its relationship to their lived experiences

    Creator:
    Weaver, Shauna Q.
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    The following question guided this research: How do female readers understand the romantic content of Cosmopolitan and/or Glamour magazines, and how do they perceive connections between their readership of this content and their personal ideas and behaviors regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which...
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    this study suggest four primary responses to the research question: 1) the women gave, but could not