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Maria Merian: World-Traveling Entomologist
(2015)
Maria Merian (1647-1717), skilled in both art and natural history, studied the relationships between flowers and insects. She conducted research in gardens and museums, produced detailed sketches and beautiful paintings, ...
Vestiges of glory: Iraq's universities and female students in the midst of tyranny, sanctions and war.
(2006)
This historical dissertation examines the intersectionality of sanctions, war and autocratic rule as it manifested itself on Iraqi university campuses and, more specifically, the impact on female students. While much has ...
Ada Lovelace: First Computer Programmer
(2015)
In Ada Lovelace's translation of one of the first introductions to Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine," she included at length analyses of the significance and potential of Babbage's machine. These explanations, totaling ...
Coma Berenices Learning Leaflet
(2018)
Coma Berenices is the only one of the modern 88 official constellations named after a historical figure. It represents the hair of Berenice, Queen of Egypt (267 221 BCE), who reigned with Ptolemy III Euergetes. Learn more ...
Folklore motifs in persuasive gender writings: An interrogation.
(2000)
One of the difficulties faced by modern gender writers and scholars stems from the fact that modern conventions of what constitute valid modes of rhetoric and reasoning and valid scientific and scholarly paradigms were ...
Doris Eaton Travis: An oral history of her life in theatre, film and dance.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to document through an oral history the life of Doris Eaton Travis from the beginning of her career in entertainment as a child actor in the Poli Theatre Stock Company in Washington, D.C. and ...
Carceral Christianization as a Religious Problem of Generations: Theorizing Cultural Miseducation from a Gender-Sensitive Study of Oral Life Histories
(2015-08-14)
Religion is one of the most influential agents of moral education in both private and public domains, and its educational values and practices vary profoundly from one tradition to another. With that recognition, this ...
Seymour Barab's "Songs of Perfect Propriety, Volumes I and II": The relationship between Barab's music and words by Dorothy Parker.
(2000)
With Songs of Perfect Propriety, Seymour Barab has offered singers, especially female ones, a chance to express themselves more personally through his music and the words of Dorothy Parker, an opportunity not often given ...
Not for men only: The (de)-construction of lesbian/queer public sexualities.
(2005)
This research study is an exploration of women's sexuality in general and lesbian/queer women's sexuality in particular. There has been little done in terms of examining women's sexuality and sexual practices, especially ...
Migrancy and changing structures: The experiences of South African women in the Eastern Cape.
(2001)
This study examines the breakdown in Xhosa-speaking cultural, economic, and political structures that have been transformed in response to colonialism and apartheid. Its primary purpose was to identify indicators that ...