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Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...
Girls and Girlhood in Sources from the White Monastery: A Preliminary Study
(2020)
Women lived as monks in their own houses, in communities of women, and possibly as semi-hermits in caves or tombs. In particular, at the White Monastery Federation, across the Nile from modern Akhmim and ancient Panopolis, ...
Hildegard of Bingen: An Abbess for Health Care
(2015)
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of convents at Rupertsberg and Elbingen in the 12th century, explained their herbal remedies and medical procedures in her book, Physica. In addition to this work on medicine, Hildegard wrote ...
Margaret Bryan: Science Education
(2015)
Margaret Bryan was a schoolmistress for a boarding school for girls in London, in which she taught mathematics and science. She also published several popular scientific textbooks on astronomy, geography, and natural ...
A microeconomic examination of the relationship between occupational gender segregation and taste differences.
(1998)
This work examines the impact of taste difference between genders for non-pecuniary work characteristics on occupational outcome. This is accomplished by estimating reservation wages for workers across several job categories. ...
An exploratory analysis of risk factors for criminal violence by women.
(1998)
One hundred and sixty-seven female inmates participated in an investigation of violent crime correlates. The relative lack of empirical evidence about female violent offending compared to that for males prompted this study. ...
Madame du Châtelet: Newtonian Physicist
(2015)
Madame du Châtelet translated Newton's masterwork of physics, the "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," into French. She also defended Newton in the Newton-Leibniz controversy. This OER shoes images from some ...
High-risk sexual behaviors of college students: Perspectives of African-American college women.
(2002)
Analysis of the results indicated that the reasons why African-American college women participate in high-risk sexual behaviors were: competition with the White female for the Black athlete; lack of self-esteem which ...
Maria Cunitz: Kepler's Defender
(2015)
Maria Cunitz was one of the first astronomers to adopt Johann Kepler's astronomy. She made Kepler's achievement easy to grasp, and demonstrated that Kepler's laws were more accurate than anything that had come before. This ...
The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)
In 1974, the Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma sterilized forty-eight Native American women in the month of July alone. Most of these women were in their twenties. This is a staggering number ...