Dr. Caroline Bowden is the general editor for the research project titled ‘Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the Exiled English Convents 1600 – 1800’ and has been the lead influence to its funding. The background information for this project as Bowden stated in a podcast with interviewer, Dr. Andrew Foster, is that ‘the concept had come out of her PhD research which looked at girls education, the comparison between catholic and protestant girls when she realized how nuns had a separate world from this topic and because they were difficult to find information on then the world should know more about them’
Improving the Defenseless Abstract “She had become convinced that it was more important to prevent poverty than to try to cure it” (Reisch, pg. 23) Josephine Shaw Lowell had her own insight and views on transforming the problems of poverty in the United States. Poverty is an on going issue in the world and staring in the early 1800s she wanted to make a change. I have included in my research paper a book, a review, and journal articles. The book was a actual, firsthand account into the problems of what we’re really going on at the time and the key outcomes.
Hist1302 Responsibility Essay: The Solitude of Self Stanton’s “The Solitude of Self” is a true work of humanitarian and feminist. Reading this made feel as if I was hearing out my grandmother who spoke to me about my individualism and my responsibilities as a woman, and as a member of this society. Solitude of Self is in very simple words, is self-sovereignty, As Stanton herself claims. This is also the strongest reason why Stanton felt the voice of women in government is important. Stanton describes very logically, how an individual self is the head of establishment, an important part of a general society.
Assignment #2: Feminist political theory in America Poli 344: American Political Thought Bruce Baum March 28, 2013 By: Nadine Burgess Feminist political theorists like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Betty Friedan experienced and analyzed very different eras in political feminism than the one that exists today. Despite contextualizing and directly addressing the cultural, social, and political issues women faced in their day, aspects of their ideas continue to be relevant in the 21st century. Gilman’s analyzed the economic dependence of women on their male counterparts and proposed solid reforms to spur a change in culture about how tasks in the home are completed. She touches on the balancing act women face when it comes to motherhood and other aspects of human life, a struggle women still face today. Friedan brings emotion and anger to the plight of women in her era of feminism, highlighting a political issue that remained out of the spotlight for far too long.
The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ is a first person narration, written from the viewpoint of the eponymous heroine Jane, as she looks back on her life. In these two extracts (Chapter 31 and 32) Jane is recounting the exchanges between two other characters, St John and Rosamond Oliver, and describes how their feelings for one another develop. Before we are even introduced to Rosamond Oliver, we experience, in retrospect, the feelings St John has for her. Whilst discussing with Mr Oliver St John’s career choice we are given an insight into the ‘workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature.’ It is not obvious at this present moment that St John is speaking figuratively of Miss Oliver. Bronte uses multiple biblical references in order to portray St John’s strong faith whilst maintaining the topic of conversation which, unaware to Mr Oliver, concerns his daughter.
The only female teacher in Bennett’s play Mrs Lintott, offers a feminist critique of the system of education as well. Set during the rule of Margaret Thatcher in England, Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys reflects the changes in educational policy and strategies at that period (Jacobi, 76), and raises many issues about the nature of education and knowledge that remain important even today. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate two ways of producing legitimacy for knowledge that can be detected in Bennett’s work: the modern that relies on grand narratives and the postmodern that uses performativity as the crucial criterion of legitimacy. In the play, the clash of the two ways of producing legitimacy is represented as the clash of teaching methods employed by different teachers and is most evident in opposing ideas about knowledge espoused by the teacher of general studies Hector and the history teacher Irwin. New ways of producing legitimacy need to be analyzed in the context of the changes in social and political reality that started in the 1980s and continue to have great impact
Domestic Violence Shelters Rebecca Urquidi Park University Ms. Claudia Padilla SO 210 BL Abstract In this paper I will attempt to explain the Federal Domestic Violence Shelter funding resources received the development of services targeted to the necessary population it serves, as well the delivery of services. I will also attempt to explain the dynamics of domestic violence and abuse that happen to victims of domestic violence the types of abuse. Domestic Violence Shelters Domestic violence has existed since the early days of recorded history, and was even authorized in English common law as late as the early twentieth century. The women's liberation movement in the 1970s brought to light the social dilemma of women and advocated
Throughout this essay I will be discussing the different methodologies that are concerned within this approach and I aim to reveal the very different ideologies that these images uphold within our society. Image 1 The first image I am going to look at is ‘Migrant Mother’ photographed by Dorothea Lange in Nipomo, California, USA. March 1936. It is a close cropped black and white portrait that shows a centrally composed mother and her three children dressed in ragged clothes that look like they have fallen on hard times. It evokes a sombre mood as well as being reminiscent of a religious theme.
Name: Luisa Thompson SO6102: Social Change and Social Movement Title: Women’s Liberation Movement: Critically discuss the cause and impacts of ‘Second Wave’ Feminism. Word Count: 4,000 Throughout history in America and Britain women have remained in the domestic sphere that were designated to them by patriarchal ideologies of gender construction where they were viewed as not individuals within their own right but as an extension of their husbands (Freeman, 1973). During the beginning of the 20th century, suffragettes such as Margaret Mead for America and Emmeline Pankhurst for Britain challenged the woman’s status of a housewife and a mother. In the 40’s and 50’s, it was this frustration of a woman’s socially constructed role that Betty Friedan’s ‘Feminine Mystique’ challenged the 1950’s image of a ‘happy, suburban housewife’ and functioned as the method of the women’s liberation movement that emerged in the 1960’s (Friedan, 1963). It was this growing awareness that women soon realised that their position within society was disproportionate to that of men as illustrated by Freeman (1971, p39), who states that “women are 51 percent of the population.
Rodriguez emphasizes the need for a public language in order to function well and take in the “social and political advantages” (Rodriguez 440) of acquiring a “public language” (Rodriguez 435). Rodriguez’s experiences are mirrored in Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” in which Tan details the experiences her mother faces because of her mother’s “broken” (Tan 442) English. Because of the nature of Rodriguez’s claims concerning the disadvantaged status of those who lack a public identity, we are able to apply his assertions to Tan’s essay to further critique and analyze the experiences that Tan’s mother went through. Rodriguez asserts “Only when I was able to think of myself as an American, no longer an alien in gringo society, could I seek the rights and opportunities necessary for public identity.” He further emphasizes that, “The social and political advantages I enjoy as a man result from the day that I came to believe that my name indeed is Rich-heard Road-ree-guess” (Rodriquez 440). Rodriguez claims that public language, which in this case happens to be English, provides the foundation for the rights and opportunities available for those who speak the “public language” (Rodriguez 435).