Women--France--History--20th century; Women--Great Britain--History--20th century; Women and literature--France--History--20th century; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century; Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986; Woolf, Virginia,...
This dissertation is a cross-cultural analysis of France and Great Britain during both the First World War and World War II in which Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf redefined "woman." Utilizing New Historicism, the first chapter...
While the character of women in the plays of ancient times has ever played an important part in the history of the drama, the appearance of women in the feminine roles is a distinctly recent development. It might well be said that this is a fairly...
This thesis is an investigation into the world of sixteenth-century Venice, encompassing a group of female portraits by artist Palma Vecchio. I utilized many primary and secondary sources concerning Renaissance society, including several which...
Self-knowledge in literature; Feminism in literature; Mind and body in literature
That Terrifying Center is a creative and philosophical experiment in the transmission of corporeal experiences and socio-cultural knowledge through poetry. I am bringing together the seemingly disparate threads of my studies into one...
American literature--Hispanic American authors; Santiago, Esmeralda; Ortiz, Cofer, Judith, 1952-
United States capitalist development efforts, known as Operation Bootstrap, created an economic need for Puerto Ricans. Two authors, Esmeralda Santiago and Judith Ortiz Cofer, are both women of Puerto Rican decent who lived through this historic...
Feminism in literature; Self-perception in literature; Women in literature; Chen, Ran, 1962-; Tan, Amy
With increasing cross-cultural infiltrations and accelerated interflows among people of all nationalities in this globalized world, the focus of comparative literature has experienced a shift from traditional Eurocentric cannons to a broader space...
This thesis chronicles my journey within the framework of a hero's journey, as a theatre artist in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Louisville's Theatre Arts Department. This thesis is divided into six chapters that explore the...
The term "promiscuity" is often used in academic literature and pejoratively
proliferated among society at large. The definition of promiscuity has not been clearly
and consistently defined within research and varies significantly from...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Courtly love in literature
"It is in the south of France and at a very early period that we must look for the origin of the system of Courtly Love. Gathered about several small courts, there existed, as early as the eleventh century, a brilliant society, in which woman...
The role of mothers, the constitution of families, and the power of their stories are the bedrock of my thesis, which is the first 90 pages of a novel entitled Playing House . In it, I hope to investigate the denotation and connotation of the words...
"The vast majority of prehistoric sculptures depict either animals or humans. In the earliest art, humankind consists almost exclusively of women as opposed to men, and painters and sculptors almost invariably showed them nude […]. When...
Every man is to a greater or less degree a product of the influences surrounding his life. The more commonplace minds of the race, no doubt, are chiefly affected; and occasionally we find a man or woman of so keen an intellect, so striking an...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Play (Recreation); Toys; Farming; Reading; Spinning
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top: girl seated outdoors holding dog; man in overcoat and top hat facing man in shirtsleeves and vest holding axe; axe leaning against tree stump (sideways); man and boy on porch, with dog and...
Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis; Medical screening; Breast--Radiography; Mobile hospitals
This study used the de-identified breast cancer screen data which recorded the
information of 58231 screens and 22534 participants with different background. The
analysis of disparities on age, ethnic, health insurance and screen location has been...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the three boys and woman with sailboat in washtub, the cat chasing bird, and the clockmaker, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints...
Women; Signs (Notices); Costumes--United States; Log cabins; American Folk Song Festival
Woman in white ruffled dress with plaid bodice and hem sits on the porch of the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The dress and cabin are named for Jean Thomas, the Traipsin' Woman who served as a court reporter in the...
Women; Log cabins; Signs (Notices); Costumes--United States; American Folk Song Festival
Woman in white ruffled dress with plaid bodice and hem stands on the porch of the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The dress and cabin are named for Jean Thomas, the Traipsin' Woman who served as a court reporter in...
Women; Log cabins; Signs (Notices); Costumes--United States; American Folk Song Festival
Woman in white ruffled dress with plaid bodice and hem stands on the porch of the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The dress and cabin are named for Jean Thomas, the Traipsin' Woman who served as a court reporter in...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: Woman and cat rushing to aid of girl in water, holding onto branch; seated woman pointing to standing girl, who holds out the bottom of her dress; woman and boy example letters spelling...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: woman seated in chair, reading; boy in sailor suit standing on shore, pointing to approaching ship; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; dog and sheep; man on horseback approaching...
