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National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1945-1977
Title
The National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1945-1977.
Creator
Neumann, Caryn Ellen., Florida Atlantic University, Bannan, Helen M.
Abstract/Description
The years following World War II were grim ones for women's organizations. Although the National Woman's Party (NWP) managed to survive, it never managed to thrive. Great determination on the part of its members to ban gender discrimination by means of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) did not prove adequate to the task of getting the amendment through Congress. Frustration within the NWP at the continued failure of ERA turned member against member. Unable to attract replacements for those who...
Show moreThe years following World War II were grim ones for women's organizations. Although the National Woman's Party (NWP) managed to survive, it never managed to thrive. Great determination on the part of its members to ban gender discrimination by means of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) did not prove adequate to the task of getting the amendment through Congress. Frustration within the NWP at the continued failure of ERA turned member against member. Unable to attract replacements for those who had left the party, the NWP diminished in strength. Before it collapsed entirely, upon the death of founder Alice Paul in 1977, the NWP introduced a new generation of feminists to ERA.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15049
Subject Headings
Equal rights amendments--United States, National Woman's Party--History, Women--Suffrage--United States, Women's rights--United States, Feminism--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
Women's feminist collective identity: A liberal feminist analysis of feminist identification and feminist consciousness
Title
Women's feminist collective identity: A liberal feminist analysis of feminist identification and feminist consciousness.
Creator
Hiller, Tiffany Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M.
Abstract/Description
Data from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among...
Show moreData from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among women is weak. The findings indicate a need to make clear which dimension--feminist identification or feminist consciousness--is being used in efforts to understand women's feminist collective identity and how these three concepts interact with cohort, employment status, income, education, race, and marital status.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15500
Subject Headings
Feminist theory--United States, Women--United States--Social conditions, Women--United States--Identity, Feminism--United States, Consciousness
Format
Document (PDF)
Janis Joplin's revolt against conventional femininity: A pentadic analysis of selected lyrics
Title
Janis Joplin's revolt against conventional femininity: A pentadic analysis of selected lyrics.
Creator
McCoun, Kristin June., Florida Atlantic University, Mulvaney, Becky
Abstract/Description
San Francisco in the 1960s was the birthplace for many great bands and musicians: the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, and Janis Joplin. Following in the tradition of the early blues women, Janis Joplin burst onto the San Francisco music scene at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. After only a four year music career she was found dead of a heroin overdose. An examination of Janis' life, her preferred expressive genre of the blues, and the sixties counterculture...
Show moreSan Francisco in the 1960s was the birthplace for many great bands and musicians: the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, and Janis Joplin. Following in the tradition of the early blues women, Janis Joplin burst onto the San Francisco music scene at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. After only a four year music career she was found dead of a heroin overdose. An examination of Janis' life, her preferred expressive genre of the blues, and the sixties counterculture scene in San Francisco provides the appropriate context for a rhetorical analysis of Joplin's original lyrics to "Turtle Blues" and "Move Over." Using Burke's pentad, the ways in which Janis revolted against conventional femininity and her perception of herself as a victim of the "scene" in which she lived are demonstrated.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15508
Subject Headings
Joplin, Janis--Criticism and interpretation, Singers--United States, Feminism and music, Rock musicians--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
One yard shy of empowerment
Title
One yard shy of empowerment: cinematic portrayals of female athletes.
Creator
Lieberman, Vividiana., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description
Sports are a primary zone of masculinity and sports films are a popular genre. One is hard pressed to find many leading female roles as athletes in male-dominated sports storylines. The cinematic portrayal of women athletes represents social attitudes and values and whether or not the women's movement has been able to influence representations and, concomitantly, social understandings of women and athleticism. My discussion of films featuring female athletes begins with National Velvet (1944)...
Show moreSports are a primary zone of masculinity and sports films are a popular genre. One is hard pressed to find many leading female roles as athletes in male-dominated sports storylines. The cinematic portrayal of women athletes represents social attitudes and values and whether or not the women's movement has been able to influence representations and, concomitantly, social understandings of women and athleticism. My discussion of films featuring female athletes begins with National Velvet (1944) and ends with Whip It (2008). By examining select sports films centered on all female teams, co-ed teams and individual female athletes, I show how their storylines and resolutions do or do not capitulate to patriarchal ideology. I find a general capitulation, with some concessions to women's equality. I conclude with a call for a degendering of sports and a redefinition of strength, competitiveness and aggression as human, not masculine.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342205
Subject Headings
Women athletes, Feminism and sports, Competition (Psychology), Minorities in motion pictures, Sex discrimination against women
Format
Document (PDF)
influence of feminism on nursing and its relation to nursing education: 1970-1994
Title
The influence of feminism on nursing and its relation to nursing education: 1970-1994.
Creator
Shinners-Gillenwater, Jean., Florida Atlantic University, Schuster, Eleanor
Abstract/Description
This is a historical research study of the influence of feminism on nursing and nursing education from 1970 to 1994. Historical research contributes to the knowledge of the underpinnings of nursing education practices and the socialization process of nurses as a profession within the male, patriarchal system of medicine. This inquiry identifies select nurse-woman leaders and their contributions in incorporating a new value system for education and nursing based on feminist principles. The...
Show moreThis is a historical research study of the influence of feminism on nursing and nursing education from 1970 to 1994. Historical research contributes to the knowledge of the underpinnings of nursing education practices and the socialization process of nurses as a profession within the male, patriarchal system of medicine. This inquiry identifies select nurse-woman leaders and their contributions in incorporating a new value system for education and nursing based on feminist principles. The implications of this paradigm shift for nursing education, practice and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15086
Subject Headings
Nurses--United States, Nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing--Philosophy, Caring, Feminism, Nursing--History
Format
Document (PDF)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Title
Hillary Rodham Clinton: feminism, success, and the First Ladyship.
Creator
Boyer, Heather J., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
This thesis will investigate the ways in which Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and the Junior United States Senator from New York State, appropriated strategies of liberal feminism in her political career as the first modern, working mother to serve as First Lady. A feminist First Lady, Clinton broke through the social expectations placed upon that role in an unprecedented manner by taking an active part in the political strategy and substance of her husband's...
Show moreThis thesis will investigate the ways in which Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and the Junior United States Senator from New York State, appropriated strategies of liberal feminism in her political career as the first modern, working mother to serve as First Lady. A feminist First Lady, Clinton broke through the social expectations placed upon that role in an unprecedented manner by taking an active part in the political strategy and substance of her husband's administration. Her successful campaign for the United States Senate in 2000 as the first former First Lady to hold such an office proved that she has her own political clout independent of her husband. Hillary Rodham Clinton has all the marks of a liberal feminist success story: a strong political background and educational credentials, unfettered ambition, mastery of public discourse, her own political identity, and a real commitment to tough policymaking and representation in Washington. Yet despite this success, liberal feminism presents problems for the women's movement generally. After mapping the history of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a feminist political figure, I will examine whether liberal feminism is adequate in challenging patriarchal structures and other related forms of domination.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11593
Subject Headings
Presidents' spouses, Feminist theory, Women in public life, Feminism, Liberalism, Women in democracy
Format
Document (PDF)
Betty Friedan and "The Feminine Mystique": An example of rhetorical exclusion
Title
Betty Friedan and "The Feminine Mystique": An example of rhetorical exclusion.
Creator
Carney, Ann Maire., Florida Atlantic University, Mulvaney, Becky
Abstract/Description
One of the key catalytic feminist works of our time is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Although acclaimed as a well researched artifact designed to help "American women" recognize and understand how and why they were being manipulated via a social phenomenon Friedan terms a "feminine mystique," upon close examination of this work we find that the preponderance of inductive examples Friedan uses to persuade her implied audience excluded another audience, specifically black women. The...
Show moreOne of the key catalytic feminist works of our time is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Although acclaimed as a well researched artifact designed to help "American women" recognize and understand how and why they were being manipulated via a social phenomenon Friedan terms a "feminine mystique," upon close examination of this work we find that the preponderance of inductive examples Friedan uses to persuade her implied audience excluded another audience, specifically black women. The effect of this "rhetorical exclusion" (and other means of segregation) has been the disaffection of most black women from the contemporary women's movement. This study, therefore, provides a critical analysis of specific inductive examples found within The Feminine Mystique, demonstrates how such examples affected both Friedan's implied and excluded audiences, and suggests how such forms of "rhetorical exclusion" can be avoided in the future.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15102
Subject Headings
Friedan, Betty--Criticism and interpretation, Friedan, Betty--Feminine mystique, Feminism--United States, African American women--Social conditions
Format
Document (PDF)
From presidential wife to leader in her own right? The media's representation of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the feminine ideal
Title
From presidential wife to leader in her own right? The media's representation of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the feminine ideal.
Creator
Oxner, Amy Carol., Florida Atlantic University, Scodari, Christine
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines how the media depicted First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton when she stepped outside of the traditional feminine roles of wife and/or mother and into the traditionally masculine/public world with her bid to run for the office of United States Senator from New York. It critically examines the cover, cover story images, and textual representations in Newsweek, Time, and New York magazines by means of a feminist semiotic and rhetorical analysis to discern potential meanings....
Show moreThis thesis examines how the media depicted First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton when she stepped outside of the traditional feminine roles of wife and/or mother and into the traditionally masculine/public world with her bid to run for the office of United States Senator from New York. It critically examines the cover, cover story images, and textual representations in Newsweek, Time, and New York magazines by means of a feminist semiotic and rhetorical analysis to discern potential meanings. The research concludes that the media circumscribe limited roles for First Ladies. First Ladies continue to be shown as victim, object, and/or appendage of a more powerful male, even when they consider political office. Therefore, it is argued that the media have a profound role in defining political women through the perpetuation of hegemonic constructions of femininity.
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Date Issued
2003
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13088
Subject Headings
Clinton, Hillary Rodham--In mass media, Women politicians--Press coverage, Presidents' spouses--United States, Feminism and mass media
Format
Document (PDF)