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Title: CHANGING THE PORTRAYAL OF BLACK FEMALE BODIES IN WESTERN ART: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
Creator: Lundy, Ashley Briana, Brown, Susan Love, Fradkin, Arlene, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzes the creative strategies of African American female artists used to recreate the visual narrative of black female bodies in Western Art. Four artists are examined: Emma Amos, Adrian Piper, Alison Saar, and Simone Leigh. Emma Amos uses acrylics and textiles to address the strategies used by white male artists in the portrayal of black female bodies. Adrian Piper centers her performance piece on stereotypes to question racial stereotypes directed at black women. Alison Saar...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the creative strategies of African American female artists used to recreate the visual narrative of black female bodies in Western Art. Four artists are examined: Emma Amos, Adrian Piper, Alison Saar, and Simone Leigh. Emma Amos uses acrylics and textiles to address the strategies used by white male artists in the portrayal of black female bodies. Adrian Piper centers her performance piece on stereotypes to question racial stereotypes directed at black women. Alison Saar examines Topsy, a character from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, who regains agency from slavery tropes. Simone Leigh interprets Harriet Jacobs autobiographical experience by using utilitarian objects and architecture to contest the ideologies of slavery. The perspectives of these artists are critical to understanding how they view themselves through their own lenses as opposed to those of the dominant white culture, addressing the origins of ideologies surrounding black female bodies. Examination of each artist's work shows that the black women’s lived experiences are not monolithic or stereotypical.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013850
Subject Headings: Women, Black., African American women artists, Art
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CLIMATE AND EQUITY: WOMEN FACULTY IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS AT A RESEARCH UNIVERSITY WITH THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION’S ADVANCE GRANT.
Creator: Mahabir, Deorajhee, Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
Abstract/Description: There is increasing reliance on STEM higher education as a source of innovation, and on faculty as knowledge producers. Simultaneously, universities are systemically changing internal structures to increase equity and inclusivity to attract and retain more STEM women. Women remain underrepresented in specific STEM disciplines and are missing from upper faculty ranks. The research corpus on STEM women lacks studies on women on tenure tracks, and on the relationships among climate, fit, and job...
Show moreThere is increasing reliance on STEM higher education as a source of innovation, and on faculty as knowledge producers. Simultaneously, universities are systemically changing internal structures to increase equity and inclusivity to attract and retain more STEM women. Women remain underrepresented in specific STEM disciplines and are missing from upper faculty ranks. The research corpus on STEM women lacks studies on women on tenure tracks, and on the relationships among climate, fit, and job satisfaction, and the extent to which job satisfaction aids retention of STEM women. Also sparse is research on leadership’s roles in women’s advancement and retention at the departmental level. The purpose of this study was to understand how the climate within a STEM college contributed to the professional development and sense of belonging of women faculty at a research institution with a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant. This study also explored leadership’s role in fostering a climate of support toward women’s advancement. NSF ADVANCE funds institutions working toward systemic change, but even with an ADVANCE grant, it can be difficult to make climate changes in academic departments where women are historically underrepresented. Thus, we don’t know, a priori, what we might find in such a setting. Gendering organization theory guided this study. Two overarching questions were formulated to address the problems associated with low numbers of women in STEM departments. The methodology utilized a qualitative single instrumental case. The sampling plan included leaders, faculty, and documents; and data sources included interviews and document review.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014558
Subject Headings: Women in science, Women in STEM, Equity
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: American women in the postwar world; a symposium of the role women will play in business and industry, prepared by Newsweek's Club bureau.
Date Issued: 1944
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3183811
Subject Headings: Women -- Employment -- United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Welchen Wert hat die Bildung für die Arbeiterin? : ein Vortrag.
Creator: Zepler, Wally, b.
Date Issued: 1910
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358256
Subject Headings: Women and socialism.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Women’s wages in England in the nineteenth century.
Date Issued: 1906
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/225506
Subject Headings: Women –Employment –England.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Backtalk: Visual Language and the Representation of Black Women.
Creator: Charles, Cathy, Cunningham, Stephanie, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: For years, black women have endured the mainstream stereotypes of the Mammy, the Jezebel, and the Sapphire. Backtalk is a conversation about black women using their own language translated into a graphic visual language. It examines ways in which black women are active agents in the social scripting of their own identities. Their complexity is visualized using a formal semiotic system based on their individual descriptions. This new visual language allows black women to deconstruct the...
Show moreFor years, black women have endured the mainstream stereotypes of the Mammy, the Jezebel, and the Sapphire. Backtalk is a conversation about black women using their own language translated into a graphic visual language. It examines ways in which black women are active agents in the social scripting of their own identities. Their complexity is visualized using a formal semiotic system based on their individual descriptions. This new visual language allows black women to deconstruct the limiting categorizations mainstream culture allows them, freeing participants from category-based expectations.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013002
Subject Headings: Women, Black, Backtalk
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Party gaze/male gaze: (Re)construction of femininity in post-communist Romanian women's magazines.
Creator: Birzescu, Anca N., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines how post-communist Romanian women's magazines engender a particular representation of women in transition. This is both a challenge to the previous communist ideology which promoted an asexual type of femininity, and the product of a hegemonically masculine culture revived by the reality of the newly born capitalist Romanian society. By means of a feminist semiotic analysis, the study concentrates on visual and textual discourses of femininity in two popular Romanian...
Show moreThis thesis examines how post-communist Romanian women's magazines engender a particular representation of women in transition. This is both a challenge to the previous communist ideology which promoted an asexual type of femininity, and the product of a hegemonically masculine culture revived by the reality of the newly born capitalist Romanian society. By means of a feminist semiotic analysis, the study concentrates on visual and textual discourses of femininity in two popular Romanian women's magazines. It concludes that Romanian women's publications during transition advance a concept of femininity constructed through a passivity/power complementariness. On the one hand, constructed images of femininity, according to Western norms, replicate a patriarchal system of values; on the other hand, agency becomes available to women by their own control over their embodied subjectivity, prompted by anxieties accumulated and repressed during the years of communism.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13266
Subject Headings: Women's Studies, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: “A Woman’s Place”: Myth, Body, and Nation in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Creator: García, Madeline Elizabeth, Sim, Gerald, Miller, Andrea, Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates the role of myth in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Through an analysis of concepts such as the body and nation, I investigate the mythical underpinnings of gender, race, social reproduction, and capitalism in Gilead as well as the veritable history of oppression and imperialism in the United States that informs the Gileadean imaginary. I interrogate myth’s utility in creating nations and worlds, real or imagined, and the mechanisms of myth that make this possible. Using...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the role of myth in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Through an analysis of concepts such as the body and nation, I investigate the mythical underpinnings of gender, race, social reproduction, and capitalism in Gilead as well as the veritable history of oppression and imperialism in the United States that informs the Gileadean imaginary. I interrogate myth’s utility in creating nations and worlds, real or imagined, and the mechanisms of myth that make this possible. Using the works of authors such as Roland Barthes, Kalindi Vora, Achille Mbembe, and others, I read The Handmaid’s Tale series as a text that reveals how truth can be distorted by myth but can be demythologized to belie intention, historically contextualize, and inspire resistance. Written in the midst and wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, this thesis is also a meditation on auto-ethnographic and textual resistance.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014111
Subject Headings: Women's studies, Gender Studies
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Title: WOMEN IN MOSQUE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MUSLIM WOMEN EXPERIENCES AT TWO MOSQUES IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
Creator: Akhter, Afsana, Harris, Michael S., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Women's participation and roles in contemporary mosques in Western nations differ from that of many Muslim-majority countries. Yet, women’s presence and function are contentious within and outside Muslim communities, and research on the issue is limited. Most extant research on Muslim communities and religious institutions comes from Europe. Moreover, while seeking an opinion or firsthand knowledge of religious opinions in Muslim communities, the male voice takes precedence. This qualitative...
Show moreWomen's participation and roles in contemporary mosques in Western nations differ from that of many Muslim-majority countries. Yet, women’s presence and function are contentious within and outside Muslim communities, and research on the issue is limited. Most extant research on Muslim communities and religious institutions comes from Europe. Moreover, while seeking an opinion or firsthand knowledge of religious opinions in Muslim communities, the male voice takes precedence. This qualitative research investigates Muslim women’s experiences at two mosques in south Florida. I aimed to gain a better understanding of mosques’ impact on women’s religious practices, their adaptation to American society, and their views on male-dominated religious places, including the topic of gender segregation. By using narrative data collected from participant observation and interviews with informants, this study demonstrates that Muslim women at these south Florida mosques engage in their religious and social activities, creating a meaningful space to worship in the mosque while following the dominant patriarchal norms in the religious institution. The findings from this study also highlight the need for a more extensive quantitative analysis of women's demands for inclusion and equality in mosques and Muslim men's (including imams') responses to such requests as well as the significance of generational, age, and national-ethnic differences when it comes to the issue of gender in mosques.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014219
Subject Headings: Muslim women, Islam, Feminism
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Title: WOMEN OF ACTION EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH VISUAL NARRATIVES.
Creator: Moraghebati, Ida, Cunningham, Stephanie, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Visual Arts and Art History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis exhibition explores how Iranian women’s narratives might be reshaped for empowerment through the lens of Graphic Design. It challenges gender inequality by analyzing and examining historical and contemporary portrayals of women through case studies. To show women’s strength and resiliency, the thesis imagines an immersive experience that combines Iranian visual culture aesthetics with modern storytelling techniques. It promotes Graphic Design as a tool for social change. It adds...
Show moreThis thesis exhibition explores how Iranian women’s narratives might be reshaped for empowerment through the lens of Graphic Design. It challenges gender inequality by analyzing and examining historical and contemporary portrayals of women through case studies. To show women’s strength and resiliency, the thesis imagines an immersive experience that combines Iranian visual culture aesthetics with modern storytelling techniques. It promotes Graphic Design as a tool for social change. It adds to continuing conversations about women’s empowerment, cultural reclamation, and social advancement in Iran and, by extension, globally. The thesis exhibition envisions Graphic Design as a powerful tool for reshaping gender norms in Iranian society. It was inspired by the courage of women in movements such as Woman, Life, Freedom, which started in 2022 in Iran and other countries like Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, which demonstrate their fight for gender equality, self-determination, and the liberation of women from patriarchal and oppressive systems.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014541
Subject Headings: Iranians, Women's studies, Narratives
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Title: Low-income women's standpoint: Recognizing poor and working-class American women as generators of resistant knowledge.
Creator: Larson, Holly Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Caputi, Jane
Abstract/Description: This dissertation puts economically disadvantaged American women at the center of analysis. I turn to standpoint theory to demonstrate that low-income women construct knowledge out of resistance to systemic oppression in their everyday, concrete worlds. In addition, I create a distinct theory on low-income women's standpoint to show that poor and working-class women are grounded in and produce knowledge from the messiness of contradictions and the murkiness of ambiguity in the immediate,...
Show moreThis dissertation puts economically disadvantaged American women at the center of analysis. I turn to standpoint theory to demonstrate that low-income women construct knowledge out of resistance to systemic oppression in their everyday, concrete worlds. In addition, I create a distinct theory on low-income women's standpoint to show that poor and working-class women are grounded in and produce knowledge from the messiness of contradictions and the murkiness of ambiguity in the immediate, material world. Therefore, their forms of resistance is as complex, ambiguous, and messy as the world from which they struggle. Discerning and analyzing low-income women's standpoint does not create a value hierarchy that places more worth on one form of resistance than on another. Nor does it make an ethical judgment on how low-income women resist or uphold moral absolutism that categorizes their acts of resistance as "good/healthy" or "bad/dysfunctional." Rather, uncovering and examining low-income women's standpoint focuses on how poor and working-class women struggle to be whole, complex beings who daily fight against economic oppression under structural limitations and within contradictory situations. Low-income women's standpoint theory acknowledges the messiness of life and the imperfection of humanity. Furthermore, it illustrates that knowledge is an ongoing process of seeking "truth"; there is no one correct way of finding "truth." Hence, low-income women's standpoint theory shows that there is "truth" in the murkiness and confusion of contradictions and ambiguity. My dissertation is set up as the following: in chapter one, I explain what poor and working-class women's standpoint is and highlight how their resistant knowledge is grounded in their immediate and everyday world; in chapter two, I examine how low-income female performing artists and writers openly express their sexuality as "bad girls" through their art and writing to claim sexual agency; in chapter three, I analyze how low-waged female workers encountering structural limitations negotiate power relations in the workforce; and, in chapter four, I look at how low-income women deal with emotional pain and anger as they resist being crushed by economic and social oppression.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12046
Subject Headings: Poor women--United States, Oppression (Psychology), Working class women
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: MRS. FORMAN SHOT THE ALLIGATOR: WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA, 1890-1939.
Creator: Hidalgo, Isabel, Bennett, Evan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This study argues that settler women-in the all-inclusive sense of the word rather than just white, middle-and-upper class women-were crucial in founding and stabilizing Southeastern Florida communities. Historians have focused almost exclusively on men in studying this area's development and settlement. Henry Flagler, the railroad and hotel tycoon, for example, is given much credit for his role in bringing settlers to Palm Beach and building a home there for himself. Small towns use similar...
Show moreThis study argues that settler women-in the all-inclusive sense of the word rather than just white, middle-and-upper class women-were crucial in founding and stabilizing Southeastern Florida communities. Historians have focused almost exclusively on men in studying this area's development and settlement. Henry Flagler, the railroad and hotel tycoon, for example, is given much credit for his role in bringing settlers to Palm Beach and building a home there for himself. Small towns use similar narratives. The reality was that diverse populations of women were critical for Southeastern Florida's growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study thus seeks to recover the diverse actions, narratives, organizations, and systems of early Southeastern Florida and the roles women played to create, stabilize, and later maintain these aspects. This study will also discuss how these women subverted-whether subtly or overtly-factors of gender, race, and class to build unique and diverse communities in Southeastern Florida.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013975
Subject Headings: Women colonists, Southeastern Florida, Florida--History, Women's studies
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Title: BLACK WOMEN IN WHITE SPACES: A NARRATIVE STUDY OF THE RACIAL SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN COLLEGE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS.
Creator: Goins, Brittany, Salinas Jr., Cristobal, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
Abstract/Description: In this narrative study, the racial socialization experiences of six Black women college students enrolled at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) will be explored. The purpose of this study is to understand the racial socialization experiences of Black women college students and how these experiences impact how they engage in private and public spaces. The following research questions will guide this study: 1. How are Black women college students racially socialized at PWIs? 2. How do...
Show moreIn this narrative study, the racial socialization experiences of six Black women college students enrolled at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) will be explored. The purpose of this study is to understand the racial socialization experiences of Black women college students and how these experiences impact how they engage in private and public spaces. The following research questions will guide this study: 1. How are Black women college students racially socialized at PWIs? 2. How do Black women college students enrolled at PWIs engage in private and public spaces? Gaps in the literature focus on how Black women in college engage in spaces where they are the minority and how these experiences impact their overall matriculation into higher education (Porter et al., 2020). Intersectionality (Collins, 2019; Crenshaw, 1989; Porter et al., 2020) were used to guide this dissertation study of how Black women college students experience racial socialization and engage in spaces at PWIs. This study is a significant contribution to the literature as one of the few studies that seek to understand the complexity of intersecting systems of society that impact the experiences and lives of Black women at PWIs. The findings of this study showed that Black women college students experience racism and microaggressions that impact the way in which they engage private and public spaces at PWIs.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014555
Subject Headings: Women, Black, College students, Black, Women, Black--Race identity
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Title: Frauenfrage und Menschenökonomie.
Creator: Goldscheid, Rudolf
Date Issued: 1920
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3353175
Subject Headings: Women -- Social and moral questions.
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Title: Caribbean Immigrant Women in Educational Leadership: Over Hills and Valleys Too.
Creator: Leblanc, Nadine L., Bryan, Valerie C., Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the lived experiences of college educated, immigrant women from the Caribbean in their quest for professional advancement in educational leadership roles in the United States. There were six participants for this study who were selected based on convenience, purposeful, and criterion sampling. Each participant’s lived experience was explored through a triangulation of information provided from two in-depth face-to-face interviews, document...
Show moreThe purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the lived experiences of college educated, immigrant women from the Caribbean in their quest for professional advancement in educational leadership roles in the United States. There were six participants for this study who were selected based on convenience, purposeful, and criterion sampling. Each participant’s lived experience was explored through a triangulation of information provided from two in-depth face-to-face interviews, document analyses, and observation/field notes. The findings indicate that Caribbean immigrant women studied navigated hills and valleys that included acculturative stress. Furthermore, the participants are characterized with a militant motivation in their approach to achieving their goals; thus having an attitude of “by any means necessary” was essential to their success. To accomplish their goals and successfully navigate the hills and valleys, the participants shared the support of strong matriarchs in their family and with the added help of the village; they also engaged in adult learning practices in their efforts to excel. Additionally, a Caribbean identity was utilized as a source of resistance and high self-esteem bordering on ethnocentrism against prejudices to facilitate the journey to success.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013228
Subject Headings: Educational leadership, Immigrant women, Caribbean
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Title: DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH.
Creator: Khan, Md Tareq Ferdous, Qian, Lianfen, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Abstract/Description: This thesis uses Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 data to identify the important determinants due to which women justification towards intimate partner violence (IPV) varies. Statistical analyses reveal that among the individual-level independent variables age at first marriage, respondent's education, decision score, religion, NGO membership, access to information, husband's education, normalized wealth score, and division indicator have significant effects on the women's...
Show moreThis thesis uses Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 data to identify the important determinants due to which women justification towards intimate partner violence (IPV) varies. Statistical analyses reveal that among the individual-level independent variables age at first marriage, respondent's education, decision score, religion, NGO membership, access to information, husband's education, normalized wealth score, and division indicator have significant effects on the women's attitude towards IPV. It shows that other than religion, NGO membership, and division indicator, the higher the value of the variable, the lower the likelihood of justifying IPV. However, being a Muslim, NGO member, and resident of other divisions, women are found more tolerant of IPV from their respective counterparts. Among the three community-level variables, only the mean decision score is found significant in lowering the likelihood. The thesis concludes with some policy recommendations and a proposal for future research.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013325
Subject Headings: Intimate partner violence, Bangladesh, Women
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Title: THE EMBODIED ODDITY: EMPOWERING TESTIMONIES OF DISABLED SOUTHERN WOMEN WRITERS.
Creator: George, Ashley Nicole, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this project is to establish the connections between southern women writers, autotheory, and grotesque descriptions of disability in Gothic Literature as a significant subset of literature. Southern women writers transform their bodily experiences through the language of the grotesque in testimony to re-create a life that has been unmade by pain. Their autobiographical narratives serve as an expression for the inexpressible, affirm their experiences for themselves, and call...
Show moreThe purpose of this project is to establish the connections between southern women writers, autotheory, and grotesque descriptions of disability in Gothic Literature as a significant subset of literature. Southern women writers transform their bodily experiences through the language of the grotesque in testimony to re-create a life that has been unmade by pain. Their autobiographical narratives serve as an expression for the inexpressible, affirm their experiences for themselves, and call upon others to join in witnessing their impact. The introduction uses prominent theories from various critical fields to establish a new theory, and the following chapters reflect on that theory from the lives and literature of three disabled southern women writers: Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Zelda Fitzgerald. As demonstrated in these women’s lives and literature, in a society which others odd, obscure experiences, using the testimonial voice is necessary to the personal and social survival of disability. Writing offers the opportunity for disabled people to make a permanent impact by creating from the knowledge of personal suffering to impact the world and its perceptions surrounding life with disability.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013612
Subject Headings: Women writers, Disabled, Gothic literature
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Title: THE CATALYST EFFECT OF THE Y.W.C.A. ON THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CHINA: 1901 - 1927.
Creator: JOHNSEN-ROD, CANDACE MAUREE., Florida Atlantic University, Dow, Tsung-I
Abstract/Description: In 1890 the YWCA established student associations in China which advanced the ideals of sexual equality. The YWCA assisted members of the Woman's National Army during the dynastic overthrow and later many of its own members, relying on skills they had learned at the "Y", went on to become leaders in the movement for women's rights. In 1908 the YWCA established its first city association in Shanghai. A prototype for later associations in China, it combined social service functions with...
Show moreIn 1890 the YWCA established student associations in China which advanced the ideals of sexual equality. The YWCA assisted members of the Woman's National Army during the dynastic overthrow and later many of its own members, relying on skills they had learned at the "Y", went on to become leaders in the movement for women's rights. In 1908 the YWCA established its first city association in Shanghai. A prototype for later associations in China, it combined social service functions with educational endeavors. The work Has especially designed to serve displaced peasant women who had been driven by economic hardship to the city in search of factory work. The YWCA participated in the implementation of the Mass Education Movement and in 1922 began its pioneering work in industrial reform. By such catalytic action, the association helped elevate the status of women and promote the woman's movement.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14094
Subject Headings: Young Women's Christian Association (China)
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Title: Controlling the body: The nature of the cultural spectacle.
Creator: Bailey, Brooke A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description: Feminist theorists have criticized Rene Descartes' conception of oppositional dualism, finding that it falsely separates mind from body and invidiously values mind over body. This ideology generally associates marginalized groups with the body and devalues physicality as seen in the human body and the natural world. Many institutions such as the zoo, the strip club and the historic display of Non-Westerners reflect Cartesian patterns of human isolation from the physical body, from the natural...
Show moreFeminist theorists have criticized Rene Descartes' conception of oppositional dualism, finding that it falsely separates mind from body and invidiously values mind over body. This ideology generally associates marginalized groups with the body and devalues physicality as seen in the human body and the natural world. Many institutions such as the zoo, the strip club and the historic display of Non-Westerners reflect Cartesian patterns of human isolation from the physical body, from the natural world and from one another. Each of these institutions produces a cultural spectacle in which a member of a marginalized group is marked as the denigrated body. Through objectifying displays, the spectacle reinforces the dominant ideologies, fantasies and fears of a culture. Although physicality has been used to reproduce patterns of domination, it may also be examined as a potential site of resistance.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13176
Subject Headings: American Studies, Philosophy, Women's Studies
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: La representacion de la aniquilacion de la creatividad artistica femenina en obras seleccionadas de Elena Poniatowska.
Creator: Adriazola-Rodriguez, Ana, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist...
Show moreThe annihilation of women's artistic creativity in selected works by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska is a result of societal conditioning. Two short stories from Lilus Kikus and the short novel Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela portray the process of deterioration and demeaning obliteration of women's creative faculties, as they are conditioned to accept the conventional roles of wife and mother. Poniatowska's texts posit that, upon assuming these roles, the exercise of the creative artist's use of her imagination is postponed or detrimentally transformed forever. In the selected texts, women's artistic creativity is chronicled first at its best while the characters are girls or adolescents. The neglect, procrastination, and attention to domestic and repetitive tasks as opposed to the pursuit of their creative vein is observed in the adult women characters. Poignantly portrayed is Quiela, Diego Rivera's common-law wife of ten years, who destroys her life and creative power by trying to be the perfect wife. These literary works speak forcefully to the social issues and institutions that place women artists in a bind; are the roles of artist, mother/wife incompatible?
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15786
Subject Headings: Literature, Latin American, Women's Studies
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