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An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
Title
An Undeveloped Picture Comes Into Focus: The Role of Women in Irish Nationalism, Suffrage, and The Easter Rising
Author
Lowenstein, Teresa
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History, Women's studies, Sex role
Description
This thesis draws attention to the role of women in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the suffrage movement, Irish nationalism, and the Easter Rising. It contributes to historiography with the inclusion of new inf...
Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Title
Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Author
Gaskin, Rachael
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History
Description
During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...
Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
Title
Mary Boleyn: "A Great Whore, Infamous Above All"
Author
Plough, Christine
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History
Description
This thesis is a case study that explores the life and influence of Mary Boleyn, royal mistress to King Henry VIII from 1522-1525. The intent is to present an analysis of primary documents in combination with secondary sources, which provide cruci...
Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Title
Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Author
Moore, Kate
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History
Description
An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Title
THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Author
Battista, Nancy
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, Sex, History
Description
Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Title
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author
Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description
Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...
“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Title
“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author
Whittington, Joseph
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description
In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...