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Walker-Kuntz, Sunday Anne. "Land, life, and feme sole women homesteaders in the Yellowstone River Valley, 1909-1934 /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/walker-kuntz/Walker-KuntzS0506.pdf.
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Koch, Shirley Anne. "Dancing to their own tune: Career success and Australian women leaders." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21670.
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Although there is a considerable body of research into the reasons for disparity in gender representation at leadership level, less is known about the enabling factors for the relatively few women who have managed to get ‘to the top’. This study explores how such women perceive and define career success highlighting enabling factors and identifying antecedents. The study focuses on the experiences, understandings and insights of seventeen Australian women leaders across a range of industries. These women entered the workforce around the years between 1970 and 1990; a time of great social change in the career landscape as women began to engage with tertiary education and professional work in unprecedented numbers. They are part of a group of pioneering women aspiring to professional careers and leadership. This study preserves the experiences and understandings of these pioneers making a historically significant contribution to the discourse about career success for women in Australia. Participants shared a determination to find their way ‘to the top’ despite different career routes and life journeys; standing out from other women. They were able to chart their own career courses in the established patriarchal hierarchy of the time with little guidance and few established pathways, requiring the creation of new and unique ways to advance their careers. This qualitative study is conceptually framed by Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory as a way of understanding how value is attributed to antecedent personal, societal and contextual factors, and how the ability to accumulate career capital is influenced by childhood and adulthood forces. Career success hinges on the development of capital-rich personal characteristics, shaped by the socio-cultural milieu of early life and the legacy of attitudes and practices passed down through family, yet also influenced by broader societal and contextual forces.
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Regt, Maria Cornelia de. "Pioneers or pawns? women health workers and the politics of development in Yemen /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/69973.
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Job, Christiane. "Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/277.
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The history of women’s basketball in Canada has been influenced by key individuals who have challenged systemic barriers and social mores demanding appropriate female behaviors and activities. In this study I examine the sporting contributions of Vancouverite Ruth Wilson, whose involvements in the sport of women’s basketball from the mid 1930s through the 1960s was significant. Though several studies have highlighted the importance of women’s basketball in a North American context (Hall, 2002; Cahn, 1994; Kidd, 1996; Hult and Trekell, 1991), to date there has not been a significant examination of the development of basketball for women and its early advocates in western Canada.
Celebrating heroines of sport is not a straightforward matter. The concept of the heroic, as Hargreaves points out, must be examined through an analysis of the struggles and achievements of many women whose stories have been excluded or forgotten from previous accounts of women’s sports and female heroism (Hargreaves, 2000). Thus my account of Ruth Wilson’s contributions provides a unique case study of one womans persistent and wide ranging efforts to change the ways in which girls and women participated in a sport which brought them freedom to compete, professional opportunities and in some cases, national status.
This study employs several methodological techniques. Data was collected through primary and secondary document analysis in conjunction with semi-structured open ended interviews. Ruth Wilson’s contributions have been highlighted through the narratives of female sportswomen whom she mentored, assisted, befriended and coached and who are still living today to provide their memories about her role in changing the landscape of women’s basketball in Canada.
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Long, Genevieve J. "Laboring in the desert : the letters and diaries of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Ida Hunt Udall /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 321-336). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ferdowsi, Lubna. "From pioneers to new millennials : a dynamics of identity among British Bangladeshi women in London." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16533.
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This dissertation is an ethnography about British Bangladeshi women of different age groups who live in London. In this study I explore the identity dynamics of these women. I do this through an intersectional approach, focussing on age, generation, socio-economic status, and time of migration. I argue that the term 'generation', which has been used in existing literature on diaspora and migration, is confusing and inappropriate to address the diversity of diaspora people in relation to their intersectional and contextual differences. Hence, a significant finding is that using 'cohort' can be an appropriate way to avoid generalizing diasporan, and address diversity among them and the different contexts in which they are situated. My participants have been through distinctive experiences in their process of migration, most at different and particular stages of their life cycles, and in some cases, even women in the same age groups have had different contextual or transnational upbringing in the pre and post migration phases. Therefore, arguing that the term 'generation' is confounding, I have preferred to categorise my participants as members of particular 'cohorts' from an ethnographic perspective through intersecting their age, time of migration, and contextual upbringing. I have termed them as follows: the Pioneer Cohort, the Cooked in Britain Cohort, the British-born Cohort and the New-migrant Cohort. I argue that by playing multiple, dynamic and multifaceted roles in a diaspora and transnational space, these diverse groups of women are constantly forming and reforming their positionality. This process of forming fluid and dynamic identities in context, which I call 'contextual identity', challenges the feminization of ethnicity in a diaspora space, and provides diaspora women of different age groups with the power of speech, prominence, belonging, demonstration and self-confidence to contribute in a changing diaspora and transnational space.
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Sharp, Pamela Agnes, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "A study of relationships between colonial women and black Australians." Deakin University, 1991. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060922.083240.
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The study is concerned with the history of black and white women in Australia during the colonial period. Particular emphasis is on the variety of cross-cultural relationships which developed between women during that time.
As a starting point, male frontier violence is discussed and compared with the more moderate approach taken by women faced with threatening situations. Among Europeans, women are revealed as being generally less racist than men. This was a significant factor in their ability to forge bonds with black women and occasionally with black men.
The way in which contacts with Aborigines were made is explored and the impact of them on the women concerned is assessed, as far as possible from both points of view. Until now, these experiences have been omitted from colonial history, yet I believe they were an important element in racial relations. It will be seen that some of these associations were warm, friendly and satisfying to both sides, and often included a good deal of mutual assistance. Others involved degrees of exploitation. Both are examined in detail, using a variety of sources which include the works of modern Aboriginal writers.
This study presents a new aspect of the female experiences which was neglected until the emergence of the feminist historians in the 1960s. It properly places women, both black and white, within Australian colonial history.
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Giardiello, Patricia. "The roots and legacies of four key women pioneers in early childhood education : a theorectical and philosophical discussion." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574627.
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Philosophical, theoretical and scientific interest in early childhood has a very long history. The idea that the early years are the foundation of children's long term prospects is one of the most ancient, enduring and influencing themes shaping early childhood policy and provision today. The motivation and purpose for this study stems from a desire to de-familiarise that which is already known in order to reflect upon, and identify new understandings of early childhood education in relation to universal values and beliefs concerning young children's learning and development. Using an interpretative paradigm, which Habermas (1984, p.109) would describe as a "double hermeneutic" as the process involves striving to re- interpret the already interpreted world, I argue that the principles, practices and provision of early childhood education in the United Kingdom today have strong roots in the innovative pedagogies of four influential women of the 19th and 20th century: Margaret and Rachel McMillan, Maria Montessori and Susan Isaacs. This study adopts a historical stance and firstly examines how early childhood education began through exploring and reflecting upon the early philosophers of the past whose ideas, values and beliefs were influential in shaping the key women pioneers' thinking. The study then moves on to examines the roots and legacies of the four women and the contribution they each made to early childhood education today. The contribution of my thesis to current knowledge and understanding of early childhood education lies firstly in the way I have synthesised the lives and work of the four women who form the focus of this thesis and secondly, in my demonstration of the way much of what constitutes effective early childhood provision has been shaped through the course of history.
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Wheeldon, Christine. "Pioneers in the 'corridors of power' : women civil servants at the Board of Trade and the Factory Inspectorate, 1893-1919." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11397/.
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In the early 1890s university educated women who were considered experts on women’s issues were appointed to the Home Office and the Board of Trade. This thesis investigates their work, lives and the impact of these appointments with in the political context of the period (1893 - 1919): the expansion of the women’s movements, the rediscovery of poverty and the development of social conscience. A select group of nine women have been identified. They were pioneers in the establishment of a position for women in the professional grades within the Civil Service. Their numbers expanded during the First World War but contracted sharply afterwards. The study reconstructs the ‘life histories’ of this cohort, their working practices and investigates their legacy for the civil service, for feminism and for the industrial working lives of women. It examines the influence of their work on legislation and on improvements in the working lives of women in industry and workshops throughout Britain. Sources include Parliamentary papers, select committee reports, census returns and directories as well as biographical sources and some private papers to reconstruct their working practices. In improved sanitary conditions, the reduction of hours, the gradual elimination of truck violations, increased protection against injurious industrial processes, this cohort were effective. Clara Collet’s work played a significant part in the investigative process resulting in the first Trade Boards Act in 1909 and her statistical analyses of the effects of industrial work on women and their children informed both government and the public. These women civil servants’ war work was also impressive and they served on several reconstruction committees. However, post-war politics seriously impeded the progress that such a distinguished beginning might have indicated. Chapter six explores the way in which the women’s achievements were obfuscated after 1919.
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Welch, Kristen. "Oklahoma Women Preachers, Pioneers, and Pentecostals: An Analysis of the Elements of Collective and Individual Ethos Within the Selected Writings of Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195131.
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In this dissertation, I argue that ethos is generative as James Corder defines it. I seek to show that women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church who spent a significant amount of their careers in Oklahoma generated an ethos in their autobiographical texts and transcribed, edited interviews that constructed individualized as well as a social instantiations of ethos. I rhetorically analyzed these texts using five categories of ethos as a rubric for making connections between Corderian theory and my case studies: ethos as transformation, ethos as wisdom or authority, ethos in the stated motives and purposes in a text, ethos as charisma, and ethos as dynamic processes built from identification. In chapter one, I lay out my theoretical perspective, situating it within the canonical history of rhetoric. In chapter two, I describe the historical and religious contexts that put my study of women preachers into a wide conversation of views on women preachers and show how my work is a participation in and a continuation of such conversations. In chapter three, I focus on the autobiographical texts from the late nineteenth through the middle twentieth centuries, comparing male constructions of ethos to female from members of the same group. In chapter four, I make connections between the older texts of chapter three and the twenty-first century interviews I collected and transcribed in 2004 in order to demonstrate paradigm shifts that have occurred, as well as to show how new instantiations of ethos are grounded in localized histories as well as larger ones. In chapter five, I turn to a discussion of the nature of truth inside of epistemic rhetorics. Since generative ethos is aligned with epistemic rhetoric, how we construct ethos within a group is tied to our sense of the nature of truth. Particularly interesting is my connection of truth and ethos to the Holy Spirit.
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Walch, Barbara Hunter. "Sallye B. Mathis and Mary L. Singleton: Black pioneers on the Jacksonville, Florida, City Council." UNF Digital Commons, 1988. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/704.
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In 1967 Sallye Brooks Mathis and Mary Littlejohn Singleton were elected the first blacks in sixty years, and the first women ever, to the city council of Jacksonville, Florida. These two women had been raised in Jacksonville in a black community which, in spite of racial discrimination and segregation since the Civil War, had demonstrated positive leadership and cooperative action as it developed its own organizations and maintained a thriving civic life. Jacksonville blacks participated in politics when allowed to do so and initiated several economic boycotts and court suits to resist racial segregation. Black women played an important part in these activities--occasionally in visible leadership roles.
As adults, Sallye Mathis and Mary Singleton· participated as educators, family members and leaders in various community efforts. Both had developed wide contacts and were respected among many blacks and whites. Mary Singleton had learned about politics as the wife of a respected black politician, and Sallye Mathis became a leader in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in Jacksonville. In 1967, a governmental reform movement in Duval County, a softening of negative racial attitudes, and perhaps their being female aided their victories.
While Sallye Mathis remained on the Jacksonville City Council for fifteen years until her death in 1982, Mary Singleton served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976--the third black in the twentieth century and the first woman from Northeast Florida. From 1976 to 1978 she was appointed director of the Florida Division of Elections and in 1978 she campaigned unsuccessfully for Lt. Governor of Florida.
As government officials, Sallye Mathis and Mary Singleton emphasized the needs of low-income people and were advocates for black interests when they felt it was necessary. They were active as volunteers in numerous other community organizations and projects to further their goals. PALMM
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Coon, Katherine E. "The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2185.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Departments of History and Philanthropic Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Nancy Marie Robertson, Jane E. Schultz, Patricia Wittberg. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-169).
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Lentz, Elizabeth S. "The industrialization of textile production on the Missouri frontier : women's interwoven roles of family and work in a rural community /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841316.
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Dömötör, Ildikó. "Gentlewomen in the bush : a historical interpretation of British women's personal narratives in nineteenth-century rural Australia." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5283.
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Van, de Peer Stefanie E. "The aesthetics of moderation in documentaries by North African women." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3535.
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This thesis focuses on documentaries by North African women, who have been marginalised within the limited space of the field of African filmmaking. I illustrate how North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African as well as Arab culture and particularly African and Arab cinema. I discuss the work of four pioneering women documentary makers in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Consecutively I will discuss Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Selma Baccar, Assia Djebar and Izza Génini’s work. My approach is transnational and Bakhtinian in the sense that I am an outsider looking in. I promote a constant self-awareness as a Western European and an academic interested in the area that is defined as the Middle East. Like the documentary makers, I take the nation state as a starting point so as to understand its effects, in order to be able to critique it and place the films in a transnational context. The documentaries in this thesis illustrate that films of a socio-political nature contest the notion of a singular national identity and can become a means of self-definition. Asserting one’s own cultural and national identity, and subjectively offering the spectator an individual’s interpretation of that self-definition, is a way towards female emancipation. Going against the grain and avoiding stereotypes, evading censorship and dependence on state control, these directors find ways to give a different dimension to their identity. Analysing the work of these four pioneering filmmakers, I uncover diverse female subject matters treated by a similar aesthetic. I argue that through overlooked cinematic techniques, they succeed in subverting the censor and communicating a subtle but convincing critique of the patriarchal system in their respective countries. Their preoccupation with representing ‘the other half’ puts a new and under-explored spin on perceptions of anti-establishment filming with subtly emancipating consequences. I suggest that their common aesthetic is one that develops moderation in terms of context, content and style. There is a cinematic way of implicitly subverting not only the (colonial) past but also the (neo-colonial) present which goes further than re-inscription or compensation: new modes of resistance co-exist with the more rebellious and heroic ones. These women’s films rewrite, imply and contemplate rather than denounce and attack heroically. They do not reject as much as interrogate their situations, counting on the empathic and intersubjective abilities of the spectator. A relationship of trust between director, subject and spectator is crucial if we want to believe in the subalterns’ aptitude for voicing issues and gazing back. I reveal a different approach to communication beyond the verbal, and a belief in the subjects’ capacities to speak and listen. This is echoed in the filmmaker’s sensitive analysis of the subjects’ expression and voice and the non-vocal expression – the gaze. The intended outcome is dependent on the willingness of the spectator to take part in the intersubjective communication triangle. I conclude with the idea that moderation is the foundational concept of a post-Third Cinema transnational aesthetic in North Africa. Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Selma Baccar, Assia Djebar and Izza Génini are pioneers of women’s filmmaking in North Africa, who opened up a space for underrepresented subjects, voices and gazes.
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Runyan, Aimie Kathleen. "Daughters of the King and Founders of a Nation: Les Filles du Roi in New France." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28470/.
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The late seventeenth century was a crucial era in establishing territorial claims on the North American continent. In order to strengthen France's hold on the Quebec colony, Louis XIV sent 770 women across the Atlantic at royal expense in order to populate New France. Since that time, these women known as the filles du roi, have often been reduced to a footnote in history books, or else mistakenly slandered as women of questionable morals. This work seeks to clearly identify the filles du roi through a study of their socioeconomic status, educational background, and various demographic factors, and compare the living conditions they had in France with those that awaited them in Canada. The aim of this undertaking is to better understand these pioneer women and their reasons for leaving France, as well as to identify the lasting contributions they made to French-Canadian culture and society.
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Henderson, Jennifer. "Conducting selves, race and government in Canadian settler women's narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56234.pdf.
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Warnick, Jill Thorley. "Women Homesteaders in Utah, 1869-1934." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1985. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,31054.
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Fife, Jennifer L. "Pioneer Harmonies: Mormon Women and Music in Utah, 1847-1900." DigitalCommons@USU, 1994. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7480.
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By drawing on local newspapers and the diaries, journals, and autobiographies of nearly fifty pioneers, this thesis examined the varied musical experiences of Utah's Latter-day Saint women during the years 1847-1900, and sought to determine whether they followed national gender trends in music during this era. Women in nineteenth-century Utah participated in a wide variety of musical activities, including using music in their homes, taking lessons, and teaching. Women also composed and wrote song lyrics. Many women performed in community musical events, such as concerts and operas. Despite their accomplishments, women did face conflict over the demands of family responsibility and the desire to pursue public musical careers. In some cases, women retreated from performance or even abandoned their interest.
Nonetheless, music allowed these women to enrich their personal and social lives, express their feelings on a variety of topics, bond together in both religious and political sisterhood, and involve themselves more fully in their communities. In their many musical activities, women in Utah, often regarded as a singular or isolated population because of their affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reflected changing trends for women throughout the United States. This became especially noticed as music became less a social accomplishment and more an expression of serious study through which women redefined their roles and society's acceptable standards for work and public performance.
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Paul, Carly Kay. "The Rhetoric of the Frontier and the Frontier of Rhetoric." Diss., CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE ACCESS, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MormonThesesP-Q,6398.
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Hosbey, Justin. "Inalienable Possessions and Flyin' West: African American Women in the Pioneer West." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3154.
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Nicodemus, Kansas is one of the few remaining settlements founded by African American former slaves in the post-Civil War period of American history. Designated by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site in 1996, Nicodemus has secured its role as a place deemed important to the history of America. For this project, I worked as an intern for the Nicodemus Historical Society, under the direction of Angela Bates. This local heritage preservation agency manages archival and genealogical records important to Nicodemus descendants, and exhibits several of the community's cultural and material artifacts for the public. I was specifically involved in the collection of archival research for this agency and the facilitation of an oral history project. In addition to these duties, I used the ethnographic techniques of participant observation and semi-structured interviewing to explore how Nicodemus descendant identity is constructed, and how this identity maintains its continuity into the present day. Using Annette Weiner's arguments concerning women's roles in identity formation and cultural reproduction in Inalienable Possessions, I worked to discover the ways that women have historically worked to preserve Nicodemus cultural heritage and reproduce Nicodemus descendant identity for future generations.
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MacLeod, Judith A. "Women's Union Missionary Society pioneer in women's outreach to women in Asia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Bornstein, Sara. "Women of the 1898 Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3588.
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Blanshay, Susan. "Jessie Sampter : a pioneer feminist in American zionism." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23708.
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Life for nineteenth century American women was full of restrictions and limitations. Frowned upon or simply not permitted to enter "male" spheres of activity such as professions, business and politics, many middle class women turned to philanthropy and reform work as the sole acceptable outlet for their energy, talents, and time. American Jews of German descent adopted the "Victorian ideal of womanhood" popular in the United States at this time, propelling many German-Jewish women to engage in charitable Zionist activity despite the general lack of support for Zionism in America earlier in this century. Among this group of bourgeois German-Jewish women involved in American Zionism was a poet, Jessie Ethel Sampter, whose contributions to the movement far exceeded those of the norm. Despite her limited Jewish education and upbringing, and extreme physical limitations, Sampter emerged as a pioneer feminist and Zionist, both in America and in her adopted country, Palestine.
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Rollings-Magnusson, Sandra Lynn. "Hitched to the plow, the place of western pioneer women in Innisian staple theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30548.pdf.
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de, Gannes Renee Elise. "Better suited to deal with women and children, pioneer policewomen in Halifax, Nova Scotia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0022/MQ50095.pdf.
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Long, Genevieve Jane. ""Self was Forgotten": Attention to Private Consciousness in the Diaries of Three Mormon Frontier Women." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4837.
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This study discusses diaries by three Mormon women on America's southwestern frontier. These diaries cover a period stretching from 1880-1920. The study explores how these diarists (in a culture that was and remains highly communitarian and which valued, for women, the primary roles of helpmeet and mother), leave the imprint of individual as well as cooperative consciousness in private writings. As authors, diarists display remarkable persistence in maintaining and elaborating on a daily text. Since diaries are a type of private writing engaged in even by women who--because of education, social class, or life circumstances--do little other writing, women's diaries offer significant clues to women's writing strategies and goals. Most study of women's diaries positions these texts as footnotes to history or the literary canon. This study discusses the interplay between persona, tone and style, a diarist's life experience (pioneering, for example) and Mormon expectations for women. Consistently positioning women as helpers in building a millenial kingdom, Mormonism deemphasizes the very act which keeping diaries encourages them to begin: placing the self in a position of (literal) authority. In these diaries, the writers have been able to include or omit what they choose from daily narrative, signaling meaning through shifts in style or tone. As writers, these women function as authorities in their individual and communal lives. Three diaries form the core of this study. The Udall diary is taken from a published version edited by her granddaughter, Maria S. Ellsworth. The Chase diary comes from the University of Utah's archives, from among papers of the diarist's husband, George Ogden Chase. The Willis diary was edited from manuscript and donated for this study by Kim Brown, who supplied photocopies of both her typescript and the original Willis manuscript.
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Fair, Alexandra Kathryn. "“THE PEOPLE WHO NEED US READ BETWEEN THE LINES”: THE FACES OF EUGENIC IDEOLOGY IN THE POST-WWII UNITED STATES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556874590527973.
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Mancino, Nicole. "Woman Writes Herself: Exploring Identity Construction in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Pioneer Girl.”." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1282590942.
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Mejia, Angie Pamela. "Las Pioneras : New Immigrant Destinations and the Gendered Experiences of Latina Immigrants." PDXScholar, 2009. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1910.
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Are experiences with migration affecting culturally specific gendered practices, roles, attitudes, and ideologies of Mexican women and men? Which experiences reinforce patriarchy? Which experiences transform patriarchy? This thesis proposes that Mexican immigrant women will subscribe to and enact different gendered behaviors depending upon their perception of gendered gains. Various factors, such as time of arrival, previous experiences with negative machismos, and workforce participation affect how they construct gendered identities. The context where bargaining occurs-whether itwas the home, the community, or the workplace - inform women of what strategies they need implement in order to negotiate with patriarchy. This study employs two models, Deniz Kandiyoti's concept of the patriarchal bargain and Sylvya Walby' s theoretical position of patriarchy fomenting unique gender inequalities within different contexts, to process the different ways Mexican immigrant women perceive and perform gender.
The author analyzed data collected from participant observation activities, focus groups, and interviews with women of Mexican descent living in new immigrant destinations. Mexican immigrant women's narratives of negotiations and transformations with male partners indicated equal adherence of traditional and nontraditional gendered behaviors in order to build satisfactory patriarchal bargains. In addition, data suggested that identity formation was the outcome of migratory influences; it also indicated that progressive ideas about gender were salient before migrating to the U.S .. Findings also suggested that reassured masculine identities, due to the stable work options open to Mexican immigrant males in this area, became a factor in the emergence and adherence of distinct gendered attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions by women in this study.
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Kaufman, Anne Lee. "Shaping infinity American and Canadian women write a North American west /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/173.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Pinter, Judy H. "Louise Destrehan Harvey: A Pioneer Business Woman in the Nineteenth Century New Orleans, Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2182.
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Howard, Nancy Jill. "Reinterpreting the influence of domestic ideology on women and their families during westward migration." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834147.
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The purpose of this study is to reinterpret the influence of domestic ideology on middle-class Anglo women during westward migration using the Oregon Trail as a case study. By analyzing traditional cultural constructs which portrayed women as "reluctant drudges" or " stoic helpmates," a new paradigm for trail women emerged. The inculcated tenets of domesticity, comprised of a domestic routine and a values system, seemed to have equipped women with domestically-related role identities, and thus facilitated the accommodation of these women to the challenges of trail life. In addition, this ideology served as the basis for establishing relationships with Native American women, for Anglo women recognized similaritiesbetween the domestic routine of Native Americans and themselves. Finally, shared domestic chores and values enabled Anglo women to develop non-competitive, mutually beneficial relationships with each other, in contrast to the often competitive nature of interaction between men.Department of History
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Pazo, Concepción Gandara. "Enfrentando a violência contra a mulher: uma experiência pioneira no interior do Estado do Rio de Janeiro." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5623.
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Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de JaneiroA pesquisa analisou a estratégia adotada por uma Organização Não Governamental feminista do interior do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, o Ser Mulher, no enfrentamento da violência contra a mulher. A estratégia compreende a implantação de um Serviço telefônico anônimo, denominado Disque-Mulher e a composição da Rede Multisetorial de Atendimento às Mulheres Vítimas de Violência (REMUV). A experiência do Serviço é descrita a partir das diferentes metodologias de atendimento e registro dos relatos telefônicos. A análise buscou identificar, no banco de dados resultante dos registros telefônicos, a percepção e a atribuição de significados das usuárias do Disque-Mulher em relação as suas vivências de violência conjugal à luz da literatura feminista brasileira contemporânea. Esta dissertação alinhou-se a um grupo de pesquisadoras que focaram a atenção em descrever e refletir sobre as representações femininas acerca da violência retratadas através da divisão das estudiosas que representam a mulher como vítima ou cúmplice da violência e as que salientam a não universalidade da experiência feminina diante das agressões, valorizando aspectos singulares das mulheres agredidas. Foram utilizadas três fontes de dados: os 1274 registros telefônicos que compõem um banco de dados denominado geral, delineando o perfil sócioeconômico cultural das usuárias e os 413 registros do banco de dados específico, que faz parte do geral e foi montado após as mudanças na forma de realizar o registro e que contém informações de caráter qualitativo, permitindo problematizar os impasses das usuárias frente ao desejo expresso de separarem-se de relações conjugais violentas. Além disso, foram ealizadas entrevistas e supervisões gravadas e transcritas, com as plantonistas do Disque-Mulher visando apreender suas percepções sobre os limites e possibilidades de utilização do atendimento telefônico anônimo como estratégia de enfrentamento da violência contra a mulher. Além de salientar para a necessidade de uma constante articulação entre ONGs e poder público, a pesquisa aponta também para a importância de confluir esforços em busca de categorização e sistematização das informações obtidas em serviços semelhantes ao Disque-Mulher, cujo objeto de trabalho é a escuta de fenômenos complexos e multifacetados como a violência e o acesso a direitos. Além de categorizar o motivo principal dos telefonemas há um questionamento em que medida os impasses das usuárias frente ao desejo de separarem-se estariam relacionados a tensões entre a subjetivação feminina e as mudanças sociais, que permitiram às mulheres ampliar sua autonomia.
The research analyzed the strategy adopted for a feminist Not Governmental Organization of the interior of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Being Woman, in the confrontation of the violence against women. The strategy understands the implantation of an anonymous telephonic Service, called Dial-Woman and the composition of the Net Multisetorial of Attendance to the Women Victims of Violence (REMUV). The experience of the Service is described from the different methodologies of attendance and register of the telephonic stories. The analysis searched to identify, in the resultant data base of the telephonic registers, the perception and the attribution of meanings of the users of Dial-Woman in relation hers experiences of conjugal violence to the light of Brazilian feminist contemporary literature. This research lined up with a group of researchers that approach the attention in describing and reflecting on the feminine representations concerning the violence, portraied through the division of the scholars that represents the women as victim or abetter of the violence and the ones that ahead point out not the universality of the feminine experience of the aggressions, valuing singular aspects of the attacked women. Three sources of data had been used: the 1274 telephonic registers that compose data base called general, delineating the socialeconomic-cultural profile of the users and the 413 registers of data base called specific, that it is part of the general and was mounted after the changes in the form to carry through the register and that contains information of qualitative character, allowing to problematize the hesitates of the users front to the express desire to be broken up of violent conjugal relations. Moreover, recorded and transcribing interviews and supervisions had been carried through with the attendants of Dial-Woman aiming to apprehend its perceptions on the limits and possibilities of use of the anonymous telephonic attendance as strategy of confrontation the violence against women. Beyond pointing out for the necessity of a constant joint between ONGs and public power, the research also points with respect to the importance to gather efforts in categorization and systematization of the information gotten in similar services to Dial-Woman, whose object of work is the listening of complex and multifaceted phenomena as the violence and the access the rights. Beyond categorizing the main reason of the phone calls, it has a questioning where measured the hesitates of the users front to the desire to be broken up would be related with the tensions between the feminine subjectivation and the social changes, that had allowed women to extend its autonomy.
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Costa, Valesca Brasil. "A presença feminina na Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas - RS." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2009. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1719.
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Previous issue date: 2009-06-30This work named The feminine presence in Pelotas-RS Law School , developed in the Education Faculty of Pelotas, research group History of Education, it is a study that is intimately connected to my life, for I am graduated in Law and in the juridical environment I captured a praxis that even silently drew differences between men and women in a place of a profession known as typically masculine. In the first part of the research we did the bibliographic review. The second part took place in the Law School of Pelotas, specifically the Academic Center Ferreira Viana, the School Library and the Public Library of Pelotas where we did some work with archives, journals, books, cassette tapes. During the research we realized that was no objections to feminine presence in the faculty as it is written in the Article 49 from the Law School statute of 1929. So I decided to start the master‟s dissertation research by that information and found out that the first woman student in Pelotas Law School was Cilulia de Freitas, who has entered the faculty in 1921, daughter of a Law Judge, intended to follow her father‟s professional steps but coursed until the fourth year when she decided to quit Law School to marry a class mate. Although it is only in the year 1936 that we have the first women graduated in Pelotas Law School: Heloisa Assumpção, Sophia Galanternick e Maria Adali. Women that besides being pioneers in the juridical area also stud out in their career. Rosah Russomano also stands out for her discourse as spokeswoman of the class of 1947, being one of the three women in a class with 9 men and pointing out in her speech the situation of women in that society. We must also remember Gilda Corrêa Meyer Russomano, graduated in 1951, which were awarded as student and became teacher of International Public Law in the Law School of Pelotas. This research also proposes to rescue other feminine figures that stud out in Pelotas Law School and inside the juridical area. In this way, when we aim our study to the first women students that coursed Law School in Pelotas we are not only recovering the historical past of Law School in that city, but also we are thinking about social relationships that limited the presence of women in decisive society roles. When writing about the women in the city of Pelotas who made an option on the juridical world, we may also say that those women were an example and a demonstration that education is a valuable instrument for women to be part of society as a important subject, directly participating on the decisions and social construction.
Este trabalho intitulado A presença feminina na Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas- RS , desenvolvida na Faculdade de Educação de Pelotas no núcleo de História da educação trata de um estudo que está intimamente relacionado com minha trajetória de vida, uma vez que sou graduada em Direito e captei no ambiente jurídico prática que mesmo silenciosa desenhava diferenças em entre homens e mulheres que circulavam nesse espaço considerado inicialmente como profissão tida como tipicamente masculina.Cabe considerar que na realização da primeira fase da pesquisa, se trabalhou na revisão bibliográfica. Já a segunda fase da pesquisa, realizada posterior, teve como local a Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas, mais especificamente o Centro Acadêmico Ferreira Viana e biblioteca da mesma faculdade, e ainda a Biblioteca Pública Pelotense onde então se trabalhou com arquivos, jornais, livros, degravação de fitas cassete. Durante a pesquisa constatamos que não havia objeções a presença de alunas na faculdade, de forma que como consta no Artigo49 que a Faculdade, conforme o Estatuto da Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas, datado de1929. Assim, optei por iniciar a pesquisa da dissertação do Mestrado por essa informação, de maneira que constatei que a primeira aluna a ingressar na Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas foi Cilulia de Freitas que ingressou no ano de 1921, filha de Juiz de Direito, buscava seguir os mesmo passos profissionais do pai, no entanto cursou Direito até o quarto ano quando então optou por abandonar os estudos e casar com o colega de aula. Entretanto será no ano de 1936 que teremos as primeiras alunas graduadas na Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas, sendo elas Heloisa Assumpção, Sophia Galanternick, e Maria Adail, mulheres que além de pioneiras dentro do espaço jurídico receberam destaque pela função por elas desempenhada. Rosah Russomano seria também uma das mulheres que se destacaram, com o discurso feito pela então Oradora da turma de Bacharéis em Direito da turma de 1947 constatei mais uma vez o pioneirismo das discentes desta casa, visto ser uma das três mulheres em uma turma com 9 homens e tendo dedicado parte de seu papel de oradora para destacar a situação da mulher na sociedade daquela época.Ainda devemos destacar Gilda Corrêa Meyer Russomano, graduada na turma de 1951, que ainda quando acadêmica se forma como Aluna Laureada. No ano de 1962 se torna professora catedrática de Direito Internacional Público da Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas. Assim percebemos que esta pesquisa se propõe também a resgatar outras figuras femininas que se destacaram na Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas e dentro do espaço jurídico. Dessa maneira, ao dedicarmos nosso estudo as primeiras alunas a concluírem o curso de Direito em Pelotas, não estamos somente resgatando o passado histórico da Faculdade de Direito de Pelotas, mas também fazendo uma leitura das relações sociais que ocorreram na sociedade, que limitavam a presença das mulheres em papéis decisivos da mesma. Assim, escreveram a história das mulheres da cidade de Pelotas, mais especificamente das mulheres da cidade de Pelotas que optaram pelo mundo jurídico como seu espaço de trabalho e de realizações, elas também foram nossas fontes de pesquisa foram também um exemplo e um atestado de que a educação é um valioso instrumento como forma de inserção da mulher na sociedade, participando diretamente nas decisões e na construção social.
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Dampier, Helen. "Settler women's experiences of fear, illness and isolation, with particular reference to the Eastern Cape Frontier, 1820-1890." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002389.
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This thesis is an exploration of diaries and letters written by middle-class English-speaking settler women living on the Eastern Cape frontier between 1820 and 1890. By according primacy to these women’s experiences and perceptions, it aims for a greater understanding of women’s encounters with the frontier, and how these were articulated in their personal writing. An emphasis on the recurrent themes of ill-health, fearfulness and solitude undermines the popular myth of the brave, conquering, invincible pioneers which dominates settler historiography to date. The tensions felt by white women living on the frontier disrupted their identities as middle-class Victorian ‘ladies’, and as a result these women either constantly re-established a sense of self, or absorbed some aspects of the Eastern Cape, and thus redefined themselves. Settler women’s experiences of the frontier changed little during the seventy year period spanned by this study, indicating that frontier life led to a rigidification and reinforcement of old, familiar values and behaviours. Rather than adapting to and embracing their new surroundings, settler women sought to duplicate accepted, conventional Victorian ideals and customs. White Victorian women identified themselves as refined, civilized, moral and respectable, and perceived Africa and Africans as untamed, immoral, uncivilized and threatening. To keep these menacing, destabilizing forces at bay, settler women attempted to recreate ‘home’ in the Eastern Cape; to domesticate the frontier by rendering it as familiar and predictable as possible. The fear, illness and solitariness that characterise settler women’s personal writings manifest their attempts to eliminate alienating difference, and record their refusal to truly engage with the frontier landscape and its inhabitants.
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Scharffs, Deirdre Mason. "Refiguring the Wild West: Minerva Teichert and her Feminine Communities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5847.
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Minerva Teichert (1888-1976) was a twentieth-century American artist, who spent most of her life residing in remote towns in the West, earnestly balancing the demands of family and ranching, and painting scenes of her beloved Western frontier. Her steady and significant production of art is remarkable for any artist, and particularly compelling when one considers her time constraints, inaccessibility of art supplies, distance from other artists and art centers, and lack of public attention. The success of women artists during the first half of the twentieth-century was dependent not only upon their artistic aptitude, but also upon external forces, such as family, friends, and mentors. As an artist during this era, Teichert benefitted especially from the circles of women who surrounded her, offering sympathy, encouragement, assistance, a ready network of support, and who enabled her to pursue her passion, which she succinctly described, “I must paint.” This thesis employs a methodological framework informed by feminist, collective conscience, and social network theories in order to elucidate an artist's vision that transcends feminist viewpoints and western heroic individualism. The reality of female networks in Teichert's life translates not only to the certainty of women within a Western mythology dominated by men but also to a powerful counter-narrative where collaboration and community are essential to the success of settlements in the American West. Here Teichert introduces an altogether different vision and story. In her pioneer paintings, composed during the 1930s and 1940s, one sees a reflection of her own life, and that of her pioneer ancestors, which emphasizes the feminine, the importance of collaboration, and the centrality of community.
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Rowan, Zelda. "Nonnie de la Rey 1856-1923." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10122004-102524/.
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Letcher, Valerie Helen. "Trespassing beyond the borders Harriet Ward as writer and commentator on the Eastern Cape frontier." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002283.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide an introduction to the work of writer and journalist Harriet Ward, resident in the Eastern Cape from 1842 to 1848. She was a prolific correspondent to various periodicals published both in South Africa and in London. It would be true to say, to judge from the evidence, that she fulfilled a need felt by the British public for information on life and events in South Africa, and that she became the trusted guide of the middle-class reader. Her range covers reports from the frontiers of war, journalistic articles, memoirs, short stories, novels, autobiography, and editions of other writers' work. After the publication of her articles on the Seventh Frontier War (1846-7), she was recognised and respected as a commentator on the situation at the Eastern Cape, an unusual role for a woman at this time. She was also amongst the foremost victorian women writers published from the early eighteen forties until the end of the eighteen-fifties. Harriet Ward has left a vivid historical and sociological account of the Cape frontier, and her observations and judgements provide a hitherto virtually unknown perspective on an important part of South African history and letters. What makes her even more interesting, as this study seeks to show, is that she was far from conventional in her response to her new environment, both as as a woman and as a representative of a colonialist power. The record she has left of her thoughts on the people, landscape and situations of the time has the capacity to surprise the post-colonial literary critic and historian. Her struggle to find a discursive mode in which to express her consciousness of the oppression, patriarchal and colonial, of the marginalised, whether woman, indigene, Afrikaner, or creole, reveals a significantly transgressive or subversive response to the issues of the day. In re-discovering Harriet Ward, we are forced to reassess our assumptions regarding the period of colonial history to which she was a witness.
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Billings, Amy Reynolds. "Faith, Femininity, and the Frontier: the Life of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4532.
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Through examining the life of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, a nineteenth-century Mormon woman, this thesis establishes an analytical framework for studying the lives of Mormon women in territorial Utah. Their faith, femininity, and the frontier form the boundaries in which their lives are studied. Their faith was primarily defined by the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such as a belief in a restored gospel and priesthood, temples, and polygamy. These unique beliefs also fostered an identity as a chosen people and contributed to hostile feelings from their neighbors. Persecution followed and the Latter-day Saint community responded by isolating themselves geographically and ideologically from their perceived enemies. This isolation, in turn, elevated the importance of LDS doctrine and culture in Mormon women's lives.Mormon women also brought to Utah territory Northeastern notions of domesticity promulgated through women's magazines of the time. In Utah, local newspapers also forwarded the ideals of purity, piety, submissiveness, and virtue. Mormon women claimed to implement these values in their lives, but Protestant women found their acceptance of polygamy an insult to womanhood.Finally, Mormon women lived on the western frontier, isolated from markets in a desert. Such circumstances inevitably affected their lives. They had to sacrifice convenience, economic stability, and physical comforts while establishing a reliable food supply, irrigation systems, schools, and homes. Domestic production of food stuffs and goods became essential to a family's survival.This picture of Mormon women, though generally accurate, is not enough to examine the many unique facets of their lives. The triad of faith, femininity, the frontier sets the boundaries for the study, but does not account for the differences between each woman's unique personality and circumstances. I have chosen Martha Jane Knowlton Coray to test the boundaries established in this framework. As a believer, Martha was concerned with building the Kingdom of God. She followed Brigham Young's 1870s directives and her own ambitions to sell medicinal products throughout Utah Territory. Doctrine regarding eternal families and her domestic ideals no doubt contributed to her choice to have twelve children. But Martha and Howard failed at their attempt to practice polygamy, and poverty prevented Martha from doing as much for her children as she would have liked. Martha's life illustrates that although the greatest influences in Mormon women's lives can be identified, the individual paths followed were forged by choice, personality, and determination.
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"Women pioneers in southeast Florida / by Sandra Lea Layman." 1986. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/fa00000034.pdf.
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Malone, Cheryl Knott. "Quiet Pioneers: Black Women Public Librarians in the Segregated South." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106317.
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Lefko, Stefana L. "Female pioneers and social mothers novels by female authors in the Weimar Republic and the construction of the new woman /." 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=IedbAAAAMAAJ.
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Beck, Scott A. L. ""We were the first ones" oral histories of Mexican heritage women pioneers in the schools of rural southeast Georgia, 1978-2002 /." 2003. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/beck%5Fscott%5Fa%5F200308%5Fphd.
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Peacock, Patricia. "Seven women, seven pioneers : the stories of seven women and their influential roles in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches in the province of Quebec at the end of the twentieth century." Thesis, 2002. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/1902/1/NQ74834.pdf.
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This work is the study of the lives and works of seven women, considered pioneers in their fields, in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches in the Province of Quebec in the latter third of the twentieth century. Four of the subjects are francophone; three are anglophone. Three of the francophone women are feminist theologians, two of whom are nuns. The fourth has recently left the Roman Catholic Church to join the Anglican Church. The three anglophone, women are Anglican priests, among the first to be ordained in Canada. The seven women are studied from the point of view of being pioneers, within the question of the ordination of women and the role of women in the church in Quebec. This thesis will examine how their experiences have paved the way for others to follow.
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Johns, Leanne. "Women in colonial commerce 1817-1820 : the window of understanding provided by the Bank of New South Wales ledger and minute books." Master's thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146545.
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Schedlich-Day, Shannon. "Pioneer women and social memory: shifting energies, changing tensions." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34342.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis examines how the ideal of the Australian pioneer woman has been so broadly circulated in Australian national social memory. Through the study of the dissemination of the social memory in a range of diverse sources, I will scrutinise the tensions that have existed around this ideal; how these tensions have been reconciled into a dominant narrative; and how they have shifted through the time of the inception of the legend to the present day. In its approach to the creation of social memory, to understand the changing influences of this particular memory in the Australian psyche, this thesis draws upon a number of types of sources for history that have tended to be overlooked – such as headstones, popular and family histories, and museum exhibitions. Significantly, the thesis will examine the role that such non-traditional accounts of the past have played in the transmission of social memory. Most people do not gain their knowledge of the past through intensive and exhaustive research; instead, they appropriate, as their own, the messages and meanings that they are fed through a variety of modes. The relationship between sources and social memory is a symbiotic one, where the sources are informed by social memory, and then in turn shape and elaborate social memory. In so many cases, the very creation of sources happens within the parameters of the national social memory. These sources are then drawn upon by subsequent generations to form their own social memory of pioneer women. This thesis will demonstrate that social memory is not rigid, but instead is subjected to shifting energies and changing tensions; and explain, through a discussion of a diverse range of sources through which it is disseminated, how memory remains fluid so that it is able to respond to the needs of the community that it serves. Australia’s pioneer woman remains an important aspect of the national identity – her creation and, thus, significance situated firmly in the present.
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Schedlich-Day, Shannon. "Pioneer women and social memory: shifting energies, changing tensions." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34342.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis examines how the ideal of the Australian pioneer woman has been so broadly circulated in Australian national social memory. Through the study of the dissemination of the social memory in a range of diverse sources, I will scrutinise the tensions that have existed around this ideal; how these tensions have been reconciled into a dominant narrative; and how they have shifted through the time of the inception of the legend to the present day. In its approach to the creation of social memory, to understand the changing influences of this particular memory in the Australian psyche, this thesis draws upon a number of types of sources for history that have tended to be overlooked – such as headstones, popular and family histories, and museum exhibitions. Significantly, the thesis will examine the role that such non-traditional accounts of the past have played in the transmission of social memory. Most people do not gain their knowledge of the past through intensive and exhaustive research; instead, they appropriate, as their own, the messages and meanings that they are fed through a variety of modes. The relationship between sources and social memory is a symbiotic one, where the sources are informed by social memory, and then in turn shape and elaborate social memory. In so many cases, the very creation of sources happens within the parameters of the national social memory. These sources are then drawn upon by subsequent generations to form their own social memory of pioneer women. This thesis will demonstrate that social memory is not rigid, but instead is subjected to shifting energies and changing tensions; and explain, through a discussion of a diverse range of sources through which it is disseminated, how memory remains fluid so that it is able to respond to the needs of the community that it serves. Australia’s pioneer woman remains an important aspect of the national identity – her creation and, thus, significance situated firmly in the present.
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Ai-Tzu, Li, and 李藹慈. "A comparison of psychological and background factors of career choice in pioneer and traditional women." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22804790843542280803.
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Chen, Chen Shu, and 陳淑貞. "Emily Davies（1830-1921）：The Pioneer of the Higher Education of Women in Nineteenth Century England." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40924062293148659513.
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