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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)
the expansion of secondary education to new conceptions of adolescence. In response, adults reacted by alternately idealizing and demonizing girls, whom they often viewed as emblems that signified the best and worst of American culture. Despite these adult...
From Revolution To Ruin: A Preliminary Look at Rwanda’s First Two Presidents, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, and Their Administrations
(2015)
This paper brings together primary and secondary materials from a vast number of sources
related to the first two presidents of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal
Habyarimana, in a preliminary look at the men and ...
The Work of Contemplation Then and Now: The Cloud of Unknowing and Present-Day Christian Mystical Practice
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous fourteenth-century Middle English
mystical text that discusses what its author calls the “work” of contemplation. In the late
twentieth century, the Cloud became an important resource ...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
This dissertation probes medieval sources to identify how and why women made transformative
choices in their own lives and analyzes the consequences of those choices. The major case study
investigates the life of Marie ...