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Strengthening the Foundations of Emotional Health in Early Childhood: A Handbook for Practitioners
Susan E. Partridge Ph.D.; Deborah Devine Psy.D.; John Hornstein Ed.D.; and Jayne D. B. Marsh MSN, MPA
Second Edition
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Bright Journeys
Robert Russell
Music CD: University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers
Robert Russell, professor and director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine, has developed a reputation for choral excellence throughout New England for his work with the University choral program, his leadership as a music director of The Choral Art Society, and his guest conducting of festival choruses.
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Conceptualizing Diversity in Sexuality Research
Michael R. Stevenson PhD
Chapter in Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality, edited by Michael W. Wiederman and Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.
More about this book:
Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual, methodological, or ethical issues for which their professional training or prior experience may not have prepared them. The goal of this handbook is to provide that guidance to students and professionals interested in the empirical study of human sexuality from behavioral and social scientific perspectives. It provides practical and concrete advice about conducting human sexuality research and addresses issues inherent to both general social scientific and specific human sexuality research.
This comprehensive resource offers a unique multidisciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. The methodological techniques and advances that are familiar to researchers trained in one discipline are often unfamiliar to researchers from other disciplines. This book is intended to help enrich the communication between the various disciplines involved in human sexuality research. Each of the 21 self-standing chapters provides an expert overview of a particular area of research methodology from a variety of academic disciplines. It addresses those issues unique to human sexuality research, such as:
* how to measure sexuality variables;
* how to design studies, recruit participants, and collect data;
* how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and
* how to perform and interpret statistical analyses.
This book is intended as a reference tool for researchers and students interested in human sexuality from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, family science, health communication, nursing, medicine, and anthropology. -
Developing Your School Counseling Program: A Handbook for Systemic Planning
Zark VanZandt
This practical handbook, designed to complement a theoretical text, is perfect for students who will be entering the workforce as school counselors as well as for seasoned school counselors who are ready to implement change in their programs. The book emphasizes developing, organizing, and administering school counseling programs. It not only explains to readers how to develop a school counseling program, but it also goes the extra step in teaching the skills needed and the process of developing a program. After completing this handbook, readers will be prepared to organize or reorganize their school guidance program on a developmental, comprehensive basis.
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"David Bowie"; "Truman Capote"; "Lou Reed"
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Entries in Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History.
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
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Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity
Lisa Walker PhD
Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.
Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.
Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory.
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Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology
Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD
The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.
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Strange and Exotic: Images of the Other on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference.
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Agency in Archaeology
Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD and John E. Robb
Ed. Marcia-Anne Dobres, PhD. and John E. Robb.
Agency in Archaeology
is the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group.
Agency in Archaeology
brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.
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Health and Exercise Science: Team Research Report
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Using Student Teams in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide; ed. Ruth Federman Stein & Sandra Hurd.
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Considerations for the development of back extensor muscle strength
James Graves PhD and J M. Mayer
Chapter in Exercise Prescription and the Back.
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![Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1281/thumbnail.jpg "Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Globalizing feminist bioethics : crosscultural perspectives, edited by Rosemarie Tong, with Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos.
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Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting, fatal daughter syndrome, use of reproductive technologies, male responsibility, pediatrics, breast cancer, pregnancy, and drug testing.Jean-Paul Sartre analyzed oppression within the larger socioeconomic system that constitutes it, seeing it primarily in terms of scarcity. It is the perception of scarcity in reproduction that fuels, in part, the race to clone humans. For Sartre, scarcity is the basis of alienation in modern societies marked by competition over limited resources, and it characterizes all human relationships. In the case of cloning, overabundance is created by an attempt to address scarcity, since at present cloning is a highly inefficient mode of reproduction. Whether cloning will advance or impede women's liberation is a complex matter that is not discernable in the short term. Cloning, when viewed from an international perspective, raises issues of social justice. International consensus, when possible, on bioethics issues related to cloning and embryo research is increasingly important, as are global assessments of the distribution of medical resources.
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"Civic Character" Engaged: Adult Learners and Service Learning
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD and Jan L. Hitchcock
Chapter in The Practice of Change.
This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women’s studies sources.
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Frederic Hudson
Adam-Max Tuchinsky PhD
Entry in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Dr. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; David J. Coles, Associate Editor.
About the book:
The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War is the most comprehensive reference set ever compiled on this pivotal confrontation. Its five oversized volumes, rich with illustrations, maps, and primary source documents, offer more than 1,600 authoritative entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict.
Written by scholars, the essays are both authoritative and easily accessible to history buffs, students, and general readers. Brief entry bibliographies lead curious readers to the most reliable sources for further information. -
The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Edited by Shelton Waldrep
The 1970s rather than the 60s is the defining decade of millennial anxieties, according to Waldrep (English, U. of Southern Maine). Fourteen essays by academics, journalists, and KC of KC & the Sunshine Band re/define the 70s through commentary on its New Journalism, movements (from the Black Panthers to Jonestown), pop culture genres, fashion as "compulsive artifice," the gay 70s, and the era's music. Includes b&w illustrations of 1970s fashions (some being recycled today), gender-bending stars David Bowie and Sandra Bernhard, and films such as Wayne's World . Indexed solely by proper name. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.
Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-consciousness about its own appropriations of the past. This diverse collection of essays begins a long-overdue discussion of how postmodernism understands the Victorian as its historical predecessor.
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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
Matthew Edney
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities.
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Lives of Medieval Urban Lay Women
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.
Tierney's highly acclaimed Women's Studies Encyclopedia has become the standard in the field, but research on women has proceeded rapidly since its publication. Feminist thought has grown and branched out, and women's conditions have changed markedly in some areas. This revised and expanded edition will meet the continuing need for a multidisciplinary reference tool on all facets of the female condition. With close to 400 contributors, it expands coverage of such areas as violence against women, women in public life, and women in specific countries and regions. Many of the articles are new or completely rewritten, while others have been updated or expanded. The encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study, written in non-specialist language accessible to all readers. It will continue to be a useful resource for students and scholars doing research outside their fields, and the interested layperson.
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Writing Faith: Text. Sign. and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
A trickster saint whose miracles reportedly included the healing of an inguinal hernia via a hammer and anvil, Sainte Foy inspired one of the most important collections of miracle stories of the central middle ages. Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn explore the act of "writing faith" as performed both by the authors of these stories and by the scholars who have used them as sources for the study of medieval religion and society. As Ashley and Sheingorn show, differing agendas shaped the miracle stories over time. The first author, Bernard of Angers, used his narratives to critique popular religion and to establish his own literary reputation, while the monks who continued the collection tried to enhance their monastery's prestige. Because these stories were rhetorical constructions, Ashley and Sheingorn argue, we cannot use them directly as sources of historical data. Instead, they demonstrate how analyzing representations common to groups of miracle stories—such as negative portrayals of Muslims on the eve of the Crusades—can reveal the traces of history.
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Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics
F C. McGrath PhD
Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature. This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish writers like Friel who, following in a line from Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey, challenge British culture with antirealistic, antimirnetic devices to create alternative worlds, histories, and new identities to escape stereotypes imposed by the colonizers. Friel grew up in Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and now lives in the Irish Republic. McGrath maintains that all Friel's work is marked by colonial and postcolonial structures. Like his predecessor Wilde, Friel mixes lies, facts, memories, and individual perception to create new myths and elevates blarney to a realm of aesthetic and philosophical distinction. An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression.
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Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Julien Murphy PhD
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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Feminist interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
Ed. Julien S. Murphy
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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The syntax of American Sign Language : functional categories and hierarchical structure
Carol Neidle, Judy Kegl PhD, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan, and Robert G. Lee
Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken languages. This book addresses the organization and distribution of functional categories in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on tense, agreement, and wh-constructions. Signed languages provide illuminating evidence about functional projections of a kind unavailable in the study of spoken languages. Along with manual signing, crucial information is expressed by specific movements of the face and upper body. The authors argue that such nonmanual markings are often direct expressions of abstract syntactic features. The distribution and intensity of these markings provide information about the location of functional heads and the boundaries of functional projections. The authors show how evidence from ASL is useful for evaluating a number of recent theoretical proposals on, among other things, the status of syntactic agreement projections and constraints on phrase structure and the directionality of movement.
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The Life Story Interview
Robert Atkinson
First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. This volume provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Robert Atkinson places the life story interview into a wider research context before elaborating on planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview. The author provides a sample life story interview in the appendix.
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Courtesy Literature
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia.
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
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Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866-1954)
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline.
E.K. Chambers, historian of the medieval and Elizabethan stages, was born at West Ilsley, Berkshire, on 16 March 1866. His father, William Chambers, was curate of West Ilsley and later rector of St. Mary Blanford. His mother was Anna Heathcote; her father, Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, was a churchman and editor of schoolbooks.
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Mary Antin’s Biomythography
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography.
The twenty-nine essays in this collection explore the theory and practice of writing lives of the self and of others from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Drawing on new insights from literary theory including feminism, poststructuralism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis, scholars and biographers examine a wide range of examples.
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Sponsorship, Reflexivity, and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Performance of Middle English Culture.
Theatricality as a cultural process is vitally important in the middle ages; it encompasses not only the thematic importation of dramatic images into the Canterbury Tales, but also the social and ideological `performativities' of the mystery and morality plays, metadramatic investments, and the ludic energies of Chaucerian discourses in general. The twelve essays collected here address for the first time this intersection, using contemporary theory and historical scholarship to treat a number of important critical problems, including the anthropology of theatrical performance; gender; allegory; Chaucerian metapoetics; intertextual play and jouissance; social mediation and rhetoric; genre; and the institutionality of medieval studies. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida; LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER is Professor of English at Indiana University; SYLVIA TOMASCHis Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. Contributors: KATHLEEN ASHLEY, MARLENE CLARK, RICHARD DANIELS, ALFRED DAVID, RICHARD K. EMMERSON, JOHN GANIM, WARREN GINSBERG, ROBERT W. HANNING, SHARON KRAUS, SETH LERER, WILLIAM MCLELLAN, PAMELA SHEINGORN, PETER W. TRAVIS
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Macrophyte Structure and Growth of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): Design of a Multilake Experiment
Stephen R. Carpenter, Mark H. Olson, Paul Cunningham, Sarig Gafny, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Tom Pellett, Christine Storlie, Anett S. Trebitz, and Karen A. Wilson PhD
Book chapter from "The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes", eds. Erik Jepsen, Martin Søndergaard, Morten Søndergaard, and Kirsten Christoffersen.
About this chapter:
Experimental manipulations of whole ecosystems can be a powerful test of ecological understanding. In particular, ecosystem-scale manipulations can evaluate basic ecological ideas in ways that complement comparative studies, models, and smaller-scale experiments (Carpenter et al., 1995a). From an applied perspective, ecosystem experiments can also give unique insights into what works at a scale directly relevant to managers (Kitchell, 1992). When management actions are coupled with scientific studies of the response of the ecosystem, learning may lead to improved management practices (Gunderson et al., 1995). Here we present early results of an experiment to test the idea that nuisance macrophytes can be managed to enhance fish growth.
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Feminism, Poetry, and the Church: Interview with Denise Levertov
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Conversations with Denise Levertov.
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Families: The heart of transition
C Hanley-Maxwell, S M. Pogoloff, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Beyond high school: Transition from school to work, edited by F.R. Rusch & J.G. Chadsley.
Book description:
This text summarizes knowledge from research that focused on reforming secondary special education and high schools and makes recommendations for improving high schools' effectiveness.
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Anatomy of a Portfolio Assessment System: Using Multiple Sources of Evidence for Credentialing and Professional Development
Walter Kimball PhD and Susie Hanley
Chapter 12 in With Portfolio in Hand. Validating the New Teacher Professionalism, edited by Nona Lyons.
Book description:
This book suggests that portfolios can become a new kind of credential of competent and effective teachers.
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Accessing the Issues: Current Research in Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD, Beth Haller PhD, and Tanis Doe PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the April 1995 annual meeting of the Chronic Disease and Disability Section of the Western Social Sciences Association and the June 1995 annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, both of which were held in Oakland, California.
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Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax
Dana McDaniel PhD, Cecile McKee, and Helen Smith Cairns
This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar.
The study of child language and, in particular, child syntax is a growing area of linguistic research, yet methodological issues often take a back seat to the findings and conclusions of specific studies in the field. This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar. For example, a method (or combination of methods) can be chosen based on what is measured and who the target subject is. In addition to the selection of methods, there are also pointers for designing and conducting experimental studies and for evaluating research.
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax combines the best features of approaches developed in experimental psychology and linguistics that ground the study of language within the study of human cognition. The first three parts focus on specific methods, divided according to the type of data collected: production, comprehension, and judgment. Chapters in the fourth part take up general methodological considerations that arise regardless of which method is used. All of the methods described can be modified to meet the requirements of a specific study.
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![Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1542/thumbnail.jpg "Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, edited by Patrick D. Hopkins.
More about this title:
How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.
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Miscegenation, ‘Melaleukation,’ and Public Reception
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD
Chapter in Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture.
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.
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Wrapped in Song, A Christmas Portrait
Robert Russell
The singers in the USM Chamber Singers represent the most outstanding vocal performers at the University of Southern Maine. Chosen through a careful audition process, the singers rehearse two and a half hours each week. Committed to choral excellence, these students have accepted a responsibility to musical distinction through a focus on warmth of tone, precise intonation, and the artistry of understanding the nuance of text. The Chamber Singers perform a diverse repertory centered on a cappella literature of the Renaissance era and the twentieth century. Robert Russell, professor of music and music director of Portland's Choral Art Society, is the director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine.
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'Their Terrors Came Upon Me Tenfold': Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography
Richard G. Swartz PhD
Chapter in The Lessons of Romanticism.
Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology—in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context—ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies. With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethoven’s music and letters, Lessons of Romanticism reveals the practices that were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking, and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as discussions on newly recovered women’s writings follow fresh discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.
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Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities
Lisa Walker PhD
Chapter in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender.
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Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910 - 1940
Donna M. Cassidy Ph.D.
Focusing on the work of John Marin, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, and Aaron Douglas, the author describes music as a cultural marker for American modernist painters who adopted the themes of the musical city, jazz, and the jazz musician to represent the urban scene. She explains how each artist took advantage to varying degrees of avant-garde music, fledgling audio technologies, and an emerging popular culture - moving easily between concert hall and nightclub - to experience and interpret urban dissonance and jazz improvisation. Painting the Musical City explores the complicated relationship between African American culture and modernism, showing how white painters such as Dove and Davis evoked the dynamism of African American music but "painted out" its black practitioners. Aaron Douglas, in contrast, represented jazz and the jazz musician as the embodiment of both racial and national identity in his painting Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, which juxtaposes the figure of a black saxophonist with the Statue of Liberty. By considering painters and composers together, by examining canonical modernists in relation to African American artists, and by showing how their images have resonated during the latter half of the century, Cassidy provides an enhanced reading of modernism, introducing themes of racial identity into the discussion of a distinctively American art.
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Reading Early Modem Books of Female Instruction and Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Attending to Early Modern Women.
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Evaluating the Results of Multicultural Education: Taking the Long Way Home
Jeffrey Beaudry PhD and James Earl Davis
Chapter 15 in Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education: A Broader Truth, edited by Ann Intili Morey & Margie K. Kitano.
Book description:
According to a survey conducted in the early 1990s, over one-half of the 196 colleges and universities surveyed were already introducing multiculturalism into departmental course offerings. This thoroughly documented book was written to help instructors integrate multicultural content, processes, and strategies into their courses in order to meet the needs of a changing student population, and to better prepare students for effective functioning in a diverse society. The authors point out that the information in the book is relevant for homogeneous as well as highly diverse campuses because a transformed course provides a more comprehensive view of the discipline and better prepares all students for world citizenship. The two-dimensional model presented here identifies three levels of change (exclusive, inclusive, transformed) and four course components in which change can be applied: content, instructional strategies, assessment of student knowledge, and classroom dynamics.
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Using person centered planning to address personal quality of life
John Butterworth, D E. Steere, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Quality of life: its application to persons with disabilities, edited by R.L. Schalock.
Book description:
This volume summarizes current policies and programmatic practices that are influencing the quality of life of persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
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Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D.
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
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Experimental Syntax: Applying Objective Methods to Sentence Judgments
Wayne Cowart PhD
This original work provides a concise introduction to methods that linguists may use to describe patterns of sentence "acceptability" in speech communities. Experimental Syntax will enable an investigator with a well-formed question about a matter of fact-- relative to sentence acceptability--to design, execute, and analyze an appropriate survey experiment. The book examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether individual informants do or do not use a particular "dialect." Furthermore, this well-formulated book shows how to determine whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect. Experimental Syntax is recommended to researchers and professionals in linguistics who are interested in learning more about the methods available for dialect and sentence structure studies.
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Black No More: George Schuyler and the Politics of ‘Racial Culture'
Jane Kuenz PhD
Chapter in The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined: A Revised and Expanded Edition.
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Theory, Practice, and the Millennium
Kathleen I. MacPherson
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1996-1998: Theory, Practice, and the Millenium
The Russell Scholar Symposium: Theory and Practice in Academia
