In Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie (1999), Audrey Andrews recounts the life and trial of Dorothy Joudrie, a so-called wealthy socialite who was arrested in Calgary in 1995 for attempting to murder her estranged husband after decades of domestic abuse. Andrews tells Joudrie’s story in the form of a semi-auto/biographical text that quotes other scholarly and creative literary works in an intertextual dialogue about violence against women, post-World War II gender socialization, and the “battered women syndrome” defence. This thesis takes this highly referential dialogue as its starting point, and then extends Andrews’ cultural work by tracing a genealogy of colonialism in Canadian domestic violence laws with the help of selected intertexts – including Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: Journey of a Cree Woman (1998), the trial of Angelique Lavallee, and Lorena Bobbitt’s infamous case. First, I source the epigraphs that Andrews strategically places at the start of each chapter and discern the layer of meaning that these external texts bring to Joudrie’s story in order to raise questions about how Andrews rearticulates the work of others and the politics of such a rearticulation. Second, I similarly frame Joudrie’s 1995 trial as a referential and intertextual discourse based in precedent established by the Supreme Court in 1990 when it ruled that expert testimony on the “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in the R. v. Lavallee case (Shaffer 1). This allows me to consider a consequence of the ruling often overlooked in feminist literature: due to the fact that the original defendant, Angelique Lavallee, was a Métis woman whose identity was erased in the courtroom and in case law, subsequent trials employing the “battered woman syndrome” defence repeat settler relations entrenched in colonial violence. Third, I expose how representations can fail by thinking through what Stephen Couser calls the auto/bio/ethics of life writing, which reveals the limits of Canadian laws and literatures. Ultimately, this discussion generates questions about who is considered human under the law and how life writing might re-imagine the “reasonable” human in more just and compassionate ways. / Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2012-07-28 10:28:24.988

Göranzon, Ingrid: From concept to reality - Uppsala Municipal School of Music. Master thesis, 30 credits. Uppsala: Department of Musicology. 2013. This thesis aims to explain how and why the municipal school of music (kommunala musikskolan) in Uppsala was formed. Municipal schools of music are a Swedish phenomenon that was formed all over Sweden after the Second World War. Each school is individual since they are entirely controlled at a municipal level. Although several factors have been identified as reasons for the creation of municipal schools of music, research in the area is limited. The material forming the basis of the survey is municipal documents from Uppsala city archives. The method that has been chosen to analyze the material is critical ideology analysis. This means that the content of the documents is analyzed in relation to its context, to clarify both the manifest and latent ideologies. The study shows that the formation of a municipal school of music in Uppsala was part of a larger movement, both nationally and locally. Sweden went through great changes during the period after the Second World War, politically, socially and culturally. The development of municipal schools of music was influenced mainly by the ideas about education and culture. The guiding idea was that all citizens should have equal access and opportunity. Technological advances such as radio and gramophone had made high culture more accessible, but it also contributed to the spread of what was considered inferior culture. Studies of the time showed that the solution was to give people the knowledge needed to make the right choice. The municipal school of music in Uppsala was created with the aim of forming a culturally educated public. Key words: municipal school of music (kommunal musikskola), Uppsala, public education (folkbildning), cultural politics (kulturpolitik), critical ideology analysis, post World War II / <p>ISBN UU-MSU-SER-60-E</p>

\"A Modernidade em Hans Broos\" é um estudo que parte da obra alemã e brasileira do arquiteto Hans Broos (1921), compreendida entre fins da década de 1940 e os anos 1970. O cenário alemão pós-guerra torna-se contexto chave, onde o arquiteto reúne densa formação teórica e prática, e experiências que conformarão o cerne de seu fazer arquitetônico. À formação ampla e diversificada junta-se o desejo de contextualizar suas propostas no ambiente brasileiro, quando aqui chega no início da década de 1950. Este encontro inicial com a arquitetura da Escola Carioca resultará especialmente fértil, maduro e complexo quando o arquiteto assimila os pressupostos gerais do Brutalismo Paulista, que se mesclam às referências que o mantém atrelado à experiência alemã. O objetivo da tese é demonstrar o quanto sua arquitetura brutalista mantém-se afinada aos pressupostos de sua formação, seja pela via teórica e indireta, seja pelo exemplo direto do trabalho do mestre Egon Eiermann. A partir de referências múltiplas, também sua obra ajudará a compor o cenário multifário do Brutalismo Paulista nos anos 1960 e 1970. / \"Modernity in Hans Broos\" is a study developed from the analysis of the german and brazilian works by architect Hans Broos, between the late 1940s and the 1970s. The postwar german situation is the key context, in which the architect gathers a dense theorical and practical background, and experiences that will form the core of his architectural practice. To this broad and diverse background, he adds the desire of contextualizing his work to the brazilian environment, when arriving here in the early 1950s. This primary encounter with the brazilian architecture of the Carioca School will prove specially fertile, mature and complex when the architect assimilates the main concepts of the Paulista Brutalism, which are bound to the references he attains to his german experience. The focus of the thesis is to show in what dimension his brutalist architecture is aligned to his background\'s concepts, wether by the theoric and indirect way, or by the direct example of the works of master Egon Eiermann. From multiple references, Hans Broos\'s work will also cope with the multifaceted scenario of 1960s and 1970s Paulista Brutalism. Keywords: Hans Broos, Post-World-War-II german architecture, Paulista Brutalism

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Esta pesquisa procura analisar os sentidos da questão negra na obra de Florestan Fernandes. A imbricação entre os problemas raciais e sociais em solo brasileiro, produzida quando, nos anos 1950, ele fez pesquisas para a UNESCO sobre o negro na estrutura social do país, nos levou a investigar a genealogia de sua formação em S. Paulo. As primeiras relações acadêmicas e institucionais do jovem sociólogo foram abordadas visando a análise das principais correntes que o influenciaram. A documentação internacional encontrada, como correspondên-cia pessoal de alguns de seus professores e colegas estudantes, boletins insti-tucionais de algumas universidades e organizações internacionais, artigos e re-latórios acadêmicos, revelou o crescimento, ao longo dos anos 1940, da teia de relações de Florestan com alguns dos principais sociólogos da Escola de Chi-cago. O momento era de pós-guerra e teve importância mundial não só para o desenvolvimento de novas teses sobre o racismo, como para a abertura de es-paço para a ação dos intelectuais, na forma de uma agenda de antirracismo, apoiada nos direitos humanos. Os nexos entre as teses de Florestan a respeito da situação do negro e a constituição de uma rede intelectual vinculada, so-bretudo, aos Estados Unidos são o objeto privilegiado desta pesquisa. Discu-tiremos, portanto, a importância destas teias para o pensamento do sociólogo sobre racismo, pobreza e democracia no Brasil. / This research aims at analyzing some meanings of the race question in Florestan Fernandes oeuvre. The imbrication of race and social problems in Bra-zil, produced when, throughout the 1950s, he carried out research on the Negro in national social structure, led me to investigate his early education in São Paulo. Young sociologist first academic and institutional relations were considered to the extent of investigating the most influent leanings into his education. International documents found, such as private correspondence from some of his main pro-fessors and colleagues, university and international organizations bulletins, and academic papers and reports, revealed Fernandes wide range of relations with some of Chicago Schools most important sociologists of the 1940s. The time felt like reconstruction due to post-Second World War, and it had great importance not only to the development of new theses concerning racism, but also to the widening of space in terms of intellectuals actions, within an antiracism agenda, supported by human rights agencies. Connections between Fernandes theses regarding the Negro situation and the making of an intellectual network, mainly through the United States, are the privileged object of this research. Therefore, it will be analyzed the importance of these relations to his theses on racism, poverty and democracy in Brazil.

After the end of the Second World War, three major economic powers emerged. Japan in Asia, Germany in Europe, and the United States in North America, quickly became the economic engines of their respective regions. Japan, with its "catch-up" and producer centered economy, grew so fast and so large, that there were worries in America that the Japanese would end up winning the economic war. West Germany, supported by the capitalist world, became a miracle economy, and the economic power of the European Union. In the past fifteen years however, these two economies have faltered and stagnated. In Japan, the nineteen nineties are referred to as the "lost decade". In Germany, unemployment continued to grow throughout the decade, and in the former East Germany remained at near catastrophic levels. Much has been written about the reasons for this, referring to the quick and somewhat chaotic reunification of Germany, and the focus of the Japanese on "catching up" to the West. Yet these are not adequate explanations. The problems lie deep in the systemic level of both economies, particularly in the area of labor policies, both in formal written laws and policies prevalent in Germany, and the informal cultural guarantees that are seen in the Japanese systems. The area of the non-liberal capitalist model, particularly the banks and capital investment also contributes to the continued economic stagnation of these two states. Comparing these to the liberal economic policies in the United States, this thesis will show that greater flexibility in both the capitalist and labor models allow [sic] for greater success in the globalized economy.

This thesis explores the Churchill Weavers stereocards housed at the Kentucky Historical Society and Berea College based on visual analysis. By examining the stereocards as advertisements and comparing them to a series of short films created by the company, I will discuss how the Churchill Weavers created a brand that emphasized both an image of traditional American rural production and modern urban consumption. I will further discuss how the marketing strategies used by the Churchill Weavers exemplify a larger trend in American advertising in the years following World War Two.

Esta pesquisa procura analisar os sentidos da questão negra na obra de Florestan Fernandes. A imbricação entre os problemas raciais e sociais em solo brasileiro, produzida quando, nos anos 1950, ele fez pesquisas para a UNESCO sobre o negro na estrutura social do país, nos levou a investigar a genealogia de sua formação em S. Paulo. As primeiras relações acadêmicas e institucionais do jovem sociólogo foram abordadas visando a análise das principais correntes que o influenciaram. A documentação internacional encontrada, como correspondên-cia pessoal de alguns de seus professores e colegas estudantes, boletins insti-tucionais de algumas universidades e organizações internacionais, artigos e re-latórios acadêmicos, revelou o crescimento, ao longo dos anos 1940, da teia de relações de Florestan com alguns dos principais sociólogos da Escola de Chi-cago. O momento era de pós-guerra e teve importância mundial não só para o desenvolvimento de novas teses sobre o racismo, como para a abertura de es-paço para a ação dos intelectuais, na forma de uma agenda de antirracismo, apoiada nos direitos humanos. Os nexos entre as teses de Florestan a respeito da situação do negro e a constituição de uma rede intelectual vinculada, so-bretudo, aos Estados Unidos são o objeto privilegiado desta pesquisa. Discu-tiremos, portanto, a importância destas teias para o pensamento do sociólogo sobre racismo, pobreza e democracia no Brasil. / This research aims at analyzing some meanings of the race question in Florestan Fernandes oeuvre. The imbrication of race and social problems in Bra-zil, produced when, throughout the 1950s, he carried out research on the Negro in national social structure, led me to investigate his early education in São Paulo. Young sociologist first academic and institutional relations were considered to the extent of investigating the most influent leanings into his education. International documents found, such as private correspondence from some of his main pro-fessors and colleagues, university and international organizations bulletins, and academic papers and reports, revealed Fernandes wide range of relations with some of Chicago Schools most important sociologists of the 1940s. The time felt like reconstruction due to post-Second World War, and it had great importance not only to the development of new theses concerning racism, but also to the widening of space in terms of intellectuals actions, within an antiracism agenda, supported by human rights agencies. Connections between Fernandes theses regarding the Negro situation and the making of an intellectual network, mainly through the United States, are the privileged object of this research. Therefore, it will be analyzed the importance of these relations to his theses on racism, poverty and democracy in Brazil.

American military plans for a war with the British Empire, first discussed in 1919, have received varied treatment since their declassification. the most common theme among historians in their appraisals of WAR PLAN RED is that of an oddity. Lack of a detailed study of Anglo-American relations in the immediate post-First World War years makes a right understanding of the difficult relationship between the United States and Britain after the War problematic. As a result of divergent aims and policies, the United States and Great Britain did not find the diplomatic and social unity so many on both sides of the Atlantic aspired to during and immediately after the First World War. Instead, United States’ civil and military organizations came to see the British Empire as a fierce and potentially dangerous rival, worthy of suspicion, and planned accordingly. Less than a year after the end of the War, internal debates and notes discussed and circulated between the most influential members of the United States Government, coalesced around a premise that became the rationale for WAR PLAN RED. Ample evidence reveals that contrary to the common narrative of “Anglo-American” and “Atlanticist” historians of the past century, the First World War did not forge a new union of spirit between the English-speaking nations. the experiences of the War, instead, engendered American antipathy for the British Empire. Economic and military advisers feared that the British might use their naval power to check American expansion, as they believed it did during the then recent conflict. the first full year of peace witnessed the beginnings of what became WAR PLAN RED. the foundational elements of America’s war plan against the British Empire emerged in reaction to the events of the day. Planners saw Britain as a potentially hostile nation, which might regard the United States’ rise in strength as a threatening challenge to Britain’s historic economic and maritime supremacy.

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale émerge en France un mouvement de renouveau de l’architecture religieuse et de l’art sacré sous l’impulsion d’un clergé soucieux de repositionner l’Église au cœur de la création contemporaine. S’appuyant sur une liturgie réformée, la communauté religieuse s’engage dans l’édification de nouveaux lieux de culte, qui sont une occasion de mettre en œuvre des formes audacieuses par l’emploi de techniques constructives innovantes. Particulièrement meurtrie par la guerre, la Lorraine devient le site d’une modernité réinventée, un territoire riche d’expérimentations architecturales, formelles, constructives et typologiques, pour lesquelles les réalisations de l’entre-deux-guerres en Suisse et en Allemagne font figure d’avant-garde. Ce travail de thèse analyse les liens entre les aspirations de l’Église catholique, les contraintes imposées par le contexte de la Reconstruction et de l’urbanisation accélérée des territoires, et la réponse formelle et matérielle proposée par les concepteurs de l’époque. Le corpus général concerne la production de cent dix-sept projets et réalisations conçus en Lorraine entre 1945 et 1975. Il se concentre sur les architectures les plus novatrices, tout en répondant à la volonté de proposer une palette d’objets diversifiés, tant du point de vue de leur histoire que de celui de leur matérialité. Les églises du corpus sont l’œuvre d’architectes d’origines géographiques variées et à la notoriété multiple. En outre, ces réalisations, d’une envergure plus ou moins grande, s’inscrivent dans divers contextes géographiques : urbain, périurbain et rural. Croisant les approches quantitative et qualitative, ce travail s’articule autour de trois principaux champs de recherche :- les conditions de production de l’objet architectural : accès à la commande, financements, acteurs, etc. ;- les influences et la question de la réception, notamment au travers d’une étude des revues spécialisées et de la presse catholique ;- enfin, la matérialité de l’objet et sa réalité constructive. / In the aftermath of the Second World War in France, an iconic renewal of sacred art and religious architecture was triggered by the clergy being concerned to set the Church as the cornerstone of contemporary creation. Given the significant changes in religious rites at the time, the Christian community decided to build new places of worship giving them the opportunity to introduce bold designs based on innovative construction techniques. As one of the major battlegrounds of the Second World War, the Lorraine region then appeared to be the perfect field for rethinking modernity through a wealth of architectural, formal and building experiments inspired by groundbreaking creations made in Switzerland and Germany in the interwar period. Our research work analyses the links between the Catholic Church’s ambitions, the constraints resulting from the post-war Reconstruction and urban sprawl context, and both formal and material suggestions made by contemporary designers. The whole corpus includes one hundred and seventeen projects and productions created in Lorraine between 1945 and 1975. It focuses on the most pioneering buildings while offering a wide range of objects, be it for their historical background or their materiality. The selected churches were designed by architects from diverse regions and with variable fame. In addition, they differed in scopes and geographical contexts – urban, suburban and rural. Taking both quantity and quality perspectives into account, our study revolves around three main lines of research :– In which conditions were the architectural objects produced (ordering process, funding, stakeholders, etc.) ?– What influenced their production and how were they received ? This has been observed through the analysis of trade papers and the Catholic press.– Eventually, how to describe their material nature and their reality as construction products ?