Diss. Uppsala : Univ., 2003.

This thesis seeks to offer new perspectives on the role of women in African-American Christian denominations in the United States in the period between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. It situates the changes in the roles available to black women in their churches in the context of ecclesiastical politics. By offering explanations of the growth of black denominations in the South after the Civil War and the political alignments in the leadership of the churches, it seeks to offer more powerful explanations of differences in the treatment of women in distict denominations. It explores the distinct worship practices of African-American Christianity and reflects on their relationship to denominational structure and character, and gender issues. Education was central to the participation of women in African-American Christianity in the late nineteenth century, so the thesis discusses the growth of black colleges under the auspices of the black churches. Finally it also explores the complex relationship between domestic ideology, the politics of respectability, and female participation in the black churches.

This thesis is a translation of a chapter that examines the role of Muslim women in politics during the early Islamic period and their engagement with religious and political discourses. This subject raises a combination of provocative challenges for Islamic discourse as Muslim women have had a complex relationship with their religious tradition dating back to the very inception of Islam. Despite Qur’ānic injunctions and Prophetic affirmations of the egalitarian status of Muslim women, social inequality and injustice directed at women remains a persistent problem in Muslim society. In the translated text Abū Shaqqah goes about re-invoking the normative tradition in order to affirm the role of Muslim women in politics. Furthermore the translation is prefaced by a critical introduction outlining the contours of the 20th century landscape, which attempts to describe the struggle of Muslim women in Abū Shaqqah’s time. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Arabic)

In this thesis I have endeavoured to throw light on both the private and public aspect of the lives of women living in the Roman African provinces from the first century BC to the seventh century AD. Funerary inscriptions reveal that the role of women in private life was projected in a manner which reflected the ideals for Roman womanhood (pudicitia, castilas,fides and fecunditas), even when they clearly came of Afro~Punic stock. In terms of the quality of their lives Roman African women of the propertied status groups (about whom we know the most) had a good standard of living compared to other parts of the Roman Empire, and for example were well~educated in the urbanized areas compared to provinces such as Gaul. Roman African women of the elite also enjoyed a degree of autonomy enhanced by the increased financial independence granted to them in terms of Roman law, which enabled them to function as benefactors in their communities in the same way as their male counterparts, donating money for temples, baths and markets. In return for this they were duly recognized in honorary inscriptions by their communities. Although this public role may appear to be in conflict with the 'ideal' domestic or private role of the Roman matron, this activity was sanctioned by the fact that they were acting in the interests of male family members who were engaged in municipal careers. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries there are a few signs that women were beginning to act more in their own interests, but much of their public role faded with the increasing dominance of the Christian Church which prescribed a more limited role for women. The only exceptions occurred in the times of persecution through the temporary prominence gained by women as martyrs and confessors, although this prominence cannot be said to have advantaged women in general. During the Vandal and Byzantine period we know of only a few women, primarily those with connections to the elite at Rome and Constantinople, who acted with the independence and authority of their class. / History / D.Litt. et Phil. (Ancient History)

Orientador: Paulo Rennes Marçal Ribeiro / Banca: Eladio Sebastián Heredero / Banca: Ari Fernando Maia / Banca: Fátima Elizabeth Denari / Banca: Fábio Tadeu Reina / Resumo: O presente trabalho se propôs a compreender, analisar e interpretar os textos em forma de artigos, produzidos em seções destinadas às mães em revistas voltadas ao grande público entre os anos de 1940 a 1950. As revistas que mantêm seções nesse período discriminado são: Fon Fon, Vamos Ler e A Cigarra. A tese está dividida em dois blocos de diferentes seções. O primeiro bloco retrata a primeira parte da tese, onde se evidencia o aporte teórico sobre o objeto de pesquisa; o segundo bloco representa a segunda parte da tese, que retrata a exploração do objeto de pesquisa a partir das revistas Fon Fon, Vamos Ler e A Cigarra, compreendendo o período de 1940 a 1950. O conjunto dos artigos que compõe as seções dessas revistas, configuram a fonte documental, composta de 213 artigos em que descrevo e analiso as informações, descrições e representações da mulher mãe, caracterizada pelos especialistas, que escreviam a elas, nessas seções específicas destinadas às mães, para o exercício da maternidade. A pesquisa revela que os especialistas que mais frequentemente se dedicaram na editoração de textos e mensagens às mulheres mães foram os médicos. Estes exercem uma verdadeira educação da mulher, visando a função da maternidade; adentram na história familiar, interferindo e fundamentando normas para a rotina da criação do filho, criando uma atmosfera de culpa, diluição da autonomia parental, através da imposição do poder do conhecimento especializado, descredenciando as tradições familiares e locais; desacreditando os pais, os parentes e procurando tomar os espaços dos leigos e das orientações das pessoas mais velhas e próximas da família. Uma autêntica polícia das famílias se instala. Será preciso, então, que essa mulher, que faz parte da elite e representa... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present work proposed to understand and interpret the articles destined to mothers in magazines to the public between 1940 and 1950. The magazines that keep articles in this period itemized are three: Fon Fon, Vamos Ler e a Cigarra. The Work is divided in two blocks of different sessions. The first block pictures the first part of the work highlights the theoretical input about the research from the magazines Fon Fon, Vamos Ler e a Cigarra between 1940 and 1950. The ensemble of these magazines articles, are the documentary source, consist in 230 articles in which I write and analyze the information, descriptions, and representations of woman mother, characterized by experts, who wrote to them, in those magazines which had session aimed to mothers. The research shows that the experts who frequently dedicated writing the articles where doctors. They had a major influence in the exercise of being a mother for those women, going into familiar history, intervening and making rules of how bring up a child, creating an atmosphere of guilty, dilating the parents autonomy ,throw the knowledge expert's power, putting family tradition behide, disbelieving the parents and looking to take off elderly and near friends orientation . Installing a family police. Is there a need for this up class mother, who represents the magazine's aim public ,to learn how to be a mother and take care of your own child with expert doctors now because before were de nannies, slaves, milk mothers and so on. The doctor did not believe that it was a natural mother s feeling, the concept of a child insert in a family also didn't exist in the doctors view. This was the concept that was proposed by the articles published by those magazines Fon Fon, Vamos Ler e a Cigarra. In the end the expert writers dedicated to the up a class mothers governance, left... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Résumè: Ce travail se propose a comprendre, analyser et interpréter les textes en forme de articles, produits en sessions destinées à mères dans les magazines dirigés au grand public entre les années 1940 à 1950. Les magazines que contiennent des sessions dans cette periode discriminée sont trois: Fon Fon, Allons lire et La Cigale. La thèse c'est divisée en deux blocs avec des sessions differentes. Le premier bloc représente la première partie de la thèse dans la quelle on voit l'admission théorique sur le but de recherche. Le deuxième bloc, qui représente la deuxième partie de la thèse, presente l'exploration du but de recherche à partir des magazines Fon Fon, Allons lire et La Cigale, pendant la periode de 1940 à 1950. L'ensemble des articles qui compose les sessions de ces magazines configurent la source documentaire, composée de 213 articles où je décrits et j'analyse les informations , les descriptions et les représentations de la femme mère, caractérisée par les experts, qui leur écrivaient dans ces sessions spécifiques destinées à mères par l'exercice de la maternité. La recherche démontre que les experts que s'ont dédié plus fréquemment dans la publication de textes et de messages à les femmes mères ont été les médecins.Ceux-ci exercent une vraie éducation de la femme pour la fonction de la maternité; ils ont entré dans l'histoire familière , en intervenant et en engendrant des normes por la routine de la éducation du fils, en engendrant une athmosfère de faute, de dilution, de l'autonomie parentale,à travers de l'imposition de la puissance de la connaissance spécialisée, en disqualifiant les traditions familières et des endroits, en disqualifiant les parents, les parents et en cherchant prendre les espaces des laïques et des orientations des personnes plus vieilles et plus proximes de la famille. Une police... (Résumé complet accès életronique cidessous) / Doutor

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T21:56:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viegas_ShellidaFernandadaCollina_D.pdf: 120671766 bytes, checksum: 6769e677622ca23add669406b7687de0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Como é possível o mesmo autor, na mesma época, escrever dois romances com a mesma temática e dar-lhes tratamento tão distinto? Essa é a pergunta que intriga os leitores de Defoe ao ler duas das suas principais obras literárias, Moll Flanders (1722) e Roxana (1724), e é também a pergunta que norteou esta pesquisa. Para responder a isso, estudamos a história da leitura, o surgimento e a popularização do romance, a história dos direitos autorais e a influência do público leitor na produção de romances. Isso porque ambas as obras de Defoe tiveram várias edições ao longo do séc. XVIII que se diferenciavam das primeiras tiragens. Visando estabelecer algumas hipóteses para explicar os motivos que levaram os editores a alterar os finais das obras, foram analisadas, nesses romances, as figuras da prostituta, amante, esposa e mãe e a condição da mulher na Inglaterra pré-Revolução Industrial, sem perder de vista a questão da edição e da recepção / Abstract: To what extent is it possible that an author over the same decade had written two novels about the same central theme, but from and with different perspectives? The readers of Daniel Defoe are right to raise this issue after reading Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724). This research sets about answering such questions. To this end, I used Defoe's novels to take a close look at the history of reading, the creation and popularity of the novel, copyright implications and the influence of the reader in the production of novels. After all, both novels underwent a series of different editions throughout the eighteenth century. To formulate a working hypothesis to outline the reasons that allowed such changes in editions, I analyzed the figures of the prostitute, lover, wife and mother and the condition of women in pre-Industrial Revolution England in both novels / Doutorado / Literatura Geral e Comparada / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Cette thèse a pour objectif l’étude des parentes de chevaliers romains, dénommées matronae equestres, originaires des provinces d’Occident, entre les règnes d’Auguste et de Gallien. L’optique choisie est celle de l’approche prosopographique qui demeure la seule possible pour collecter suffisamment d’informations à leur propos. Après une analyse des différentes titulatures équestres, l’accent a été porté sur trois thématiques liées entre elles, telles que le mariage, les pratiques religieuses et les voyages, qui ont permis une réévaluation du rôle des femmes apparentées aux chevaliers. Le chapitre consacré aux alliances matrimoniales a mis au jour diverses stratégies auxquelles elles prirent part :mariages égaux, exogamie et remariages avec des personnages de toutes les catégories sociales. La section suivante a souligné leur degré d’implication parfois active à la vie religieuse de leur communauté entre sacerdoces, participation aux rites et vœux. Enfin, on a montré que ces dames se déplaçaient de manière pratiquement systématique avec leurs parents, dans tous les recoins de l’Empire, pacifiés ou non. Le catalogue prosopographique figure, quant à lui, dans le volume II, subdivisé en quatre tomes. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

In this thesis I argue that Jordan of Saxony (d. 1237), Master of the Order of Preachers, fostered a culture of openness toward the participation of women in the religious life of the Dominican order. This is demonstrated, in part, through the study of the nature of Jordan's support for Diana d'Andalò (d. 1236) and her convent of Sant'Agnese and his presentation of female pastoral care in the Libellus, his history of the order. The argument is also developed by means of a chronologically-informed reading of Jordan's letters, which explores his use of familial language, his employment of the topoi of spiritual friendship, and the significance he attributes to the role of religious women's prayer in the order's evangelical mission. Jordan's friendship with Diana d'Andalò and her convent of Sant'Agnese is well-known, if not necessarily well-explored. It is usually treated as a case apart from the order's increasing hostility to the pastoral care of religious and devout women, which gained momentum over the course of Jordan's tenure. This thesis seeks to break down this compartmentalized view by articulating not only the close parallels between Jordan's perception of friars and nuns within the order, but also the way in which he extended bonds of mutual religious commitment to religious women outside the order. As such, this study also intends to contribute to a growing historiography that explores the various ways in which medieval men and women participated together in religious life.

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<p dir="ltr">This dissertation analyzes the sixty-four (64) page handwritten ledger of Mrs. Goldleana Harris (also known as Mrs. Mosley Abraham Gibbs, 1920–1986), kept between 1944 and 1960. Harris is a Black woman born in Longstreet, Louisiana DeSoto Parish. She lived in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1949–1986. Using a case study approach and close reading analysis of Mrs. Goldleana’s writings, I document a Black woman’s lived experience and the historical significance of Hollywood, a segregated Black neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana and related gathering spaces within the Deep South region of the United States between 1944 and 1960. These spaces include five areas of significant and overlapping importance: The Family House, The School House, The Church House, The Labor (Work) House, & The Play (Leisure) House. </p>