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The Real Period Stain: Menstrual Stigma and Its Pressures in South Asia
Get PDFThis research project looks to answer the question: How does menstrual stigma in rural and urban Bangladesh affect women’s access to menstrual health care?
The research question was borne from personal experiences with menstrual stigma and seeing it firsthand in many areas of Bangladesh. These firsthand experiences come from women whom I interviewed in urban and village locations in Bangladesh in 2017. The research question looks to explore how women feel about seeking help for or talking about their menstrual issues. In asking this question, I want to explore what is at stake for women due to the powerful presence of this menstrual stigma. Essentially, what is menstrual stigma forcing women to sacrifice, both physically and, as a result, emotionally?
This study is significant to both Public Health studies and Women’s Studies because it approaches the problem of a serious lack of health care through a cultural and religious lens. Women in many parts of South Asia have difficult lives and menstrual periods due to the stigma they face. Though the stigma is not talked about, women are aware of it nonetheless through things people have said and the way people have acted when the topic of menstruation has come up. There are subtle signs of discomfort, unwillingness to open up, and becoming incredibly silent when a man is nearby. I observed these actions while interview the women. They answered the questions quickly and didn’t seem to want to linger on the subject. It is clear that there the weight of menstrual stigma plays a role in their life even if it cannot be physically seen. More literary pieces will need to be researched to continue assessing how menstrual stigma affects a woman’s actions and words in regards to her period. Issues like lack of sex education, class differences, make perceptions of menstruation, and religious rules only push the stigma further. Ultimately, I wanted to show how menstrual stigma and lack of menstrual health care affect the inequality women face in South Asia. In order to find a way to help women who are struggling with menstrual health care, menstrual stigma needs to be addressed as something unreasonable and harmful
Video: Victim to Victor (Radical Subjectivity)
No full textThis project was created in our Religion class taught by Dr. Wolff. Urvaksh Avanthsa, Marissa Borkowski, Kyle Baus, Natalie Amezola, and Mason Bergstrom wrote a song about Radical Subjectivity a phrase describing black women\u27s empowerment. We wanted to make a song that audiowise reflected the music that is made nowadays. We wanted to reflect ideas that are normally not portrayed, but still keep the same kind of sound of recent music. Radical subjectivity is a phrase which describes the idea of getting rid of stereotypes by allowing women to move from being a victim to a victor through self transformation. In our song we created a fictional African American woman in which we explain how she ignores these specific stereotypes, but everyone else is blind and only believes in the rumors they hear. Our female character\u27s clothes are judged even though she looks like everyone else. Her skin is defining her. Women should see themselves as Victors and not Victims . We need to dismantle the evil and accept everyone for who they are. Radical Subjectivity does not allow anecdotal evidence to be banished to the margins of religious knowledge. It is about women loving women, women loving men, men loving men, and men loving women
Carl Erik Elving: Augustana Alum of 1886
Get PDFCarl Erik Elving was a graduate from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history and his genealogy. We use historic records from Augustana\u27s Special Collections and Swedish parish records
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No full textThe first moment of exchange with a peregrine falcon on the cliffs of Greenland. After studying this unique population for senior inquiry, it was quite the rush for the first moment we met.https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/studyabroadphotos/1032/thumbnail.jp
Late Jurassic Dinosaurs on the Move, Gastroliths and Long-Distance Migration
Get PDFThe Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Rocky Mountain and Colorado Plateau regions is famous for its dinosaur fossils. The Morrison Formation (150-157 Ma) is comprised mostly of sandstone and mudstone that was deposited in a terrestrial deposition system that included fluvial, paludal, and lacustrine environments. Paleocurrent data indicates that Morrison sediment was transported to the north and east. Within the Morrison Formation, we find exotic pebble and cobble-size durable clasts of quartzite, chert and vein quartz weathering out of the mudstone paleosols. We interpret these exotic clasts as gastroliths, carried within the gastric mills of dinosaurs. For this study, we collected red and pink quartzites in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and in northeastern Utah. We determined the provenance of these red quartzite gastroliths using detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and LA-ICPMS methods at the University of Arizona Laserchron Center. Ten individual gastroliths were analyzed, six from the Bighorn Basin and four from Utah. Zircons were separated from five gastroliths collected from the Morrison Formation in the northeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (n=36, 68, 66, 41, 29). Four of the gastroliths have Yavapai and Penokean maximum depositional ages, and peak ages that are Penokean and Archean. We interpret these four gastroliths were derived from Yavapai (Baraboo Interval) quartzites exposed more than 1000 km to the east. The other two gastroliths contain early Paleozoic and Grenville age zircons in addition to populations of Paleoproterozoic and Archean grains. We interpret that these gastroliths were derived from Pennsylvanian strata that were exposed several hundred km to the west of the sampling locality. The gastrolith detrital zircon age spectra are statistically distinct from overlying and underlying Morrison Formation sandstones. Four gastroliths from Utah (n=22, 25, 90, 21) are dominated by Mesoproterozoic zircons, and are interpreted to have been derived from Neoproterozoic strata. The fourth gastrolith (n=21) includes a population of early Paleozoic zircons, which indicates that it is likely Carboniferous in age. These three red quartzite gastroliths are different in age from those in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, which were derived from Yavapai “Baraboo Interval” quartzites of the Great Lakes region. Both the Bighorn Basin and Uinta Mountain areas contain gastroliths of Carboniferous age. Our data indicates that Neoproterozoic quartzites, perhaps of the Neoproterozoic Jacobsville Sandstone of the Lake Superior Basin, were the source of the 5 gastroliths from Utah. These gastroliths were ingested by dinosaurs and then transported in the belly of a dinosaur to the Bighorn Basin and northeastern Utah
Swedish Pioneer Centennial
No full textOfficial Swedish Delegation and crowd at the Jenny Lind Chapel in Andover, Illinois on June 20, 1948. From MSS P:308 Allan Kastrup collection, ph 54https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonexhibits_royalvisits/1002/thumbnail.jp
Wharton Field House Program
No full textFrom Price Bertil’s visit, 1948. From MSS P:308 Allan Kastrup collectionhttps://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonexhibits_royalvisits/1004/thumbnail.jp
The Gonzagas: Artistic Patronage in the Mantua Region During the Italian Renaissance
Get PDFThe Mantua region of Italy is one that was controlled by the Gonzaga family for centuries. They dominated political and cultural aspects of life. This paper displays evidence that illustrates the power and structure behind Italian patronage during the Renaissance era. It showcases the Gonzaga family’s power in the Mantua region as well as their reaching influences on the greater Italian society. Specific examples of the family patronage are explored in depth, along with the ways that their patronage affected others. Overall, this paper serves as an array of information that ties in with the overarching themes of patronage both within the Gonzaga family and with the Italian citizenry during the Renaissance