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How to Be the Best at Everything: The Gendering and Embodiment of Girl/Boy Advice
Get PDFThis paper explores the binary divide packaged under the children’s How be the Best at Everything (2007) girl/boy advice books. Postmodern and materialist feminist thought as a lens into media-infused social and class reproduction provide a theoretical framework in interrogating this gender binary. I argue that that the books, as heteronormative nostalgia, operationalize a theory I term “gender retraction,” a phenomenon in which the vast knowledge that informs our identity spectrum propels us into a cultural time warp, where, with an array of socially inscribed possibilities, the binary clarity of age old girl/boy categories has resurging appeal The paper exposes gender retraction modeling invented and packaged under boy/girl advice and also analyzes contemporary production modes of sex and class division that stage an uneven distribution of gender capital. Closing arguments propose a gender progression vs. retraction frame to promote open-subject opportunities for children to become
Editor’s Note
Get PDFThe rich artistic heritage of Newport owes as much to recondite personalities as to well-known artists. This issue of Newport History investigates a number of these lesser-known figures, starting with James Nicholson, a master carpenter who worked on some of the most important Bellevue Avenue mansions of the late 1880s and early 1890s. Caroline McGuckian assembled the details of Nicholson’s life, along with examples of his work as a photographer and painter. A century has elapsed since over a hundred largely now-forgotten artists, art teachers, and patrons founded the Art Association of Newport, today known as the Newport Art Museum. In this issue of the journal, Ms. Grinnell adapts portions of the checklist and wall text of a recent exhibition that she curated at the Newport Art Museum: Remembering the Ladies: Women and the Art Association of Newport. This important study of the early decades of the institution resurrects the reputations of the women artists, art instructors, and patrons responsible for its flourishing during the early twentieth century
James Nicholson as Master Carpenter, Photographer, and Painter
No full textThe early 1880s saw an explosion of residential building in Newport spurred on by the so-called “New York invasion” of the Astors, Vanderbilts, and other wealthy American families. The Scottish master carpenter James Nicholson (1848-1893) was one of the many European artisans who immigrated to Newport at that time to make a living off this unprecedented building boom. Arriving in July of 1881 at the age of thirty three, he lived just twelve years in Newport before dying prematurely of presumed pneumonia. He left behind a unique legacy of photographs and paintings intimately related to his trade and to his affection for the Newport landscape
An Exploration of Pharmacognosy and its Potential in the Multi-Faceted Solution Required to Address HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Get PDFThis work has both both biological and anthropoligcal foci. It addresses research done on the medicinal properties of plants and how this research could make positive contributions to the current social and biological issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
The Effect of Franco in the Basque Nation
Get PDFThis defense argues how the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, combined with the nationalism of the Basques, resulted in conflict between the two groups. ETA, a terrorist organization, was formed and began to use violence against General Franco. Due to their continued nationalism, they continued on with their violence even after his death
Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: An Overlooked Issue
Get PDFSlavery and human trafficking have become a widespread problem across the globe today. Practices including debt bondage, forced labor, sexual slavery, and more are occurring in every country, including here in the United States. It has been widely overlooked, and although there are several laws and declarations outlawing the practice of slavery, it still occurs. Neoliberalism and globalization are considered in this thesis as contributors to modern-day slavery and trafficking in persons. Additionally, specific case studies of a few different nations are provided to clarify the topic and help the reader create a personal connection to the issue. A lot can be done to stop these practices, including efforts by governments, business, and the general public. It is time to uphold the claim that slavery is a thing of the past
The Electrochemical Detection of Interleukin-8, Cancer Biomarker, Based on a Gold Nanoparticle Platform and its Political Implications
Get PDFHerein we report on an ultrasensitive immunosensor based on glutathione protected gold nanoparticle (GSH-AuNP) for the electrochemical detection of interleukin 8 (IL-8), cancer biomarker in calf serum and proof of concept IL-8 detection in HNSCC cells. GSH-AuNP were bioconjugated to the primary antibodies (Ab1) and used to capture human IL-8 in a sandwich electrochemical immunoassay coupled to horseradish peroxidase enzyme labels. Using the optimized concentrations of the primary (Ab1) and secondary antibodies (Ab2), two sensor approaches were used to measure ultra low (≤ 500 fg mL-1) and elevated levels of IL-8. Biotinylated Ab2 bound to streptavidin HRP with 14-16 labels per antigen was used to measure high IL-8 concentration with a DL of 10 pg mL-1 (1.0 pM) in 10 L calf serum. The second approach greatly amplified the signal using 1 m magnetic beads coated with over 500,000 HRP labels providing the highest sensitivity of (1061.8 nA mL (fg IL-8)-1 cm-2 and the best detection limit of 1 fg mL-1 (100 aM) for IL-8 in 10 L calf serum. This represents a 10,000-fold and 30,000-fold decrease in the DL over the Ab-HRP(14-16) system and the industry standard ELISA for IL-8 respectively. The immuonsensors were also used to accurately measure IL-8 in HNSCC cell lines with excellent correlation to the standard enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). These GSH-AuNP based immuonsensors show great promise for the fabrication of ultrasensitive biosensor microarrays for point-of-care cancer diagnosis
Secular modernity and Catholic tradition: Finding God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution
No full textMuch of the contemporary research on secular modernity versus Catholic tradition pits one against the other, a religion versus technology, or faithfulness versus secularism scenario, whereby religious thought, practice, and institutions lose their shared meaning in the face of rising technological obscurism. This dissertation examines the challenges that Catholic tradition faced in the countenance of secular modernity and how religious congregations worked to overcome these societal challenges. It is meant to question the concept that the onslaught of modernity at the beginning of the European Industrial Revolution signaled the demise of Catholicism in France. It shows, utilizing the letters and writings of Father Andre Coindre, founder of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, that there were those working from within the Church who were re-Christianizing their native land while at the same time incorporating the burgeoning technology into both ministry and mission. This research illustrates how the establishment of educational institutions in Lyon by the Brothers was ordered so that their young charges could find God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. It is only through these connections with the modernisms of the past that we can learn how to re-engage with the sacred and give it a place amongst the clutter of the profane that we have thrown up around ourselves
Disrupting patriarchal norms and languages: Narrative and rhetorical analyses of bi and pansexual feminist blogs
No full textThis dissertation asserts that existing definitions of gender and understandings of sexuality need to be reworked in order to compose more holistic senses of both identifications. To accomplish this, this research highlights how some feminists are using Internet communications (specifically blogging) to revamp contemporary understandings about gender. Additionally, it explores how some feminists are more purposefully incorporating bi and pansexual feminist perspectives into feminist conversations which, in turn, can potentially mitigate harmful monosexual and patriarchal dialectics that constrain personhood. There is continued need for careful scrutiny and analysis of hegemonic forces working against females and, more specifically, those who identify within marginalized sexualities. This project delegitimizes suppressions of gendered and/or sexed constructions of self by deconstructing the languages and norms working against females and femaleness (whether these come from outside of or from within the feminist community itself). This dissertation examines how ideas about identity construction (specific to the idea of female ) within bi and pansexual-feminist blog writing can remedy, add to, and widen existing feminist political and ethical theories