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Like Looking in a Mirror: A Material Reading of the Sisters in Galeran de Bretagne
No full textThis article explores the story of Fresne from Renaut’s early thirteenth-century romance of Galeran de Bretagne and, moreover, the often overlooked story of her twin sister Flourie. In Marie de France’s version of the tale, the lai of Le Fraisne, the focus is on the character of Fresne, rather than her twin sister who is rarely mentioned in favour of encouraging the ultimate success of Fresne in winning the handsome knight at the end of the tale. However, inextricably linked to the success of Fresne is the failure of Flourie, and in Renaut’s romance, the reader is allowed a glimpse into the trajectory and ultimate loss of her character.
The lack of physical interaction between the twin sisters provides a striking circumstance in which these twin sisters can be read as two separate halves of one whole, and the signifying markers that separate them at each stage of their identification are cloth objects
Making it Through the Wilderness: Trees as Markers of Gendered Identities in Sir Orfeo
No full textWood was an essential material in the Middle Ages, but trees – and human relationships with them – are too often ignored. Using trees as a lens through which to view medieval romance can provide us with a new perspective on the genre, on medieval gender norms, and on human relationships with the material non-human. This article focusses on the trees in the Middle English Sir Orfeo in order to interrogate how Orfeo’s identity is linked to trees and wooden objects. Although Orfeo’s harp is the most obvious wooden marker of his identity, the ympe-tree in Orfeo and Herodis’s orchard, the hollow tree in which Orfeo hides his harp while in the wilderness, and the ympe-tree as it appears in the Otherworld each mark different stages of Orfeo’s characterisation. Finally, Orfeo himself becomes a tree through metaphor when he returns to his kingdom. By exploring each of these trees in turn, this essay will show how the text can be read as one that breaks down binaries and hierarchies through its arboreal imagery, even if only briefly
Whose Sword? Materiality, Gender Subversion and the Fairy Women of Middle English Romance
No full textThough frequently steeped in elements of fantasy and featuring idealised or supernatural characters, Middle English romances are, at their core, concerned with the practicalities of material wealth and status among the gentry and aristocracy. This persistent concern with wealth and materiality is manifested in dramatic ways in some of the Middle English romances figuring magical women. In Melusine, Sir Launfal, and Partonope of Blois, the control of masculine-gendered objects of material wealth – and signifiers of chivalric identity – is given to the fairy ladies, rather than their knightly paramours. In their manipulation and control of these material symbols of male, chivalric identity (such as armour, weapons, and even castles), these women subvert gender norms, and assume roles of unusual power and authority over traditionally masculine spheres of influence
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
No full textReview of: Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Paul Hendrickso
Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
No full textReview of: Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolitio
Nothing Comes to Her Who Sits and Waits: The League of Women Voters and Citizenship After Woman Suffrage, 1920-1940
Get PDFRather than viewing the Nineteenth Amendment as an endpoint of the woman suffrage movement, this amendment should instead be viewed as a stop along the way. No one piece of legislation guaranteed all women the right to vote, nor did the Nineteenth Amendment grant women equal citizenship status with men. Founded in 1919, the League of Women Voters of Iowa became the successor of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, carrying on a legacy of activism and resistance to gender-based discrimination. While the right to vote made up a large part of what most suffragists thought of as citizenship, many women quickly realized there were other legal and social discriminations against women that limited women’s autonomy. The League of Women Voters of Iowa (LWV of Iowa) continued to fight for gender equality, capitalizing on the existing organizational structures left behind by the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association. Moving into the 1920s and 1930\u27s, the League of Women Voters of Iowa participated in the enduring women\u27s movement, focusing primarily on women-specific legislation and reform, as well as voter education and educated suffrage. This paper utilizes primary archival sources to argue that the LWV of Iowa’s activity between 1920 and 1940 demonstrates the continuation of the women\u27s movement post-Nineteenth Amendment during a period many scholars view as a silent period for women’s activism. In cooperation with the National League of Women Voters, the LWV of Iowa worked to define and redefine citizenship throughout the 1920s and 1940s at both the state and national levels
Faculty/Graduate Dance Concert 2020
No full textThe first movement of A Course in Rigor & Cheese: Disney in Abstraction, “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast. A solo dancer performs downstage while the rest of the cast sits upstage reminiscing of the innocence of watching Disney movies as children. To evoke the nostalgia of Beauty and the Beast I lit the dancers in gold and blue to symbolize Belle and The Beast’s iconic costumes in the movie.https://ir.uiowa.edu/lighting_design/1123/thumbnail.jp
Faculty/Graduate Dance Concert 2020
No full textThe second movement of A Course in Rigor & Cheese: Disney in Abstraction, “Colors Of The Wind” from Pochahontas. A duet takes place downstage while a trio sits upstage observing the two main dancers. I lit the duo in blue and orange to evoke the nostalgia of John Smith and Pochahontas’ love story in the classic Disney movie while lighting the upstage trio in a neutral white to convey the juxtaposition of living in the present while reminiscing of the past.https://ir.uiowa.edu/lighting_design/1124/thumbnail.jp
Marat\u27s Dead
No full textJohnny pours a capful of bleach into the bathwater he sits in. Blue, ink-like liquid overtakes the water that has been playing on the screens in the room.https://ir.uiowa.edu/media_design/1005/thumbnail.jp