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No full textDivorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nation and its law, roughly 1770 to 1870. She provides a fascinating, thoughtful look at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization and traces the powerful legacy of the first American divorce experiences for us today.Using a unique methodology, Basch fragments her story into three discrete but chronologically overlapping perspectives. In Part I, "Rules," she analyzes the changing legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them. Part II, "Mediations," focuses on individual cases and presents a close-up analysis of the way ordinary women and men tested the law in the courts. And Part III, "Representations," charts the spiraling imagery of divorce through various fiction and non-fiction narratives that made their way into American popular culture during the nineteenth century.The composite picture that emerges in Framing American Divorce is a vividly untidy one that exposes the gulf between legal and moral abstractions and everyday practices. Divorce, Basch argues, was always a focal point of conflict between the autonomy of women and the authority of men. Tracing the legal, social, and cultural experience of divorce allows Basch to provide a searching exploration of the limits of nineteenth-century ideals of domesticity, romantic love, and marriage, and their legacy for us today. She brings her findings up-to-date with a provocative discussion of the current debate over fault or no-fault divorce
Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce. From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians
No full textLehuu Isabelle. Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce. From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 56ᵉ année, N. 2, 2001. pp. 396-399
The Bibliographic Concept of Work in Cataloguing and its Issues
No full textThis report explores the IFLA’s document Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). It discusses the notion of work in cataloguing as it was built since the 1950s, inasmuch this notion constitutes the conceptual framework for the proposal. Also, the entity-relationship database modeling (ERDM) system is described as far as such model provides to FRBR the operative elements that make it functional. ERDM gives to FRBR a user-centered approach as well. In its third chapter, the report tests the FRBR model through its application to a set of items belonging to the novel Rayuela, by Julio Cortázar, held at the Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Finally, some critical issues are raised along with general conclusions regarding the functionality of the mode
Norma Coverdale, B.A.: the treatment of women in selected works of Henry de Montherlant
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to determine how women are treated in selectedworks of Henry de Montherlant. This is explored by examining their relationshipswith other women as well as with men. Inevitably, this leads to an analysis ofthe multifaceted area of love. Part I researches Montherlant's prose work and included in this section is the investigation of the importance of 'l'ordre male' to the author and the influence this exerts over his early prose work in the areas of tauromachy, war and sport, and where the male adherence to this concept leaves women. The 'syncretisme et alternance' which is central to Montherlant's thinking is explored in this section.Part 2 is concerned with Montherlant's theatre in which the psychological development of the main characters is of great importance. It is in this section that a comparative study is made of the influence of Mme. Elisabeth Zehrfuss' written contribution to La Reine morte. Her unpublished notes are set out in full in the Appendix. The thesis also draws on the unpublished correspondence between Henry de Montherlant and Elisabeth Zehrfuss between the years 1934 and 1945. An investigation is made as to whether or not there are any differences between the way women are treated in Montherlant's prose and in his theatre and the conclusion is drawn that there are
Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study
No full textRelying on the theory of representative bureaucracy—specifically, the notion of symbolic representation—this article examines whether varying the number of female public officials overseeing a local recycling program influences citizens’ (especially women's) willingness to cooperate with the government by recycling, thus coproducing important policy outcomes. Using a survey experiment in which the first names of public officials are manipulated, the authors find a clear pattern of increasing willingness on the part of women to coproduce when female names are more represented in the agency responsible for recycling, particularly with respect to the more difficult task of composting food waste. Overall, men in the experiment were less willing to coproduce across all measures and less responsive to the gender balance of names. These findings have important implications for the theory of representative bureaucracy and for efforts to promote the coproduction of public services.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Riccucci, Norma M., Van Ryzin, Gregg G. & Li, Huafang. (2015). Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study. Public Administration Review, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.12401. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Peer reviewe
Norma Denver
No full textNorma Denver was honored for being a Girl Scout hero. Norma is a dedicated teacher for 25 years for the Uintah School District. She has worked with the Ute Tribe and is the co-author of the Ute History Book, "An Historical Study of the Utes." She is an officer in the Roosevel BPW Club. She serves on a committee to help start an archives and museum for the Ute Indian Tribe
Norma Field: Japanese Women\u27s Pursuit of Global Justice
No full textNorma Field discusses a brief history of Japanese feminism, shares information from the International Women\u27s Tribunal of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and reviews Japanese women\u27s labor history. She explores Japanese women\u27s roles in society, particularly how they were affected by World War II.
A student of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and culture, Field has written about everything from Japanese novels to the moral and legal questions of crimes against women in World War II, and from the use of Japanese nationalist symbols to the integration of Koreans into Japanese society.
She is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago.
Field\u27s current research interests include proletarian literature of the 1920s and 1930s and the role of the Communist Party, especially with respect to women and the arts. My Grandmother\u27s Land, a collection of her essays including several originally written in Japanese, was recently published to wide acclaim in Japan.
Field grew up in Tokyo and later attended Pitzer College in California, where she earned her bachelor\u27s degree in European studies. She then changed her focus to East Asian studies, and earned a master\u27s from Indiana University and a doctorate from Princeton University.
She came to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1983 and was appointed professor in 1993. She is the author of The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor and From My Grandmother\u27s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
Staging Norma
No full textThe sculpture Norma was created in the USA in the 1940s in the field of tension between what something is and what something should be. Around eight decades later, the Israeli choreographer and director Saar Magal thematises Norma in her dance piece 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel first looks at the materialisation of what was considered ‘normal’ at the time and analyses the sculptures Norma and Normman by Abram Belskie and Robert Latou Dickinson from 1943. Against the backdrop of Saar Magal's piece 10 Odd Emotions, the author explores the questions of what deconstructive, media-specific potential theatre has here and how human bodies are (re)arranged on stage.PublishedIm Spannungsfeld des Normalen – zwischen dem, wie etwas ist, und dem, wie etwas sein soll – entsteht in den USA der 1940er Jahre die Skulptur Norma. Rund acht Jahrzehnte später thematisiert die israelische Choreografin und Regisseurin Saar Magal Norma in ihrem Tanzstück 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel befasst sich zunächst mit der Materialisierung dessen, was damals als „normal“ gelten sollte und analysiert die Plastiken Norma und Normman von Abram Belskie und Robert Latou Dickinson aus dem Jahr 1943. Vor dem Hintergrund von Saar Magals Stück 10 Odd Emotions geht die Autorin den Fragen nach, welches dekonstruktive, medienspezifische Potenzial dem Theater hier zukommt und wie menschliche Körper auf der Bühne (neu) angeordnet werden
Nancy Hathaway Steenburg, Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood, New York and London, Routledge, 2005. Pp. 262. $85 (ISBN 0-415-97180-2).
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