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Deborah Harkness Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Deborah Harkness, author of the bestselling novels A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. Deborah is a featured author at the 9th annual Bookmarks Festival of Books. Her Wake Forest appearance is co-sponsored by Bookmarks and ZSR Library as part of the Bookmarks Authors in Schools program
The inevitability of family change
No full textA public lecture and international symposium was convened on the legal, social and health issues affecting lesbian and gay parents in Australia and overseas. This report presents summaries of the themes, discussions, and presentations of the symposium, which was held at the University of Melbourne in June 2007. The public lecture was on 'What children really need', by American professor Charlotte Patterson. The symposium featured three keynote papers: How the law fails lesbian and gay parented families, by Kristen Walker; The inevitability of family change, by Deborah Dempsey; and Children's rights, by John Tobin. Summaries of the public lecture and keynotes are provided. Roundtable sessions were held on gay men parenting, supporting separating families, creating families, accessing health and community services, and negotiating family relationships
Author Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen
No full textAuthor Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen Anne bonnet-top high boy built for her husband Jack Heffernan turned into a community affair, while yet remaining a secret. The actual design and construction of the high boy fell on Bob Dunning, with the help cabinetmaker Greg Marston. Others involved on the project included Mary and Don Johnson and their sons Tom and Eric. With descriptive details of elements included in the highboy
Lecture: Author Deborah Eisenberg reads from her story, "Some Other, Better Otto" Nov. 2 at Vanderbilt University
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to author Deborah Eisenberg read from her story 'Some Other, Better Otto' from her collection Twilight of the Superheroes on Nov. 2 in Buttrick Hall. Introducing Eisenberg is Nancy Reisman, assistant professor of English.
Feminismo (2019) de Deborah Cameron
No full textFeminism is a small compilation of the debates that have run through the movement, especially in the West. Narrated in a simple and entertaining style, based on compilations of different themes, studies and references, it addresses the main questions of feminism and exposes the answers that have been provided from different positions.
TECHNICAL SHEET OF THE BOOK
Title: Feminism. Author: Cameron, Deborah. Translation: Tercero, Maria Enguix. Publisher: Alianza Editorial. Language: Spanish. Pages: 176. Year: 2019. Place: Madrid. EBOOK ISBN: 978-84-9181-541-9. Original title: Feminism. 1st edition in English, 2018, Great Britain. Profile Books LTD.Feminismo es una pequeña compilación de los debates que han atravesado al movimiento, especialmente en occidente. Narrado en un estilo simple y llevadero, en base a recopilaciones de distintos temas, estudios y referentes, va abordando los principales interrogantes del feminismo y exponiendo las respuestas que se han brindado desde diferentes posiciones.
FICHA TÉCNICA DE LA OBRA
Título: Feminismo. Autora: Cameron, Deborah. Traducción: Tercero, María Enguix. Editorial: Alianza Editorial. Idioma: Castellano. Páginas: 176. Año: 2019. Lugar: Madrid. ISBN ebook: 978-84-9181-541-9. Título original: Feminism. 1° edición en inglés, 2018, Gran Bretaña. Profile Books LTD
Deborah Cheetham \u27It’s not over till the Black Lady Sings\u27.
No full textThis year’s annual Nulungu lecture at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Broome Campus will be delivered by Deborah Cheetham, Indigenous Soprano, actor and author of the internationally acclaimed play, White Baptist Abba Fan. She is a graduate of the NSW Conservatorium of Music and Julliard School of Music.
Since her international debut in 1997 Ms Cheetham has performed in the theatres and concert halls of United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and throughout Australia. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Ms Cheetham performed her original composition, Dali Mana Gamarada.
During the 2001 Centenary of Federation celebrations Ms Cheetham performed in several major events including the January 1st Concert in Sydney’s Centennial Park when she appeared as a soloist and speaker. She performed with Argentine tenor, Jose Cura at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup in 2003. This was broadcast to a worldwide audience of more than one billion. In 2005, Deborah added to her list of international credit engagements in Paris, including performances at the Australian Embassy and the La Cigale in the Marais
In 2006 Deborah was a recipient of the Australia Council, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts fellowship. The fellowship enabled Deborah to write, direct and produce a 21st century Australian opera, Pecan Summer. The work created opportunities and demonstrated the talents of Indigenous singers and musicians, actors, writers and technicians.
On 22nd February this year Deborah performed the national anthem at the memorial service for the victims of the Black Saturday bushfires. Of the service Deborah said , ‘Joined by a massed choir of over 500 voices I was honoured to pay my respect to the victims and survivors of these terrible fires by singing Advance Australia Fair.’
Deborah will be delivering the Nulungu Lecture at the Broome Campus of The University of Notre Dame, 88 Guy Street, Broome, on Thursday 20 August at 5.00pm. The Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture is to be an annual event on the Broome Campus where key speakers will be invited to address issues of Reconciliation that shape contemporary Aboriginal and Australian thought and experience. The title of Deborah’s lecture is It’s not over till the Black Lady Sings
Active fathers, natural families and children’s origins: dominant themes in the Australian political debate over eligibility for assisted reproductive technology
No full textExtending eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technologies to lesbian and single heterosexual women is a controversial topic in Australia. In this paper, Deb Dempsey analyses three dominant themes in contributions to the public debate and law reform process – ‘active’ fathering, the distinction between social and medical infertility, and children’s right-to-know their biological origins. She argues these themes reveal very different concerns that do not necessarily reflect homophobia or concerns specific to lesbian or single heterosexual family formation. First, the notion that children have a right to a social father reveals much about gendered contestations in heterosexual parenthood. Second, appeals to social/medical infertility and natural families reveal the continuing influence of Christian views about God-given natural law. Third, the strength of opinion about children’s rights to knowledge of their biological origins emphasises the value placed on biogenetic notions of relatedness even by those more accepting of unconventional family configurations
The Illuminated Lyric of Lafracoth
No full textA medieval historical fiction in dramatic form for older adolescents and adults, this verse play depicts a person of conscience in early 12th century Ireland. This work is intended for late adolescents and adults who have either acquired or are engaged in higher education. The author envisions uses in classrooms, drama and book clubs in which conscience sensitive character analyses and discussions of moral life in and out of religious contexts are deemed worthy of pursuit.
The original 2008 version of The Lyric of Lafracoth without illustrations can be found at: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/16779
In this illustrated version, artist Deborah C. Galvin was asked to create five illuminations for the letters P, A, C, E and M which figure prominently in the conflicted story of Lafracoth and her father. Deborah obliged but was not satisfied with just five. Over the two years 2008-2010, she completed sixteen times that many. In 2012, these were exhibited in a crafted parchment paper version of the manuscript at The Helen Beiser MD Art Show during the 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in San Francisco and again that same year at the Fourth Annual Indiana University School of Medicine Art Exhibition in Indianapolis
Same-sex parented families in Australia
No full textThis paper reviews and synthesises Australian and international literature on same-sex parented families.
Introduction: This research paper reviews and synthesises Australian and international literature on same-sex parented families. It includes discussion of the different modes of conception or family formation, different family structures, and the small number of studies on bisexual and transgender parents. Particular attention is paid to research on the emotional, social and educational outcomes for children raised by lesbian and gay parents, and the methodological strengths and weaknesses of this body of work.
Key Messages:
About 11% of Australian gay men and 33% of lesbians have children. Children may have been
conceived in the context of previous heterosexual relationships, or raised from birth by a co-parenting
gay or lesbian couple or single parent.
Overall, research to date considerably challenges the point of view that same-sex parented families
are harmful to children. Children in such families do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as
their peers from heterosexual couple families.
Some researchers have concluded there are benefits for children raised by lesbian couples in that they
experience higher quality parenting, sons display greater gender flexibility, and sons and daughter
display more open-mindedness towards sexual, gender and family diversity.
The possible effect of important socio-economic family factors, such as income and parental education,
were not always considered in the studies reviewed in this paper.
Although many Australian lesbian-parented families appear to be receiving good support from their
health care providers, there is evidence that more could be done to develop policies and practices
supportive of same-sex parented families in the Australian health, education, child protection and
foster care systems.
Additional key messages, relating to specific family structures and psychosocial outcomes for children
raised by lesbian and gay parents, are included throughout the paper
Book Review: Deborah Rhode, Women and Leadership
No full textIn this essay, the student author reviews the book Women & Leadership by Deborah Rhode, which offers potential solutions to the all-too-common challenges faced by those seeking to increase the number of women in top leadership positions
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