247 research outputs found
Millicent Engel to Esther Lovejoy
No full textLetter from Millicent Engel to Esther Lovejoy, regarding her missionary work in Haiti
Millicent Engel to Esther\r\nLovejoy
No full textLetter to Esther Lovejoy from Millicent Engel, regarding her work in Haiti
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
No full text‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’ is the best-known phrase associated with Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), the leading UK suffragist and campaigner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But what is the source of her quote, and what is its context? This book reproduces Fawcett’s essential speeches, pamphlets and newspaper columns to tell the story of her dynamic contribution to public life. Thirty-five texts and 22 images are contextualised and linked to contemporary news coverage as well as to historical and literary references. These speeches, articles, artworks and photographs cover both the advances and the defeats in the campaign for women’s votes. They also demonstrate a variety of the topics and causes Fawcett pursued: the provision of education for women; feminist history; a love of literature (and Fawcett’s own attempt at fiction); purity and temperance; the campaign against employment of children; the British Army’s approach to the South African War; the Unionist cause against Home Rule for Ireland; and the role of suffrage organisations during the Great War. Here is a rich, intertextual web of literary works, preferred reading material, organisations, contacts, friends, and sometimes enemies, that reveals Fawcett the individual throughout 61 years of campaigning. The first scholarly appraisal of Fawcett in over 30 years, this is essential reading for those wishing to understand the varied political, social and cultural contributions of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Praise for Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected writings 'Millicent Fawcett’s influence in the suffrage movement is often overlooked in favour of the more radical suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Millicent was hugely important, concentrating on non violent rational persuasion. This book explains the work of this dogged suffragist.' Dame Jenni Murray - former president Fawcett Society 'Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected writings invites the reader to delve into the life and passions of this great suffragist leader. Millicent Fawcett paved the way for women to take their place in public life, that’s why I’m so proud that in 2018, her sculpture was unveiled in London, becoming Parliament Square’s first-ever statue of a woman. The statue depicts Millicent holding a banner bearing the powerful quote, “Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere”. This book explores important aspects of the rich and too-often untold history of women’s rights, including the origins of that inspirational quote.' Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London 'This is a vital collection of the vital speeches of a vital person. You need to read this to understand the history of Millicent Fawcett and if you don’t understand the history of Millicent Fawcett you don’t understand one of the most important developments in modern civilisation.' Lord Daniel Finkelstein 'Millicent Fawcett is one of the pivotal voices in UK political history. Her work paved the way for every woman who has ever taken her place in a parliament anywhere on these islands. When any of us talk about standing on the shoulders of giants, Millicent Fawcett was that giant of female empowerment.' Baroness Ruth Davidson 'Millicent Fawcett was one of the most influential figures of her age, yet history has tended to overlook her. Extraordinarily astute and forward-thinking, she inspired women to change their world by giving them a political voice, and the confidence to use it. Thanks to this collection, which is both scholarly and accessible, we can now hear her own voice as never before. She continues to inspire us to speak out on behalf of women's progress everywhere.' Jane Robinson, Senior Associate, Somerville College, Oxford; author of Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Wome
An interview with Millicent Baxter
No full textAuthor and mother of James K. Baxter talks of her life and family.A Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recording dubbed by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Leader of the Constitutional Women\u27s Suffrage Movement in Great Britain
No full textExamines Millicent Garrett Fawcett\u27s leadership of the National Union of Women‟s Suffrage Societies and her role in the enfranchisement of British women. The PDF includes the author\u27s entry submission essay for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Awards
The game shop and other stories
No full textMy collection of short stories are inspired by a need for more representative literature of the South African Cape 'coloured' community. It is a complex community to represent as these "rainbow nation" people are of mixed race ancestry. As a result, they are always caught within the margins of colour politics. I call this group, "The Marginal Grey".
My two part series of stories, is an attempt to provide a window into the world of my character's to illustrate the lived realities of the working class and middle class 'coloured' group. These stories embody a range of voices and perspectives, some contemporary, some set in the past. The concept of voice is examined through the diverse voices of the collection‘s narrators or the voices of characters via dialogue and thought.
Themes explored in this collection include that of Cape 'coloured' identity and culture, intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss.
This collection features some *Afrikaans words and phrases.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Bronwyn Millicent Douma
The early feminists’ struggle against patriarchy and its impetus to the nineteenth century american women’s rights movement in henry james’s the bostonians
No full textABSTRACT
This thesis is in the framework of American study approach, which
attempts to analyze the problems through interdisciplinary study. The researcher
takes the issue of the early feminists’ movement in rising the conscience of
women’s rights in America as the subject matter to discuss Henry James’ The
Bostonians (TB). This present study focuses on how the struggle of early
feminists against sexual discrimination engenders women’s rights movement in
the 19th
century America.
In accordance to the problem above, the objectives of this study are to find
out the causes why women are excluded from the public domain and rights in
patriarchal system of American society and how some feminists’ efforts to
struggle for women’s public rights in equal basis with men.
This study is library research. To achieve those objectives, this thesis
employs some approaches as a representation of interdisciplinary study. The
researcher attempts to reveal the American experience in this novel by applying
literary, historical, and sociological approaches. The use of these approaches is
meant to affiliate theories and knowledge from various disciplines in analyzing a
work of literature. In other words, those approaches require collaboration among
the disciplines to get a deep interpretation of the work. The literary approaches
used in this study is feminist literary criticism to know how far the ideology sexes
is provided by the author in controlling the text and to have interpretation to the
text based on the woman reader’s point of view. The sociological and historical
approaches are used to know the background of the social values and the crucial
moments in the time. These approaches are applied in order to get most
appropriate analysis and it will find supporting evidence dealing with the problem
of the thesis.
As the result of this research, the researcher finds out that due to the
conservative and conventional values of patriarchal society, women had suffered
from subordinate, oppressive, unequal, and injustice treatments that basically
ignore their rights as individual beings. These treatments were legalized in a set of
Victorian values of “the cult of true womanhood”. However, as a result of
American modernization, industrialization, and democracy, American women
became increasingly, though gradually, more independent. Believing in their own
abilities and potential for power, they obliged themselves to help their oppressed
sisters and to seek the need for independence, self-respect and serious purpose in
life. Apparently, this social conflict between the feminist and the conservatives
had engendered political excesses in the era of American reform, in the form of
women rights movement. Though, many sacrifices are greatly needed as the
consequences of their struggle, at least American women have realized that the
equality of human rights of men and women is far more important than sexual
differences
An investigation into the influence of the "Cape Malay" child's cultural heritage upon his taste in appreciating music, with a proposed adaptation of the music curricula in South African schools to reflect a possible application of "Cape Malay" music therein
No full textThis investigation of a repertory of music, grew out of a need to find a link between the societal structures created, and the activity of a group of people for whom they are intended. Music is a universal phenomenon but has definite cultural boundaries. Ever since the author became a student at the University of Cape Town, he came under the deep impression of differing cultural activities. This dissertation is a result of cultural differences observed by him from childhood, concerning a group of people, who are termed 'Cape Malay', for the lack of a more appropriate term. 'Cape Ma lay' music, which refers to the who le repertory of moppies, ghommaliedjies, nederlandsliedere, ouliedere, £udjies and djiekers of the 'Cape Malay', was observed by him as a way of life of many South Africans. This is not always realised, and it is the hope of the author that educational authorities would try to recognise not only this 'Malay' musica l culture, but also make provision for its inclusion in the syllabus. The basic philosophy which the author has tried to convey, is that education should link up with the pupil's social environment. Allied with this, is an attempt by the author to develop and awareness of 'Malay' music amongst those South Africans who might not be aware of this repertory of music, which is unique in the world. The reading material is extensive, as may be ascerta ined from the lengthy bibliography at the end of this dissertation. Unfortunately, it is not nearly complete. Two very important sources are regrettably not included: A pre liminary thesis by Erica Mugglestone completed for a master's degree at Monash Un iversity in Australia, relating to the topic of this dissertation; and van Warmelo's work, which relates to 'Cape Malay ' music, and fro
Rhetorics of Care + Care-full Rhetoric
No full textAuthor(s):Erin McClellan, Phaedra Pezzullo, Millicent Elewosi, Pamela Pietrucci, Joaquin TorreSession details: HYBRID: Rhetorics of Care + Care-full Rhetori
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