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How to be a woman. Models of masochism and sacrifice in young adult fiction
No full textBuffy, Bella, Veronica, Katniss, Clary, Tris and Saba : For two decades post-feminist heroines have faced life-threatening trials as part of their progress to womanhood. In this chapter I consider how young adult popular fictions operate as forms of pedagogy for young women by offering them particular models of maturity and womanhood. I explore the recurrence and reformulation of a persistent pattern of behaviour in which heroines engage in risky and/or masochistic behaviours for which they are emotionally rewarded.. These recurrences function as a form of vicarious experiential learning in which readers and viewers learn that emotional gratification and adult status are conferred through self-harm and self-sacrifice. Popular culture is not a monolithic form and young adult fictions are no exception. An analysis of fictional examples of this behaviour pattern challenges the idea that heroines today are empowered agents as a result of the legacy of feminism. At the same time, the analysis belies any notion that fictions are universally hegemonic and oppressive – fictions can and do disrupt and interrogate this pattern of emotional masochism. Scholars of public pedagogy have explored the complexities, contradictions and subtleties of the pedagogical process. Sandlin O’Malley and Burdick (2011) in their review of public pedagogy literature acknowledge that some scholarship has demonstrated how “the teaching and learning inherent within daily life can be both oppressive and resistant” (p. 144). Jubas and Knutson (2012) also see public pedagogy as an arena where contradictions and tensions are in play. They argue that we can see “New examples of dialectic or tensions … between the authority of the producer and the consumer; between traditional structures which ground identities and help people make sense of cultural texts, and personal agency which frees people to choose and invent identities and meanings” (p. 86). This analysis aims to contribute to understandings of the complexities of public pedagogy by showing how fictions aimed primarily at young women both resist and accommodate patriarchy
Mouvance and the medieval author: re-editing Ancrene Wisse
No full textThe paper discusses the theoretical and practical problems of editing the early thirteenth-century guide for anchoresses, Ancrene Wisse, which (in Paul Zumthor's phrase) is an 'oeuvre mouvante', modified repeatedly from an early stage by its author and others
Sea Change: Nursing in Bella Bella, 1901-1925
Get PDFIn the early 1900s, the Heiltsuk village of Bella Bella (Wáglísla) in Northwest British Columbia boasted a new Methodist mission hospital and a small Training School for Nurses. This study explores the largely unknown history of missionary nursing in Bella Bella between 1901 and 1925, built around the private documents of Doris Nichols, who began her nursing training there in 1921. This study critically examines the experiences of early nurse missionaries—students and graduates —who lived, learned, worked, and worshiped as a part of the Methodist medical mission in Bella Bella and to the surrounding area. As a social history, this study reflects on those experiences through the lenses of gender, age, class, race, region, and religion. This exploration concludes that Doris Nichols’ rare experience was interconnected with—and an extension of—the profound changes that occurred for the Heiltsuk, the Methodist missions, nursing education, and Doris herself.Nurses; Methodist medical mission; Heiltsuk; Bella Bella; Wáglísla; Rivers Inlet; Northwest Coast; Chilliwack, British Columbia; Indigenous healthcare histories; Training Schools for Nurses; R.W. Large Memorial Hospital; Methodist missionar
NOMINALS IN BELLA COOLA
No full textThe analysis of sentential units of the Salishan language of Bella Coola is presented, as far as the expression of nouns in them is concerned. The author concludes that the archaic language of Bella Coola gives opportunity to trace that verbals were diachronically prior to nominals in the development of parts of the speech system
Bella Coola Indians, Volume 2:
No full textThe material includes stories of the Bella Coola Indians. Vol. 2 includes songs (without music) and a Bella Coola-English Vocabulary.by T.F. McIlwraith.The material contained in this monograph was collected ... for the National Museum of Canada ... from March to August, 1922, and from September, 1923, to February, 1924
Bella Coola Indians, Volume 1:
No full textThe material includes stories of the Bella Coola Indians. Vol. 2 includes songs (without music) and a Bella Coola-English Vocabulary.by T.F. McIlwraith.The material contained in this monograph was collected ... for the National Museum of Canada ... from March to August, 1922, and from September, 1923, to February, 1924
2023 David Harris Flaherty Award-Winning Essay (2/2)
Get PDFIn this award-winning 500-word essay, undergraduate student Bella (Nhien) Nguyen demonstrates the effective use of UVic Libraries' resources.UndergraduateReviewe
Bella Coola: British Columbia Heritage Series Our Native Peoples Series 1 Volume 10
Get PDF"Bella Coola" is the common designation of those Indians who, until a few years ago, inhabited the valley of the Bella Coola River in Central British Columbia. Linguistically, the Bella Coola form an isolated island of Salish-speaking people separated from others of the same stock by tribes of Athapaskan and Kwakiutl lineage. Culturally, they belong to the central section of the North Pacific Coast area. Social Studies Bulletin Department of Education.Not peer reviewedHistoric bookle
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