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, 1971 Her importance seems to hinge on the fact that she is both a symbol and a historical ...
Kainz, Howard P.
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Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe [PDF]
, 2017 : In Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, springs are a central motif of the Prologue and the novel as a whole. This motif counters male domination, since it is associated with Chloe, while the flowers watered by springs in this novel are identified with Daphnis ...
Janelle Peters
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Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2019 In the novels of Achilles Tatius and Longus the Sophist, two adolescent couples’ transition to adulthood and discovery of sexuality is punctuated by the myths of Syrinx and Echo. Because they rejected Pan, the two nymphs are dismembered; and while Syrinx
Edoarda Barra
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Feminine Purity and Masculine Revenge-Seeking In \u3ci\u3eTaken\u3c/i\u3e (2008) [PDF]
, 2014 The 2008 film Taken depicts the murderous rampage of an ex-CIA agent seeking to recover his teenage daughter from foreign sex traffickers. I argue that Taken articulates a demand for a white male protector to serve as both guardian and avenger of white ...
Kelly, Casey R.
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Coming, Going, and Knowing. Reading Sex and Embodiment in Hebrew Narrative [PDF]
, 2016 This article both summarizes and analyzes recent feminist scholarship in literary studies and, in light of that analysis, examines a range of Hebrew terms for sexual intercourse.
Christine Mitchell
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Mary is the Model of Christian Discipleship [PDF]
, 2013 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother” (Jn 19:26-27). At the foot of the cross, Mary, the mother of Jesus is given as mother to
Joseph, Sr. Jolly
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, 2016 This paper won an honorable mention writing flag award in the research category. It was written for Mia Carter's E 344L class, "Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in Literature and Film".Carter, MiaUndergraduate ...
Moore, Clare
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Honor Killings and the Construction of Gender in Arab Societies [PDF]
, 2010 This Article discusses the regulation and adjudication of honor killings in the Arab world and traces the distributive and disciplinary impact of such regulation/adjudication on Arab men and Arab women\u27s sexuality.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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The Symposium of Methodius of Olympus and the Critique of Fatalism
ReligionsThis study examines a specific section of the Symposium by Methodius of Olympus, a Church Father of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, focusing on the critique of astrological fatalism.
Davide Tomaselli
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Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual Crisis
European Journal of American Studies, 2017 This interpretive essay reads US evangelical purity culture through queer theory demonstrating that the evangelical investment in virginity now produces the evangelical virgin as a politicized subaltern subject position.
Jennifer Miller
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