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majority of the mass of these masks is made up of raffia, which extends from the back of the head sides of the face all around down to the chin. Worn to bolster the young initiates through the hard trial of circumcision, the overall imagery is intended to instill confidence and a sense of aggressive manhood. With all this emphasis on manhood, the nature of gender relations in Yaka society is worthy of further study is Bacquart reports the masks are made while the young men are participating in a ritual
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intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades
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intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades
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intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades
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. View online Craft the First Five Minutes of Class with CareMany students spend the first day of class braced against various types of disrespect—professors who mispronounce their names, call them by the wrong name entirely, misgender them, and so on. Students who are worried about not being treated with respect experience difficulty concentrating on what faculty are saying. On the Faculty Resources link on PLU’s Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Resources page, you will find a few reliable
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develop resilience-based policies? What are examples of effective and creative responses for nurturing resilience beyond the trauma of devastation? What might these responses teach us about the nature and dimensions of resilience? Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Biological and ecological resilience Case Studies in post-trauma resilience Class, ethnicity, race and/or gender and resilience Disaster risk-reduction and resilience Genealogies of resilience Interconnections among individual
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in Environmental Studies, Global Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. Before coming to PLU in 2005, Troy taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at Augustana College (Sioux Falls), at the University of Washington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also earned his masters and doctoral degrees.
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. What sealed the deal were the people during her campus tour. “Everyone I met that day was super welcoming.” PLU may have made a mark on her, but she has also made a lasting mark on it. Reed is a double major in communications and psychology with a minor in gender and sexuality studies. She also is a member of MediaLab, an award-winning student-run media organization that offers public relations, graphic design, writing, event planning and more. And she DJs at Lute Air Student Radio (LASR). We
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said. “Even in parts of South Africa, where the AIDS infection rate is high, when you ask “What can we do?” they never ask for drugs. They always ask for food.” Lewis then turned the topic of how women are treated. “I would say that the single most important struggle on the planet is gender equality,” he said. Mistreatment of women – from lack of schooling, forced marriages of young girls, genital mutilation and the systematic rape and butchery, in the Congo for example – can be tied back to
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silence of the rest of us, the silence of the rest of us who consider ourselves the good guys.” A communication professor at the University of Massachusetts, Jhally is one of the world’s leading scholars on the role advertising and popular culture play in the processes of social control and identity construction. At his talk, he said gender identity does not occur naturally; instead it’s learned from images in the media, from peers and family members, and people simply act out the culturally-accepted
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