This thesis defines a new vision of the wife that developed in Northern Italy in the sixteenth century. Northern Italian patrons commissioned a range of objects, from domestic wares to paintings, that reinterpret and adapt ...

In the nineteenth-century in England, Shakespeare’s character Ophelia was the most represented subject of English literary painting. Elaine Showalter suggests that “the changing representations of Ophelia over the ...

A look at the various theoretical aspects of genocide, peace, reconciliation, sexual violence and gender, as well as theoretical arguments for including women in the peace and reconciliation process and the practical ways ...

In the 1960s, a group of American women, Religious, separated from the Roman Catholic Church following a prolonged conflict. These women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Los Angeles, were women of integrity and dedicated ...

This study was created to critically examine how post-assault services for victims of sexual violence work with each other. By examining services - including public health programs, the criminal justice system, rape crisis ...

Today, over 1.2 million women in the United States are incarcerated, on parole, or on probation. In Massachusetts alone, 2,000 women are currently incarcerated, 8,000 annually. Each year, more than 200 of them are pregnant. ...

“I am already incapable of sense/Which, in a senseless place,/Is the only sensible feeling.” These are the words of Erifila, the female protagonist of Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia, as she is institutionalized in a ...

From 1976 to 1981 during the Northern Irish “Troubles,” the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Britain fought a proxy war within the Northern Irish prison system. The question was that of “political status,” or the right of ...

In American households, it is mostly women — as mothers, wives, elder daughters, grandmothers, or domestic workers — who do the work required to maintain and increase the wellbeing of everyone in the home. Their unpaid ...