Where do we begin? Research as a concept and what it means to us
Since the very start of the semester, Arts Scholars has raised one central question: ...
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Author: Brooke
Dispassionate Academia – An argument for the reinsertion of ourselves into our research
One of the first things I was taught about academic writing is that it is neutral. Using personal...
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‘The chaste and the unchaste’ – Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s heated relationship
Friendships are complicated, full of conflict, love and, hopefully, lots of fun. They encouraged the sexual escapades of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and the riotous drinking excursions of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragically the relationships between literary women have been side-lined …
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Come back ‘with your shield or on it’: A case for Spartan Women
Women in ancient Greece were purely domestic beings. Cloistered and confined to the Oikos (home), each woman was trapped in her Odyssean hellscape …
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Separating Strength and Sexuality: How We Interpret Women in Power
Historically, images of female power and sexual agency were incompatible. From goddesses to servicewomen, regulation of sexuality counteracted …
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