Taylor Madsen and Daryl Lee, French Department In the fall of 2010, I spent three months working with Senegalese children both in schools and in daaras. While I taught English and administered basic first aid, I met some of the most incredible people who became my friends. Through their friendships, I gained an inside perspective […]
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Legislating Women: The Relationship Between Women in Parliament and Trafficking of Women
Caroline Black and Donna Lee Bowen, Political Science Pervasive, complex, and often little-‐understood, trafficking of women is a worldwide epidemic. Although many acknowledge the problem that trafficking of women, hereafter known simply as trafficking, is, the large dark numbers associated with it make trafficking hard to fully track. Many studies have previously focused on trafficking […]
Viennese Kineticism and Beyond: A Bibliography of Austrian Women Artists
Dianne Isom and Dr. Rob McFarland, Department of German and Russian Introduction While the advent of digital archives have revolutionized the discipline of Women’s Studies, the current online offerings of visual and textual works by German-speaking women artists, especially Austrian artists, lag far behind the digital collections of their English-, French-, and Spanish-language contemporaries. Brigham […]
Barbara d’Austria: Women and Religious Upheaval in 16th-century Europe
Victoria Fox and Brandie Siegfried, English Introduction The purpose of this project was to recover source documents regarding the life of a significant 16th-century woman who has been otherwise largely left out of history. Barbara d’Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, was an intensely religious and ambitious […]
Women and Early Twentieth-Century LDS Missiology
Louisa Greear and Michael MacKay, Religious Education Introduction As a research assistant for Dr. Michael MacKay and Dr. Gregory Wilkinson, I transcribed journals from missionaries in the Frist Japan Mission. As I transcribed these journals, a particular person really jumped out at me: Edna Harker Thomas. Sister Thomas was not only the wife of the […]
Women in Engineering and Technology Barriers Project
Carrie Etherington and David Morgan, Industrial Design With women making up less than 18% of positions in engineering and technology fields, I feel there are many doors that still can be opened. My intention with this project was to identify what was acting as a barrier keeping women from these fields and to use euthenics […]
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Faculty Mentor: Daryl Lee, French and Italian Introduction The goal of this project was to make an academic study on violence against women in Senegal accessible to a non-French speaking audience. The study was conducted by a university research group on gender issues (GESTES) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. […]
GESTES French-English Translation: Senegalese Women’s Property Rights Research
Charlotte Coleman and Dr. Daryl Lee, Department of French & Italian Introduction The recently released a book called Sex and World Peace addresses the way treatment of women and women’s political security vitally affects all levels of security and social health in society. The book states, “It is time to put the situation of women […]
Beyond Käthe Kollwitz: A Bibliography of German-Speaking Women Artists
Aloe Corry and Dr. Rob McFarland, Department of German and Russian If you Google the name of the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, you will find every bit as much information as you would find about Frieda Kahlo or Georgia O’Keefe. But if you attempt to move beyond a major figure like Kollwitz, the resources become […]
“Womenomics:” Translating Women’s Property Rights for a Global Audience
Taylor Madsen and Dr. Daryl Lee, BYU French and Italian Department Introduction With the belief that we could make the world better by improving the quality of life for women, our team of three student translators and one expert mentor undertook the challenge to translate and publish the results of two years of gender studies […]
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