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Folta, Jeannette R., and Edith S. Deck. "Rural Zimbabwean Shona Women Illness Concepts and Behavior." Western Journal of Nursing Research 9, no. 3 (August 1987): 301–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019394598700900303.

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Sukutai Gudhlanga, Enna. "Reclaiming their socio-economic space in African culture : Shona Women Cross-Border Traders of Zimbabwe." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n1a3.

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The advent of colonialism relegated the traditional African woman to the fringes of the family and society through codified customary law. The Shona women of Zimbabwe were some of the worst affected as they were re-defined as housewives who had to rely on their husbands for the up-keep of the family. However, in as much as globalisation has been accused of having brought some crisis on the African continent and side-lined a significant number of indigenous players, for the African woman in the global south it has brought some form of re-awakening. Globalisation seems to have re-opened the avenues for Shona women and enabled them to re-negotiate their entry back into the economic activities of the family and the public sphere. Despite the general lack of interest in the activities of women and in the strategies used by the poor for survival, it is a known fact that Shona women have become a force to reckon with in terms of cross-border trading in Zimbabwe. This research was prompted by the general hub of activity at the country's borders before the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and the predominance of women traders who traverse the borders but whose activities have either not attracted enough attention to get their work recognised, or simply because they are taken for granted. Despite such strides, women in the cross-border trading business have instead garnered a certain stigma around them to the extent that the magnitude of their work is largely unrecognised. Yet elsewhere, the significance of women in informal trade is well documented. This study argues that women have not been left out in the global arena of trade. Desai (2009) acknowledges that the global economic openings in the informal sector have afforded women the opportunity to become active players in the markets of the global South. It is the aim of this research to investigate how globalisation has influenced the nature of the activities of Shona women in the cross-border trading business in Zimbabwe and their impact on the social well-being of the family and the nation’s economy at large. The research is largely qualitative in nature. Purposively selected Shona female cross-border traders at the Gulf Complex and Copacabana Market in Harare were interviewed before the COVID pandemic. The study revealed that the transnational activities of these Zimbabwean women are more wide-spread than has been anticipated. The study also revealed that women are unrecognised pillars in the economy of Zimbabwe as reflected in their success stories that have benefited Zimbabwe as a country. The study was informed by Africana Womanist theory which is embedded in African culture with special leaning on Ubuntu/ Unhu philosophy which recognises the complementary roles and partnerships of both men and women in resolving society's challenges.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "Empowerment or Delusion?: The Shona Novel and Women Emancipation." Journal of Literary Studies 32, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 70–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2016.1158985.

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Makina, Blandina. "Images of women in Shona songs by Zimbabwean male singers." Muziki 10, sup1 (December 20, 2013): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2013.852743.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "WOMEN, WEALTH GENERATION AND PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IN TRADITIONAL SHONA CULTURE IN ZIMBABWE." Latin American Report 30, no. 2 (July 20, 2016): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0256-6060/1237.

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Feminist scholarship is awash with literature that strives to vindicate its position that women in general have never enjoyed status and platforms equal to those of their male counterparts in the social, economic, religious and political spheres in life. The literature bemoans the invisibility of women in matters to do with economics and property ownership. The literature further posits that women neither wielded any power nor had any platforms for the generation and accumulation of wealth or the ownership of property. Leaning on Africana Womanist theory, this paper contends that such a perception is the antithesis of what actually takes place in the Shona milieu where, traditionally, women have, not just platforms to generate and accrue personal wealth, but have also authority over the use and disposal of such wealth. Avenues for the generation and accumulation of wealth and other property by Shona women range from marriage negotiations, the institution of marriage itself as well as the family, working using one’s hands and commanding positions of leadership.

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Jeater, Diana. "Shona Women - Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870–1939. By Elizabeth Schmidt. London: James Currey, 1992. Pp. xiv + 289. £35.00 (paperback £11.95)." Journal of African History 34, no. 3 (November 1993): 526–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700033983.

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Bessant, Leonard Leslie, and Elizabeth Schmidt. "Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939." International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, no. 2 (1993): 420. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219568.

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Moss, Barbara A., and Elizabeth Schmidt. "Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939." African Economic History, no. 21 (1993): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3601819.

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O'Toole, Thomas, and Elizabeth Schmidt. "Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939." African Studies Review 36, no. 3 (December 1993): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525187.

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Wright, Marcia, and Elizabeth Schmidt. "Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939." American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (April 1994): 616. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2167419.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women, Shona"

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Vijfhuizen, C. "'The people you live with' gender identities and social practices, beliefs and power in the livelihoods of Ndau women and men in a village with an irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe /." Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/52525519.html.

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Chitakure, John. "Domestic violence among the Shona of Zimbabwe the Roman Catholic Church's role in combating it /." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0835.

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Chimbandi, Prisca Ruvimbo. "The experienced reality of married Shona women : the impact of their husband's sexual practices on them and the relationship." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86213.

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Thesis (MPhill)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Given the impact that culture has on individuals‟ behaviour and the relation that behaviour especially sexual behaviour has with the spread of HIV/AIDS, the research took a look at the Shona culture and the impact that the married Shona men and their sexual practices had on their wives and the overall relationship/marriage. Interviews were conducted with married Shona women with the aim of getting recent information on the Shona culture and the practices of married Shona men so as to establish the levels of risk and the uncover vulnerabilities that are current. Information obtained from these interviews showed that although the Shona culture promotes certain behaviours amongst married people, some of these practices are being done away with but unfortunately not at a fast enough pace and because of this there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that risk of infection amongst married Shona couples is reduced and levels of vulnerability are tackled as well.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsprojek ondersoek die invloed van kultuur op die gedrag van „n individu en meer spesifiek, die invloed van individuele gedrag op die verspreiding van MIV/Vigs. Die studie ondersoek die Shona kultuur en die invloed wat die getroude Shona man het op die seksuele praktyke in die huwelik. Onderhoude is met getroude Shona vroue gevoer ten einde eerstehandse inligting te verky oor die invoed wat Shona kultuur op die Shona huwelik het en om verder te bepaal in watter mate die getroude Shona vrou onnodig aan die risiko van MIV blootgestel word. Inligting wat in hierdie ondersoek versamel is dui daarop dat die Shona kultuur nog steeds seker praktyke tussen getroude persone aanmoeding en dat dit nog steeds die risiko van MIV-oordraging verhoog. Daar is weliswaar met sekere van hierdie praktyke weggedoen, maar daar is nog steeds verskeie praktyke wat voortbestaan en wat MIV-oordraging verhoog. Die pas waarteen kultuur aanpas by die verhoogde waarskynlikheid van MIV-oordraging tussen getroude Shona mans en vrouens is nog steeds te stadig. Sekere voorstelle word in die studie gemaak ten einde te probeer om hierdie kultureel-gedrewe risiko vir MIV/Vigs-oordraging te beperk.

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Chihota-Charamba, Audrey. "An analysis of how Zimbabwean female audiences decode meaning from the Shona-language radio programme Nguva Yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) against the background of their lived experiences." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011750.

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This study investigates the Zimbabwean women listeners of a gender-focused radio programme Nguva yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) to find out what meanings they take from the programme. Located within the broad theoretical framework of cultural studies and drawing on audience reception theories, the study focuses on the ways in which Shona-speaking women bring their understandings of their social roles, derived from their lived socio-cultural experiences of patriarchy, to their decoding of the text. The study was set in Harare’s high-density suburb of Mbare and used the qualitative research methods of individual and focus group interviews. The study was conducted against the backdrop of the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) of September 2008, which ended the impasse among the warring political parties, ZANU PF, MDC-T and MDC and introduced a new era of collectively tackling socio-economic development, including redressing gender disparities through women’s empowerment. This study examines the factors shaping the audiences’ readings of the programme and seeks to establish whether the mass media has determining power on its audience in the reception of messages or if the audiences (women) have interpretive freedom. Using Hall’s (1980) Encoding/ Decoding model, the study examines the factors that influence the audiences’ choice in making preferred, negotiated or oppositional readings and the arguments they advance in line with those readings. While the interviews revealed that most of the female listeners “negotiated” the dominant encoded meanings, seeking their relevance to their varied situations and contexts (O’ Sullivan et al. 1994:152; Ang 1990: 159), of interest is the manner in which the women dealt with the discourse of patriarchy within the context of promoting women empowerment. The contestation between women empowerment and addressing patriarchy reflected the subverted notions of maintaining the status quo, while applauding the women’s commitment and ability to interrogate the practicality of issues under discussion and drawing lessons relevant to their day to day lives prior to making the preferred reading. As such, the study revealed that preferred readings are not always automated, but can be a result of intense interrogation among media audiences.

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Levin, George G. "Women and the Second Estate in 16th Century Zambezia: Gendered Powers, a 'Puppet' African Queen and Succession in vaKaranga Society, 1500-1700." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1106.

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Women in vaKaranga society of the 15th to 17th centuries have been portrayed as oppressed by an "extremely patriarchal" system, but the reality, while still fitting the simple classification of a 'patriarchal' monarchy, indicates quite a bit more negotiation of gendered powers than women, as a class, experienced in the Mediterranean or East Asia. The vaKaranga were the architects of Great Zimbabwe, the capital of a growing state, colonizing their cousins of the Zambezi river, which their Kusi-Mashariki Bantu forefathers had traversed southward a millennium before. Civil war had (apparently) split one nation into two states, Mutapa (Monomotapa) and Khami (Torwa, Toroa, Changamire) immediately before Portuguese ships arrived at Sofala in 1502. Statements like "women are dust, one does not count dust" have been used to illustrate the traditional social outlook of the Shona, descendants of the vaKaranga and a major population in present-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and central Moçambique. However, close reading of early Portuguese-language sources on women in vaKaranga society suggests that, prior to influence from these original European colonists, vaKaranga women negotiated everyday and political power in a near-even exchange with men, predicated on the imbalance of power women held in the metaphysical dimension, their control of industries from gold production to staple crop production and a strategy for minimizing economic risk for a king transacting a brideprice or 'rovora' exchange. In this, vaKaranga women are exceptions to the theory that societies must become more gender imbalanced as they begin to form classes and state-level monarchies.

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Austin, David L. "Women, Witchcraft, and Faith Healing: An Analysis of Syncretic Religious Development and Historical Continuity in 20th Century Zimbabwe." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1620691659340769.

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Bantayehu, Alem. "Factors influencing female food-for-work participation in the Southern Shoa region of Ethiopia." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12052009-020242/.

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Morioka, Michiyo. "Changing images of women : Taisho-period paintings by Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), Ito Shoha (1877-1968), and Kajiwara Hisako (1896-1988) /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6225.

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Sheheli, Shonia [Verfasser], Uwe Jens [Akademischer Betreuer] Nagel, Christine [Akademischer Betreuer] Bauhardt, and Jutta [Akademischer Betreuer] Werner. "Improving livelihood of rural women through income generating activities in Bangladesh / Shonia Sheheli. Gutachter: Uwe Jens Nagel ; Christine Bauhardt ; Jutta Werner." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät, 2012. http://d-nb.info/102672466X/34.

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Muganiwa, Josephine. "Shifting identities: representations of Shona women in selected Zimbabwean fiction." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26875.

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Bibliography: leaves 215-230
This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The study traces meanings associated with Shona women’s identities as ascribed by dominant powers in every epoch to create narratives that reflect the power dynamics. The thesis argues that identities are complex, characterized by various intersections such as race, gender, class and ethnicity. Shona women have to negotiate their identities in various circumstances resulting in shifting multiple identities. The thesis focuses on how such identities are represented in the selected texts. Findings reveal that the colonial project sought to write the Shona women out of existence, and when they appeared negative images of dirt, slothfulness and immorality were ascribed to them. These images continued after independence to justify male dominance of women. However, the lived experience of women shows they have agency and tend to shift identities in relation to specific circumstances. Shona women’s identities are dynamic and multifarious as they aim at relevance in their socioeconomic and political circumstances. Representations of Shona women’s identities are therefore influenced by the aim of the one representing them. All representations are therefore arbitrary and must be interrogated in order to deconstruct meaning and understand the power dynamics at play. The works analysed are Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950), Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993), Cythia Marangwanda’s Shards (2014), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Violet Masilo’s The African Tea Cosy (2010), Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006), Dangarembgwa’s The Book of Not (2006), Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009).
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Books on the topic "Women, Shona"

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Schäfer, Rita. Guter Rat ist wie die Glut des Feuers: Der Wandel der Anbaukenntnisse, Wissenskommunikation und Geschlechterverhältnisse der Shona in Zimbabwe. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1998.

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Elizabeth, Schmidt. Peasants, traders, and wives: Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992.

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Nhongo-Simbanegavi, Josephine. For better or worse?: Women and ZANLA in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. Avondale, Harare: Weaver Press, 2000.

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Peasants, traders, and wives: Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992.

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Kudzidza nokudzidzisa nhetembo. Harare: SAPES Books, 1997.

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Morioka, Michiyo. Changing images of women: Taisho period paintings by Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), Ito Shoha (1877-1968), and Kajiwara Hisako (1896-1988). Ann Arbor, Mi: University Microfilms International, 1992.

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Wandering a Gendered Wilderness: Suffering & Healing in an African Initiated Church. Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.

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Mackay, Shena. Shena Mackay Memoir. Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2019.

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Matsumura, Yoshihiko. Akujotachi no Showa shi. Raibu Shuppan, 1992.

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Onna no kutoshi: Mohitotsu no Showa. Sairyusha, 1990.

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Pipino, Kiara. "Shana Cooper." In Women Writing and Directing in the USA, 163–78. New York : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367444075-16.

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Martin, Jane, and Joyce Goodman. "Shena Simon (1883–1972) and the ‘Religion of Humanity’." In Women and Education, 1800–1980, 118–40. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4407-8_7.

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Roy, Sajal. "Post-cyclone Aila and Mobility Rights of the Shora Muslim Women of the Bangladesh Sundarbans Forest." In Climate Change Management, 641–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37425-9_32.

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McDonald, Maretta. "Go ’Head Girl, Way to Represent!" In Racialized Media, 56–74. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811076.003.0004.

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Negative cultural images of Black people, shaped by predominantly white male television content creators, have prompted calls for more racial inclusion behind the scenes. Even though representation is the topic of scholarly conversations, little is known about what representation in television content leadership looks like or how people from diverse backgrounds influence the ways Black characters are portrayed on-screen. This chapter fills this gap by examining a prime-time television show created, written, and executive produced by a Black woman, Shonda Rhimes. Using qualitative content analysis, this chapter analyzes Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy to explore how intergroup interactions and depictions of race and gender on a prime-time television show may reflect the social location of its creator. The findings presented in this chapter suggest that the way Rhimes redefines culturally negative stereotypes of Black women reflects her “outsider within” social location, one she used to push back against external definitions of Black womanhood.

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"From Harare to Edinburgh: the professional adventures of a Shona woman." In Becoming a Social Worker, 149–58. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203066874-23.

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Joseph, Ralina L. "“I Just Wanted a World That Looked Like the One I Know”." In Postracial Resistance, 83–107. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479862825.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 examines showrunner Shonda Rhimes’ twenty-first century Black respectability politics through the form of strategic ambiguity. Joseph traces Rhimes’ performance of strategic ambiguity first in the pre-Obama era when she stuck to a script of colorblindness, and a second in the #BlackLivesMatter moment when she called out racialized sexism and redefined Black female respectability. In the shift from the pre-Obama era to the #BlackLivesMatter era, this chapter asks: how did Rhimes’ careful negotiation of the press demonstrate that, in the former moment, to be a respectable Black woman was to perform strategic ambiguity, or not speak frankly about race, while in the latter, respectable Black women could and must engage in racialized self-expression, and redefine the bounds of respectability?

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Gissing, George. "Chapter V." In The Nether World. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538287.003.0007.

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At ten o’clock next morning Mrs. Peckover reacted home. She was a tall, big-boned woman of fifty, with an arm like a coalheaver’s. She had dark hair, which shone and was odorous with unguents ; a sallow, uncomely face, and a handsome moustache. Her...

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Calero Vaquera, María Luisa. "The contribution of women to the Spanish linguistic tradition." In Women in the History of Linguistics, 121–44. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754954.003.0005.

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In Spain, despite the unfavourable environment, some exceptional women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were eager readers of the classics; ‘learned in grammar’ and professors of Latin. At the same time, female ascetic-mystic writers helped to dignify the Spanish Romance language. The eighteenth century witnessed a proliferation of literary salons presided over by distinguished women, while translators abounded. By the late nineteenth century, female university professors were ceasing to be uncommon; they shone as translators and philologists, although certain renowned linguistic and literary institutions continued to close their doors to them. These women with a passion for languages made a key contribution to linguistics in Spain, but were sidelined due to the historical circumstances in which they lived; since then, they have faced a further exclusion, in that they are conspicuously absent from official linguistic historiography.

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Ames, Melissa. "Live Tweets as Social Commentary?" In Small Screen, Big Feels, 163–89. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813180069.003.0009.

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As Shonda Rhimes is credited with transforming contemporary network television production and consumption practices -- and having the most avid Twitter followers -- her hit program is an ideal focus for an audience study. Chapter Eight considers fictional television's ability to engage in public pedagogy by looking at the ways in which viewers support or undermine Rhimes's social commentary. Attending to tweets focused on the main character, the female anti-hero Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), reveals the warring sentiments (and different ideological camps) that still exist surrounding identity politics involving women of color, same-sex relationships, and interracial relationships.

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Mbinjama-Gamatham, Adelina. "#BlackGirlMagic." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 88–103. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4778-6.ch007.

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This chapter explores the relevance of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative to critique the unintended, subliminal evil representations in Shonda Rhimes's work. Kant's moral theory is used to re-think evil in the way that Rhimes portrays Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) in How to Get Away with Murder (2014-) as an influential defense attorney and law professor who goes to extreme lengths to get what she wants, even if her behavior is considered bad or evil. This chapter argues that Rhimes's work challenges the systemic racism and stereotypical portrayals of Black women in television, as she not only focuses on the bad or evil doings of her Black characters but also on what makes them powerful, good and emblematic of #BlackGirlMagic.

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