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Item Centered in myth : white western women's memoir(Montana State University - Bozeman, 2002) Knight, Mandy Lynn; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Linda K. KarellItem Emerging identity in Afro-American women's novels, 1892-1937(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1989) Goetz, Catherine CoughlinItem A case study of the education of Heloise(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1990) McNamer, Elizabeth MaryHeloise was born in 1100 and died in 1163. She lived during what is known as the twelfth century renaissance, when as a result of the Crusades, Europe was opening up to new ideas that caused changes in class structure, attitudes to women, and in scholarship. She received the education usually available only to men bent on a ecclesiastic career, and is believed by many to be the only woman of her time to have received such an education. Abelard, one of the most renowned teachers of the day was employed to teach her philosophy. Heloise and he had a love affair which lasted for about eighteen months. Heloise then became a nun. She became abbess of her convent of nuns at the Paraclete in France and built up that convent from what was just a few broken down huts to a thriving abbey with six dependent houses. She served as abbess for thirty years. She is believed to have taught the nuns Greek and Hebrew at a time when these languages were not readily spoken in Europe, so that they could read Scripture in the original. Heloise was an administrator and scholar of renown, yet she is remembered in literature only because of her romantic association with Abelard. Using historical case-study methodology, this paper examines the educational milieu of the twelfth century, who had access to education and what education comprised. It examines the education of Heloise and her accomplishments as abbess, scholar and educator. The conclusion is reached that, because of her romantic association with Abelard she has been fictionalized as a romantic heroine and her scholarship has gone unrecognized.Item Edna O'Brien : censorship, sexuality and defining the 'other'(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2011) Massey, Kelly Jo; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Robert BennettThis thesis explores the works of Edna O'Brien, an Irish female writer whose works span from 1960-present. O'Brien is an imperative author for study as she broke the gender barriers of a double patriarchal system instilled by both Church and State in Ireland. O'Brien chose self-exile in London to write about her native women in spite of the rapacious Irish Censorship Board. In this thesis Judith Butler's theories of gender performativity and gender subversion, Michel Foucault's theories of power, and Chris Weedon's theories of patriarchy and feminism are utilized to demonstrate how O'Brien sought to expose the disenfranchisement of Irish women that persisted in the last half of the twentieth century. Regardless of how some Irish viewed O'Brien as a "fallen colleen", she continues to write stories of women's issues involving their sexuality, place in society, lack of education, lesbianism and even abortion.