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"Blackness" Revisited: The Rhetoric of Slavery and Freedom in E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand

  • An, Jee Hyun
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.409-427
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, I revisit and problematize "blackness" in THH by building on Toni Morrison's call for the theorization of "blackness" in American literature. THH has received much critical attention in the decades that followed its revival, but this paper argues that the meaning of "Africanist presence" has not been adequately addressed in 19th-century women writers' works. This paper is an effort to fill in this gap, and examines the ways in which "blackness" informed and shaped this most popular text of 19th-century America. This paper argues that THH demonstrates contemporary America's fear of "blackness," and rather than celebrating Capitola's feminist credentials or criticizing the lack of sensitivity to racial issues in THH, shows that the significance of the text lies in the ways in which it prophesies an impending national crisis mediated through the disruptive force of Capitola and Black Donald. THH certainly reiterates the popular, contemporary racial paradigms and excludes blacks from the conceptualization of "manhood," and it may seem that the issue of race is subsumed under gender issues when the text continuously privileges gender over race. However, at the same time, Black Donald and Capitola's disruptive energies signify the fear of explosive "blackness," and the disruptive stirrings of "blackness" permeate the novel as the energy that might rupture the seemingly tranquil order of antebellum South. The novel encodes and reflects the fear of blackness in the minds of its readers, and the popularity of this novel foretells nothing less than the explosion of Civil War.

Gender, Social Economic Status and Internet Use: Based on Time Diary Data (성, 사회경제적 지위와 인터넷 이용: 2004년과 2009년 생활시간조사자료의 활용)

  • Jeong, Jae-Ki
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.85-107
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    • 2011
  • Based on two cross-sectional Time Diary data. this study examines the change in internet use pattern of Koreans. Building on the literatures on Digital Divides, it traces the changes in frequency, diversity and specific purpose of internet use and tries to identify factors affecting these changes. The results show that the frequency and diversity of internet use increases across five years. They also reveal that the usage gap in internet between genders increases While the usage gap across social economic status still exists. The implication of these results are discussed.

A Study of the Consumers and Providers' Perception on the Factor of Nursing Service Quality and the Hospital Revisiting Intent (소비자와 제공자가 지각하는 간호 서비스 질의 요인과 병원 재이용 의도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Mi-Aie
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.473-484
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: This study was performed to investigate the perception gap about the factor of nursing service quality and the hospital revisiting intend between consumers and providers. Method: The questionnaire was developed and distributed to 300 patients and 210 nurses at the three general hospitals in three provincial city, Korea. For data analysis, SPSS/PC program was used. Result: the 20 attributes of nursing service are perceived as satisfaction factors by consumers and the 14 attributes are by providers. No attributes is perceived as hygiene factor by consumers and providers. The gender of consumers' demographic characteristics has a significant difference and don't have affection for hospital revisiting intent, and the position and education level of providers' demographic characteristics have a significant difference and explain 4.5% of hospital revisiting intent. The 12 attributes of nursing service by consumers and 3 attributes by providers correlate to hospital revisiting intent, and the only 'nurse's sincerely attitude' attribute in consumers and the only 'credible nursing service' attribute in providers explain of hospital revisiting intent. Conclusion: there are definitely perception gap between consumers and providers. So nursing organization have to recognize and try to overcome these perception gaps.

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A Study on the Different Characteristics for Information Consumption in Urban and Rural Residents -Focusing on China's Jilin Province- (중국 도시·농촌 거주자의 정보소비 특성에 관한 연구 -중국 길림성을 중심으로-)

  • Liu, Hui-Shu;Chung, Gi-Young;Kim, Hyung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.181-191
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the characteristics of information consumption between rural and urban residents. In this study, the data were collected through a survey and in-depth interview consisting of 121 information consumption questions for the residents of 15 cities and rural areas located in Jilin Province, China, and 985 effective responses were analyzed using SPSS 23.0. Analysis of information consumption characteristics by age, type of household and gender for urban and rural residents showed that there was a large interaction between age and gender, age and type of household, type of household and gender. This study can contribute to narrowing the information service gap between urban and rural residents and utilizing the potential of information consumption. The study is limited to analyzing only residents of Jilin Province in China and needs to expand the scope of future investigations.

A Multivariate Analysis of Changing Information Gaps in Korea (사회인구학적 배경에 따른 정보격차의 다원모형분석)

  • 심상완;김정석
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.235-253
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    • 2001
  • As we are entering the information society, there are increasing concerns about information gaps which are believed to create serious obstacles to social integration and development. Previous studies on the information gaps in Korea, despite their contributions to our understanding of the issue, appear to be descriptive. This study attempts to analyze the relative importance of residential area, gender, age education, and household income for information gaps and their changes in recent years. Based on the data from two surveys conducted by the Information Culture Center, the study run multivariate logit model analysis of the sue of computer and internet. The result shows that all the variables except residential area have influences on the use of computer and internet. In terms of time change, gender-based difference in the use of digital media has decreased between 1998 and 2000 while the differences by all the other variables have remained constant or increased.

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Author Gender in American Documentation, 1950-1969 (American Documentation (1950-1969)에서 저자 성별 분석 연구)

  • Walker, Thomas D.
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.351-359
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    • 2014
  • The field of information science has been documented in several ways during its existence and in some ways has mirrored that of other scientific disciplines during the same period. This article examines variables related to author gender of information science articles in American Documentation (AD) during its entire run, 1950 through 1969. Published by the American Documentation Institute, AD was a primary information science journal of its time, changing its name in 1970 to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), corresponding with the change of the parent organization's name to the American Society for Information Science (1968). AD was preceded by an earlier "information science" publication, the Journal of Documentary Reproduction (JDR), 1938-1942, issued by the American Library Association. Studies indicate that females contributed about 8% for the entire run of articles in JDR (1938-1942) and about 22% for the first twenty-seven years of JASIS (1970-1996). The present study explores the nature of female contributions to AD for the middle period (1950-1969). It has been determined that for the entire run of the journal under the name AD, female authors comprised about 17% of the contributors, which places their publishing percentage for this period between the earlier and later periods, thus expectedly filling the gap.

A Study on Relation between e-Learning Strategy and Multiple Intelligence of College Students of Engineering Department (공과대 학생들의 e-Learning 전략과 다중지능의 관련성 연구)

  • An, Gwang-Sik;Park, Hae-Ouk;Kim, Mi-Young;Lee, Ja-Hee;Ku, Jin-Hee;Choi, Won-Sik
    • 대한공업교육학회지
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.72-81
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to do research on correlation between multiple intelligence and e-Learning strategy, which can be used to develop and strengthen e-Learning strategy. The subject was 183 college students of engineering at C university who had ever taken a lesson through e-Learning. Two items are investigated in these college students. One is whether there is a gap and any gender-related difference in multiple intelligence and e-Learning strategy, and the other is what multiple intelligences have an effect on e-Learning strategy. The e-Learning strategy developed by In-Sock Lee and the instrument by Yong-Lin Moon were used. The results of this study are as follows. First, it appeared that there was a difference between gender in musical intelligence and naturalistic intelligence. The average of musical intelligence was higher in female collegian, while the average of naturalistic intelligence was higher in male collegian. But there was no gender-related difference in using e-Learning strategy. Second, it appeared that multiple intelligence gave an explanation of self-direction intelligence up to 31.1%, expression strategy 20.35%, and information processing strategy 16.6%. The results of this study showed that logical-mathematical intelligence affected all of three e-Learning strategies. So, new curriculum which can make use of logical-mathematical intelligence needs to be developed so as to devise efficient e-Learning strategies.

Gender Difference on Trust in Internet-Only Banks Using the Multi-Group Path Analysis (다집단 경로 분석을 통한 남녀 간 인터넷전문은행의 신뢰 차이)

  • Nam, Sang-Wook;Hong, Eun-Joo
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.99-105
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    • 2018
  • The purpose to this study is to analyze the difference of trust toward Internet-only bank into two groups according to the gender. We specially examined whether there is any gap in the determinant of trust. For this, we attempted to analyze the significance of the difference in the path coefficients between the gender through latent mean and path analysis. As a results, the difference of the determinant of trust between the male and the female group occurred in the factor of benefit and security. Moreover, it reconfirmed that trust are later strongly extended to relationship commitment. These findings suggest that it's very important to establish a trust with customers.

Are Women Members More Likely to Vote for Women's Issue Bills?: An Analysis of Members' Voting Behavior (여성의원은 양성평등법안을 더 지지하는가?)

  • Jeon, Jin-Young
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.187-217
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there is gender difference in Members' voting on women's issue bills, and to find out determinants of Members voting decisions on the same bills. The findings are as follows. First, there is no gender difference in women's issue voting, so women Members as a group were not significantly different from men Members in voting behavior. That's not because women Members were split in voting but because both men and women Members are very supportive of the bills. Secondly, Members' party and ideology play a significant role in Member' voting on women's issue. Compared to the majority party(Uri party)'s overwhelming support, minority parties are much less supportive on the issues. Member's ideology also proved to be important indicator of voting decision. The more ideologically liberal Members are, the more supportive of the bills.

Analysis of Mutual Understanding about Dangerous Driving Behaviors between Male and Female Drivers by Co-orientation Model (위험운전행동에 대한 운전자 성별 간 상호이해도 분석)

  • Choi, Jungwoo;Kum, Kijung
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.32-45
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to compare the mutual perception gap on dangerous driving behavior between male and female drivers in multiple aspects, analyze them, and identify factors that trigger this different perception. To understand the mutual perception gap on dangerous driving behavior, DBQ(Driving Behavior Questionnaire) was applied as a rating scale. By applying results into the Co-oreintation model, this study compared the mutual perception gap between male drivers and female drivers and analyze results. In addition, factors that generate the perception gap between both genders were drawn by analyzing factors. This study suggested that objective consistency identified the perception gap that driving behaviors of others were more dangerous between two genders. In addition, subjective consistency was different as both genders assumed that the counterpart's driving behavior takes more risks than their own actual driving behaviors. In regard to the accuracy, men were aware that female driving behaviors are more dangerous than their behaviors. However, female driving behavior assumed by women was consistent with male perception in all factors, which indicated that women perceive men precisely. In addition, results were compared and analyzed in both perspectives of male drivers and female drivers by combining predictive models. Based on these results, both genders perceived that counterpart's driving behavior is more dangerous among both genders.