Greg Ruth
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043895
- eISBN:
- 9780252052798
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043895.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter details how women’s tennis assumed heightened cultural import in the contexts of the Cold War. One famous incident involved Gertrude Moran’s sartorial selection at the Wimbledon ...
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This chapter details how women’s tennis assumed heightened cultural import in the contexts of the Cold War. One famous incident involved Gertrude Moran’s sartorial selection at the Wimbledon Championships. Women professionals such as Moran and Pauline Betz toured went on tour with Riggs and Kramer in the early 1950s, while Betz and Sarah Palfrey Cooke also toured independently of their male playing peers. Alice Marble became an outspoken critic of the men who ran the United States Lawn Tennis Association, a touring professional comfortable with the commercialization of the sport, and a voice for racial equity in the sport through her support of the African American champion Althea Gibson.Less
This chapter details how women’s tennis assumed heightened cultural import in the contexts of the Cold War. One famous incident involved Gertrude Moran’s sartorial selection at the Wimbledon Championships. Women professionals such as Moran and Pauline Betz toured went on tour with Riggs and Kramer in the early 1950s, while Betz and Sarah Palfrey Cooke also toured independently of their male playing peers. Alice Marble became an outspoken critic of the men who ran the United States Lawn Tennis Association, a touring professional comfortable with the commercialization of the sport, and a voice for racial equity in the sport through her support of the African American champion Althea Gibson.
Joshua A. Fogel
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520283305
- eISBN:
- 9780520959170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520283305.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter looks at Japan's subsequent missions to China in the late Edo period after the voyage made by the Senzaimaru to Shanghai in 1862. It begins by considering the shogunal authorities' ...
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This chapter looks at Japan's subsequent missions to China in the late Edo period after the voyage made by the Senzaimaru to Shanghai in 1862. It begins by considering the shogunal authorities' purchase of the American ship Althea, which they renamed the Kenjunmaru and eventually sent on a voyage to Shanghai in 1864 carrying cargo of ginseng, dried sea cucumber, abalone, and other dried shellfish. It then examines the 1865 trip launched by a rebellious Chōshū domain, a bitter enemy of the shogunate, with Murata Zōroku leading the mission. Finally, it describes the mission dispatched to Shanghai in 1867 via the SS Ganges upon the initiative of Inoue Masanao, daimyo of Hamamatsu domain, and Hotta Masatomo, daimyo of Sakura domain.Less
This chapter looks at Japan's subsequent missions to China in the late Edo period after the voyage made by the Senzaimaru to Shanghai in 1862. It begins by considering the shogunal authorities' purchase of the American ship Althea, which they renamed the Kenjunmaru and eventually sent on a voyage to Shanghai in 1864 carrying cargo of ginseng, dried sea cucumber, abalone, and other dried shellfish. It then examines the 1865 trip launched by a rebellious Chōshū domain, a bitter enemy of the shogunate, with Murata Zōroku leading the mission. Finally, it describes the mission dispatched to Shanghai in 1867 via the SS Ganges upon the initiative of Inoue Masanao, daimyo of Hamamatsu domain, and Hotta Masatomo, daimyo of Sakura domain.
Ira Dworkin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469632711
- eISBN:
- 9781469632735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632711.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines the work of APCM missionary Edmiston, a Fisk University graduate and skilled linguist, who in the first decades of the twentieth century controversially wrote the first ...
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This chapter examines the work of APCM missionary Edmiston, a Fisk University graduate and skilled linguist, who in the first decades of the twentieth century controversially wrote the first dictionary and grammar of the Bushong (Bakuba) language. Shortly after her fellow Fisk alumni Du Bois used African American spirituals as signposts for his groundbreaking tour through U.S. history and culture in The Souls of Black Folk, she also contributed to the APCM’s effort to translate religious hymns into Tshiluba by adding African American spirituals such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to the Presbyterian hymnal. The translations by Edmiston and her colleagues insured that Tshiluba developed not only as the language of the colonial state, but also as a language that was shaped by the sacred texts of postbellum African American culture.Less
This chapter examines the work of APCM missionary Edmiston, a Fisk University graduate and skilled linguist, who in the first decades of the twentieth century controversially wrote the first dictionary and grammar of the Bushong (Bakuba) language. Shortly after her fellow Fisk alumni Du Bois used African American spirituals as signposts for his groundbreaking tour through U.S. history and culture in The Souls of Black Folk, she also contributed to the APCM’s effort to translate religious hymns into Tshiluba by adding African American spirituals such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to the Presbyterian hymnal. The translations by Edmiston and her colleagues insured that Tshiluba developed not only as the language of the colonial state, but also as a language that was shaped by the sacred texts of postbellum African American culture.
Barbara Weiden Boyd
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190680046
- eISBN:
- 9780190680077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190680046.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, World History: BCE to 500CE
Chapter 5 is devoted to the poetics of paternity in Ovid’s exile poems. Ovid repeatedly invokes paternity in describing his poems, referring to them as his “children” and suggesting analogies between ...
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Chapter 5 is devoted to the poetics of paternity in Ovid’s exile poems. Ovid repeatedly invokes paternity in describing his poems, referring to them as his “children” and suggesting analogies between his own plight and that of some of the doomed sons in ancient myth. In Epistulae ex Ponto 3.9, Ovid compares himself to Thersites’s father, who felt affection for his son despite the contempt in which he was held by others; Ovid claims a similar indulgence regarding the lack of polish evident in his “children,” the exile poetry. He even hints at, if only momentarily, divine parentage in Tristia 3.14, as he compares his poems to Minerva—and, by implication, himself to Jupiter, the goddess’s sole parent. The emotional connection Ovid establishes between himself and his poems reaches an emotional highpoint in Tristia 1.7, when he invokes a comparison with Althea, responsible for killing the son she loves.Less
Chapter 5 is devoted to the poetics of paternity in Ovid’s exile poems. Ovid repeatedly invokes paternity in describing his poems, referring to them as his “children” and suggesting analogies between his own plight and that of some of the doomed sons in ancient myth. In Epistulae ex Ponto 3.9, Ovid compares himself to Thersites’s father, who felt affection for his son despite the contempt in which he was held by others; Ovid claims a similar indulgence regarding the lack of polish evident in his “children,” the exile poetry. He even hints at, if only momentarily, divine parentage in Tristia 3.14, as he compares his poems to Minerva—and, by implication, himself to Jupiter, the goddess’s sole parent. The emotional connection Ovid establishes between himself and his poems reaches an emotional highpoint in Tristia 1.7, when he invokes a comparison with Althea, responsible for killing the son she loves.
