“Novels with a Purpose”; The interventionist literature of Dinah Mulock Craik and contemporary domestic legislation

Dinah Craik’s interventionist literature aimed to promote a progressive agenda in female-centric domestic legislation. However, to maintain her respectable female reputation, she utilised conservative ideals and arguments. She capitalised on contemporary debates around essential femininity, maternity and the problems of inherited evil to argue for women’s property rights, adoption rights and the repeal of the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act. Her work exposed the gap between the legal framework and women’s lived experiences. It also exposed the difference between women’s private, invisible lives and the public perception of them which informed male discourse and legal debates, accentuating issues of influence versus power and questions of agency within this debate. The intermingling of class and gender is a key theme in Craik’s work. She equated the position of women of all classes with the position of working-class men under the law, particularly in terms of reification, being transmuted into property and owned. Women, Craik argued, share a common bond of sisterhood which transcends class, and this thesis examines the way in which the universality of femininity is questioned and constrained in light of the subjugations of male-made laws. Craik particularly examines the universality of femininity within the confines of inter-related identities. Though she does not reject the notion of inter-related identities, Craik places them within a hierarchy in order to argue for reform. There is a tendency to appropriate Craik as a feminist writer despite her disavowal of female suffrage. This thesis examines the complicated way Craik viewed female rights, especially critiquing the level to which she examined her own social biases, and absorbed the ideology and social expectations of the society she lived in. Finally, it questions the level to which the dissonance between her avowed conservatism and the message her story conveys was deliberate and effective in reform

Automobile Guest Statute; Unconstitutional; Equal Protection; Due Process; Right to Seek Legal Redress; Primes v. Tyler

IN JULY 1975, the Supreme Court of Ohio in the case of Primes v. Tyler\u27 joined a small but growing number of states\u27 which have declared automobile guest statutes\u27 unconstitutional. The circumstances of the Primes case are similar to those encountered in countless other suits brought by injured guest passengers since the Ohio guest statute was enacted in 1933.\u27 George Primes, III and Donald G. Tyler were members of an informal golf group which shared a car pool arrangement. Tyler, driving for the car pool, was involved in an automobile accident in which Primes, a passenger, was injured. Primes brought suit against Tyler demanding recovery for personal injuries incurred in the accident on the basis of ordinary negligence on the part of Tyler. Since both parties were part of a car pool, Primes asserted that he was a paying passenger and thereby excepted from the guest statute preclusion from maintaining suit on the basis of ordinary negligence. The trial court, nevertheless, determined that Primes was not a paying passenger and directed a verdict for Tyler

Giving a Student Voice to California's Dropout Crisis

Shares what first-year high school students find motivating or discouraging; how they view family, peer, and school factors; and how demographic characteristics, attitudes toward school, and support networks affect the odds of their dropping out

Early Cambrian corals from the Moorowie Formation, Eastern Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Statistical analysis of corallite diameter in Flindersipora bowmani, Moorowipora chamberensis and the two species of Adelaidepora, indicate significant differences substantiating their taxonomic separation. However the statistical difference in the corallite diameters of Flindersipora uldanami, Moorowipora and Adelaidepora is not clearly evident and is not of value in the differentiation of these species.Thesis (MSc) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 200

Margaret Elwell Morrill Correspondence

Entries include brief biographical information, a print advertisement with a biography, many versions of the poem Eggs Add Appeal To Any Meal, typed letters on plain and personal stationery, a print advertisement, typed comments by Hubbard, typed letters on Emeritus, Oberlin College, stationery, a printed poem-panel Seraphic Ceramic with the photographic print image of a ceramic cow and handwritten personal comments, a printing plate and the printed poem-panel of the egg poem, and typed correspondence from the Maine State Library

Moesin and its activating kinase Slik are required for cortical stability and microtubule organization in mitotic cells

Cell division requires cell shape changes involving the localized reorganization of cortical actin, which must be tightly linked with chromosome segregation operated by the mitotic spindle. How this multistep process is coordinated remains poorly understood. In this study, we show that the actin/membrane linker moesin, the single ERM (ezrin, radixin, and moesin) protein in Drosophila melanogaster, is required to maintain cortical stability during mitosis. Mitosis onset is characterized by a burst of moesin activation mediated by a Slik kinase–dependent phosphorylation. Activated moesin homogenously localizes at the cortex in prometaphase and is progressively restricted at the equator in later stages. Lack of moesin or inhibition of its activation destabilized the cortex throughout mitosis, resulting in severe cortical deformations and abnormal distribution of actomyosin regulators. Inhibiting moesin activation also impaired microtubule organization and precluded stable positioning of the mitotic spindle. We propose that the spatiotemporal control of moesin activation at the mitotic cortex provides localized cues to coordinate cortical contractility and microtubule interactions during cell division

The Dlg Module and Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Regulate EGFR Signaling and Cyst Cell-Germline Coordination in the Drosophila Testis

Tissue homeostasis and repair relies on proper communication of stem cells and their differentiating daughters with the local tissue microenvironment. In the Drosophila male germline adult stem cell lineage, germ cells proliferate and progressively differentiate enclosed in supportive somatic cyst cells, forming a small organoid, the functional unit of differentiation. Here we show that cell polarity and vesicle trafficking influence signal transduction in cyst cells, with profound effects on the germ cells they enclose. Our data suggest that the cortical components Dlg, Scrib, Lgl and the clathrin-mediated endocytic (CME) machinery downregulate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling. Knockdown of dlg, scrib, lgl, or CME components in cyst cells resulted in germ cell death, similar to increased signal transduction via the EGFR, while lowering EGFR or downstream signaling components rescued the defects. This work provides insights into how cell polarity and endocytosis cooperate to regulate signal transduction and sculpt developing tissues