Nancy Hale Correspondence

Entries include letters and a lengthy biographical newspaper clipping

Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial Virginia

We study Virginia's suffrage from the early-17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia's liberal institutions initially served to attract indentured servants from England who were needed in the labour-intensive tobacco farming but deteriorated once worker demand subsided and planters replaced white workers with slaves. Second, we argue that Virginia's suffrage was also the result of political bargaining influenced by shifting societal coalitions. We show that new politically influential coalitions of freemen and then of small and large slave-holding farmers emerged in the second half of the 17th and early-18th centuries, respectively. These coalitions were instrumental in reversing the earlier democratic institution\s. Our main contribution stems from integrating the labour markets and bargaining/coalitions arguments, thus proving a novel theoretical and empirical explanation for institutional change

Geographies of oppression : the cross-border politics of (m)othering: 'The break of day' and 'A yearning'.

In the autumn of 1995 the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK, staged two plays which offer a dramatic treatment of the politics of motherhood: Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Break of Day (Haymarket Mainhouse, first performance 26 October 1995) and Ruth Carter's A Yearning (Haymarket Studio, 31 October to 4 November 1995). Neither play had significant box-office success, and The Break of Day received poor and hostile reviews from (male) critics, many of whom, like Paul Taylor for The Independent, commented on the play as a dramatization of ‘how the maternal drive can cause women to betray orthodox feminism’. My counter argument is that by addressing infertility as a feminist issue for the 1990s, both plays index the need to re-conceive a politics of motherhood in an international arena, highlighting the ways in which the biological contours of women's lives are globally mapped with the specificities of social, material and cultural geographies

Time-Life Library of Art : The World of Picasso (1881-1973)

Amsterdam189 p. : Illus.; 30 c

Opsoclonus and Ocular Flutter in Multiple Sclerosis

Opsoclonus and ocular flutter almost always occur as part of either a parainfectious or paraneoplastic syndrome. Toxic causes are also described. Most other etiologies are exemplified by single or only a few cases. The visible pathology in autopsied cases is very variable, and different pathophysiologic mechanisms have been proposed. The literature contains only one reasonably convincing case of opsoclonus, two of flutter, and one of both phenomena in the same patient, in patients with multiple sclerosis

Opsoclonus and Myoclonus

Dizziness; Nausea; Vomiting; Eye twitch; Myclonic jerkA 66-year old male with a sudden onset of dizziness, aggravated by head motion and inability to stand or sit. A 2+ pack-a-day smoker with a history of emphysema.Myoclonic jerk; OpsoclonusCTDiffuse pneumonitis; Vascular congestion; Purulent sputumAnti-bacterial agentsN/