Helping Yourself Help Others 
.... contains stories of frustrated caregivers such as Faye who feel overwhelmed by their enormity of their tasks (Carter 130), it also includes the story of
Sissy. ....
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Women In Road Films
.... In Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,
Sissy Hankshaw is ostracized for being different and takes to the road to take advantage of her naturally enormous thumbs. ....
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10
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Charles Dickens' Hard Times
.... We see this expressed clearly in the relationship between
Sissy and her father. As
Sissy tells Louisa of her father, "It was because ....
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6
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Searching for Meaning In Life
.... Gradgrind tries to oppress
Sissy, tries to strip her of her imagination, innocence, and independence. .... Dickens refers to
Sissy's thinking no innocent . . . ....
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3 Novels on Meaning of Life
.... Gradgrind tries to oppress
Sissy, tries to strip her of her imagination, innocence, and independence. .... Dickens refers to
Sissy's thinking no innocent . . . ....
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
.... The film, like the book, centers on the character of
Sissy Hankshaw (portrayed by Uma Thurman in the film), a beautiful, free-spirited woman whose many lovely ....
(810
3
)
The Novel Hard Times & Impressionistic Paintings
.... Just as
Sissy is oppressed by Gradgrind, who tries to strip her of her imagination, innocence, independence, and her very soul, so is Stephen Blackpool ....
(1491
6
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Virginia Woolf's The Legacy
.... She had given him no chance to pull up" (Woolf 1). After calling Angela's secretary
Sissy Miller and demanding to know the identity of BM, he discovers it is ....
(793
3
)
Pride & Prejudice & Hard Times
.... Just as
Sissy is oppressed by Gradgrind, who tries to strip her of her imagination, innocence, independence, and her very soul, so is Stephen Blackpool ....
(1645
7
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Dickens & Mark Twain as Social Philosophers
.... For example, Dickens' description of
Sissy Jupe's father, the circus horseman, is a colorful portrait of a man he obviously likes very much but depicts with ....
(2790
11
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Homosexuality in American Society
.... Time. Vol. 135, no. 16, p. 76. Davis, R. (2001). What WOZ: lost objects, repeat viewings, and the
sissy warrior. Film Quarterly. Winter, Vol. 55, no. 2, pgs. ....
(718
3
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Gendering the American Past
.... Men have always used feminine terms to describe something or someone they can dominate - pantywaist, limp-wrist, mammas boy,
sissy - all pejorative terms used ....
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11
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Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
.... he has in mind. Girl Number Twenty (Cecilia, or
Sissy, Jupe) is asked to give a definition of a horse. She is utterly flummoxed ....
(1805
7
)
Contemporary British Drama
.... ambitions and dreams. Deli lures Ashley into a life of crime and refers to Deli as a "
Sissy nigger" (Kwei-Armah 51). Such lures ....
(1529
6
)
john Wayne Gacy
.... Gacy was often beat as a child and called a "
sissy" by his father. He experienced a childhood head trauma which he blamed for blackouts he suffered for years. ....
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Raising Cain
.... others. Don't see threats where they don't exist. You need to know that controlling your anger does not make you a
sissy. The authors ....
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5
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Johnny Guitar
.... And while
sissy men have always signaled a rank betrayal of the myth of male superiority, tomboy women have seemed to reinforce that myth and have often been ....
(1728
7
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Athletes Socialization in Sports
.... I would have loved to go to the University of Tennessee to try out for the Lady Volunteers (although I really hate that "
sissy" team name), but I knew I did ....
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Aspects of Sexuality
.... The text points out that stereotypic notions of the homosexual man (eg
sissy, drag-queen, etc.) really characterize only a small percentage of gay men. ....
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