"Pro-choice and nuns" press conference with (L-R): Gloria Steinem; Gloria Fitzgerald, nun; Rosemary Stango, former nun; Dawn Tenent, former nun; Karen Burstein, NY State Senator; Carol Bellamy, NY State Senator; Mim Kelber, assistant to Bella Abzug; Pat McQuillan, founder of "Catholics for a free choice."

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Kate Millett with the Woman's Salon co-founder Gloria Orenstein (right)

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Gloria Orenstein (left), Erika Duncan, and Judy Chicago (right) at the Woman's Salon

General note: Title and date provided by Freda Leinwand.

Gloria Orenstein (left), Erika Duncan, and Judy Chicago (right) at the Woman's Salon

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Gloria Steinem at ERA demonstration

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Barbara Deming, Erika Duncan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein at The Woman's Salon

Inscription: Verso: The Woman's Salon, New York. Seated on platform: Barbara Deming, Erika Duncan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein.

Gloria Orenstein at the Woman's Salon

Inscription: Verso: The Woman's Salon, New York. Gloria Orenstein, founder.

Satisfaction level of adults with University Programmes

This research analyses the degree of satisfaction of a sample of 874 students from University Programmes for adults and elderly, from Spain. The investigation is framed along the lines of positive psychology, specifically in Martin Seligman’s proposal, founder of this movement, who advocates that the main objective of this branch of psychological science is to investigate the healthy aspects of human life. The methodology applied is mixed. The level of satisfaction, collected through the survey technique was analysed by the SPSS 20.0 (using method CHAID) statistical program for the quantitative data; and by the Programme Atlas.Ti 6.0 (textual and conceptual analyses) for the qualitative data. The analysed data reveal that students are highly satisfied with the programme, the teachers and their peers. The discussion confirms these results, since it has also stood out in others studies

La dimensión mítica de los personajes vanguardistas. Una reflexión en torno a la teoría de Ortega y Gasset

En el realismo de finales del XIX se consolida el desarrollo de los personajes novelescos, pero muy poco tiempo después se produce un giro en la narrativa hacia la abstracción que induce a Ortega y Gasset a reflexionar sobre cuáles son las características que definen un personaje literario. En Meditaciones del Quijote (1914), La deshumanización del arte e Ideas sobre la novela (ambos de 1925) hace un análisis histórico que concluye ofreciendo un diagnóstico de la literatura contemporánea. Muchos de los narradores vanguardistas, formados a su sombra, tienen en cuenta sus escritos y experimentan con sus propuestas. En este proceso el mito juega un papel principal, como sustancia de lo poético y como sustrato cultural de muchos de los protagonistas de la novela experimental de los años 20.

Faulkner revisited : narrating property, race, gender and history in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

My thesis explores the formation of the subject in the novels of Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. I attach the concept of property in terms of how male protagonists are obsessed with materialistic ownership and with the subordination of women who, as properties, consolidate their manhood. The three novelists despite their racial, gendered, and literary differences share the view that identity and truth are mere social and cultural constructs. I incorporate the work of Judith Butler and other poststructuralist figures, who see identity as a matter of performance rather than a natural entity. My thesis explores the theme of freedom, which I attached to the ways characters use their bodies either to confine or to emancipate themselves from the restricting world of race, class, and gender. The three novelists deconstruct any system of belief that promulgates the objectivity of truth in historical documents. History in the three novels, as with the protagonists, perception of identity, remains a social construct laden with distortions to serve particular political or ideological agendas. My thesis gives voice to African American female characters who are associated with love and racial and gender resistance. They become the reservoirs of the African American legacy in terms of their association with the oral and intuitionist mode of knowing, which subverts the male characters’ obsession with property and with the mainstream empiricist world. In this dissertation, I use the concept of hybridity as a literary and theoretical devise that African-American writers employ. In effect, I embark on the postcolonial studies of Henry Louise Gates, Paul Gilroy, W. E. B Du Bois, James Clifford, and Arjun Appadurai in order to reflect upon the fluidity of Morrison’s and Naylor’s works. I show how these two novelists subvert Faulkner’s essentialist perception of truth, and of racial and gendered identity. They associate the myth of the Flying African with the notion of hybridity by making their male protagonists criss-cross Northern and Southern regions. I refer to Mae Gwendolyn Henderson’s article on “Speaking in Tongues” in my analysis of how Naylor subverts the patriarchal text of both Faulkner and Morrison in embarking on a more feminine version of the flying African, which she relates to an ex-slave, Sapphira Wade, a volatile female character who resists fixed claim over her story and identity. In dealing with the concept of hybridity, I show that Naylor rewrites both authors’ South by making Willow Springs a more fluid space, an assumption that unsettles the scores of critics who associate the island with authenticity and exclusive rootedness.

Credibilidad y confianza del comité de convivencia laboral de la Administración Municipal de Itagüí (2014 – 2015)

El acoso laboral es una problemática que aqueja a la población laboral mundial y es uno de los principales riesgos psicosociales en el trabajo, pues no sólo afecta la productividad de los trabajadores, sino que también tiene un fuerte impacto en su salud mental. En Colombia se promulgó la Ley 1010 de 2006 con el fin de combatir este flagelo, sin embargo, se cuestiona la eficacia de esta ley y las resoluciones emanadas del Ministerio del Trabajo que crean los Comités de Convivencia Laboral. El acoso laboral, continúa siendo una de las principales problemáticas que viven los empleados en Colombia, situación que no es ajena en la Administración Municipal de Itagüí. La pregunta que orientó la presente investigación fue: ¿Genera credibilidad y confianza el Comité de Convivencia Laboral entre los funcionarios de la Administración Municipal de Itagüí frente a la solución de las problemáticas relacionadas con el acoso laboral? Los resultados obtenidos a partir de una encuesta realizada a 254 funcionarios y una entrevista con los miembros del Comité de Convivencia Laboral (CCL), permite concluir que el CCL de la Administración Municipal de Itagüí, presenta fallas en la gestión que viene realizando y que existe un clima de desconfianza y falta de credibilidad hacia el comité, lo que se traduce en que la Ley 1010 de 2006 pierda eficacia instrumental en la prevención del acoso laboral en la administración municipal de Itagüí.