{"id":1773,"date":"2019-05-01T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/pure\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:49:54","slug":"great-student-presentations-from-2017-the-power-of-words-an-etymological-history-of-wife-by-kristine-eck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/2019\/05\/01\/great-student-presentations-from-2017-the-power-of-words-an-etymological-history-of-wife-by-kristine-eck\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Student Presentations from 2017: The Power of Words: An Etymological History of \u201cWife\u201d by Kristine Eck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Jan. 21, 2017 five million people worldwide participated in the Women\u2019s March to advocate for many issues, including equal rights for women. Every individual rally had something in common: words. There were signs, speeches, protesting and chanting as people tapped into the indisputable power of words. With every social or political movement, the language of the time changes with it. This is inevitably true for the word \u201cwife.\u201d In its most basic form, \u201cwife\u201d refers to a woman who is married. But to a lot of people, myself included, \u201cwife\u201d seems to conjure images of ticky-tacky homes, knee-length pastel skirts and a suffocating male dominated culture that just won\u2019t go away. Where did these negative connotations come from and how are they changing in the current social and political climate? This presentation will explore the etymology of the word \u201cwife\u201d to seek answers to these questions, while also looking to a future where \u201cwife\u201d means lover, equal partner, most trusted friend and companion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faculty sponsor: David Hargreaves<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 21, 2017 five million people worldwide participated in the Women\u2019s March to advocate for many issues, including equal rights for women. Every individual rally had something in common: words. There were signs, speeches, protesting and chanting as people tapped into the indisputable power of words. With every social or political movement, the language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-examples"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/pure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}