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To Catch Who? Moral Panics In Contemporary Television Media, Crystal L. Baker
To Catch Who? Moral Panics In Contemporary Television Media, Crystal L. Baker
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
My thesis looks at the creation of moral panics surrounding childhood, sexuality, and media proliferation of “stranger danger,” in American culture. I have chosen to analyze the television program “To Catch a Predator” to illustrate the ways in which these “stranger danger” narratives are related to childhood sexual moral panics and how these two phenomena work to encourage viewership and consumerism in American culture. The exacerbation of “predator” moral panics in reality television maintains the fear of invasion of secure suburban space largely due to the portrayal of African American men as threatening and/or violent within “To Catch a Predator’s” …
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Marketing Of Merck & Co.'S Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®, Malika A. Redmond
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Marketing Of Merck & Co.'S Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®, Malika A. Redmond
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This is a critical discourse analysis research project that examines the print and television advertisements of Merck & Co.’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL®. There are three commercial campaigns identified for this project: “Make the Connection/ Charm4Life,” “Tell Someone,” and “One Less/ I Choose.” Two print and two television commercials per campaign are analyzed. I used black feminist and girls studies theoretical frameworks to address how representations of race, class, “girl power,” and the cooptation of feminist language are both expressed and utilized in the marketing as a method to target consumers. I conclude with “parody/ protest” advertisements of the …
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach To Healing From Sexual Abuse, Adenike A. Harris
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach To Healing From Sexual Abuse, Adenike A. Harris
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This creative thesis illustrates how the writer initiated a ‘call-and-response’ dialogue as a healing strategy to heal her relationship with her non-abusive biological father after revealing to him that her stepfather had sexually abused her from ages 14 to 22. This memoir both contributes to the field of Women’s Studies and provides an example that other sexual abuse survivors can follow to heal their intimate relationships.
Hooking Up On College Campuses, Elena M. Weiss
Hooking Up On College Campuses, Elena M. Weiss
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
A 2001 national study of college women’s sexual attitudes and behaviors revealed that students have stopped dating and started “hooking up.” Previous studies focused on fraternities and their
relation to the rape culture but neglected to connect rape culture to hook up culture. This study evaluated the culture surrounding rape by interviewing seventeen college aged men about masculinity, behavior in male homosocial groups, “hooking up” and rape. It addresses
the following questions: 1-How do college men understand “hooking up” and sexual consent? 2-In what ways might men’s understanding of “hooking up” and sexual consent be related to the ongoing incidence …
You're Wearing The Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls And The All American Girl Next Door, Rachel E. Cook
You're Wearing The Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls And The All American Girl Next Door, Rachel E. Cook
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Hooters restaurants are typically staffed by Caucasian women that resemble the company’s idea of an “All American Girl, Surfer Girl, Girl Next Door” image, promoted in employee training materials. However, my experience working for this company has been in a predominantly African American-staffed Hooters, atypical for the corporation. Through a mixed methods approach encompassing content analysis, participant observation, autoethnography, and interviews, this research seeks to understand the ideal Hooters Girl image promoted by the corporation, and the performance of that ideal in an atypical Hooters location.
Paradise Found? Black Gay Men In Atlanta: An Exploration Of Community, Tobias L. Spears
Paradise Found? Black Gay Men In Atlanta: An Exploration Of Community, Tobias L. Spears
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This study examines the ways in which Black gay men in Atlanta create and experience community and culture every day, notwithstanding those discursive sources that situate life for Black gay men as particularly troubled. Drawing on ethnographic methods, including participant observation and interviewing, I attempt to show the complexity of Black gay men by exploring their world in Atlanta, Georgia, a city that has increasingly become known as a Black Gay Mecca. Qualitative research examining the ways Black gay men create and experience community has the potential to broaden academic discourses that have increasingly medicalized the Black gay male experience, …
Where My Girls At?: The Interpellation Of Women In Gangsta Hip-Hop, Chanel R. Craft
Where My Girls At?: The Interpellation Of Women In Gangsta Hip-Hop, Chanel R. Craft
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis interrogates gangsta hip-hop for the unique attention it plays to the drug trade. I read theories of hypervisibility/invisibility and Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation alongside hip-hop feminist theory to examine the Black female criminal subjectivity that operates within hip-hop. Using methods of discourse analysis, I question the constructions of gangster femininity in rap lyrics as well as the absences of girlhood on Season 4 of HBO’s television drama The Wire. In doing so, I argue that the discursive construction of Black female subjectivity within gangsta hip-hop provides a hypervisibility that portrays Black women as violent while simultaneously erasing …
Middle School Technology And Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study, Mekisha Renaé Parks
Middle School Technology And Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study, Mekisha Renaé Parks
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This qualitative action research case study seeks to modify a Middle School Computer Science Course at a medium‐sized private school in North Atlanta, Georgia by examining the intersection of media literacy, technology, and adolescent teens. The main purpose of this project is to improve the course by incorporating media literacy skills into the curriculum. Guided class discussions, active participant observation, participant journals, and participant projects will be used to learn more about students’ experience with Media Literacy education. Centering on reflective practices, teacher‐student dialogue, and peer collaboration, this project aims to identify, engage, and explore issues critical to the effective …
The Mystery Of The Body: Embodiment In The Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
The Mystery Of The Body: Embodiment In The Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis investigates the ways in which ideas about class, gender, and race are produced and articulated through the body in the Nancy Drew Mystery series in the 1930s. Physical descriptions and bodily movements, as well as material surroundings, work together to reify and contradict dominant ideas of normalcy and deviance being located on the body.
Power And Surrender: African American Sunni Women And Embodied Agency, Lisa Renae Frazier
Power And Surrender: African American Sunni Women And Embodied Agency, Lisa Renae Frazier
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis addresses the lack of scholarly attention devoted to African American Sunni women by examining how they use collective memory to negotiate embodied agency. Through an analysis of African American Sunni women’s narratives of testifying conversion, and vignettes from diaries and interviews, I show how African American Sunni women utilize racial, religious, and spiritual memory in the form of ritual practices and Islamic texts to multiply construct their bodies, and how this construction allows them to enact multimodal and nomadic forms of agency. A contextual analysis also illustrates how environment and interpretation (tafsir) further mobilizes forms of agency, articulating …
Searching For The Womanist Within, Carmela L. Pattillo
Searching For The Womanist Within, Carmela L. Pattillo
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Searching for the Womanist Within is a play about self identity and the daily experience of African-American women who are at the intersecting oppressions of race, gender and class. The unique life perspective of Afeican-American women is explored through the retelling of stories from the writer’s life as well as the lives of other black women. In Feminist, Black Feminist, Afrocentric and Womanist drama it is common to steer away from conventional theatrical structures, Solo drama, a less conventional structure, was selected for this play. In addition to the play is an essay about the writing process, as well as …
Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in America created a group of Black Indians whose lineage continues today. Though largely unrecognized, they remain an important racially mixed group. Through analysis using qualitative feminist methodologies, this thesis examines the history and analyzes the narratives of African-Native American females regarding their racial identity and political claims of tribal citizenship. Their socialization, which includes kin keeping, extended families and the sharing of family stories, allows them to claim native ancestry because of the information usually passed down to them from mothers, grandmothers, aunts and other family members. Their …
Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Women have been involved in the writing, illustrating, and production of comic books at almost every step of the genre’s development. The years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s were tumultuous for the comic book industry. At the societal level, these years were saturated with changes that challenged normative ideas of sex roles and gender. The goal of this study is two-fold: it documents the specific contributions to the comic book industry made by the women interviewed, and it addresses research questions that focus on gender, change, and comic books. This project asks: What was the role and …
“You Talking To Me?” Considering Black Women’S Racialized And Gendered Experiences With And Responses Or Reactions To Street Harassment From Men, Melinda Mills
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis explores the various discursive strategies that black women employ when they encounter street harassment from men. To investigate the ways in which these women choose to respond to men’s attention during social interactions, I examine their perception of social situations to understand how they view urban spaces and strangers within these spaces. Drawing on qualitative interviews that I conducted with 10 black women, I focus on how the unique convergence of this group’s racial and gender identities can expose them to sexist and racist street harassment. Thus, I argue that black women face street harassment as a result …
In Search Of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist And Peace Advocate In The Early Twentieth Century, Jiling Yang
In Search Of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist And Peace Advocate In The Early Twentieth Century, Jiling Yang
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Martha Root (1872-1939) was an exceptional religious and spiritual activist, a leading figure in the international women's peace movement, and a new organism of a new world in the early twentieth century. This thesis represents Martha Root from three aspects: the early life of Martha Root, her four world teaching trips from 1919 to 1939, with a focus on her peace advocacy, and an investigation into her gender awareness and identity construction by reflecting on Tahirih the Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman, Martha Root's only book.
Empowering Senior Females By Utilizing Each Female Person's Voice To Create Desired Lifestyle Options, Icydor Aldale Mohabier
Empowering Senior Females By Utilizing Each Female Person's Voice To Create Desired Lifestyle Options, Icydor Aldale Mohabier
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Interviews of senior females ranging in age from 55 through 72 were conducted between September 2004 and April 2005, in order to determine what lifestyle options this group would like made available to them. The participants represented a sample of senior females who had different backgrounds, including culture, education level, and economic circumstance. Although all the participants had very different lifestyles at the time of their interviews, most were satisfied with their current lifestyles but wanted to change something about it. The research results indicate that there are three desired lifestyle options that senior females want: socializing, improving their health, …
A Manifest Cyborg: Laurie Anderson And Technology, Julie Malinda Goolsby
A Manifest Cyborg: Laurie Anderson And Technology, Julie Malinda Goolsby
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis seeks to demonstrate that although Laurie Anderson’s performance works are technologically driven and often involve gender play, seemingly transgressing the gender binary, ultimately she reinscribes traditional gender norms. On the one hand, Anderson has been a pioneer in the use of electronic technology, which is significant considering she is a woman and electronics is a male-dominated arena; on the other hand, her ambiguously- gendered cyborg persona, which does often raise awareness about gender stereotypes, ultimately reinscribes traditional gender norms. Although I consider these issues as they pertain specifically to Anderson, the significance of this project lies in the …
"Mother May I? Food, Power And Control In Mothers And Daughters", Lisa Joy Borello
"Mother May I? Food, Power And Control In Mothers And Daughters", Lisa Joy Borello
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Fourteen women in the United States were interviewed to determine the role mothers played in shaping their daughters’ attitudes toward their bodies and eating, and the extent to which women negotiated the messages they received from their family and larger culture concerning weight and appearance. Results of this study complicated existing theories concerning the factors that most influence women’s self-esteem and body image. The results demonstrated that the women within this sample engaged in a variety of disordered eating patterns, but did not recognize their own actions as out-of-the-ordinary; rather they re-produced familial and cultural messages about women’s “normative body …
The Negotiation Of Gender And Athleticism By Women Athletes, Erica Nicolien Kitchen
The Negotiation Of Gender And Athleticism By Women Athletes, Erica Nicolien Kitchen
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Despite significant improvements in the last thirty years, the sporting world remains a masculine domain. Women athletes continue to face inequalities and criticism for crossing traditional gender lines. This study, which was grounded in Foucauldian, postmodern and social constructionist theories and a third wave feminist perspective, examines how women athletes understand gender and how gender, athleticism and body image intersect for them. Eleven women in various stages of their athletic careers participated in in-depth interviews. Women and girls are influenced to participate in sport by family and friends, have local role models, and value the social aspect of sport. They …
I'M Not Loud Enough To Be Heard: Rock 'N' Roll Camp For Girls And Feminist Quests For Equity, Community, And Cultural Production, Stacey Lynn Singer
I'M Not Loud Enough To Be Heard: Rock 'N' Roll Camp For Girls And Feminist Quests For Equity, Community, And Cultural Production, Stacey Lynn Singer
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Because of what I perceive to be important contributions to female youth empowerment and the construction of culture and community, I chose to conduct a qualitative case study that explores the methods utilized in the performance of Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, as well as the experiences of camp administrators, participants, and volunteers, in order to identify feminist constructs, aims, and outcomes of Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls. My interests lie in the feminist and activist approaches in the construction and production of Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, as well as in the quest for equity, community …
Andalusia, Julia Clare Peteet
Andalusia, Julia Clare Peteet
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This is a creative thesis in the form of a screenplay titled “Andalusia” in which a woman, Katherine, searches for meaning in her life. After suffering through a childhood wrought with tragedy, disappointment, and chaos, Katherine strives to create a healthy reality in which she can thrive. After failing miserably at this once, she takes a different path and finds herself hidden away in her dead father’s house writing about the Mississippi Delta town of Andalusia.
Third Wave Feminist History And The Politics Of Being Visible And Being Real, Robbin Hillary Vannewkirk
Third Wave Feminist History And The Politics Of Being Visible And Being Real, Robbin Hillary Vannewkirk
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This project works to illuminate some of the main theoretical claims that writers of the third wave make in order to understand these claims as rhetorical devices used to make themselves visible and real. Being visible is a common theme in third wave texts and realness is a site that is both contested and embraced. Being Visible and being real work together to situate third wave actors in a U.S. feminist continuum that is sprinkled with contradiction and ambiguity. This thesis will examine the contextual development of third wave feminism, and then using examples of realness and visibility in the …