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As Above, So Between: Configuring Miss Lala As A Mixed Race Subject, Elizabeth Fei
As Above, So Between: Configuring Miss Lala As A Mixed Race Subject, Elizabeth Fei
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Elizabeth Fei situates Miss Lala, the subject of Degas’ “Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando” painting to recenter Lala’s racially mixed body as a crucial site for understanding how discourses of race and gender manifested then and continue to manifest. Using images, articles, and recollections of her act, Fei recovers Lala’s subjectivity by drawing on three main aspects of Lala’s identity: her black womanhood, her circus performances, and her multiraciality. Fei contends that to configure Lala as a mixed race figure allows for all of the possible ways she might have identified to emerge as it is dexterous and adjustable …
Imaginative Methods: A Feminist Rereading Of John Maynard Keynes, Cassandra Forster-Broten
Imaginative Methods: A Feminist Rereading Of John Maynard Keynes, Cassandra Forster-Broten
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses a feminist lens to reveal aspects of the life of John Maynard Keynes that previous scholarship has missed. lt uses a feminist framework to view the connections between Keynes's lived experiences, beliefs, and work in a fuller and more nuanced way. The research highlights the importance of Keynes's sexuality, his connection to women and women's issues, and the significance of his relationships to friends, family, lovers, and colleagues. Feminist theory questions objectivity in knowledge production, argues for the importance of lived experience, and requires us to grapple with interconnected identities, which leads to a new interpretation of …