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From Panic To Pity: Circuits And Circulations Of The Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez-Rodriguez
From Panic To Pity: Circuits And Circulations Of The Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez-Rodriguez
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
The creation, implementation, and ratification of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as well as the growth of parallel private initiatives against human trafficking, have emerged from a neoliberal political agenda that focuses on redefinitions of labor, sexuality, securitization of humanitarian campaigns, and immigration policies. In this thesis, I explore some of the meanings and effects of those redefinitions by focusing on the affective registers of pity and panic in their ability to mobilize publics toward restrictive forms of assistance to real and imaginary victims of the so-called phenomenon of “modern-day slavery.”
“You Can’T Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care And Spiritual Activism In Queen Afua’S Sacred Woman, Brandy J. Pettijohn
“You Can’T Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care And Spiritual Activism In Queen Afua’S Sacred Woman, Brandy J. Pettijohn
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Queen Afua created the Sacred Woman as a text and program that seeks to heal women of common disorders that particularly affect the African American community. This thesis project is a conversation about the self-care methods embedded within the text that moves away from the ideology of the strongblackwoman. I position both theories and methods of self-care by using a womanist theoretical framework, as well as textual analysis and interviews as methods that examine the womanist concept of spiritual activism, which expands what is thought of as radical and liberatory activist actions.
Gendered Admission: Transinclusive Admissions Policies At Women's Colleges, Ruby Kett
Gendered Admission: Transinclusive Admissions Policies At Women's Colleges, Ruby Kett
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Many women’s colleges in the United States are evaluating their mission to educate women in a society where gender is recognized as a social construct. As a result, some women’s colleges have changed their admissions policies to include transgender people. By examining the admissions policies of select women’s colleges, I analyze who becomes a thinkable student at women’s colleges, as well as who is excluded by the admissions policies. Through my analysis of the admissions policies of twelve women’s colleges, I divide the colleges into four categories: colleges with self-identification policies, colleges with consistent identification policies, colleges with legal and/or …
Sexy Ambiguity And Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, And Representation In Seba Al-Herz's The Others, Kristyn Johnson
Sexy Ambiguity And Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, And Representation In Seba Al-Herz's The Others, Kristyn Johnson
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Sexual representations in Seba al-Herz’s Saudi Arabian novel The Others span various kinds of sexual identification and experience. Surface level readings of the novel find examples of lesbian identities and encounters, but a deeper, more nuanced examination of the novel unearths a complex set of queer desires, practices, sexual encounters, and relationships that do not fit neatly in to regulated sexual identity categories. Through literary analysis, I argue that through ambiguities in the novel’s construction and narration, and through the Narrator’s sexual experiences, The Others offers a kind of sexual expression that opens up possibilities of de-territorializing and re-territorializing sexual …
The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram And Branding In The Online Islamic Fashion Industry, Kelsey Waninger
The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram And Branding In The Online Islamic Fashion Industry, Kelsey Waninger
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
What it means to be a Muslim woman is frequently redefined in reaction to the notions of ‘Muslim womanhood’ constructed within neoliberal society. By examining the ways in which Hijabi fashion bloggers use the visual discourse of their Instagram accounts to implement specific notions of taste, authenticity and branding this project aims to address the question of where fashion blogs fit within mainstream fashion frameworks and the ways in which the assumed tensions surrounding veiling and fashion are disrupted.
(De)Tangled: An Exploration Of The Hierarchies In The Natural Hair Community, Schillica Howard
(De)Tangled: An Exploration Of The Hierarchies In The Natural Hair Community, Schillica Howard
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Within popular discourse, natural hair is considered to be a source of liberation where Black women can accept and nurture their natural hair texture. My research explores the points of contention in this community and the hierarchies that exist based on length of hair, curl pattern, and texture. By using product content analysis, interviews with Black women with natural hair, and analysis of social media, this thesis brings the ideal aesthetics in the natural hair community to the forefront for closer examination. Findings insist that, in the natural hair community, a curl is more attractive than a kink, longer hair …
"Lean In," "Opt Out," And The Journey To Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom, Cecilia Troiano
"Lean In," "Opt Out," And The Journey To Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom, Cecilia Troiano
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This work focuses on understanding how nine Brazilian college women, from different ethnicities and sexual orientations, navigate their future expectations related to career and personal lives. Thus, the research explores how they are planning to create and maintain a work/life balance and how they are shaping their intentions in relation to the duality “lean in”/ “opt out,” a dichotomy that tells women to work hard and assert themselves or to leave the competitive workplace. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the author explores how the women’s idealized futures do not follow the propositions offered by “lean …