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The Fat Agenda: An Analysis Of Fatphobia, Race, Gender, Sexuality And Black Womanhood, Kara A. Lawrence
The Fat Agenda: An Analysis Of Fatphobia, Race, Gender, Sexuality And Black Womanhood, Kara A. Lawrence
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
As a result of colonialism and hegemonic patriarchy, experiencing life with intersecting oppressions is extremely taxing. The added difficulty of being overweight can contribute additional stress in an appearance driven society. Yourdictionary.com reductively defines fatphobia as “the fear and dislike of obese people and or/ obesity” (yourdictionary.com). The term is not acknowledged in more credible dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster or Oxford. Through personal narrative I will reveal the ways in which fatphobia, along with the interlocking oppressions of racism and sexism, can negatively impact the expression of Black women’s sexuality and humanity.
The Bisexual To Be Corrected: Interrogating The Threat And Recuperation Of Women's Femme Bisexuality, Hannah Mcshane
The Bisexual To Be Corrected: Interrogating The Threat And Recuperation Of Women's Femme Bisexuality, Hannah Mcshane
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
In this project I seek to explore the ways in which women’s performance of femme bisexuality constitutes a threat to existing regimes of gender and sexuality in the West. In my analysis, I will consider how femme, femininity, womanhood, and bisexuality are constructed and policed, and further, how these forms of policing layer onto women’s femme bisexuality because of the identity’s potential to weaken existing hegemonic frameworks of power and control. In these considerations I will explore the history of femme as a descriptive/identity label, dominant perceptions of femininity both outside and within feminist circles, the history of bisexuality, the …
“You Are Not A Woman”: Disposable Mothers And The Clandestine Baby Factories In Nigeria, Irene Agunloye
“You Are Not A Woman”: Disposable Mothers And The Clandestine Baby Factories In Nigeria, Irene Agunloye
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
My thesis ““You are not a Woman”: Disposable Mothers and The Clandestine Baby Factory in Nigeria”, seeks to address the exclusion and marginalization of infertile (barren) women, their experiences and voices from the ‘cult of motherhood’. The thesis is also a rallying cry for education, sensitization and action against the clandestine baby factories in Nigeria. Consequently, a screenplay is used to narrate an authentic account of this on-going assault on young unsuspecting women, bringing to light the driving force behind baby factories. In future, this screenplay will be filmed and used for advocacy to conscientize the general public (communities, government …
Hybrid – Can That Be My Nickname?: Intersectionality, Afro-Nihilism, And The Otherly Existence Of Queer Black Women, Bryana Jones
Hybrid – Can That Be My Nickname?: Intersectionality, Afro-Nihilism, And The Otherly Existence Of Queer Black Women, Bryana Jones
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
For Black women, recognizing, accessing, and exercising their ability to disrupt hegemonic categories of normativity is an important project. A combination of misogyny/sexism and racism relegates all Black women in America to an intersecting space of multiple marginalizations, and Black masculine lesbians ultimately occupy a space in the intersection of no less than four different oppressions: race, gender, sexuality, and gender nonconformity. This project examines, through narrative inquiry – primarily the poetic of storytelling – the ways that Black masculine lesbians, due to their particular positionality, experience an alternative, Otherly ontological existence. It also investigates the ways in which Black …