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Conversations With Women In Ma'sarah, Cairo, Jeannette Rizk
Conversations With Women In Ma'sarah, Cairo, Jeannette Rizk
Archived Theses and Dissertations
My research centers around the daily realities and lives of three women of one family in Ma'sarah, Cairo. The particularities of their life experiences speak to the experience of Egyptian women in general, while their own unique situation as Evangelical Christians in a majority Muslim country sets them apart from both their Muslim and Coptic neighbors, about whom much has been written. Various methods are used to illuminate their perception of life with a focus on gender identity. The written prose captures their personal narratives while the visual narrative, a documentary film, allows the women to speak for themselves. Together …
Cultivating Dissent: Queer Zines And The Active Subject, Angela Connie Asbell
Cultivating Dissent: Queer Zines And The Active Subject, Angela Connie Asbell
Theses Digitization Project
Performs a rhetorical analysis of several zines that deal with gender and sexual identity and outlines some shared aesthetics and ethos of zines and zinesters, then connects the rhetorical and stylistic choices of zinesters to their searches for political and personal identity.