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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.
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.