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To Catch Who? Moral Panics In Contemporary Television Media, Crystal L. Baker
To Catch Who? Moral Panics In Contemporary Television Media, Crystal L. Baker
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
My thesis looks at the creation of moral panics surrounding childhood, sexuality, and media proliferation of “stranger danger,” in American culture. I have chosen to analyze the television program “To Catch a Predator” to illustrate the ways in which these “stranger danger” narratives are related to childhood sexual moral panics and how these two phenomena work to encourage viewership and consumerism in American culture. The exacerbation of “predator” moral panics in reality television maintains the fear of invasion of secure suburban space largely due to the portrayal of African American men as threatening and/or violent within “To Catch a Predator’s” …
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Marketing Of Merck & Co.'S Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®, Malika A. Redmond
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Marketing Of Merck & Co.'S Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®, Malika A. Redmond
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This is a critical discourse analysis research project that examines the print and television advertisements of Merck & Co.’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL®. There are three commercial campaigns identified for this project: “Make the Connection/ Charm4Life,” “Tell Someone,” and “One Less/ I Choose.” Two print and two television commercials per campaign are analyzed. I used black feminist and girls studies theoretical frameworks to address how representations of race, class, “girl power,” and the cooptation of feminist language are both expressed and utilized in the marketing as a method to target consumers. I conclude with “parody/ protest” advertisements of the …
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach To Healing From Sexual Abuse, Adenike A. Harris
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach To Healing From Sexual Abuse, Adenike A. Harris
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This creative thesis illustrates how the writer initiated a ‘call-and-response’ dialogue as a healing strategy to heal her relationship with her non-abusive biological father after revealing to him that her stepfather had sexually abused her from ages 14 to 22. This memoir both contributes to the field of Women’s Studies and provides an example that other sexual abuse survivors can follow to heal their intimate relationships.
Hooking Up On College Campuses, Elena M. Weiss
Hooking Up On College Campuses, Elena M. Weiss
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
A 2001 national study of college women’s sexual attitudes and behaviors revealed that students have stopped dating and started “hooking up.” Previous studies focused on fraternities and their
relation to the rape culture but neglected to connect rape culture to hook up culture. This study evaluated the culture surrounding rape by interviewing seventeen college aged men about masculinity, behavior in male homosocial groups, “hooking up” and rape. It addresses
the following questions: 1-How do college men understand “hooking up” and sexual consent? 2-In what ways might men’s understanding of “hooking up” and sexual consent be related to the ongoing incidence …
You're Wearing The Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls And The All American Girl Next Door, Rachel E. Cook
You're Wearing The Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls And The All American Girl Next Door, Rachel E. Cook
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Hooters restaurants are typically staffed by Caucasian women that resemble the company’s idea of an “All American Girl, Surfer Girl, Girl Next Door” image, promoted in employee training materials. However, my experience working for this company has been in a predominantly African American-staffed Hooters, atypical for the corporation. Through a mixed methods approach encompassing content analysis, participant observation, autoethnography, and interviews, this research seeks to understand the ideal Hooters Girl image promoted by the corporation, and the performance of that ideal in an atypical Hooters location.