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Disability, Victorian Biopolitics And Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Hiu Wai Wong Dec 2018

Disability, Victorian Biopolitics And Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Hiu Wai Wong

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article “Disability, Victorian Biopolitics and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray,” Hiu Wai Wong discusses The Picture of Dorian Gray as Oscar Wilde’s life writing of the androgynous beauty. Extending his praise of Lord Alfred Douglas in De Profundis, Wilde’s descriptions of Dorian as the androgyne can be read as the demonstration of Michel Foucault’s techniques of the self. She argues that the androgynous beauty can be a strategy of bodily practice that overthrows the Victorian biopolitics which enforces a rigid gender role. Moreover, she explores the notion of camp and Judith Butler’s theory of performance to explain the …


The Colonized Masculinity And Cultural Politics Of Seediq Bale, Chin-Ju Lin Dec 2018

The Colonized Masculinity And Cultural Politics Of Seediq Bale, Chin-Ju Lin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “The Colonized Masculinity and Cultural Politics of Seediq Bale,” Chin-ju Lin discusses a Taiwanese blockbuster movie, a postcolonial historiography and a form of life-writing, which delineates the last Indigenous insurrection against Japanese colonialism. This article explores the cultural representations in Seediq Bale. Fighting back as a colonized man for pride and dignity is portrayed as means to restore their masculine identity. The headhunting tradition is remembered, romanticized, praised highly as heroic and even strengthened in an inaccurate way to promote individualistic masculinity and to forge a new national identity in postcolonial Taiwan. Nevertheless, the stereotypical …


Decolonizing Adoption Narratives For Transnational Reproductive Justice, Sung Hee Yook, Hosu Kim Dec 2018

Decolonizing Adoption Narratives For Transnational Reproductive Justice, Sung Hee Yook, Hosu Kim

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article “Decolonizing Adoption Narratives for Transnational Reproductive Justice,” Sung Hee Yook and Hosu Kim examine narratives emerging from transnational adoption practices, focusing on how birth mothers’ narratives—in which a victim-mother makes choices to give a child for adoption in hopes of a better life for the child, and awaits that child’s return—develop alongside and deviate from the normative orders of motherhood. While birth mothers’ self-transformative narrative illuminates their subjectivities—apart from victimhood, simmering in the latent form of agency—Yook and Kim argue that a compelling narrative of self-mastery produces another discursive trap which renders the numerous less-masterful birth mothers …


The Rise Of The Neoliberal Chinese Female Subject In Go Lala Go, Su-Lin Yu Dec 2018

The Rise Of The Neoliberal Chinese Female Subject In Go Lala Go, Su-Lin Yu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Built upon feminist critique of neoliberalism, this paper will examine a prominent medium through which neoliberal feminist ideology is disseminated: Go Lala Go. By analyzing the film, I will show how it co-opts the discourse of neoliberalism, and reworks it to construct neoliberal female subjects. First, I will explore what kind of role neoliberalism has enacted in the formation of an emergent type of female subject in China. Then, I will demonstrate how the contentious process of neoliberal feminism affects young career women’s identities. More than career guides promoting different techniques for making women more successful at their workplaces, …


Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu Oct 2018

Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Students in the discipline of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are uniquely positioned to critically engage with systems of power and apply academic theory to real world practice as a field that has a clear and implicit social justice angle to its scholarship. The Open Access movement can benefit from the critical theories used in WGS as a means of ensuring maximum inclusivity of the movement. Further, WGS students must acknowledge their privileged position within an academic institution and publish in ways that undermine the systems of power that lock up knowledge behind a toll in order to align their …


Crossing Borders: Writers Writing Their Lives Gws 492, Mary Macdonald Oct 2018

Crossing Borders: Writers Writing Their Lives Gws 492, Mary Macdonald

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


The Rise And Fall Of Gilmore Girls' Feminist Legacy, Mckenna Ahlgren Oct 2018

The Rise And Fall Of Gilmore Girls' Feminist Legacy, Mckenna Ahlgren

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the feminist legacy that the television series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007, 2016) built during its original airtime and how its later revival diminished that legacy. Gilmore Girls’ main characters are three generations of women within the Gilmore family, providing a unique opportunity to analyze their feminist identities and characterizations relative to different iterations of feminism. This paper examines how the youngest Gilmore, Rory, is influenced by her mother’s and grandmother’s embodiments of feminism. Their expressions of femininity and sexuality, their approaches to motherhood, and their behaviors in their romantic relationships throughout the series correlate with the predominate feminism …


Feminism In Music & Film, Alexandra Callaway, Keila San Pedro, Jili "Gigi" Chen Oct 2018

Feminism In Music & Film, Alexandra Callaway, Keila San Pedro, Jili "Gigi" Chen

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


No Means No, Payton Miller, Sydney Mcafee, Kait Kenyon Oct 2018

No Means No, Payton Miller, Sydney Mcafee, Kait Kenyon

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Women Proudly Roaring Their Feminist Ideas, Juliana Tarallo, Lia Weed, Jessica Gibbons Oct 2018

Women Proudly Roaring Their Feminist Ideas, Juliana Tarallo, Lia Weed, Jessica Gibbons

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Women & Healthcare, Phybie Le, Paige Goedderz, Jerry Hu, Vafa Fanaii Oct 2018

Women & Healthcare, Phybie Le, Paige Goedderz, Jerry Hu, Vafa Fanaii

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Intersectionality, Mya Gamble, Lola Williams, Autumn Sumruld Oct 2018

Intersectionality, Mya Gamble, Lola Williams, Autumn Sumruld

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Social Media Burn Book, Rachael Lindblom, Hebe Moore, Janine Ortiz Oct 2018

Social Media Burn Book, Rachael Lindblom, Hebe Moore, Janine Ortiz

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


G Spot, Audrey Kenefick, Sule Murray, Ivanna Rea, Sydney Weinger Oct 2018

G Spot, Audrey Kenefick, Sule Murray, Ivanna Rea, Sydney Weinger

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


The Beauty Myth, Summer Runion, Annika Briski, Jacqueline Botz Oct 2018

The Beauty Myth, Summer Runion, Annika Briski, Jacqueline Botz

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


The Beauty Myth, Sierra Dean, Amanda Doolittle, Taylor Orozco Oct 2018

The Beauty Myth, Sierra Dean, Amanda Doolittle, Taylor Orozco

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Rape Schedule, Justin Moh, Kaedi Dalley, Annie Iskander Oct 2018

Rape Schedule, Justin Moh, Kaedi Dalley, Annie Iskander

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


More Than A Woman, Dalal Alfaris, Madison Park, Caitlin Dinh, Jasmine Mares Oct 2018

More Than A Woman, Dalal Alfaris, Madison Park, Caitlin Dinh, Jasmine Mares

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Reproductive Justice, Lucy Ebers, Mia Fowler, Amy Magsam, Olivia Schroeder Oct 2018

Reproductive Justice, Lucy Ebers, Mia Fowler, Amy Magsam, Olivia Schroeder

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Gender Violence, Jillian Morris, Gabriella Anderson, Bella Bacoka, Micaela Bastianelli Oct 2018

Gender Violence, Jillian Morris, Gabriella Anderson, Bella Bacoka, Micaela Bastianelli

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Why We Don't "Just Smile", Tory Allen, Taylor Mavroudis, Amber Skytte Oct 2018

Why We Don't "Just Smile", Tory Allen, Taylor Mavroudis, Amber Skytte

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Sexualization In The Media, Claire Widtfeldt, Talia Mohajer, Noah Maser Oct 2018

Sexualization In The Media, Claire Widtfeldt, Talia Mohajer, Noah Maser

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Untamed, Corinne Tam, Kyla Stone, Norma Mendoza Oct 2018

Untamed, Corinne Tam, Kyla Stone, Norma Mendoza

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


Relationships The Feminist Way, Grace Henderson, Elizabeth Rebello, Maddie Fabricant Oct 2018

Relationships The Feminist Way, Grace Henderson, Elizabeth Rebello, Maddie Fabricant

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


The Feminist Burn Book On Rape Culture, Charlie Jackson, Sara Duboise, Elena Bethea, Rachel Sison Oct 2018

The Feminist Burn Book On Rape Culture, Charlie Jackson, Sara Duboise, Elena Bethea, Rachel Sison

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


The Birds, The Bees, And The Butterflies: The Truth About Feminist Sex, Jordan Prieto-Valdes, Madisyn Montgomery, Emma Kiefer, Jasmin Thongchanh Oct 2018

The Birds, The Bees, And The Butterflies: The Truth About Feminist Sex, Jordan Prieto-Valdes, Madisyn Montgomery, Emma Kiefer, Jasmin Thongchanh

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

No abstract provided.


“Compassion And Benignytee”: A Reassessment Of The Relationship Between Canacee And The Falcon In Chaucer’S “Squire’S Tale”, Melissa Ridley Elmes Jul 2018

“Compassion And Benignytee”: A Reassessment Of The Relationship Between Canacee And The Falcon In Chaucer’S “Squire’S Tale”, Melissa Ridley Elmes

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Among its many elements, Chaucer’s “Squire’s Tale” includes an emotionally-charged dialogue between two aristocratic female figures: the human daughter of a king, Canacee, and the wounded falcon she meets in the wood. Scholars have debated the nature of this relationship in interspecial, gendered, and specifically feminist and ecofeminist terms. This essay provides a brief retrospective on some of the most recent scholarship examining their relationship—van Dyke (2005); Kordecki (2011); Crane (2012); and Schotland (2012 and 2015)—leading into a reassessment in two parts: first, that the affinity- and experience-driven bond these female figures develop supports a reading of this scene that …


Introduction To The One Asia Foundation And Its Cooperation And Peace-Making Project, Asunción Lópezvarela Azcárate Jun 2018

Introduction To The One Asia Foundation And Its Cooperation And Peace-Making Project, Asunción Lópezvarela Azcárate

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Wishing For The Watch Face In Jonathan Swift’S “The Progress Of Beauty”, Jantina Ellens May 2018

Wishing For The Watch Face In Jonathan Swift’S “The Progress Of Beauty”, Jantina Ellens

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

This article illuminates the technological underpinnings of Jonathan Swift’s satire, “The Progress of Beauty” (1719), by exploring how eighteenth-century poetics of beauty and scientific progress pit human against automaton. This article ranges from the ego of masculine technological display to women’s self-identification with the automaton to suggest that Swift’s speaker blazons the aging prostitute’s body with the hope that it might resurrect a lost ideal, the beautiful watch face. Instead, readers are confronted with the vision of Celia who, with her chipped paint, greasy joints, and faulty mechanisms, reminds them that humanity continues to break through its enamel. When readers …


To Whom Occurs The Haunting: A Singular Exploration Of A Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison May 2018

To Whom Occurs The Haunting: A Singular Exploration Of A Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

By utilizing critical experimental writing, my capstone project will be an exploration of the haunting effects of transgenerational trauma and its lasting impact on the present-day psyche of one disturbed female subject - myself. Relying on multiple formats of writing, including but not limited to: memoir, autobiography, diaries, letters, poetry, and prose, as well the incorporation of multiple disciplines including the likes of: psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, and critical theory, I will make an attempt to utilize the micro in exploration of the macro: to explore my unconscious realm in order to understand a larger political context surrounding female madness and …