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The Art Of Misogyny: The Struggle Of Female Tattooists In An Industry Of Men, Alison Waller
The Art Of Misogyny: The Struggle Of Female Tattooists In An Industry Of Men, Alison Waller
Women's History Theses
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Lone Voice In The Wilderness: Centering Sex Workers’ Rights In Prostitution Policy, Emily A. Parker
Lone Voice In The Wilderness: Centering Sex Workers’ Rights In Prostitution Policy, Emily A. Parker
Women's History Theses
Sex work and its legal status is a controversial and divisive subject amongst feminist scholars and lawmakers alike. While sex workers are often subject to violence and discrimination simply by virtue of their labor, legal institutions designed to protect individuals from such experiences tend to exacerbate their impacts on sex workers. Sympathetic lawmakers and scholars have attempted to implement laws to the benefit of sex workers but have struggled to successfully ameliorate the harms they experience both at work and during their everyday lives. This paper attempts to explicate the ways in which purportedly beneficial laws actually work to the …
No More Silence: How Federal Policies Address The Culture Of Sexual Violence On College Campuses, Michelle Kathryn Guile
No More Silence: How Federal Policies Address The Culture Of Sexual Violence On College Campuses, Michelle Kathryn Guile
Women's History Theses
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Belle Versus Or Tramp Versus Child?: Contested Representations Of The Scottsboro Trials, Henry Guston Kemp Broege
Belle Versus Or Tramp Versus Child?: Contested Representations Of The Scottsboro Trials, Henry Guston Kemp Broege
Women's History Theses
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Challenging Silence: Traditions Of Sex Education And The Mexican Immigrant Experience In The United States, Anita Botello Santoyo
Challenging Silence: Traditions Of Sex Education And The Mexican Immigrant Experience In The United States, Anita Botello Santoyo
Women's History Theses
This thesis looks at the impact of rural to suburban immigration on traditions of sex education among Mexican women living in California. Through the intimate life histories of a small group of women from two generations, this project examines the ways that silence, public education, and community networks worked together to create and adapt traditions of sex education. At the center of this project are the oral narratives of mothers and daughters that came of age in different spaces and periods of time. The older generations of women were raised in Mexico’s rural regions during the 1970s and ‘80s, while …
Butterflies With New Wings Building A Future, Maria Camila Martinez Valasco
Butterflies With New Wings Building A Future, Maria Camila Martinez Valasco
Women's History Theses
This thesis presents sites of violence and despair as engines of opportunity and social transformation through the endeavors of the Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future, an organization that works to improve the lives of women victims of violence in Buenaventura, Colombia. This thesis places the Butterflies in the broader context of the Colombian armed conflict, in and beyond Buenaventura, and uses their own words and experiences to explain their perspectives, experiences, and strategies for change. This thesis explores the ways in which this organization is awakening hope in individuals and communities who have lost it, rebuilding bonds that …
Cultivating Solidarity: Leonora O'Reilly, Working-Class Women, And Middle-Class Allies In The American Woman Suffrage Movement, Jacklyn Collens
Cultivating Solidarity: Leonora O'Reilly, Working-Class Women, And Middle-Class Allies In The American Woman Suffrage Movement, Jacklyn Collens
Women's History Theses
This thesis examines the process of forming strategic activist alliances, and the complications of maintaining them, by looking at the life of Leonora O’Reilly, a progressive era labor organizer and suffragist. It traces the development of O’Reilly’s understanding of the need for alliances, which began with her early years as a young factory worker coming of age in the midst of the New York City labor movement in late nineteenth-century. The thesis then follows O’Reilly into adulthood, as she turned her attention to the American woman suffrage movement and was met with the task of finding new allies while maintaining …
“Venus To The Hoop,” But Not To The Bank: Gender Inequity In Professional Basketball, Mercedes Ann Townsend
“Venus To The Hoop,” But Not To The Bank: Gender Inequity In Professional Basketball, Mercedes Ann Townsend
Women's History Theses
“Venus to the Hoop," But Not to the Bank: Gender Inequity in Professional Basketball, is an interdisciplinary investigation on the causes of pay inequity in professional basketball. Using the Women’s National Basketball Association’s New York Liberty and the National Basketball Association’s New York Knicks as cases in point, this thesis analyzes the ways in which consumer markets and, subsequently, labor markets are created and maintained in professional basketball. Through an analysis of league and team promotional materials, commercials, and player interviews, I argue that the marketing narrative established by the WNBA is one that largely promotes its players in traditional …