An Analysis Of Feminist Care Networks In The Editorial Intern Position At Women's Studies Quarterly,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
An Analysis Of Feminist Care Networks In The Editorial Intern Position At Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This paper will detail my experience working as an Editorial Intern at Women’s Studies Quarterly from September 2022 to December 2022. I will begin by examining my onboarding process as a new member of an already-established team. This exploration will allow for my observation of how Women’s Studies Quarterly has been forced to adapt to the challenges of the persistent pandemic, and more specifically the challenges brought by grief in the mourning of the late general editor Dr. Brianne Waychoff. This intervention will be an analysis of how care networks are mobilized in the workplace as an essential element in …
Gaps Of Speculation: Refusing Representation In Queer And Postcolonial Fiction,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Gaps Of Speculation: Refusing Representation In Queer And Postcolonial Fiction, Sarah Schwartz
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation examines how queer and postcolonial novels respond to the archive as a determiner of what stories we can and cannot tell through formal experimentation that omits expected elements. Focusing on the subject- and object-making power and the tekhne of inclusion and exclusion that shape the modern archive, I analyze how novels spanning the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century refuse to mimetically reproduce bodies that were traditionally made the object of that knowledge in ways legible to the familiar archival forms. Instead, these novels turn the exclusion of the archive back on itself by manifesting lacunae …
Babel,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Babel, Daniel Horowitz
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis is a series of three memoiristic essays around the vortex of identity. The first is an exploration of how childhood overmedication split the continuity of the author’s self-conception. The second traces the slipperiness of Jewish and Queer identifications detailing their synthesis in the klezmer revival in New York City in late 1980s and early 90s. The third is a polyphonic narration of the recovery of a lost klezmer’s life story in the face of the silence of time and slaughter.
Searching For Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women Of Color Feminisms, Art, And Archiving,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Searching For Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women Of Color Feminisms, Art, And Archiving, Wendy S. Barrales
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Weaving art-based methods, women of color (WOC) feminisms, digital participatory archiving (PAR-chiving), and Ethnic Studies pedagogy, this dissertation investigates how I explored and produced knowledge collectively with young women of color that reimagines classrooms as learning spaces for liberation. This dissertation, searching for mami & abuelita, is an extension of the women of color archive (wocarchive) a digital storytelling project documenting, preserving and sharing the experiences of our matriarchs of color. This project, born out of an interview with my abuelita Aída about her life in rural Veracruz, sought out to document and preserve the stories of women of color …
Muscling Through: Athletic Women In Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Muscling Through: Athletic Women In Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
“Muscling Through” reconstructs an overlooked history of strong female bodies in the nineteenth century. It argues that popular representations of athletic women introduced a new category of identity that was distinct from women’s traditional relational and social roles. The project’s central figure is the hyper-able “Sportswoman,” who bridges the gap between two familiar versions of the Victorian woman’s body: the mid-century ideal of docile, domesticated femininity and the sturdy, capable women who enter universities, professions, and public spaces en masse just before the turn of the century. Representationally, the Sportswoman figures a range of attitudes, from anxious to aspirational, toward …
Benefits Of Having A Disability Cultural Center At Cal Poly,
2023
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Benefits Of Having A Disability Cultural Center At Cal Poly, Chau Nguyen
Political Science
All colleges and universities in the United States are legally required to accommodate their students with disabilities. However, many schools do not support their disabled student body in ways that go beyond what they are legally required to provide under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Though every university and college in the United States has a dedicated ADA compliance office, students with disabilities still express that their holistic needs are unmet and that they feel unsupported by their schools. Establishing Disability Cultural Programs and Centers is one method that colleges and universities …
Sexual Agency And Erotic Depictions Of Sexually Non-Normative Women In Ancient Roman Art,
2023
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Sexual Agency And Erotic Depictions Of Sexually Non-Normative Women In Ancient Roman Art, Laura Young
School of Art Undergraduate Honors Theses
Ancient Roman women, regardless of their status, were to some extent bound by the sexual norms of their time. Much of the textual and visual evidence constructs the ideal Roman woman as a chaste and sexually submissive matron figure, loyal to her husband and the bearer of his citizen descendants. These patriarchal norms appear to have given women little room to exercise their own agency in and out of their sexual relationships. Accepting these ideals of female sexuality, scholars have often characterized normative male-female sex in the ancient Roman world as a sexual act in which the woman is in …
Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: An Introduction,
2023
Florida Gulf Coast University
Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: An Introduction, Laci Mattison, Shilo Mcgiff
Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers
No abstract provided.
Recovery Of Voice, Agency, And Mental Health Through Autobiography In Nadia, Captive Of Hope,
2023
Portland State University
Recovery Of Voice, Agency, And Mental Health Through Autobiography In Nadia, Captive Of Hope, Dania A. Ayach
University Honors Theses
This paper explores the process of how one Arab woman reclaimed her agency, autonomy, and ability to move through trauma to self-construction, self-narration, and self-healing via the medium of autobiography in Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman.
Shame And Silencing Of Amejo In Okinawa: Examining Gendered And Militarized Violence,
2023
Portland State University
Shame And Silencing Of Amejo In Okinawa: Examining Gendered And Militarized Violence, Katie Hashimoto
University Honors Theses
Off the southern part of Japan is the small archipelago of Okinawa. Of Japan's total land mass, Okinawa makes up only 0.6% of the country, yet it hosts over 70% of the land occupied by U.S. military bases. Since the end of World War II, Okinawa has existed under dual-subjugation by Japan and the U.S., which has created the grounds for systemic gendered and militarized violence. Rape and sexual violence perpetrated by U.S. military servicemen continue to be the primary concern of Okinawan feminists pushing for the demilitarization of Okinawa. However, these concerns often get lost within heteronormative and male-masculinist …
El Mundo Del Amor: Un Sitio Para Apoyar A Lxs Hispanohablantes Locales Y Crear La Percatación Y La Diversidad En El Condado De San Luis Obispo,
2023
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
El Mundo Del Amor: Un Sitio Para Apoyar A Lxs Hispanohablantes Locales Y Crear La Percatación Y La Diversidad En El Condado De San Luis Obispo, Daniele Lauran Mcclements
World Languages and Cultures
This project is a collective piece of tangible material that is a product of my years of learning, listening, and witnessing the overlap between the depth of different Spanish-speaking and Latinx cultures, and the various identities within the LGBTQ+ community. Taking a critical lens on what I have learned as an anglo student at Cal Poly through the words of a language that is not mine, this project speaks to the many layers to which my love, fascination and dedication with the Spanish language and cultures have impacted my life. Essentially, this project is a love letter and encapsulation of …
Writing As Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices,
2023
CUNY Graduate Center
Writing As Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Patriarchal societies create an environment where men hold power and women are often treated as second-class citizens or are often held as having an inferior status. Throughout history and across cultures, literature has provided a platform for writers to share their stories and express themselves. However, Yemeni women have often been silenced and marginalized due to limited education and censorship. In recent times, Yemeni and Yemeni-American women have turned to storytelling as a means of creative expression and emotional release. This thesis analyzes Zubaida “Jasmine” Sharif’s memoir, Caged in America: One Woman’s Journey Through the Veil, and Nadia Al-Kowkabani's …
Selecting Authority: The Compiler And Female Mystical Sources In Speculum Devotorum,
2023
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Selecting Authority: The Compiler And Female Mystical Sources In Speculum Devotorum, Caitlin J. Branumthrash
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The fifteenth-century Speculum devotorum, or Mirror to Devout People, is best known for incorporating the texts of mystical women into its narrative of the life of Christ, likely because it has an explicitly stated female audience—a nun of Syon. Rather than considering how the female audience may have perceived the female sources in Speculum devotorum, this article investigates the compiler’s views of his female sources based on how he incorporates them into his work. I argue that the compiler treats his female sources as full auctores, but he only includes their works when he addresses what he considers female …
"Oiez Mon Aventure": Cuer D'Acier's Nonbinary Gender In Perceforest,
2023
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
"Oiez Mon Aventure": Cuer D'Acier's Nonbinary Gender In Perceforest, Brooke Heidenreich Findley
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The character of Cuer d’Acier, or Heart of Steel, in the 15th century French romance Perceforest, has a complex gender identity that does not fit easily into a gender binary. First appearing as the courtly maiden Neronés, the character later lives and is read as a man. The romance uses both “he” and “she” pronouns to refer to Heart of Steel, often using both in the space of a single paragraph or even a single sentence. While Heart of Steel is again dressed as a woman at the end of the romance, the character’s own actions and statements …
Book Of The Body Politic,
2023
University of Pittsburgh
Book Of The Body Politic, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Christine De Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy,
2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Christine De Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy, S.C. Kaplan
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.2 (2023),
2023
Western Michigan University
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.2 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Feminist Critique And John Updike's 'Holes',
2023
Technological University Dublin
Feminist Critique And John Updike's 'Holes', Sue Norton
Books/Book Chapters
Feminism, John Updike
Angels Of Many Houses: Reconciling Domesticity In 19th-Century Victorian Literature,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Angels Of Many Houses: Reconciling Domesticity In 19th-Century Victorian Literature, Amanda Vierra
College Honors Program
The rise of the Victorian middle class is known for solidifying a separation of gender roles, with women operating in the private, domestic sphere and men in the public sphere. This historical value placed on domesticity is reflected in the rise of domestic fiction, the dominant genre of Victorian literature, which commonly depicts young, middle-class women making their way in the world. The plot of these narratives revolves around women perfecting or contending with their place in the domestic sphere through courtship, marriage, and family. Scholars on domestic fiction have continued to argue over whether domestic fiction reflected the oppressive …
[2023 Winner] The Reclamation Of Two-Spirit Identity,
2023
California State University, Monterey Bay
[2023 Winner] The Reclamation Of Two-Spirit Identity, Kelly Christensen, Paige Monier
Ethnic Studies Research Paper Award
Our project looked into the history of two-spirit people, briefly talking about what happened to them during colonization, with a deeper look into how the two-spirit identity as been reclaimed and used as a way for queer indigenous people to connect with both their culture, and their personal identity.
