Woven Into One,
2026
Brigham Young University
Woven Into One, Elise Marie Hatch
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
A recent late-night walk to the library was joyfully interrupted by a young child. Her unique perspective framed by the diminished height and wholesome innocence of a seven-year-old, this child was eager to share what she, from her vantage point, saw, discovered, and valued. “Mom!” she yelled with brilliant curiosity, “Look at the lights!” Guided by her pointing hand, I too turned around. I saw my home city—where I wake and work and study every day—transformed, through the curiosity of a child, into a symbolic landscape of dappled lights and abstracted forms.
Christ As A Maternal Figure: Motherly Depictions Of The Son In The Met Cloisters,
2026
Brigham Young University
Christ As A Maternal Figure: Motherly Depictions Of The Son In The Met Cloisters, Cheynie Wray
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, Queen of France is a miniature book of hours—an illuminated, or illustrated, prayer book—made for its namesake, a queen of France. Crafted by the hand of French artist Jean Pucelle between 1324 and 1328, it is now held in the Treasury of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cloisters Collection), one of the most renowned repositories of medieval art in the United States. The book pairs scenes of the Passion of Christ with scenes of the life of the Virgin. One such pairing shows the Betrayal of Christ and the Annunciation. On the Betrayal of Christ …
The Horror Of Female Autonomy: The Transformation Of Women In Vietnam War-Era Fiction And Film,
2026
Brigham Young University
The Horror Of Female Autonomy: The Transformation Of Women In Vietnam War-Era Fiction And Film, Regan Roberts
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
During the Vietnam War era, cultural fears intersected with evolving gender roles, particularly as women gained greater autonomy and visibility in public and private spheres. Fears such as these are realized and explored in the horror genre. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried explores this societal tension in its short story, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,” through Mary Anne Bell, a young girl whose transformation from innocent girlfriend to the monstrous Other subverts traditional femininity. I will explore this short story and its significance by contextualizing it alongside other media from the horror genre of the Vietnam War era, …
Listening, Stepping, Screaming: Feminist Interpretations Of Yoko Ono’S Art,
2026
Brigham Young University
Listening, Stepping, Screaming: Feminist Interpretations Of Yoko Ono’S Art, Cordelia Lavender Mcphie
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Long before she spent her time promoting peace through music and her infamous bed-in honeymoon, Yoko Ono was breaking traditional conventions of art by creating and performing her pieces of instruction: art that requires a participating audience in order for it to be made. At the beginning of the 1960s, early in Ono’s art career and before her association with the Beatles, she was participating in new kinds of conceptual and communal art processes within (and without) the Fluxus art movement.1 She is not a solo artist in the traditional sense, because her artwork is unable to be fully realized …
Climbing Mother By Brian Kershisnik: Representing Mothers As Sacred Spaces,
2026
Brigham Young University
Climbing Mother By Brian Kershisnik: Representing Mothers As Sacred Spaces, Elijah Clark
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Brian Kershisnik’s collection The Difficult Part is a series of artworks that includes paintings from throughout the artist’s career. A repeated theme in this collection is motherhood. One particularly striking painting, Climbing Mother, is an oil on canvas piece painted in 2013 (wall text for Climbing Mother). Brian Kershisnik is a Latter-day Saint artist known for depicting mundane things as holy and for making holy things more approachable to modern audiences. For example, Kershisnik has many paintings of the Madonna and Christ child where they are shown as real people in everyday scenarios. The normalcy of his paintings …
Persuasions And Proposals: Female Agency In Pride And Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, And Persuasion,
2026
Brigham Young University
Persuasions And Proposals: Female Agency In Pride And Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, And Persuasion, Hannah Swenson
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
In all six of her completed novels, one of Jane Austen’s primary interests is the theme of persuasion—particularly as it relates to the lives and decisions of young women. Her final book Persuasion, published six months after her death, can therefore be read as a final culmination of the topic of accepting and exerting influence. As scholar Ann Molan has observed, Austen “penetrates the intrinsic doubleness of persuasion, its ability to destroy and fashion, its ineradicable presence in all human dealings, and the riskiness of deciding one’s lot by something uncertifiable” (108). Although the theme of persuasion and persuadability …
Patterned After Poppies,
2026
Brigham Young University
Patterned After Poppies, Elise Marie Hatch
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
No abstract provided.
A Self-Portrait: Staring The Male Gaze Right In The Eye,
2026
Brigham Young University
A Self-Portrait: Staring The Male Gaze Right In The Eye, Brynne Petty
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a time of constant change. Artists were constantly finding newer and more creative, often more bizarre, ways of expressing themselves through their art. Social norms were being broken down, with the subjects of many artworks becoming increasingly unconventional, bold, and, in many cases, provocative. Women swiftly became the subject of many paintings, often portrayed in the nude. Of course, a painting of a nude woman was not a new concept, but the way in which women were depicted was increasingly more sexual and erotic. Thus, the term male gaze—defined as “a …
God’S Reflection,
2026
Brigham Young University
Red Awe,
2026
Brigham Young University
Insecurity,
2026
Brigham Young University
On And Off,
2026
Brigham Young University
Jael The Kenite,
2026
Brigham Young University
End Matter,
2026
Brigham Young University
The First Thirteen Years,
2026
Brigham Young University
The First Thirteen Years, Crystal Gonzalez Callison
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
No abstract provided.
It Is Literally Impossible To Be A Monologue: The Misplaced Generalizations Of Barbie,
2026
Brigham Young University
It Is Literally Impossible To Be A Monologue: The Misplaced Generalizations Of Barbie, Mabel Court
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
The summer of 2023 was a hot pink pressure cooker that transformed the Barbie brand from a dusty relic into an omnipresent cultural phenomenon. The Barbie movie’s savvy marketing team colored billboards bright fuschia, with the film’s mystery-shrouded plot fueling a thunderous roar of speculative chatter that crescendoed until its long-anticipated release. A star-studded cast and auteur director Greta Gerwig were the cherries on top, rocketing the film to critical and economic success. The film was heralded as thematically ambitious, one of the best comedies in recent memory, and a “feminist self-aware masterpiece” (Barbie Movie Reviews). Although Barbie marked a …
Shake Hands: A Challenge And A Statement On The Woman’S Role In American Society,
2026
Brigham Young University
Shake Hands: A Challenge And A Statement On The Woman’S Role In American Society, Brynne Petty
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Nineteenth-century America was a time ripe with change. New inventions were created every day; many felt the call of Manifest Destiny and pushed for Westward Expansion; and the country endured a brutal civil war, all while enduring the growing pains of a young nation. Every decade delivered more opportunities for artists to create paintings that told of epic battles and the courage of men as they faced the wild frontier. Yet, somewhere in the midst of all this, the American ideal shifted. Many artists turned their efforts toward creating genre paintings that depicted the everyday lives of the middle and …
The Female Gothic And Marianne Dashwood: The Gothic Heroine Of Sense And Sensibility,
2026
Chapman University
The Female Gothic And Marianne Dashwood: The Gothic Heroine Of Sense And Sensibility, Samantha Cottle
English (MA) Theses
In the late eighteenth-century, the rise of the English Gothic novel propelled an extension referred to as the Female Gothic. Through the complexity of the English Gothic genre, writers—particularly women writers—explore the intersectionality of gender, class, natural horrors, and race, creating a space where the heroines of these Gothic novels exist beyond the confinement of the domestic sphere. The Female Gothic was a way for these women writers to acknowledge the natural horrors that plagued the experiences of being a woman—it addressed the oppression of a patriarchal society in which the subversion of the female body was perceived as an …
Full Issue,
2026
Brigham Young University
Front Matter,
2026
Brigham Young University
