College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Bridgewater State University
City University of New York (CUNY)
Claremont Colleges
Andrews University
Bowling Green State University
Between The Lens And The Gaze: Reflections Of Femininity In Film,
2027
American University in Cairo
Between The Lens And The Gaze: Reflections Of Femininity In Film, Noureen Sakr
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the male gaze’s construction of femininity through the use of glass and reflective surfaces, particularly mirrors, windows, glasses, and cameras in film. Reflections and depictions of women are recurring motifs in cinema, often symbolizing dynamics of perception and power. This thesis mobilizes related psychoanalytic and feminist conceptions to examine and compare the recurring visual motifs in the following films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Rear Window (1954), Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992), & Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010). This thesis employs a qualitative, interdisciplinary methodology that integrates psychoanalytic theory, feminist film theory, literary criticism …
Intersectional Realities And Adaptive Leadership: A Phenomenological Study Of Black Women Administrators In Higher Education,
2026
East Tennessee State University
Intersectional Realities And Adaptive Leadership: A Phenomenological Study Of Black Women Administrators In Higher Education, Jocelyn Vernet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Existing literature consistently documents the acute underrepresentation of Black women in administrative leadership. Furthermore, Black women administrators that are represented and visible in higher education often oversee programs and task forces that heighten their experiences to high-risk situations. Emerging narratives suggest Black women employ effective coping strategies and embrace opportunities to strengthen and cultivate support networks while in their leadership roles. However, there is a significant lack in understanding how these strategies are structured and sustained to overcome the underrepresentation of Black women administrators in higher education. Additionally, basing their experiences solely through a survival lens limits a deeper understanding …
A Journey To The Midwest For Migrant Farmwork: Women's Testimonies Examining Their Lived Experiences Using Autoethnography And Plática Research Methodologies,
2026
University of the Incarnate Word
A Journey To The Midwest For Migrant Farmwork: Women's Testimonies Examining Their Lived Experiences Using Autoethnography And Plática Research Methodologies, Yesenia G. Alcalá
Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of my research was to share the stories of five women who experienced a yearly migratory routine from Del Rio, Texas, to work in farms and factories in the Midwest, and how that annual journey shaped and educated us. The women are four of my older sisters and me, all of whom traveled and worked in the Princeville, Illinois, migrant camp, where we experienced the lifestyle as children, teenage workers, and some of us as parents, chasing the benefits of seasonal migrant farmwork. Our stories were based on our experiences with migrant farmwork culture, memories of our yearly …
Lost In Chaos: The Battle Between Selfcare And Motherhood,
2026
Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Lost In Chaos: The Battle Between Selfcare And Motherhood, Sarah Shahzad
MS Marketing Research Projects/Theses
Motherhood in collectivist societies such as Pakistan is deeply intertwined with caregiving, leaving limited space for women’s self-care or personal well-being. This study explores how young Pakistani mothers negotiate self-care within competing expectations of maternal sacrifice, cultural morality, and structural constraints. Guided by the Institutional Logics Perspective (ILP), it examines how familial norms, religious values, and market forces collectively shape women’s self-care practices, framing self-care not as an autonomous act but as a negotiated process embedded within social and institutional boundaries. This study adopts an interpretive phenomenological approach to explore how Pakistani mothers experience and negotiate self-care within cultural and …
Silent Awakening: Female Agency And Societal Moral Contradiction In Victorian Art And Literature,
2026
University of North Florida
Silent Awakening: Female Agency And Societal Moral Contradiction In Victorian Art And Literature, Jayden S. Crespo
PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas
The Victorian era was marked by rapid technological, religious, and societal modernization that impacted the art and literature of the time. Queen Victoria, whose name became an eponym for her sixty-three-year reigning period from 1837 to 1901, was a figure who demonstrated domestic propriety and moral responsibility during this time of rapid change. However, while social morality and familial traditional roles were highly esteemed, marital infidelity began to increase as prostitution rose in rapid numbers. With traditional ideals placing women on fragile angelic pedestals that would shatter with any sexual relations outside marriage, consensual or not, Victorian society was faced …
On The ‘Éowynization’ Of Sita In Ashok Banker’S And Amish Tripathi’S Ramayana-Based Fantasies,
2026
Independent Researcher
On The ‘Éowynization’ Of Sita In Ashok Banker’S And Amish Tripathi’S Ramayana-Based Fantasies, Sonali A. Chunodkar
Journal of Tolkien Research
The global popularity of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings following Peter Jackson’s film adaptations led some English-language authors to adaptively retell Hindu religio-mythological epic narratives like the Ramayana in a Tolkienian fantasy vein. Ashok K. Banker’s eight-volumed Ramayana series, published from 2003 to 2012, is the first such fantasy series that displays a marked ‘Tolkienization’ of the Ramayana story. Both Tolkien’s and Banker’s respective fantasy series further left their discernable trace in Amish Tripathi’s four-volumed Ram Chandra Series, published from 2015 to 2022. This presentation focuses on the trajectory of a Tolkienian transformation of the …
Inequities In Agency And Post-Surrogacy Impact On Surrogate Mothers In India,
2026
Associate Professor, University of Hyderabad, India
Inequities In Agency And Post-Surrogacy Impact On Surrogate Mothers In India, Sheela Suryanarayanan Dr., Sudarshan Saravanan Mr.
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
India became a global hub for commercial surrogacy because surrogate mothers had fewer rights over their own bodies and the child born, and had no agency in medical interventions during surrogacy, until the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 prohibited transnational and commercial surrogacy in India. Studies have found detrimental physical and emotional health impacts of surrogacy on surrogate mothers in several developing countries. Economic coercion limits the agency and bargaining capacity of surrogate mothers, leading to unjust surrogacy contracts. Mandatory retention at surrogate homes, separation from family, surveillance, social stigma, secrecy, and a disconnect from the intended parents and surrogacy children …
Empowering Women In Community-Based Tourism: A Close Look At Tourism Villages,
2026
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Empowering Women In Community-Based Tourism: A Close Look At Tourism Villages, Tristanti Tristanti, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Mulyanto Mulyanto, Ratna Devi Sakuntalawati
The Qualitative Report
This study examines women's empowerment in community-based tourism in Nglanggeran Tourist Village, Indonesia. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, it explores how women experience the empowerment process within a rural tourism setting. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with five women actively involved in tourism activities and analyzed thematically. Findings show that empowerment follows five interconnected stages: raising awareness through women's groups, identifying programs based on local tourism potential, designing need-based initiatives, implementing training and mentoring, and evaluating programs through participatory discussions. Active participation and integration of local resources drive the process. Participants reported greater self-confidence, positive mindset changes, improved employment …
Birthing In A Foreign Land,
2026
Fujairah University, U.A.E
Birthing In A Foreign Land, Sadhiya Saleem
Journal of International Women's Studies
This narrative poem explores the embodied experience of childbirth in a foreign land. Set within the unfamiliar environment of a hospital far from the speaker’s linguistic roots, the poem traces the physical and emotional landscape of labor as one profoundly shaped by displacement and disconnection. Through sensory imagery and fragmented memory, it portrays how giving birth in an unfamiliar context amid the absence of familiar support systems and linguistic comfort creates a profound sense of bodily estrangement. The poem enters broader feminist conversations to reclaim the maternal body, marked by migration and displacement, as a definitive site of memory and …
Film Review: Ajmer 92, Investigative Journalism, And Justice For Rape Survivors,
2026
University of Allahabad, India
Film Review: Ajmer 92, Investigative Journalism, And Justice For Rape Survivors, Amit Sharma, Amitabh Srivastava
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Film Review: Education As A Legal Right, Yet A Socially Negotiated Privilege: A Feminist Review Of Sthal (A Match),
2026
Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Film Review: Education As A Legal Right, Yet A Socially Negotiated Privilege: A Feminist Review Of Sthal (A Match), Ankit Anand, Rajneesh Kumar
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Film Review: Queer Happiness And Family Myth In My Therapist Said, I Am Full Of Sadness,
2026
University of Jember, Indonesia
Film Review: Queer Happiness And Family Myth In My Therapist Said, I Am Full Of Sadness, Ni Luh Ayu Sukmawati
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Gender-Based Violence, Legal Protection, And Intersecting Narratives: A Conversation With Flavia Agnes,
2026
SRM University AP, India
Gender-Based Violence, Legal Protection, And Intersecting Narratives: A Conversation With Flavia Agnes, Barnana Baidya, Partha Bhattacharjee
Journal of International Women's Studies
Flavia Agnes is a leading advocate for gender justice because of her legal expertise in marital law, divorce, and property law and her activism as an Indian women’s rights lawyer. Her scholarly work on systemic and legal gender-based oppression has appeared in the journals Subaltern Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and Manushi. Her book, My Story...Our Story of Rebuilding Broken Lives, released by her non-profit organization named Majlis, depicts how Agnes battled domestic violence while addressing the law’s restrictive abilities to offer protection. We conducted an interview through Google Meet with Agnes to discuss her work as a legal activist …
Book Review Essay: The Keloid As Episteme—Corporeal Healing And Colonial Afterlives In Sarah Soanirina Ohmer’S The Keloids We Heal,
2026
Gazole Mahavidyalaya, India
Book Review Essay: The Keloid As Episteme—Corporeal Healing And Colonial Afterlives In Sarah Soanirina Ohmer’S The Keloids We Heal, Md Samiul Azim, Farida Parvin
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Reproductive Labor And Innovation: Against The Tech Fix In An Era Of Hype,
2026
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Reproductive Labor And Innovation: Against The Tech Fix In An Era Of Hype, Lipika Kankaria
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: All She Lost: The Explosion In Lebanon, The Collapse Of A Nation, And The Women Who Survive,
2026
Ohio State University, USA
Book Review: All She Lost: The Explosion In Lebanon, The Collapse Of A Nation, And The Women Who Survive, Noor Obeid
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Letters From The Edge: Outrider Conversations,
2026
NMIMS University, Hyderabad, India
Book Review: Letters From The Edge: Outrider Conversations, Raeesabegam Usmani
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, And More Facsimile Females,
2026
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Book Review: Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, And More Facsimile Females, Evie Kendal
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: I Criticize, Therefore I Am A Woman Poet—Sex And Style: Literary Criticism And Gender In Early Modern England,
2026
University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Book Review: I Criticize, Therefore I Am A Woman Poet—Sex And Style: Literary Criticism And Gender In Early Modern England, Rizwan Akhtar
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Challenges For Chinese Women In The Early Twenty-First Century,
2026
National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Book Review: Challenges For Chinese Women In The Early Twenty-First Century, Zakiyah Zakiyah
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
