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A Feminist Action Research Project: Creating A Practical Support Program For The Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network, Melinda Mckew
A Feminist Action Research Project: Creating A Practical Support Program For The Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network, Melinda Mckew
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
The purpose of this feminist action research project was to produce a practical support volunteer training and manual for the Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network (GRJAN). Founded in 2011, GRJAN is a grassroots, reproductive justice abortion fund that provides abortion funding and until 2012, practical support (lodging, transportation, and childcare) to low-income individuals seeking abortion services in Atlanta, GA. The resultant thesis is a reflective essay upon the project, documenting and analyzing the successes and failures of the project as well as discussing the limitations of pursuing feminist activist work within the academy.
Is Pinterest Really Killing Feminism?, Lauren E. Alford
Is Pinterest Really Killing Feminism?, Lauren E. Alford
English Theses
A response to the notion, popularized by Amy Odell’s article “How Pinterest is Killing Feminism,” that the social media site Pinterest, which is dominated by female users, is detrimental both to the feminist movement and women in general. A definition of feminism, contrary to the one employed by Odell, is established and applied to Pinterest users and Pinterest content. Two forms of content prevalent on Pinterest, domestic content and “thinspo” images, are evaluated in terms of their prevalence and how they are used on Pinterest and their overall effect on women and feminism. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Naomi …
Hitchcock And The Material Politics Of Looking: Laura Mulvey, Rear Window, And Psycho, Tyler A. Theus
Hitchcock And The Material Politics Of Looking: Laura Mulvey, Rear Window, And Psycho, Tyler A. Theus
Communication Honors Theses
In this essay, I argue that issues of voyeurism and scopophilia raised in Laura Mulvey’s early essay, “Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema,” are closely related to the social and economic shifts which occurred during the post-war period. Specifically, I argue that Mulvey’s essay articulates a particular kind of formal technique associated with what she calls “non-narrative scopophilia,” a kind of long-take shot that is utilized to great effect by Alfred Hitchcock in two of his later films, Rear Window (1955) and Psycho (1960). I argue that these shots represent a disruption to the smooth functioning of the classical Hollywood model …
Modernism From The Margins: Unruly Women And The Politics Of Representation, Lindsay Byron
Modernism From The Margins: Unruly Women And The Politics Of Representation, Lindsay Byron
English Dissertations
Nella Larsen, Anzia Yezierska, and Evelyn Scott were New York neighbors and literary contemporaries in the 1920s, yet they moved in very different social circles. From Larsen, the award-winning psychological novelist of the Harlem Renaissance; to Yezierska, the Jewish immigrant composing in Yiddish-English a boot-straps story of Americanization; to Evelyn Scott, the genteel-born Southern woman penning high modernist tales of scandal, these very different women nonetheless shared a common quality: they were all rule-breakers, pariahs in their hometowns, interlopers wherever they dare tread, who all penned controversial autobiographical works documenting their experiences as cultural outsiders in modern America. Finding no …