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Tending The Flowers, Cultivating Community: Gardening On New York City Public Housing Sites, Lauren Sepanski
Tending The Flowers, Cultivating Community: Gardening On New York City Public Housing Sites, Lauren Sepanski
American Studies Senior Theses
Residents of New York City public housing developments (NYCHA) who wish to garden may do so by planting their gardens on the community grounds of their housing development. This put them in a unique position. Though their gardens are on public grounds, their gardens cannot be considered to be “community gardens” in the common sense of the term, because their gardens are maintained by individuals with their own personal goals; yet, they are more than private home gardens, as the gardens are (and can only be) on community grounds. In order to find out why NYCHA residents garden, and how …
Fun, Fearless, Feminist?: Gender And Sexuality In Cosmopolitan, Gabriella Wilkins
Fun, Fearless, Feminist?: Gender And Sexuality In Cosmopolitan, Gabriella Wilkins
American Studies Senior Theses
Magazines, like other forms of popular culture, impact our identities and perceptions of ourselves and of the society that we live in. In my thesis, I seek to draw a connection between a fashion and beauty magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Third Wave feminism. Criticism of the magazine has stemmed from the idea that Cosmo expresses contradicting ideologies and focuses too closely on women’s ability to please men. For my research, I look at the history and motives behind the Second and Third Wave movements and how they differentiate. Then, by considering and applying contemporary feminist theory, I deconstruct and analyze …
Beauty And The Barbie Doll: When Life Imitates Plastic, Alexandra Gaudio
Beauty And The Barbie Doll: When Life Imitates Plastic, Alexandra Gaudio
American Studies Senior Theses
My project will consist of three major parts. I want to take a brief look at how the hegemonic ideals of feminine beauty in the United States have evolved over the past fifty years, since Barbie was introduced in 1959. Also, I will go through a history of Mattel’s Barbie doll, including the development of the doll and some of its many different manifestations over the years. Then I will use these two components to investigate the relationship between exposure to the doll and young women’s perception of beauty, as well as other potentially subconscious ideals they may internalize from …