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Women's and Gender Studies Theses and Dissertations
Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
Social Media and Women Empowerment in Nigeria: A Study of the #BreakTheBias Campaign on Facebook , Deborah Osaro Omontese
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Going Flat: Challenging Gender, Stigma, and Cure through Lesbian Breast Cancer Experience , Beth Gaines
Incorrect Athlete, Incorrect Woman: IOC Gender Regulations and the Boundaries of Womanhood in Professional Sports , Sabeehah Ravat
Transnational Perspectives on the #MeToo and Anti-Base Movements in Japan , Alisha Romano
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Criminalizing LGBTQ+ Jamaicans: Social, Legal, and Colonial Influences on Homophobic Policy , Zoe C. Knowles
Dismantling Hegemony through Inclusive Sexual Health Education , Lauren Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Transfat Representation , Jessica "Fyn" Asay
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Ain't I a Woman, Too? Depictions of Toxic Femininity, Transmisogynoir, and Violence on STAR , Sunahtah D. Jones
“The Most Muscular Woman I Have Ever Seen”: Bev FrancisPerformance of Gender in Pumping Iron II: The Women , Cera R. Shain
"Roll" Models: Fat Sexuality and Its Representations in Pornographic Imagery , Leah Marie Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Reproducing Intersex Trouble: An Analysis of the M.C. Case in the Media , Jamie M. Lane
Race and Gender in (Re)integration of Victim-Survivors of CSEC in a Community Advocacy Context , Joshlyn Lawhorn
Penalizing Pregnancy: A Feminist Legal Studies Analysis of Purvi Patel's Criminalization , Abby Schneller
A Queer and Crip Grotesque: Katherine Dunn's , Megan Wiedeman
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
"Mothers like Us Think Differently": Mothers' Negotiations of Virginity in Contemporary Turkey , Asli Aygunes
Surveilling Hate/Obscuring Racism?: Hate Group Surveillance and the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hate Map" , Mary McKelvie
“Ya I have a disability, but that’s only one part of me”: Formative Experiences of Young Women with Physical Disabilities , Victoria Peer
Resistance from Within: Domestic violence and rape crisis centers that serve Black/African American populations , Jessica Marie Pinto
(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the , Shannon A. Suddeth
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
"The Afro that Ate Kentucky": Appalachian Racial Formation, Lived Experience, and Intersectional Feminist Interventions , Sandra Louise Carpenter
“Even Five Years Ago this Would Have Been Impossible:” Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Trans* Health Care , Richard S. Henry
Tough Guy, Sensitive Vas: Analyzing Masculinity, Male Contraceptives & the Sexual Division of Labor , Kaeleen Kosmo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Let’s Move! Biocitizens and the Fat Kids on the Block , Mary Catherine Dickman
Interpretations of Educational Experiences of Women in Chitral, Pakistan , Rakshinda Shah
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Incredi-bull-ly Inclusive?: Assessing the Climate on a College Campus , Aubrey Lynne Hall
Her-Storicizing Baldness: Situating Women's Experiences with Baldness from Skin and Hair Disorders , Kasie Holmes
In the (Radical) Pursuit of Self-Care: Feminist Participatory Action Research with Victim Advocates , Robyn L. Homer
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Significance is Bliss: A Global Feminist Analysis of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its Privileging of Americo-Liberian over Indigenous Liberian Women's Voices , Morgan Lea Eubank
Monsters Under the Bed: An Analysis of Torture Scenes in Three Pixar Films , Heidi Tilney Kramer
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Can You Believe She Did THAT?!:Breaking the Codes of "Good" Mothering in 1970s Horror Films , Jessica Michelle Collard
Don't Blame It on My Ovaries: Exploring the Lived Experience of Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Creation of Discourse , Jennifer Lynn Ellerman
Valanced Voices: Student Experiences with Learning Disabilities & Differences , Zoe DuPree Fine
An Interactive Guide to Self-Discovery for Women , Elaine J. Taylor
Selling the Third Wave: The Commodification and Consumption of the Flat Track Roller Girl , Mary Catherine Whitlock
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Beyond Survival: An Exploration of Narrative Healing and Forgiveness in Healing from Rape , Heather Curry
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Gender Trouble In Northern Ireland: An Examination Of Gender And Bodies Within The 1970s And 1980s Provisional Irish Republican Army In Northern Ireland , Jennifer Earles
"You're going to Hollywood"!: Gender and race surveillance and accountability in American Idol contestant's performances , Amanda LeBlanc
From the academy to the streets: Documenting the healing power of black feminist creative expression , Tunisia L. Riley
Developing Feminist Activist Pedagogy: A Case Study Approach in the Women's Studies Department at the University of South Florida , Stacy Tessier
Women in Wargasm: The Politics of Womenís Liberation in the Weather Underground Organization , Cyrana B. Wyker
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
Opportunities for Spiritual Awakening and Growth in Mothering , Melissa J. Albee
A Constant Struggle: Renegotiating Identity in the Aftermath of Rape , Jo Aine Clarke
I am Warrior Woman, Hear Me Roar: The Challenge and Reproduction of Heteronormativity in Speculative Television Programs , Leisa Anne Clark
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Reforming Dance Pedagogy: A Feminist Perspective on the Art of Performance and Dance Education , Jennifer Clement
Narratives of lesbian transformation: Coming out stories of women who transition from heterosexual marriage to lesbian identity , Clare F. Walsh
The Conundrum of Women’s Studies as Institutional: New Niches, Undergraduate Concerns, and the Move Towards Contemporary Feminist Theory and Action , Rebecca K. Willman
Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006
A Feminist Perspective on the Precautionary Principle and the Problem of Endocrine Disruptors under Neoliberal Globalization Policies , Erica Hesch Anstey
Asymptotes and metaphors: Teaching feminist theory , Michael Eugene Gipson
Postcolonial Herstory: The Novels of Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine): A Comparative Analysis , Oksana Lutsyshyna
Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005
Loving Loving? Problematizing Pedagogies of Care and Chéla Sandoval’s Love as a Hermeneutic , Allison Brimmer
Exploring Women’s Complex Relationship with Political Violence: A Study of the Weathermen, Radical Feminism and the New Left , Lindsey Blake Churchill
The Voices of Sex Workers (prostitutes?) and the Dilemma of Feminist Discourse , Justine L. Kessler
Reconstructing Women's Identities: The Phenomenon Of Cosmetic Surgery In The United States , Cara L. Okopny
Fantastic Visions: On the Necessity of Feminist Utopian Narrative , Tracie Anne Welser
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
The Politics of Being an Egg “Donor” and Shifting Notions of Reproductive Freedom , Elizabeth A. Dedrick
Women, Domestic Abuse, And Dreams: Analyzing Dreams To Uncover Hidden Traumas And Unacknowledged Strengths , Mindy Stokes
Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001
Safe at Home: Agoraphobia and the Discourse on Women’s Place , Suzie Siegel
Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000
Women, Environment and Development: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America , Evaline Tiondi
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The thesis will introduce four writers and explore the differences between male and female writing on the topic of feminism, due to the fact that feminism is not only related to women, one of the authors is a male writer. The examined writers will be Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson and the novels
PDF. From the academy to the streets: Documenting the healing power of black feminist creative expression, Tunisia L. Riley. PDF. Developing Feminist Activist Pedagogy: A Case Study Approach in the Women's Studies Department at the University of South Florida, Stacy Tessier. PDF
Abstract. 'Feminism' is a wide range of political movements, ideologies and social movements that share a common goal to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal and social ...
2.3 Ph.D. Thesis on Anita Desai 2.4 Feminism as a Movement 2.5 Feminist Movement from 17th to 20th Century 2.6 Developments in Feminist thought from French Revolution to the end of the Second World-War. 2.7 Decline of Feminism between 1920 and 1960. 2.8 The Woman's Movement from 1960 to 1975.
feminism. A key feature of the fourth wave is the use of digital technologies and the internet for feminist activism and discussion. This dissertation aims to broadly understand what is "new" about fourth wave feminism and specifically to understand how social media intersect with everyday feminist practices in the digital era. This project ...
the meaning of the term feminist based on the general evaluations, behavioral characteristics, political orientation, and sexual orientation typically attributed to feminists. Their sample. consisted of 361 men and 407 women who completed a 91-item semantic questionnaire. (Berryman-Fink & Verderber, 1985).
third feminist wave, from the mid-1990s onward, springing from the 1 01-Krolokke-4666.qxd 6/10/2005 2:21 PM Page 1. emergence of a new postcolonial and postsocialist world order, in the context of information society and neoliberal, global politics. Third-wave
This Master's thesis is a case study of the gender equality and women's empowerment policies of L'Oréal analysed in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It engages with business and feminist scholarly literature and critically analyzes select corporate documents of L'Oréal. 1
left for dead. This has left feminist IR troubled by its radical feminist roots and the conceptual baggage that feminist IR has unreflectively carried from second-wave feminism into its contemporary scholarship. By returning to the roots of radical feminism we believe IR can gain valuable insights regarding the system of sex-class
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Literature and the development of feminist theory / [editor] Robin Goodman, Florida State University. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-107-12608-4 (hardback) 1. Feminism and literature. 2. Feminist literature - History and criticism. 3. Feminism in literature.
writing my bachelor thesis on the women's rights movement in Germany, but have not learned a great deal about feminism for women of colour. It was important for me to change this so I ... feminism and strongly criticise "white, mainstream feminist theory" trying to speak for women of colour. Amos and Parmar (2005) write that "white ...
thesis, and you will reach the more important but elusive objective beyond it. The process of writing a thesis can be a glorious adventure. I hope that you will experience the exhilaration of ... students have relied on classic feminist theory in their projects; many have conducted literary or visual close readings; others have used statistical ...
Feminist theory has developed from feminist movements; and displays a variety of disciplines, such as feminist geography, feminist history, and feminist literary criticism (Rampton, 2015). The fourth wave feminism is developed around 2012 to the empowerment of women, and to create greater gender equality in the society through the use of ...
THESIS 1.1 Orientation 1 1.2 Approach and relevance 5 1.3 Research interest 8 1.4 Research aims 9 ... The exposition of patriarchy and feminism in this thesis points toward the difficulty women experienced in the past, and in many cases still do, in their pursuit for equality
The Development of Feminist Thought. in Modern English Literature. Y ang Zhao (B. School of Music, Qilu Normal University, Jinan 250200, China. [email protected]. Abstract. The 19th century is the ...
509. FEMINISM: EQUALITY GENDER IN LITERA TURE. Mila Arizah. English Education Study Program. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Baturaja University. E-mail: [email protected] ...
feminist groups in the country (Joseph and Lewis 33). Through the application of social movement theory and black feminist theory, this study analyzes the rhetoric of a former president of a women's activist organization. Through the lens of black feminism as a criticism of the women's movement, the rhetoric
Brenton Wimmer, MEd PhD Graduate Student Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education University of Oklahoma. education and student affairs: Theory, research, narratives and practice from feminist perspectives. % ,-., Women of Color in Higher Education: Turbulent Past, Promising Future, 012.34.
2 Feminist theory, feminist practice 4 3 Outposts in your head: ideology, patriarchy and critique 15 4 (De-)constructing coat-racks: feminism, sex and gender 25 5 Whose story? 52 6 Deeds not words 68 7 Faces and facades 82 8 Everyday rebellions: revolution in the private sphere 101 9 The porn wars 136 10 Among sisters: anarchism, socialism and ...
Feminist Theory. Karen Lee Ashcraft. T. he appearance of the first . Handbook. chapter on feminist theory is surely a sign of significant growth: the rise of feminism as an important intellectual force in the field, a thriving body of empirical research to review, the diffusion of feminist concerns across the field—or
Bathsheba Zewde. A Thesis in the Field of International Relations. for the Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies. Harvard University. May 2019 2019 Bathsheba Zewde Abstract. Gender inequality has always been an issue in Ethiopia. Women are highly. subordinated in every area of society.
A thesis entitled "An Analysis of the Main Character through Feminism Approach in the Novel Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani" has been defended before the Letters and Humanities Faculty's Examination Committee on February, 9 2010 the thesis has already been accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of strata 1.
700 Master's Research, Thesis and/or Examination (Variable credit) English 700 is for a THESIS DEGREE program ONLY and must consist of at least 4 hours on the M.A. program. Time, place, and instructor by arrangement. 702 Master's Special Problems, Directed Study, and/or Examination (Variable credit)
Women's marginalisation and stereotyping are instrumental in African countries. As a result, African feminist scholars highlighted the effect of sociocultural beliefs and men's dominance on women ...