Browsing by Author "Wesolowski, Katya"
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Item Open Access Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry(JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, 2017-03-01) Wesolowski, KatyaItem Open Access Capoeira Connections A Memoir in Motion(2023-01-17) Wesolowski, KatyaThis ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski's thirty years of experience as a capoeirista.Item Open Access Collective Care: Community-Based Practices in Reproductive Justice(2024-04-27) Francisco-Zelkine, CoraliThe mainstream reproductive rights movement tends to focus on abortion and contraceptive freedom. The movement has historically 1) been led by cisgender, White women, and 2) only addressed autonomy in reference to the “choice” to not have children. Reproductive justice (RJ), which has emerged in recent years, is both a framework for understanding inequality in reproductive rights, and a movement that fights to make visible the particular needs of women of color and queer folks. RJ operates largely through community-led work, which separates it from national campaigns and organizations that take a more top-down approach to their work. This thesis asks: how do community-based initiatives promote the fight for RJ? The ethnographic project draws from Black feminist and intersectionality theory, participant observation and interviews with various RJ organizations and activists, and digital content analysis of different organizations’ social media platforms to explore the relationship between community and the RJ movement. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which community-based organizations that ground their operational strategies in the RJ framework offer a space for folks from marginalized racial and gender identities to advocate for themselves. Furthermore, the thesis sheds light on the way that the inclusivity of the RJ framework makes it valuable in potentially expanding beyond sexual and reproductive rights to other social justice issues.Item Open Access I’m Not Sure But… Undergraduate Women’s Confidence in the Elite University Setting(2017-08-24) Marey, TierneyThis paper investigates women’s confidence in the elite university setting in the United States and argues that women often experience a decline in confidence in this space. Within the scope of this paper the elite university is defined as a liminal space and a bubble where destructive gender norms are continually performed and reproduced. Focusing on women’s voices, beauty, sexual culture and Greek life this paper aims to highlight how women’s confidence is undermined in this setting. The manner in which gender is performed and reproduced in this space undermines women’s confidence, as the quest for effortless perfection or an ideal, means women never feel enough. The destructive habits that emerge out of this gender performativity also put women’s confidence at risk. This paper furthermore elucidates that while external and institutional factors impact women’s confidence women themselves contribute to their decline in confidence as they perform and reproduce gender norms and police other women. The paper highlights that there are multiple intersecting factors that contribute to women’s decline in confidence and that the liminality of this space and its highly competitive environment facilitates a confidence crash for many women during their time at college.Item Open Access THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana(2019-05-30) Darko, MargaretThis thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, I shadowed three female doctors, conducted participant observation, interviews and focus groups and administered surveys in order to investigate local understands of well-being and its threats. I also worked with a local theatre group to design and implement workshops that allowed participants from the medical field to experiment with social theatre and embodied practices geared towards exposing and alleviating stress factors. Along with offering critical insights about gender politics and labor within the Ghanaian health workforce, my thesis offers a new global health theatre model , which is collaborative and interventional. Situated within the burgeoning health humanities field, this model as elaborated during my thesis project could serve as a well-being toolkit – not just for female physicians, but for members of different professional groups and social classes throughout Ghana and beyond.