Browsing by Subject "Feminism"
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Against Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance
(2022)In the aftermath of the #MeToo moment, we are called to revisit old conversations about human dignity, gendered power, and the conditions under which consent can be freely given. To date, the shape of this discourse in the ... -
Against the Grain: Reclaiming the Life I Left Behind
(2015-06-12)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* Against the Grain revisits a period of my life long neglected: the 20 years between my graduation from London University with a BA in African history in 1964 and ... -
An Analysis of Shaping of Female Characters in Films Directed by Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Diasporic Female Directors
(2021-04)This thesis intends to examine the shaping of female characters in films directed by Chinese female directors. Six films are selected as examples: The Crossing (Guo chun tian, Bai Xue, 2019), Angels Wear White (Jia nian ... -
Gendering Anti-Francoism: Cantautoras in Spain (1952-1986)
(2023)Gendering Anti-Francoism reinterprets Spain’s tradition of protest music, offering the first monographic study of Iberian female singer-songwriters (cantautoras). Implementing an interdisciplinary methodology—based on the ... -
Is Lady Justice Blind? Reading Brazil's 2012 Affirmative Action Decision Through the Struggle for Gender Equality
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Queer Women's Activism in China: Trauma, Sociality, and Confrontational Politics
(2021)In an ethnography of queer women’s (lala) activism in China, I tell the story of a social movement from its effusive beginning to disillusionment and pose the difficult question of what went wrong. I trace the dissolution ... -
Singularity, Solidarity, and Gender France 1945-1997
(2022-03)This paper examines how French Philosopher Mona Ozouf’s theory of French Singularity answers for the state of French feminism at the end of the 20th century. It also examines the historical and moral gaps in this ... -
The Exclusion of Conservative Women from Feminism: A Case Study on Marine Le Pen of the National Rally
(2019-04)There is a lack of civil discourse and collaboration among women of different feminist identities in the United States and abroad. This is somewhat puzzling, especially because historically, feminism has never really assumed ... -
The Female Figures in Aesthetic Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan—Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro as Examples
(2020)In this thesis, I mainly discussed the commonalities and differences between two representative authors of Chinese and Japanese aesthetic literature in the early 20th century: Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro, in terms of ... -
The Perception and Depiction of Females: Sarcasm Replacing Humor from 1960-1975
(2007-05-04)As female activism demanded equality in the social, economic and political contexts in the twentieth century in America, their effects could be seen in higher education at Duke University in the 1960’s with the ending of ... -
Toward Inclusive Instruction in Religion and Philosophy.
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Tweeting Feminism: African Feminisms, Digital Counterpublics and The Politics of Gendered Violence
(2019-05)Tweeting feminism is a digital ethnographic and archival study of the ways in which Kenyan feminists appropriate Twitter as a site for community building. Firstly, I explore the mutually enabling modes of gendered violence ...
