Browsing by Subject "Women's studies"
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A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
An Aesthetic Disposition: Art, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Critique
(2020)This project focuses on the question: how might we understand the politics of contemporary art? Grounding my research in feminist political theory, I argue that art’s most critical function—in the US-based context ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Boccaccio's Women Philosophers: Defining Philosophy, Debating Gender in the Decameron and Beyond
(2020)This dissertation investigates the ‘woman philosopher’ in the works of fourteenth-century Italian author, Giovanni Boccaccio. Across his literature, Latin and Italian alike, Boccaccio demonstrated an ongoing interest in ... -
Body Image, Ballet Pedagogy, & Flow/Yu: Pedagogical Recommendations to Mitigate Self-Objectification & Choreographic Processes to Move Towards Embodied States of Flow & Yu
(2021)Objectification theory, as delineated by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, posits that women are trained to view themselves as visual objects for consumption. The related term, self-objectification, describes ... -
Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
(2017)In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote a short preface for August Aichhorn’s forthcoming book, Wayward Youth. There, Freud hailed ‘the child’ as the future of psychoanalysis, declaring that “[o]f all the fields in which psychoanalysis ... -
Consumerism and its Discontents: A Cultural History of Argentine Development, 1958-1969
(2012)This dissertation explores the quotidian experience of economic development by studying both the material realities and discursive worlds of 1960s Argentina. I reveal the gendered relationship between economic development ... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Composing Devotion at Little Gidding
(2015)At the community of Little Gidding from the late 1620s through the 1640s, in a special room known as the Concordance Chamber, Mary Ferrar, Anna Collett, and their sisters sliced apart printed Bibles and engravings, then ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair
(2023)In this dissertation, I analyze the critical, creative, and personal work of Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, and Alice Walker in order to suggest that spirituality can be a useful component of Black feminist self-repair. ... -
Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
(2015)This dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life ... -
Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
(2018)Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. ... -
Engendering Genocide: Representations of Violence in the Long Twentieth Century
(2020)Genocide studies typically emphasizes economics, law, history, political science, and sociology as the disciplines most relevant to understanding the phenomenon of premeditated mass slaughter, and the scholarship has been ... -
Examining Partner Characteristics and ARV Adherence Among South African Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Trauma
(2018)Background: Prior studies have produced conflicting results regarding the associations between partner-level characteristics and antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence, with some findings suggesting that romantic or sexual ... -
Exploring the Health of Sri Lankan Female Foreign Domestic Worker Returnees from the Middle East
(2014)Over the past few decades, Sri Lanka has experienced a feminization of migrant labor whereby increasing numbers of women have gone abroad to seek employment as foreign domestic workers. Despite the dominance of this profession ... -
Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012
(2014)"Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012" is a critical history of the unfolding of feminist literary study in the US academy. It contributes to current scholarly efforts to revisit ... -
Feminists without Feminism: Women’s Online Movement in Contemporary China
(2022)With the widespread stigmatization of “women’s rights” in China, I observed that young women increasingly reject the identification of “feminists.” In comparison, some of them voice their opinions on social media advocate ... -
Football Wishes and Fashion Fair Dreams: Class and the Problem of Upward Mobility in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture
(2012)Through an analysis of contemporary films, novels, comics, and other popular texts, my dissertation argues that upward class mobility, as the progress narrative through which the American Dream has solidified itself in literary ... -
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 ... -
Geographies of Freedom: Black Women's Mobility and the Making of the Western River World, 1814-1865
(2018)Geographies of Freedom explores the ways in which free and enslaved black women pursued freedom for themselves and their families in the middle Mississippi River Valley using the law and uniquely gendered access to forms ...
