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African Native American women’s rhetorics of survivance: Decolonization and social transformation
(2019-04-04)This dissertation expands a lively conversation on American Indian rhetorics of survivance initiated by Anishinaabe Scholar Gerald Vizenor, who used the term “survivance” to describe Indigenous peoples’ simultaneous acts ... -
Older women of faith changing the world: The impact of older women's participation in interfaith organizations and social activism
(2014-05)This thesis sought to determine whether the values of religious organizations could be consistent with feminist values. Nine members of a women's interfaith organization consisting of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian members ... -
Enter the Phoenix: An ecofeminist analysis of "X-men: The Dark Phoenix Saga"
(2014-05)My thesis examines two characters from the graphic novel X-men: The Dark Phoenix Saga through an ecofeminist lens. I first explore the negative and positive metaphors concerning women and nature represented through the ... -
Gloria Anzaldúa's womanist idea
(2018-11-01)My dissertation, “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Womanist Idea,” is a womanist textual analysis of Chicana queer-feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa’s lesser-known scholarship. While Anzaldúa is heralded for her groundbreaking 1987 text, ... -
Stripping subjectivity: Dynamic multiplicity, “covert mimesis,” and reinscription/resistance through subversion
(2010-08)This thesis analyzes narratives of female strippers and augments them with personal experience, arguing that strippers, using various strategies, formulate multiply-situated identities which help us to navigate the ... -
Radical rhetoric: Excavating Gloria Anzaldúa's “La Prieta”
(2010-12)First published in 1981 in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Anzaldúa's short autohistoria, "La Prieta," represents an important, though frequently overlooked, aspect of her work. Although ... -
Battered (m)others syndrome: Mothers who kill their batterers and the children who are left behind
(2010-05)I examine the intersection of identities of women who kill their batterers in self-defense, as both mothers and as victims. Many scholars discuss women's use of lethal force as a result of battering; however, many of these ... -
The matter of sex and gender: A dialogue between trans bodies and feminist theory
(2009-08)Despite significant social and political gains derived from gender theory, feminist scholars, progressive thinkers, and those in the transgender community do not critically examine the pre-supposed meanings of sex in gender ... -
Terrifying environments, environing terrorism: An ecofeminist critique of the FBI's response to the Earth Liberation Front
(2010-05)The Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental movement that advocates sabotage as a strategy for protesting destruction of the environment, is currently classified as a terrorist organization by the FBI. In this ... -
Coversations on conversion: Applying Anzaldúa's theory of Nepantla to Rosemary Radford Ruether's call to conversion
(2012-05)This thesis demonstrates how Gloria Anzaldúa's theory of nepantla may be used to enhance the conversion theology of Christian feminist theologian, Rosemary Radford Ruether. A critical analysis of these theoretical perspectives ... -
Healing, honoring, transforming: The power of spiritual activism in Marilou Awiakta's work
(2012-05)Marilou Awiakta, author of Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom, is a Cherokee/Appalachian author whose work reveals the web that connects all life and demonstrates how important it is to protect and honor every living ... -
Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
(2011-08)The dominant conversation of gay marriage legalization is currently centered on a limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. ... -
“I'm not your superwoman”: How Jewelle Gomez's vampire Gilda can help black women recover from Strong Black Womanhood
(2011-08)The myth of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) has governed many Black women's lives since its development in the nineteenth century, disallowing the typical SBW her gender identity, eroticism, and humanity and limiting her to ... -
Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s "art as a mode of research": Applications in feminist research methods and feminist rhetoric
(2018-04-25)My dissertation explores how Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s theories of creativity inform social-justice efforts, contribute to feminist research in feminist rhetoric, and operate as a tool to analyze her sketches. Despite Anzaldúa’s ... -
"Sacred activism": The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
(2012-05-30)The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers--composed of healers ranging in age from fifty-seven to eighty-six and located in Alaska; North, South, and Central America; Africa; and Asia--practice what ... -
"Warrior mamas": Envisioning Womanist Spiritual Activism to decrease infant mortality disparities
(2016-05-30)My dissertation envisions adopting a womanist spiritual activism to bring awareness and change to the disparities of infant mortality among African American women. This secondary data analysis of “365 Days of Infant ... -
Spiritual activism through storytelling: Derrick Bell and womanism
(2015-05-30)The purpose of this thesis is to address the connections between Derrick Bell's critical race theory and the theory of womanism as articulated by Layli Maparyan. I will examine the impact of storytelling in addressing ... -
Revisioning scientific methodologies and epistemologies with feminism and indigenous understandings
(2015-05-30)Western scientific studies, in the past, have used what is known as a "value-free approach" which calls for a complete disconnection between the scientist's beliefs and their research. Feminist scholars have recently ... -
Outdoors girls: Incorporating an ongoing connection with the outdoors into the prevention of negative body image in girls
(2011-05-30)Feminist theory and empirical evidence link the dominant Western thin beauty ideal to the development of negative body image in girls, which can lead to eating disorders and other serious mental health issues. Recent studies ... -
Faux queens—fauxing the real: Biological women, the art of drag, and why the real is drag and/or how I became a drag queen and/or how to paint a drag mug
(2012-08-30)Can women be drag queens? Is it possible to expand definitions of drag to include those who do not perform their gender opposite? What is a faux queen? Are faux queens drag queens? I examine these and other questions in ...
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