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Biracial identity development: A study of colorism and racial invalidation
(2020-08-17)I examine the impact familial and social dynamics play in bi/multiracial (my term for non-monoracial people) women’s sense of their own racial identity. I argue for the need to reevaluate our understanding of colorism when ... -
The power of the Appalachian trail: Reimagining the nature narrative through Autohistoria-teoría
(2020-04-13)This study situates the Appalachian Trail (AT) as a powerful place connecting multiple communities with varying identities, abilities, and personalities, a place where we can consider our radical interconnectedness in a ... -
Environmental materialism: A study of relationships among matter.
(2020-06-05)Environmental materialism is a theory of relationships split out in a tripartite formula that looks at the relationship between A and B, with C being the relationship between A and B. Currently the status quo of human ... -
The canine-human interrelationship as a model of post-oppositionality
(2020-04-07)This dissertation is premised on the theory that the predominant westernized social paradigm is rooted within a system of oppositionality, a way of believing, being, and behaving through which concepts and entities are set ... -
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 ... -
Adult women with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives on the menarche/menstruation experience
(2019-12-19)Framed in select MWGS feminist theories, this study’s 335 adult women/assigned-female-at-birth responded to the Autism Spectrum Quotient-10 (AQ-10, 2012) and Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire-2nd version (MAQ, 1980a, 1980b). ... -
Seeking sex in the archives: Orientation, metadata, and sartorial fetish items
(2019-09-20)This thesis seeks to illuminate how museums orient users towards clothing items associated with kink and fetish communities (sartorial fetish items) in their collections. Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological work guides ... -
“I can be the kind of parent that I wish I had”: Exploring multigenerational involvement in former foster care parenthood
(2019-08-12)The purpose of the foster care system is to promote safety, stability and wellbeing for children who have experienced maltreatment with the intent that children will heal and become stable adults. However, adolescents who ... -
A qualitative exploration of women-of-color professional academic advisors' perceptions and experiences
(2019-07-10)Within higher education institutions and research, Women-of-Color’s (WOC) professional experiences have become more visible. Yet, the lived experiences of WOC professional academic advisors working in colleges and universities ... -
Male-on-male rape culture and male survivor experiences of sexual violence
(2019-07-02)Adult male-on-male sexual assault has been studied minimally. Male rape survivors often face isolation, stigmatization of their perceived loss of masculinity, and questioning of their sexuality. Examining institutional ... -
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 ...
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