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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Senior Integrated Projects
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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIPs, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) completed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Concentration. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to a SIP.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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Entitled, “Folk Art”
(2022-11-01)American folk art is the heart of this project. Separated into five sections, the topic of folk art is explored through the lens of history, contextual analysis, an in-depth look at a handful of folk artists, folk art ... -
Irreal History
(2021-11-01)Part essay, part art, and part interactive, https://irrealhistory.com is a cyberspace deep dive into irreality. Best described as possible worlds, irreality is the space between the real, material world and the unreal, ... -
Becoming "Her Woman" : Queerness, Style, and Lesbian Community in 1920s and 1950s America
(2022-11-01)Personal style is an embodiment of one's self-understanding; fashion brings the social dimensions of gender, sexuality, and class to life in our possessions and clothes, on our skin. Fashion is one of Western society's ... -
Their Own Legal Category : State Surveillance as a Means of Criminalizing Pregnant People
(2022-11-01)This project examines the state surveillance and consequential criminalization of pregnant people. It begins by investigating a set of laws and procedures that apply only to pregnant people in agreement with Grace Elizabeth ... -
Unveiling the Invasion of Afghanistan : Analysis and Creative Collection of the Media Coverage Surrounding Muslim and Afghan Women through Orientalist and Imperialist Frameworks
(2022-03-01)This project aims to shed a brief light on the ways in which U.S. media coverage of Muslims post-September 11, 2001 was inherently negative and used orientalist and imperialist stereotypes and caricatures of Muslims, Muslim ... -
Presence and Touch: Abolitionist and Intersectional Birth Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-03-01)This paper seeks to examine, through a series of case studies, the birth work initiatives that align with intersectionality and abolition feminism. I argue that birth work cannot be separated from the various contexts in ... -
To Care, or Not to Care: How the Costa Rican National Daycare Network Provides the Right to Care
(2022-04-21)This project examines right to care in Costa Rica through the lens of the National Childcare and Development Network. Right to care describes the right to be cared for, to care and not to care (Estrada, 27). Within an ... -
Patriarchy, Masculinity, and Rape Culture: A Theoretical and Personal Reflection
(2022)Twenty-first century Western society is a patriarchal society built upon many different components: masculinity, gender, gender roles and norms, privilege, humor, rape culture, and hypermasculinity are some of many. ... -
Recentering Trans Inclusivity in Reproductive Healthcare : Narratives of social support in online spaces through experiences of stigma in sexual and reproductive healthcare for trans masculine identities
(2020-11-01)This paper explores the multi-faceted experiences of stigma and discrimination that trans masculine people face in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare. I approach discourses around stigma resilience in social ... -
U.S. Rate of Cesarean Surgery: Medicalization of Childbirth as a Discursive Formation through the Frameworks of Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice
(2020-01-17)Cesarean surgery (c-surgery) is the most common operating room procedure in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests an ideal national c-surgery rate between 10 and 15% (WHO, 2015). In 2018, the ... -
Safety, Pain, Home, Freedom : A Thematic Exploration of the Medicalization of Childbirth as a Tool of Racism and Colonialism
(2021-06-01)My paper explores the medicalization of birth, which is the historical process by which the dominant method of childbirth went from being a community affair rooted in traditional ways of knowing to a procedure that takes ... -
“You’ll Win If You’re White” : Exploring Skin Whitening in Modern Thai Culture Through Advertisement
(2019)This paper explores the origins and seemingly exponential growth of skin whitening in modem Thai culture. I approach discourses around Thai skin whitening through visual representations and scholarly research pertaining ... -
Gender Troubles in the Land of Ooo
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"Forsake the Self or Forsake the Law" : A Study of Women Lawyers and Subtle Gender Inequities in the Legal Profession
(2015)The author uses a survey of twelve women currently practicing law in the Midwest to explore three questions: why are women currently in this unequal position in the practice of law; what are the subtle ways women encounter ... -
The Growing Edge of Possibility : Genderqueer Identity and the Reconfiguration of Gender Recognition
(2013)Genderqueer identity, or gender identity that is not constructed in relation to the gender binary of woman and man, is becoming increasingly visible in the contemporary social sphere. Yet, due to the overwhelmingly pervasive ... -
In Their Own Words: Women Authors in Ecuadorian Literature
(1999)For an outsider, perhaps the South American country of Ecuador is best experienced on an old bus laden with luggage and pineapples careening on rock roads around volcanoes, whizzing through backyards of steamy jungle ... -
When the Sexual is Political: A Reflective Analysis of Feminist Non-Profit Organizing Around the Issue of Prostitution
(1995)From January of 1995 until March 22, 1995, I worked with PROMISE Program for Women and Girls, a new San Francisco-based non-profit organization dedicated to combating sexual exploitation. During this time, I interned ... -
Lois Elaine Taft: Half a Journal and Half a Remembrance
(1999)When people ask me why I am writing a biography of my grandmother, I answer them, trying to fulfill their romantic ideas, trying to convince them that she did something important. They want evidence of her existence. ... -
"Mujeres Escondidas": A Herstory of Four Mexican-American Migrant Women
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1984)Dear Lourdes, Cuca, Costanza, Chole, As a privileged-racist-white woman, I thank you. As a privileged-racist-white woman, I apologize to you for the ways in which my ignorance and the ignorance of so many of our sisters ... -
Feminist Resistance: An Oral History of the Dworkin-MacKinnon Anti-Pornography Civil Rights Ordinance
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1997)Everyday, men beat women. Men rape women. Men stalk, harass, assault, dismiss, degrade, abuse, and use women. Too often, men torture, mutilate, and murder women. In short, men systematically subordinate women in a variety ...
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