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Browsing Women, Gender, and Sexuality Senior Integrated Projects by Issue Date
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"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 ... -
Our Bodies / Our Stages : A Reclamation Project
(1990)The author combines a study of feminist philosophy and theatre. Part one reviews feminist issues. Part two surveys feminist theatre. Part three reviews four plays, Megan Terry’s Calm Down Mother, Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon ... -
Sex Differences in Attribution of Victim Blame for Acquaintance Rape
(1990)Research on attribution of victim blame for rape has often focused on identifying sex differences, and other studies have discussed attribution of victim blame specifically for acquaintance rape, but rarely have sex ... -
Women and Mathematics: A Working Voice?
(1990)Over the course of the past year, since the beginning of spring quarter 1989, I have been experiencing a gradual, but continuous, self-awakening as a human being, as a woman and as a student. The journey began in Women's ... -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland: An Unfeminine Feminist and A Female World Without Women
(1991)Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in New England, lived a long and productive life, and died in 1935. During her lifetime she was described by her peers as one of the most influential women in the United States. ... -
Leading Ourselves to a Better Future: A Feminine Approach to Organization
(1992)As a white woman, raised in a white male system, talking about the differences between men and women is a touchy subject. First, any acknowledgements of difference between men and women brings the risk of supporting the ... -
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 ... -
In Their Own Voice: An Oral History of the 1985 Cambridge Anit-Pornography Referendum
(1995)In November 1985, in the city of Cambridge, feminists nearly succeeded in passing civil rights anti-pornography legislation by voter-initiated referendum. As Andrea Dworkin writes: "We got 42 percent of the vote, a ... -
A Race Study: Three Crises Affecting the Black Community According to Cornel West, Patricia Williams and Derrick Bell
(1995)It is difficult to approach the subject of race in a responsible, academic manner. The difficulty in dealing with racial matters magnifies when the researcher is a member of the majority, distanced from the group being ... -
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 ... -
Interrogating the Postmodern: Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn
(1998)This essay was written with the intention of exploring both personally and critically the growing dialogue among academic feminists and historians in regard to post-structuralism. What are the consequences of adopting ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Women's Resource Handbook: A Practical Guide to Kalamazoo College and the City at Large
(2002)If this handbook had been in print when I was starting my first year at Kalamazoo College, I would have felt better equipped exploring my new "home." I relied on word of mouth and trial-and-error to find places I was ... -
Gender, Visual-Motor Skill, Self-Regulation, and Letter Knowledge as Predictors of Preschoolers' Name-Writing Skills
(2010)Research has established emergent writing as an important tool for enhancing the skills necessary in the achievement of literacy proficiency. Thus, the identification of predictors of preschool writing is not only an ... -
Empowerment of Impoverished Women Through Women-Run Organizations
(2011)Impoverishment and homelessness are rapidly growing problems for women in the United States. With both of these issues come stereotypes that prevent women from becoming economically mobile and independent. Much of the ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
Gender Troubles in the Land of Ooo
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“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 ...
