Browsing Women, Gender, and Sexuality Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...