Browsing Women, Gender, and Sexuality Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The Process-Utopian Method for Feminist Praxis : Exploring Examples within Abolition and Decolonial Feminist Theory
(2023-06-01)This project began with the initial question: what does feminist praxis look like outside of academia? Praxis is defined as "the process of using a theory or something that you have learned in a practical way." It can also ...