Theses Written in FGSS/WMST (1990-2020)

Electronic copies of 2020-2007 theses are available online HERE.

 

2020

Campus Sex as Sex Education: Imagining Sexual Study within the Neoliberal Arts - Jessica Brandon

“Be my rebel girl”: Locating Women in Music, History, and Revolution - Lily Davis

Becoming Undocumented: Mapping the Migration of Latina Women to the United States through Contemporary Visual Media - Ariella Reyes

 

2019

The Consequence of Legislation: An Analysis of Military Sexual Assault - Marisella Andrews

Keeping a Str8 Face: Gay Sex, Straight Men, and Hetero Performativity - William H. Bosha

Translating the Ineffable: Deconstruction and the Political - Selene Canter

Tailoring Gender: The Past, Present, and Future of Queer Dress - Hope Fourie

WARNING - Isaac Gotterrer

Queering China in Cyberspace: Desire, Resistance and Discipline in Imagining Chinese Modern Gayness - S.J.

The Inclusion of Women in Post-Conflict Societies: Pathways to Peace-Building - Kate Macken

Trapped in Transit: Rendering Bodies Subject or Suspect at the Airport - Jackie Manginelli

Skinny Me is the Real Me”: The Neoliberal, Postfeminist Discourse of “Pro-Anorexia” and Fitness Bloggers - Teshia van der Horst

Le robó el alma”: Male Lovesickness in Early Modern Spanish Literature - Rachel Williams

 

2018

The Classical and The “Immoral”: A Juxtaposition of Ballet and Exotic Dance Rachel Eccles

Dissonant Destabilizing: Queering the Construction and Performance of Relational Norms - Emma Fuller-Monk

Aspirations and Compromises: Workers’ Tactical Use of the Space of Kyabakura in New York City - Shizuha Hatori

Title IX Policy and Campus Sexual Assault: Reflecting on the Past to Reimagine the Future - Dylan Morrison Heuer

 

2017

'Our Women are Brave on Alcatraz' - Isabel Ruth Alter

In the Name of Protection - Sofi M. Goode

The Woods Could Creep Inside at Any Moment - Torii Savannah Johnson

Pedagogies of Consent - Julia Frances Morrison

 

2016

Holocaust Girls – Rebecca Elisabeth Brill

Why Did the Rapist Cross the Road? Feminist Rape Jokes – Nina Marie Gurak

Rewriting Love and Identity – Elizabeth Ann Roche

In the Drafts of Silence – Kai Frances Wilson

Walking With Giants – Rebecca Shirley Winkler

 

2015

Electromag Lady: Janelle Monáe & Black Feminist Worldmaking – Jessica Kaplan Tollman

Authenticity and Artifice: Burlesque Dancing in New Orleans – Isabelle A. Gauthier

This Bridge That Never Dissipates – Paulina Constanza Jones-Torregrosa

A Wrinkle in Time – Kelsey Elizabeth Henry

 

2014

Queer Killjoys  - Aileen K. McGrory

Sometimes Y – Haley E. Weaver

Educating Nosotras – Shira Engel

“Girl Has Sex, World Doesn’t End” – Ella Dawson


2013

Television Representation of Black Female Bodies – Jelisa N. Adair


2012

Advocating from the Margins – Zachary Kirwood

Sports Media C.O.R.E. Exercises – Catherine D. Reed

The Changing Face of Diabetes – Alexandra W. Wang

Food’s Gender Problem – Alexandra D. Ketchum

“Porous Bodies, Collective Agency” – Abigail B. Baker



2011

Animal-Attentive Queer Theories – Tyler T. Wuthmann

Rethinking Relations: Queer Intimacies and Practices of Care – Silvia N. Hansel

“Queer Time, Affective Binds” – Katherine E. Nilson

Clinton Run for White House: Media Bias or Campaign Gaffe? Meghan R. Larywon

Queer Rapture: Translating Ganymede from Ovid to Marlowe – Christopher P. Scott

The Politics of Devotional Labor – Hope L. Alley

How Café Service & Physical Design Affect Social Performance – Alex C. Bernson

Complications in the Classroom – Stephanie J. Hucker



2010

Discipline and the Care for Nature – Benjamin J. Weisgall

Debating Contraception, Defining Motherhood – Leah V. Aronwksy

Against a Better Prison – Lex A. Horan

Borderland Bodies – Jill. M. Jaffe

Location and Legitimacy in Women’s Studies – Lesley S. Chapman



2009

The Medical Profession and the Lost Promise of Legalization: Creating the Abortion Provider Shortage - Heather A. Sheriff

Achieving 'Gender Parity' at Wesleyan University: Admitting Women, Maintaining Patriarchy - Daniel Trent Grassian

The Praised and the Damned: Muslim Women and the Politics of Adultery

Borderland Bodies: Queering Intersectional Health Activisms - Jill Jaffe

Location and Legitimacy in Women's Studies: New Perspectives on Race and Gender in the American Academy - Lesley Chapman



2008

Re-Interpreting Spanish Feminism: Strength and Influence in the Campaign for Abortion Reform - Larissa Slovin

'Hijacking the Movement:' The Saxe-Alpert Controversy, Media Politics and the Making of Radical Feminism in the U.S., 1974-1976 - Anne K. McSweeney

Signing on, Getting Off: How Heterosexual Internet Pornography is Damaging Sexual Development and Identity Formation - Natalie S. Tran

The Touch Project: Performing Gender Across and Through Our Skins - Kelly Klein



2007

Is Depo-Provera Birth Control? – Megan M. Greenberg

Between the Goddess & the Demon - Daniella A. Schmidt

Writing the Woman, Women Writing: Reconceiving the Brothers Grimm - Ruby Stardrum

More Coffins than Cradles: Low Fertility in Bologna, Italy - Erin Waters Teske

Abort? Contesting Tradition & Engaging Modernity through Women’s Bodies in Western Cameroon - Leigh Gabrielle Senderowicz

The Terms of Maternal Obscenity: Breastfeeding & Discursive Desexualization - Margaret Ellen Davis

Food and Sex: Subverting the American Kitchen 1940-2007 -Joanna Nava Goetzel

Exploring Women's (Hetero)sexual Desire at Wesleyan - Sarah Ellen Faeth

Mainstreaming, Sanitation, & the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - Paige Mercyd Kruza



2006

LGBT Youth Suicide Prevention in Massachusetts - Zach G. Strassburger

Body/Space: Metaphor, Materiality, and Mapping - Jenevive Tatiana Nykolak

H.D. and the Search for a Beminist Language - Rebecca Anne Appel

Writing for Recognition: Individuals & Community in Ethnic Lit. - Maureen Brookes

'No Boys Allowed': Queering Woman - Identified Space - Aurora Maoz

Binary - Resistant Bodies - Caitlin E. Slattery

Developing the Abayudaya: Queering the Family and Development - Sarah Gunther



2005

Investigating Indo-Chic: Popular Representations of Fashionable India – Pia Kaur Sahni

Which Door Will You Buy?  Advertising in the Naturalization of Compulsory Binary Gender – Alix Strunk

Bodies of Knowledge – Arianna Rachel Gutlove Thompson

 

2004

Was It Good for You? – Valentina DiPippo

Privatization Politics: Feminism and Motherhood in the New South Africa – Emma Ruby  Sachs

The Price of the Act: Lesbian Gender, Race & the Performance of Difference –  Gina Katharine Zorzi

Because It Is Better to Travel than to Arrive- Amy Fornari

Trans/Scendence: Ethical Possibility in Intersex Management – Brittany J. Allen

 

2003

Fat Matters: The Meaning of Fat in the Contemporary U.S. – Cara Herbitter

S/M Communities and the Criminalization of Sexual Deviance – Julia Marcus

The Good Sisters – Lauren Briskin

Female Sexuality in Homer’s The Odyssey – Jenny Gassman-Pines

Confronting the Breast Cancer Culture – Claire Lutgendorf

Queering Utopia: Genderfucking and the American Dream – Piper Sledge

Sex on the Brain – Anna Christensen

Benevolently Colonize This – Joanne Alcantara

 

2002

Genital Surgeries – Karen Ben-Moshe

Old Jersey Meets New Jersey: Theorizing and Creating Gender Rebellion – Hope Dector

The Experience of Girls Raised by Lesbian Parents – Marianna Litovich

Pornography and It’s (Dis)Contents: Feminism, Sexuality, and the University   –     Abigail Boggs

Scientific Femininity: Gender Roles in Scientific Literature and Popular Culture  –      Taniza Holmes

Victims, Workers, Enemies, Slaves: (De)constructing Prostitution in Feminism –        Erin Collins


2001

Ghetto Bitches and Pussy Power: A Reconstructing of Feminism – Laura Grappo

Psychological Objectivity – Elisabeth Stein

 

2000

Beautiful Stranger: Destabilizing Gender in Leigh Bowery’s Costumes – Sandy J. Cleary

Tracing the Cultural Roots of Women’s Health in India – Kalyani A. McCullough

Where Bi? Who Bi? How Bi?: The Problematic of Bisexual Identity – Joshua E. Hecht

Animal Rights, Care Ethics and the Law – Evan T. Leonard

‘Don’t Want to Be This’ – Anabelle C. Singer

Homomutiny: Pirates, Queers, and the Poetica of Casting-off – Jessica L. Arndt

 

1999

Doctoring Medicine: Six Doses of Physician-Activism – Margo D. Simon

Whores and STDs – Mary Danilena Weaver

Exhibiting Sperm: Visualization and Reproductive Sciences – Christine L. Hanssmann

Gendered Bytes and Digital Genes: The Transformation of Bodies through Cyberspace –    Tamara Goldberg

Two Ends, a Needle  and a Thread: Three Stories for Women – Leander Deborah Altifois

Eramos Mineros, no Mas (We Were Miners, No More) – SaraT L. Mayer

A Feminist Analysis of Smoking and the Anti-Tobacco Movement – Kathryn E. Judge

 

1998

‘Vagina Dentata’: Images of Aborting Women, 1840-1933 – Amy Davenport

Immigrating Minds: The Mother/Daughter Relationship of West Indian Families –     Michelle Berkeley

Taking it to the Limit? – Shenandoah C. Pearce-Anderson

Nella Larsen: A Struggle for Self-Determination – Jessica A. Golden

Controversial Contraception, Suspicious Science – Abigail R. Bass

 

1997

It’s Not ‘My Geisha’ – Patricia Y. Whong

Lyke a Mother and Not Lyke a Stepdame: Elizabeth I, Edmund Spenser and Ireland – McKenna Kerrigan

Gender Differentials in Health Outcomes for HMO vs. FFS Health Insurance – Stacy E. Sneeringer

Refiguring the Italian Woman Through Stories of Family – Kelly J. Freidenfelds



1996

HIV/AIDS and Women of Color in the United States – Hong Thi Vu

Contemporary Responses to the Construction of Madness – Tracy Jill McNamara

Birth of a Color – Mia Lee

Nature and Culture in the New World Order – Ady Ben-Isreal

Reconfiguring Subjectivity: Chavez, Cisheros, and Moraga – Rachel McLaughlin

Women, Equality, and Reproductive Freedom – Deborah Bari Baker

Portraits – Colleen J. Pickett

Literary Gifts: On Chukovskaya’s Akmatova Journals – Ginger Beth Lazarus

The Emergence of the Immoral Woman – Alison N. Baker

 

1995

Eve’s Legacy – Rose M. Gower

Germs Embodied: Tuberculosis and the Logic of Health and Illness in America –  Alisa McQueen

Delish: A Screenplay – Samantha Lynn Counter



1994

Wombs and Wounds: Disrupted Desires – Ayana Smith

The Transformation of the Birthing Event – Michelle Dawn Seelig

Feminism Without ‘Women’ A Theory for Anti-Rape Politics – Isabelle Barker

Defending the Moral Order – Lauren Weber

 

1993

Lesbian Perspectives on Body Image and the Lesbian Community – Sara Anne Auerbach

Re-Forging the Master’s Tools: An Analysis of Diversity in Progressive Politics – Katherine P. Booth

Mothers in the Fatherland: Nationalism and Sexuality in the Algerian Revolution – Karina A. Eileraas

‘Soft News:  Newspaperwomen and the Sensational Press, 1880-1915 – Kristine D. Gual

Erotics as Politics: The Intersections of Feminism and Sexuality – Michelle N. Khazai

‘Catchin’ Babies’: The Demise of the Granny Midwife… - Rosemary Polanco

Excessive Clitorizing: Margins, Details, and Monsters of the Female Body – Audrey Prins-Patt

Unearthing an Identify: An Analysis and Contextualization of Ana Mendieta’s Life and Work - Miriam Schacht

Dressing Up and Fleshing Out: Butch/Femme Erotics and Politics All Tied Up – Tristan Taormino


1992

Beyond Technophobia: Gender, Technology, and Domination – Jessica Beebe

Multiple Personality:  Lesbian Subjectivity and Transgression in Violette Leduc’s La Batarde and Kate Millett’s Flying – Susan Kleinman

Revisioning Knowledge: Towards an Anti-Colonial Feminist Epistemology – Jennifer J. Langdon

Women’s Health: The Domain of God and the Doctor? – Andrea T. Seebaum

 

1991

Rewriting Sexuality:  The Well of Loneliness and Lesbian Subjectivity – Deborah A. Cohler

Layers of Meaning: The Multitextual Gone With the Wind – Eva M. Pendleton

Feminist Fairy Tales and Moral Pornography: Revising Social and Sexual Roles in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber – Alisa B. Rosen



1990

Rewriting Female Social Activism: History, Women’s Movements, and Black Women – Deirdre A. Williamson



1982

1982 – Paid Domestic Workers: A New Frontier for Organized Labor – Leslie Simon



1980

1980 – Structuring Women’s History – Diane Hope Weiss