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Gender, Race, and Science: A Feminista Analysis of Women of Color in Science
(2012-09-13)Gender, Race, and Science: A <italic>Feminista</italic> Analysis of Women of Color in Science is a methodological intervention that expands the boundaries of Feminist Science Studies to include the experiences of women of ... -
Manufacturing Identities, Producing Poverty: Criminalizing Poor Women Through Welfare Fraud
(2012-09-13)This dissertation makes crucial connections between poverty, welfare, race, and the penal system. There are several aspects to consider. The first is that women are made poor by inequitable governmental policies, practices, ... -
Feminist Disability Studies: Theoretical Debates, Activism, Identity Politics, & Coalition Building
(2012-09-13)Abstract Feminist Disability Studies: Theoretical Debates, Activism, Identity Politics & Coalition Building Kristina R. Knoll Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Angela Ginorio Gender, Women, & Sexuality ... -
Making it Better for Queer Youth: Troubling (Neo)liberal Rhetorics of Visibility and Empowerment
(2013-02-25)This dissertation explores the discourse of queer youth as it has emerged as a distinct identity category in the U.S. from the late 1980's onwards. During this time, queer young people have come to be treated as a unique ... -
"The Call of God": Korean American Women's Activism in the Pacific Northwest
(2013-07-25)This study examines the multidimensional history of Korean American Christian women's activism in the Pacific Northwest between 1940 and 2012. Few scholars have explored Korean American women's experience in American ... -
'Punishment's Twin': Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition
(2013-11-14)"Punishment's Twin": Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition investigates prisoner reentry as a discursive formation which shores up the naturalization of the contemporary prison as a means of managing ... -
Feminista Frequencies: Tuning In to Chicana Radio Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1975-1990
My study fashions an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the first study of farmworker women, technology, and media within community radio institutions. Radio KDNA in Granger, Washington—the nation’s first ... -
Feminist Street Performances in Puerto Rico: Alternative Imaginaries Shifting the Ideal(ized) National Body
The body of literature that documents feminist activist efforts to eradicate gender violence in Puerto Rico does not includes and interpret contemporary feminist responses to heteropatriarchal narratives, such as feminist ... -
Queering U.S. History Museums: Heteronormative Histories, Digital Disruptions
This dissertation responds to the problem of disproportionate representations in U.S. history museums, which currently struggle to collect and narrate histories that accurately reflect the diverse identities of our nation. ... -
Rethinking Temporalities of Endocrine Disruptor Panics: Anxious Time and Evolutionary Time as Multispecies Intimacy
Queer studies, feminist environmentalisms and critical animal studies have come together in recent panic about the effects of endocrine disruptors on wildlife, but they have not adequately attended to the ways that temporality ... -
The Gendered Landscape of Chinese Forestry Reform: Labor, Narrative and Resistance, 1950s–Current
In contrast to much work on gender and development in the Global South, which has emphasized the influence of Global North-oriented capitalism, my research demonstrates that the gendering of labor and identities as well ... -
Toxic Animal Encounters: Queer Environmental Threats and Racialized Reproduction Anxieties
This dissertation interrogates contemporary anxieties about environmental toxins and their effects on sex, sexual development, and reproduction in North America. For instance, recent toxicology reports suggest that ... -
Before Their Time: Tracing the Emergence of the Figure of La Pachuca, 1910-1930s
The emergence of la pachuca, as an agent in Chicanx cultural production, directs attention to the process of meaning making which draw from elements of the past. The period between 1910 and the 1930s, which span the Mexican ... -
Expressive Struggles: Neoliberal Temporalities and the Social Reproduction of Feminized Labor in South Korea
This dissertation examines newly unionized female janitorial workers’ struggle in the process of public sector privatization that has unfolded after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in South Korea. It offers a critique of ... -
Embodied Writing: Gender and Class in the Graffiti and Murals of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Much of the academic and popular literature on the graffiti and murals of the 2011 Egyptian revolution treats these works as illustrative documentation of the sociopolitical events of the revolution, neglecting to consider ... -
Trapped in Time: Bodily Experiences of Family Dependent Workers (jiashu) in Daqing, a Model Industrial City in High-socialist China
The thesis focuses on the bodily experiences of family dependent workers (jiashu) in Daqing, an industrial city in high-socialist China. Jiashu referred to housewives that were mobilized by the state as temporary “workers” ... -
Praxis in the Trenches: A Self-study of feminist assessment of student learning in online education
This dissertation is a self-study of the development and use of a feminist assessment assignment of student learning in online learning in higher education. This paper opens with an overview of current state online education ... -
Informatic Afterlives and Database Erotics: The Performativity of Surveillance in Economies of Fidelity
Informatic Aterlives and Database Erotics explores the tension between coercive documentation and violent erasure in surveillance studies by centralizing the role of the body in the political and cultural transformations ... -
Western Transnormativity and the U.S. Asylum Process: From Gender-Nonconforming Forced Migrant to Neoliberal Transgender Refugee
This research exposes the ongoing violence from sustaining Western nation-state apparatuses. By considering U.S. asylum processes at the turn of the 21st century, it provides insights on how contemporary Western nation-state ... -
The Erotics of Pedagogical Spaces: Schools, Sexuality and the Desiring Body in India and Turkey
This dissertation examines how everyday schooling practices in India and Turkey create normative gendered and sexual citizens, erasing the complicated histories of caste, class, race, religion, gender, and national belonging ...