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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 ... -
"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 ... -
Creative Kin-Making Practices Among Queer Youth and Womxn of Color, 1950-2020
My study examines the creative kin-making practices of three community sites to demonstrate the ways kinships and kin-making practices traverse space and time. I locate pachucas, young women of the zoot suit era as ... -
Cruel Activism: Precarity, Labor, and Affect of Chinese Feminist and LGBT Rights NGOs
This dissertation explores a central tension and contradiction between the social reproduction of NGOs and the social reproduction of activist workers in the People’s Republic of China since the Fourth World Conference on ... -
Ecologies of Power: A Feminist History of State Building in the Gond Kingdom of Garha, 1500-1870s
This thesis examines the histories of the Gond kingdom of Garha from the early modern to the early colonial period. In attending to the ecologies of this kingdom within a feminist analytical framework, it makes both ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Feminista Dance Disruptions in Fandango Temporalities
This dissertation examines fandango practice in Seattle and its transnational collaborations in Mexico within a larger trajectory of participatory traditions as decolonial pedagogies that help to build spaces of dialogue, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Insurgent Kinship: Queer P’urhépecha Migrations and Kinship
My doctoral dissertation examines how Indigiqueer P’urhépecha people in Michoacán and the diaspora face precarious presents and futures where their role within a nuclear family, belonging to society, and safety are conditional ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Militant Mothers of the Kurdish Resistance: Statelessness, Mothering and Subaltern Politics in Contemporary Turkey
This dissertation looks at the ways in which Kurdish women in Turkey produce insurgent bodies,non-statist discourses of resistance, and anti-national forms of kinship through radical practices of mothering and reproduction. ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
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. ...