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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 color scientists and to continue the resistance against persistent racialized gender ideologies within ...
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 street performances. The purpose of this study is to investigate how feminist anti-violence activism ...
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 full-time Spanish-language noncommercial radio station—serves as a case study of Chicana/o-controlled ...
"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 religious history especially the relationship between activism and religion among Korean American women. ...
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, and relations. The second element is when they need help and seek assistance from the government, ...
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 population and, particularly, as an "at-risk" population demanding study and intervention across the Social ...
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. Exclusions based on race, gender and sexuality have misrepresented U.S. history as predominantly white, ...
'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 populations deemed disposable through the vicissitudes of neoliberal globalization. Using a combination of ...
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 operates. This thesis argues that temporality is fundamental in the construction of difference ...
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 Studies Department Through two intellectual and activist spaces that are fraught with identity politics, ...