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