Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination.?Sculpting the Woman? interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original …
This dissertation examines the material and corporeal configurations of the moral self in the Chinese literary tradition from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Unlike the modern Western understanding of morality as an abstract valence produced by the interiority of a rati…
The presentation of the body, like the creation of a text, is a performance of identity reflecting upon both its author and the culture in which it has been invented. Women, already a subjugated group within western culture, are further stigmatized after choosing to undergo body…
Common Medical Objects for Ephemeral Bodies mimics the medical spaces and objects used to diagnose the human body. As an artist, I subvert the function of these spaces and objects in my installation in order to play with the power they otherwise hold to disembody the patient fro…
This historical ethnography of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone draws from both Northern Paiute oral traditions—that were the object of over thirteen months of fieldwork in the community—and the written documentary record—including military records from the U.S. National Archi…
The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating the male body with the higher spirit and mind. These du…
In this thesis I compare two cases where human remains were found on the grounds of two historical medical colleges, the Medical College of Georgia and the Medical College of Virginia. These remains are presumed to be the remnants of dissected corpses from nineteenth century med…
The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating the male body with the higher spirit and mind. These du…
Through curated space and abstracted sculptures that reference the viewer’s body, Gut Feeling, acknowledges the viewer’s experience as the focal point of the exhibition. I designed the whole gallery as an art object using both positive and negative space. The sculptures act as o…
The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating the male body with the higher spirit and mind. These du…