In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
This research examines the nexus of witchcraft and early modern healthcare. It draws on witchcraft studies and history of medicine to frame witchcraft as a public health crisis originating in, and investigated through, misogynistic medical ideologies. This research began primari…
Misogyny is at the core of the binary gender order. Female misogyny directly leads to the further strengthening of the patriarchal system. And mass media, as a communication tool, undoubtedly plays an accomplice role in strengthening female misogyny. Based on the study of female…
Noah Berlatsky describes misogyny as a way to manipulate and control both women and men throughout history. Gender discrimination and prejudice are universally prevalent, influencing our technology-driven digital world. We have embedded our biases into everything we create. In t…
In her landmark study on gender in Russian literature, Barbra Heldt observes, "there is no lack of general pronouncements about how women act or feel or think in Russian literature... [yet they] have been overwhelmingly made by men." Paradoxically, this phenomenon is most pronou…
Findings and Conclusions: This thesis asserts that jus in bello standards for contemporary warfare can be meaningfully adapted to regulate asymmetric conflicts. Although, non-state agents may be forced to resort to acts of terror in order to achieve their aims, empowered states …
This thesis analyzes the misogynist representation of women in three contemporary Latin American crime novels. In Luis Sepúlveda’s Diary of a Sentimental Killer, an international assassin’s relationship with a bourgeois woman nearly costs him his masculinity and his professional…
Introduction : eating her words -- Threatening women -- Ameliorating misogyny -- Discriminating sexism -- Taking his (out) -- Humanizing hatred -- Exonerating men -- Suspecting victims -- Losing (to) misogynists -- Conclusion : the giving she. Down Girl is a broad, original, an…
Down Girl is a broad, original, and far ranging analysis of what misogyny really is, how it works, its purpose, and how to fight it. The philosopher Kate Manne argues that modern society's failure to recognize women's full humanity and autonomy is not actually the problem. She a…