This dissertation analyzes narratives of women speaking about their sexual history and pleasures, with a focus on how women conceptualize their own experience and compare it to others. Additionally, this study strives to understand how women create meanings that are important to…
"150" Result
Sort By:
The central question of, what is womanhood? anchors this work. Within that wondering and examination is research into feminism, in conversation with rock and roll and 1980s MTV, gender studies, queer studies, and dance studies. The interrogation of MTV as a superstructure for no…
What is the role of epic in modernity? Does it still have any value? What shape and structure does it take? This dissertation claims that the epic does indeed continue to inform our experience of the world in modernity, albeit often in unusual ways. Focusing on the period betwee…
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative wh…
Transgender populations face substantial barriers to healthcare access, exacerbated by a lack of inclusive research. The health needs of those who are gender nonbinary or genderqueer, identifying outside the binary of man and woman, are especially poorly understood. Using a prim…
This study explores the development of contemporary Moroccan queer literature written in French since 1995 and how it attests to a literary trend called transnarrationalité. It bases its approach in part on existing studies of narration, gender, sexuality, and queer theory in an…
This thesis offers a gender variant perspective on Anti-Discrimination legislation and litigation. Using queer theory, feminist legal theory and critical race theory, this thesis analyzes current debates within the trans movement regarding the use of rights based litigation and …
This dissertation engages theories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender identification in a study of contemporary performances in the U.S. and Israel. The dissertation interrogates the relationship between nation and diaspora, by revising the legacy of notable titles of the…
Lesbians and queer women are often labeled “invisible” in and beyond the academy within a politics of visibility used to describe lgbtq people and their movement. This dissertation is a historical geography of contemporary lesbian and queer society, culture, and economies in the…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time where, in "[detaching] queerness from sexuality" (1), chronologies represent a "diminishing future [which] creates a new emphasis on the her…
Between 1998 and 1999, San Francisco activists, politicians, and service providers proposed and then opened an emergency, temporary winter shelter for homeless LGBTQQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning) youth called "Castro Shelter" in the heart of the …
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the human geography of queer identity constructions and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations in the Lebanese capital Beirut. While I situate the formations of socially ma…
Reading poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew and English from across the twentieth century, this dissertation examines how literary lineage is constructed and challenged by Jewish women in Eastern Europe, America and Mandatory Palestine. Between Jewish women's limited access to the past an…
The internet has generally been recognized as a particularly advantageous medium for LGBTQs, that is, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans* people and/or queers. However, as I explain in this doctoral dissertation, LGBTQ Internet studies remain dominated by US scholars working on…
My dissertation, entitled Imagining Independence Park, uses literary texts, photographs, and art installations to explore the strategies and practices that gay Israelis adopt in order to assimilate into mainstream society and to distinguish themselves from it. I analyze diverse …
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
The aim of this study is to examine key texts in the discourse on Arab male homosexuality--works that have helped shape contemporary Arab thoughts and attitudes towards male "homosexuality." The exploration of an Arab "homosexual identity" will not only be examined through the a…
This thesis introduces readers to the interdisciplinary performance collective My Barbarian, consisting of artists Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The primary focus of this thesis is the body of work, the Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT). The project was …
This study is a qualitative investigation of how one teacher's equity orientation impacts her work in an urban high school in south Texas. Her experience including students, especially those who identify with differences, is represented as a critical case study. The primary purp…