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This thesis examines a cluster of recent films that feature people of Maghrebi heritage and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, Franc…

This writing analyzes how the post-1965 cultural reconstruction in Indonesia functioned as a form of domination to maintain control over women's cultural identity formation and how that has been reflected within performing arts in Indonesia. I will focus on how state narratives …

The works I examine in this thesis for Egyptian women’s narrative liberation strategies span from the nationalist-feminist works of the 1920s in Egypt throughout the twentieth century. I include works by Huda Shaarawi, Zainab al-Ghazali, Nawal El Saadawi, Latifa al-Zayyat, the p…

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…

Through an ethnographic study of the practices surrounding pediatric health in post-Cold War Lat-via, a unique site at the intersection between Russia and the European Union, this dissertation argues that Latvians measure the moral rectitude of their nation by the straightness o…