This reprogramming of the home and redefining of domestic terms resurrects the more historical conception of the Salon, derived from the Italian salone, meaning ‘living room’ which “served society and not the house” (Habermas 1991:28). The Salon was more formal, public and centr…
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The desire to enhance sexual pleasure and satisfaction, ensure fidelity in relationships and treat sexual dysfunctions are some of the common factors attributed to the use of traditional aphrodisiacs in Nigeria. However, its connection to women’s sexual agency and empowerment in…
College women are at significantly greater risk of sexual assault compared with women in general. Survivors of sexual assault are at risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and problems with sexual intimacy. PTSD is characterized by five symptom clusters, two of w…
Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s…
The Shape of Intimacy explores the significance of a growing material culture of privacy to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literary history. In recent years, places such as the drawing room and coffee house have come to exemplify emergent norms of domestic and civil…
“Looking Beyond Male Bonding: ‘The New Chivalry’ and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Corporeal Intimacy in Turn-of-the-Century Britain” investigates the representation, culture, and spaces of same-sex male intimacy. By attempting to define the contours and boundaries of the male body…
This phenomenological study sought to understand the experience of seven men who came forward to contribute and discuss their intimate partner relationships for what relational intimacy could reveal about themselves, the meaning of intimate partnership, and their understanding o…
Intimate Citizens: Modulations of History and Memory during the Temporality of Crisis in Spain (2001-2019) analyzes the transformation of the public and private spheres by examining audiovisual and literary practices from the 2000s, when Spain was beginning a period of economic …
For the past 50 years Earth Day has offered an annual opportunity for humanity to come together and focus on the planet. This dissertation celebrates this occasion by contributing four middle school lesson plans to the growing field of “ecozoic education.” Students are invited t…
Love Among the Robots offers a cultural overview of fantasies and anxieties about relations with robots between 1970 and the present. I look beyond the techno-pessimistic and techno-optimistic readings of robots and our relations with them to a set of human-machine relations tha…
In this thesis, I will use the objective and recognizable content in my painting and the quality of the painting—the fine balance between spontaneity and control, the sense of touch, sketchiness, velocity, emphasis, profundity, etc. to elaborate on my sources of inspiration and …
Previous research has explored the relationship between religious involvement, loneliness, and pornography use. For some, pornography use can be used as a coping mechanism to overcome feelings of loneliness. This pornography use is especially problematic for those who are religi…
Black couples’ use of social media for expressing their emotions needs to be explored to help them develop their narratives without external pressure. Narrative therapy is used to understand the difficulties of holding on to unique personal narratives and preferred futures in th…
The following research focuses on lesbian intimacy in Argentina between 1966–1988, with particular focus on the dictatorship of 1976–1983. I argue that queer women during this era used constructions of lesbian eroticism, pleasure, and friendship as ways to counter authoritariani…
"Objects of Affection"; explores how the people of early modern England imagined, believed, hoped, and feared the material objects they exchanged with those closest to them would strengthen, sever, or otherwise shape their intimate ties to one another. More specifically, this pr…
Western cultures have subjugated nature to mankind, depleted her resources, and polluted the natural world in the name of growth and economic development. The superiority of man and his domination of the environment has ushered in a new geological and anthropogenic epoch, an unp…
The purpose of this project was to provide support and guidance for couples who have experienced infidelity. Much research suggests that adultery is one of the most challenging problems to treat in couples counseling. The project summarizes the effects of infidelity, the stages …
This thesis is concerned with the imaginary and discursive borders of the 'queer women's community' online and what it means to relate to and with one another as queer women in the present. The contemporary reconfiguring of queer relationality has shifted the figure of the lesbi…
This project refigures the histories of yellow fever, cholera, and typhus through the rubric of intimacy, defined as a value-neutral condition of physical and sensory proximity that can acquire a positive or negative valence based on context. It considers how disease-specific sy…