Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dissertations and Theses
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Challenging Notions of the Ideal Victim: Identifying and Stereotyping Human Trafficking in the Midwest
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Human trafficking, defined as commercial sex or labor induced by force, fraud, or coercion, has become a global concern, with various stakeholders taking different political and ideological stances in their opposition to ... -
Stuck: Time, Difference, and Power in American Visual Culture
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This dissertation analyzes four case studies in American visual culture to propose a theory of stuckness, a way of doing time in visual culture. Using a theoretical grounding in queer theory, performance studies, and ... -
Cooking Up Resistance: Exploring Czech Identity in Cook County Through Co-Culinary Oral Histories
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation explores the bonds and identities made possible through the culinary labor of Czech women in Cook County, Illinois. Through co-culinary oral histories, which combines the process of feminist oral histories ... -
Discomforting Power: Bodies in Public
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)In this work, I draw from oral history interviews with queer and trans disability justice activists in Seattle, WA. I posit a theory of comfort that interrogates how “being comfortable” in certain spaces gets allocated on ... -
"A Strong Woman of the Lord”: Performing Gender at the Intersection of Sport and Evangelical Christianity
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)With the passing of Title IX women and girls began participating in athletics at all levels. Female Christian athletes were no exception as their entrance into the sports world mirrors their non-evangelical counterparts. ... -
Disciplining Diagnoses: Sexology, Eugenics, and Trans* Subjectivities
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)While some believe that eugenics ended after World War II, eugenics heavily influenced the development and evolution of diagnoses of gender variance. Where eugenicists applied the terms “degenerate” and “unfit” to those ...