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You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

Creator:: Conway, Clare
Abstract:: Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Creator:: Koch, Elizabeth C.
Abstract:: Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Elizabeth C. Koch for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Care and Kinship in the Anthropocene: What Interspecies Relationships Can Tell Us About Managing Agricultural Pests In A Changing Climate

Creator:: Olson, Elizabeth
Abstract:: In Oregon, the effects of climate change on agriculture are already being felt. In the Northwest, climate change impacts agricultural pest pressure, especially insects, whose life cycles are tied directly to weather and climate. The goal of this research was to record and analyze Oregon fruit and vegetable farmers’ relationships...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Elizabeth Olson for the degree of Master of Science in Applied Anthropology presented on

Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

Creator:: López, Andrés C.
Abstract:: This dissertation is a memoria histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War that centers queer and trans Maya people in its imaginings. Using Maya backstrap weaving practices, “constellating” as defined by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab, and ghost stories as a Maya-centered queer/trans rhetorical methodology, I argue for a shift from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Andrés C. López for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality

Girlhood reimagined : representations of girlhood in the films of Hayao Miyazaki

Creator:: Sabine, Karissa N.
Abstract:: Despite the now common usage of the term “girl”, there has been little call for pause and deeper analysis into what we actually mean when we use this term. In particular, animated film provides a wide scope of media texts that claim to focus on girlhood; but how do we...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this project as well as my other committee members Kryn Freehling-Burton, Elizabeth Sheehan, and

Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Creator:: Spencer, Megan
Abstract:: This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in its refusal to stop” (642). –Eve Tuck & C. Ree, A Glossary of Haunting

Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

Creator:: Furman, Kali
Abstract:: Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: honor to work with and learn from you. • Thank you to my committee, Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan, Dr. Marisa

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Creator:: Vanderzee, Vanessa A.
Abstract:: The LGBTQ population is widely recognized as an at-risk demographic—as a result ofstigma, studies report sexual and gender minorities experience elevated risk for depression,suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as greater exposure to sexual, physical, andinterpersonal violence (Logie 1244). Asexuality, a marginalized population traditionallyexcluded from the LGBTQ acronym, poses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the members of my thesis committee, Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, and Dr. Elizabeth Gorman

Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

Creator:: Moody, Jeana S.
Abstract:: This study looks at how gendered language circulates affect in order to coerce gender binary conformity. I analyze the ways gendered phrases like “sit like a lady”, “don’t be a bitch”, and “man up” communicate binary gender expectations within a U.S. context, and what they have to do with larger...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: members; Bradley Boovy, Qwo-Li Driskill, Elizabeth Sheehan, and Adam Schwartz. Thanks to Bradley Boovy

Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

Creator:: Foertsch, Christopher R.
Abstract:: This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: intellectual journey at OSU: Dr. David McMurray, Dr. Bryan Tilt, Dr. Elizabeth Root, Dr. Nancy Rosenberger

ScholarsArchive@OSU

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Care and Kinship in the Anthropocene: What Interspecies Relationships Can Tell Us About Managing Agricultural Pests In A Changing Climate

Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

Girlhood reimagined : representations of girlhood in the films of Hayao Miyazaki

Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

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