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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

The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

Creator:: Dakessian, Drew R.
Abstract:: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I express my profound gratitude to the members of my thesis committee: Sara Jameson, Stephanie

On Happiness, Dysphoria and Pain

Creator:: Anderson, Eli Evan
Abstract:: This project is a personal exploration of happiness and optimism through the lens of a queer and transgender subject who experiences gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidality. Taking inspiration from Ann Cvetkovich’s (2012) Depression: A Public Feeling, this work incorporates both analysis of affective theory, especially Lauren Berlant’s theory of cruel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) and Sara Ahmed’s (2017) idea of “break[ing] through a happiness seal” (p. 60); as well as personal

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:: sociolinguistics to inform my analysis and primarily use Sara Ahmed’s discussion of affect as socially produced

Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

Creator:: Schiller, Dawn S.
Abstract:: In the era of #MeToo, we have learned more about the plight of women in Hollywood as they seek employment as actors. While the recent public conversation about gender and sexualization in Hollywood is robust, few peer-reviewed academic articles examine the actor’s personal experiences of gaining meaningful employment in television...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Creator:: Larkins, Emma L.
Abstract:: In the fall 2015, students at the University of Missouri embarked upon an extended series of protests aimed at calling out the University’s failure to address recent racist incidents against Black students and a larger oppressive campus culture. The protests prompted the creation of a student group led largely by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: scholars, Roderick Ferguson and Sara Ahmed, whose analyses of the histories of diversity and the academy

Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

Creator:: Crocker, Melissa R.
Abstract:: In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ” Torres in ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present, played by Sara Ramirez); and Santana Lopez in Fox’s

Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

Creator:: Miller, Gabrielle
Abstract:: This thesis thinks through the ways in which Black and Native storying offer epistemological interventions on neoliberal formations of multiracial identity. I argue that Black and Native storytelling methods and methodologies facilitate rethinking and re/unlearning relationships to the racial and ethnic categories of mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial, as well as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Che Gossett, Sara Ahmed, Jodi Melamed, and Lisa Duggan. These writers illuminate the intricacies and

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: who focus on performances of masculinity during this period. I incorporate J. A. Mangan’s work on

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

Creator:: Ollivier, Amélie G.
Abstract:: School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers participate, consciously or unconsciously, in perpetuating oppressive heteronormative expectations in the classroom both through the overt and covert curriculum. Yet, pre-service teachers are under-trained about questions related to gender and sexuality during their teacher preparation. This qualitative study explores the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: D'Augelli, Anthony R., and Patterson, Charlotte J. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

On Happiness, Dysphoria and Pain

Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

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