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Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Creator:

Kennedy, Tallon R.

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This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...

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Masters Thesis
Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

Creator:

Johnson, Colleen E.

Abstract:

Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...

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Masters Thesis

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thank my committee: thanks to Mila Zuo and Tekla Bude, as my readers, and Susan Bernardin, as my GCR
Remapping the Margins: Women's Narratives and Perspectives about Health and Access on the State of Amazonas

Creator:

Lenzi Miori, Maria Cristina

Abstract:

According to the Girls’ Opportunity Index formulated by Lenhardt, et al, (2016), Brazil is the least favorable country in South America to succeed being born a woman, ranking the 102nd position out of 144 analyzed countries. This macro-level statistic speaks to the present landscape of gender inequality, shaped since the...

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Masters Thesis