Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Sexless in the City: Performances of Masculinity by Involuntarily Celibate Men in Online Forums, Dana Giffen
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
#MeToo Flips the Script on Representation of Women in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sarah Gordon
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Breaking Out From Binaries Behind Bars: How Structural Identity Denial Influences Pro/Anti-Social Reactionary Responses and Corresponding Psycho-Social Experiences Inside and Outside the Prison Industrial Complex, Kate Larson
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Who We Are: Queerness Within Lockdown, Veda Christine Massanari-Thatcher
Department: Philosophy; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A Portal to Transcend the Spaciotemporal Realm: A Queer Utopian Schemata for (re)Considering Emotion and Community Formation in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Periodicals, Aspen Rush
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
Barriers To Entry: Do Students’ Perceptions Of Economics Contribute To The Underrepresentation Of Women And Gender Minorities In The Field?, Madison Buckley
Department: Economics; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Gender? I Barely Even Know Her!: Examining The Intersections Of Gender Identity And Neurodiversity, Kai A. Davis
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Teammates On And Off The Field: Why Queer Athletes On Women’S Sports Teams Need A Safe Space, CC Dent
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Building Youth Power To Transform Education: Exploring A Detroit Area Teenage Activist Organization, Harry Susalla
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
“A Big Opportunity for Everyone to not Hide Those Beautiful Bodies”: Building Community Among Women of Color in the Body Positivity Movement on Instagram, Lilia Federico
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Birth Work, Reproductive Justice, and Communities of Care, Hannah Lindsay Lane-Davies
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Catastrophic Imaginings: Human-Driven Catastrophe, the Anthropocene, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Lungs, Hayden Douglas Lane-Davies
Department: Theatre and Dance; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
The Continuation of Violence: Analyzing the Retraumatization of Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence and Evaluating the Potential of a “Trauma-Informed” Prison Model, Eliana Kahn
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Write It Slant: Queerness and Form in The Argonauts and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, Eleanor Linafelt
Department: English; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Scars and the Moon: Theatrical Monologues Telling LGBTQIA+ Stories, Casey Lohman
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Gatekeeping in the Transgender Community, Kevin V. Ortiz
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
"Different Ways of Being American": Food as Culture and Host Parenting in a Foreign Exchange Program, Isabel Hannah Bonhomme
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
El machismo ridículo: Machismo From a Transmasculine Perspective in Santiago, Chile, Morgan Day
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Spanish
Grand Slam for Gender Equality? Renée Richards, the History of Gender Testing in Sport and Trans Participation in Professional Tennis and Professional Sport, Matthew Harris-Ridker
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Interaction Between Social Identities and Space at The College of Wooster, Alicea Anna Kouyaté
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Very Happy Exile: The Life and Works of Charlotte Wolff, Abby Lang
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
It's What You Make It! Modified and Queer: A Feminist Look Into Queer Experience with Tattoos, Hailey Elizabeth Malzeke
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A Study of Gender Roles Amongst Second-Generation South Asian Women, Transcending Through Time and Space., Amrin Alnoor Remtulla
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Reshaping a Moral Dilemma: A Historical and Moral Investigation of Abortion in the United States and the Republic of Ireland, Emery Joy Stewart
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Princesses, Soccer Players, and Sheep: Understanding the Development of Gender Identities in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Germany, Anna S. Vogt
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Of Fallen Heroes and Courageous Mothers: The Making of Martyrdom and Maternalism in the Movimento Feminino Pela Anistia, 1975-1985, Marina Adams
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Clothing Makes the Man: Constructing Morality and Masculinity Through Depictions of Men's Clothing in the Victorian Era, Anne Carney
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Lo Bueno Y Lo Malo: A Critical Analysis of Mexican-American Machismo, Alondra Correa
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Mass Melanin Movement: Black Women's Perceptions of Body Images and Beauty Ideals Through Analysis of Reality Television, Meonyez Goodwin
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Gender Performance and Policy Issue Focus on U.S. Senate Campaign Websites, 2010-2016, Kiley Kinnard
Department: Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
She Can Brew It Ale By Herself: Women in the Male Dominated Craft Beer Industry, Cameron S. Smythe
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
No Church in the Wild: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Civilian-Perpetrated Sexual Violence during the 2002 Religious Riots in Gujarat, India, Vrinda S. Trivedi
Department: Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Seen: A Photo Collection of Queer Markers, Evan White
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Phoenix Among the Feathers: A Creative Memoir Analysis, Felicia Michelle Williams
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Clara Schumann: A Look Into the Life of an Unrecognized Composer, Madeline R. Boreman
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A Lens of Our Own: A Feminist Photovoice Exploration of LGBTQ+ Experience at The College of Wooster, Foster J. Cheng
Department: Art and Art History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Laughing Against White Supremacy: Marginalized Performance of Resistance Comedy, Caren Holmes
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rethinking Recovery: Women’s Experiences of Self-Efficacy in Court-Sanctioned Chemical Dependency Treatment, Sarah Onyx E. Marosi
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
PTSD in VR: Building Empathy for Survivors of Sexual Assault Through Virtual Reality Video Game Playing, Alexandra Pereyra
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Get You a Girl That Can Do Both: A Feminist Economic Analysis of Parental Leave Policies and Labor Force Participation in the United States, Germany, and Turkey, Heather Smith
Department: Economics; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
All The Help We Can Get:The Effects of Mentoring on Women's Career Success in the American Political Arena, Emily Dean-McKinney
Department: Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Happiness Regime: A Feminist Critique of Positive Psychology, Sarah R. Freeman
Department: Psychology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Quantifying Identity: What a Study On Food Insecurity in the LGB Community Tells Us About Choice, Intersectionality, and the Construction of Knowledge, Emily C. Hrovat
Department: Economics; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
American Apparel: Queer People of Color Aesthetics and Professionalism, Jackson Tribbet
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Once Upon the Fifteenth Year: An Exploration of Identity Formation Within the Cultural Practice of Quinceañeras in Contemporary Nicaragua, Ashley Melissa Chavez-White
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Organizing on the Margins: The National Domestic Workers Union of America and the Development of Intersectional Labor Activism in the 1970s, Shannon Dade
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Body Never Left Us: Theorizing Asexuality, Embedding Agency, and Unsettling Woman of Color Materialist Realism, Scott M. McLellan
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Beer, Muscles, and Show Tunes?: Gender Policing and Adherence to Hegemonic Masculinity among College-aged Men, Ashley E. Parry
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
Sight May Leave You Blind to Beauty, Edith M. Anderson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women Undeterred: A Comparative Study of How Lesbian & Heterosexual Young Professional Women Perceive Motherhood, Gina M. Christo
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Incubators, Battles, or Affirmation? A Feminist Exploration of Evangelical Purity Literature, Anastasia M. Jaeb
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
"What's Race Got To Do With It?" A Feminist Analysis of Anti-Rape Discourse from Susan Brownmiller and Angela Davis to the Modern Feminist Blogosphere, Angela M. Neely
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Normalizing Abnormality: An Exploration of Social Forces Driving Gendered Disparity in Rates of Anxiety Disorder Diagnoses, Sara Tebeau
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Pray the Gay Away: An Examination of Masculinity in the Ex-Gay Movement, Christina Bowerman
Department: Religious Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
A Dress is Not a Yes: A Feminist and Sociological Analysis of Slutwalk as a Response to the Politics of Victimization - A Longitudinal Analysis of the Population of Grand Forks, North Datoka Since the 1997 Red River Flood, Kelsey Jandrey
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Glitter Bath: a Feminist Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Five Disney Classic Animated Feature Films, Heather Kirk
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Making Fun of the World and Observing It: An Examination of Viewers' Interactions With Comedy About Gender and Masculinity in the Apatow Company's Films, Alexandra Muto
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women Bleed. Period: An Exploration of Feminine Hygiene Companies' Print and Commercial Advertisments, Charlotte Shapiro
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
M to F to Endangered: the Violent Consequences of Breaking the Gender Binary, Elizabeth Worrall
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Welcome to Whose Life Is It, Anyway! Where Gender Is Made Up and Genitals Don't Matter: An Examinition of Ideas of Masculinity and Femininity By People Across the Gender Spectrum, Sarah Hunt
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Shaken But Never Stirred: a Historical Analysis of American Masculinity Through the James Bond Films., Ethan Arenstein
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sharing Food From the Master's Table: Working Towards Feminist Solidarity Through Bible Study, Abigail Heimach
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Religious Studies
Blood, Spit, and Tears: Art As a Model For Feminist Theory and Dialogue, Zoe Van Dyke
Department: Art and Art History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Equal Opportunity Pleasure?: A Feminist Sociological Exploration into the Effects of Pornography on Young Women's Sexual Behavior and Body Image, Kristin Georgianne Whitlock
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Young Bodies on Display: a Feminist Exploration of the Photographic Series and Surrounding Controversies of Sally Mann and Tierney Gearon, Marnie Zoldessy
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Going Rogue: An Ethnographic Study of the Social Networks and Social Behaviors of Aging Women in the Red Hat Society, Victoria N. Early
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Feminist Implications: The Life and Writings of Mary Baker Eddy, Kathryn D. Harvuot
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Re-Heading the Headless Fatty: a Look at Fat Feminism in Blogs, Alison Peters
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
From Women's Mouths: Eating Disorders Are Feminist Issues, Lindsay E. Galan
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Knitters For Equality: An Exploration of the Issues of Femininity, Masculinity and Gender Roles in Knitting Communities, Emily Neumann
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
An Education in Possibilities Rather Than Consequences: The Sex Ed Wars, Roza Anthony
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
It is a Wild Thing: Using the Connection Between Women and Horses to Ride into Myth, Antonia Ruth Clement
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Money, Cash, Hoes: A Feminist Exploration of Black Masculinity in Hip-Hop, Jacquelyn Arcy
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Visual Articulations of Life in Place and Place in Life: A Feminist Visual Ethnography of Place, Identity, Home, and Community for Six Southern Women in Madison County, Kentucky, Catherine E. Grandgeorge
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Business of Brides: the History of the White Wedding in America, Elizabeth Marie Sorice
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Sex Games: Bondage is More than Leather, Whips, and Chains These Days: A Study of How Advertisers Continue to Bind Women to Their 1950's Expectations, Erin Kathleen Donnett
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Can it be Done?: Creating an Advertisement for Planned Parenthood as an Exercise in Feminist Marketing, Amy Nicole Grammatico
Department: Communication Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Disentangle: Rethreading Feminism through the Creation of a Magazine, Mary Kate Hageman
"A Word of Hope and Good News and Comfort, as Well As Challenge:" Reconciling Justice and Care in Women's Ministry, Emma Hayes
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
While in BeTween: An Examination of Tween Fashion and its Implications on Tween Development in Society, Crystal Justice
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; History
Slut Alphabet: A Feminist Dictionary of Sex & Agency, Kory Sutherland
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Leading the Way: An Analysis of Leadership and Gender, Lane E. Green
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discover the Oyster: Gendered Foodways in the United States, Sarah Michele Johanson
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discover the Oyster: Gendered Foodways in the United States, Sarah Michele Johanson
"The Story of Our Lives Becomes Our Lives:" Lesbian Readers and the Construction of a Lesbian Self Through Textual Experience, Sheila Liming
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; English
A Study of Adolescent Girls' Definitions of Sexuality and How Outside Influences Impact these Definitions, Aubrey Dawn LoCascio
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sacrificing Self: the Loss of the Individual in Identity-Based Groups, Amy Pelak
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Reconstruction of Self Through Narrative: An Exploration of Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Will Be?, Elizabeth Ann Roesch
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Reconstruction of Self Through Narrative; An Exploration of Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Will Be?, Elizabeth Ann Rosech
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Justice for Whom? A Feminist Inquiry into Rape, Stacia Lucille Kock
"Jamming with the Boys": A Look at Women and Gender in Bluegrass Music, Christine Alkire Smedley
This Bitch Has Her Own Bike: Women Motorcyclists, Social Position, and Gender Identity, Julia Wiesenberg
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
"Every Soul is to be Cherished, Every Flower is to Bloom": Women's Studies as an Inviting Environment to Women of Color, Lauren Adelle Bailey
"Every Soul is to be Cherished, Every Flower is to Bloom": Women's Studies as an Inviting Environment to Women of Color, Lauren Adelle Bailey
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Waterbirth: A Feminist Alternative to Patriarchal Childbirth, Laura J. Fritzsche
Waterbirth: A Feminist Alternative to Patriarchal Childbirth, Laura J. Fritzsche
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Artist Couples in the Early Twentieth Century: An In-depth Look at Effects of Significant Others in the Careers of Women Artists, Margaret Maus Hazlett
A Feminist Analysis of Women's Low Representation in Physics: Scientific "Objectivity," Contextual Bias, and Barriers to Women's Inclusion, Michelle Anna Waugh
A Feminist Analysis of Women's Low Representation in Physics: Scientific "Objectivity", Contextual Bias, and Barriers to Women's Inclusion, Michelle Anna Waugh
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Junior High Girls' Experience with Sexual Harassment, Talley Burk Clyde