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Moving Femininities: Queer Critique and Transnational Arab Culture.
(2015)
Moving Femininities focuses on three diverse and eminent figures of Arab femininity: the Golden Era Egyptian belly dancer Samia Gamal (1924-1994), the pan-Arab storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade, and ...
"Of Low Grade Mexican Parentage:" Race, Gender, and Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1928-1952.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that from the 1920s into the 1950s tropes of disability deployed through the notion of “feeblemindedness” converged with nativist concerns over Mexican immigration to mark certain Mexican-origin ...
"Out of This Confusion I Bring My Heart": Love, Liberation, and the Rise of Black Lesbian and Gay Cultural Politics in Late Twentieth Century America.
(2015)
This dissertation investigates themes of liberation and love in post-civil rights Black LGBT literary cultures. Tracing love as a political trope in African American literary history, I demonstrate how it operates as a ...
(Her)itage: Literary Tourism and the Popular Legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.
(2015)
This dissertation theorizes tourist engagements with famous literary women through an examination of the popular legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter. Little Women (1868-1869, American), Anne ...
Mental Disability and the Right to Vote.
(2015)
Nearly forty states disfranchise people based on their mental status. Despite the patchwork of laws limiting the voting rights of people with mental disabilities, one of America’s largest minority groups, few researchers ...
Crip Native Woman: The Hispanic American Philippines and the Postcolonial Disability Cultures of US Empire.
(2016)
This dissertation examines how Filipino intellectual cultures, “ilustrados”, and postcolonial enlightenment discourses assert political sovereignty through self-fashioning as able-minded subjects. I argue that Spanish and ...
Animal Print: The Literary Production of Humane America.
(2013)
This dissertation considers how humane literary texts mediate animal-human relationships and how these relationships, in turn, shape the expressive modes in which they are rendered. In studies of three popular animal-protection ...
Ethnographies of Legal Inclusion: Protection, Punishment, and Legal Fictions of Asian Immigrant Woman.
(2012)
In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-profit organizations make up one of the largest networks of legal services providers working specifically with Asian immigrant communities. Their work is the product of multiple political ...
The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture.
(2012)
Departing from the current literature on cosmetic surgery, which largely asks why Korean women undergo procedures at the highest rates per capita globally and pathologizes them for doing so, The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...