# Past Thesis Topics ## expand\_more Sort##### Year ##### **Title** ##### **Joint concentration (if applicable)** ##### **2025** 2025 *The Human Cost: Towards a Relational Account of Consumer Responsibility* Philosophy 2025 *Surviving Girlhood: Understanding Black Girls’ Adaptive Behaviors to Oppressive Power Structures and their Implications on Early Adulthood* Sociology 2025 *Open Up: Stories* English 2025 *The Fairy Tales of Alycia Esperanza: A Creative Exploration of Trauma through Fantasy* English 2025 *The Tool* 2025 *Smoky Mountain Rainbow: A Queer Appalachian Memoir* English 2025 *She Won’t Be Saved: The Evangelical Woman Trapped in Legalized Gender-Based Violence* Religion 2025 *What's More Punk Than a Library? The Connection Between Conservative Politics, Moral Panic, and Book Bans on Transgender Children’s Literature* Philosophy 2025 *Sex (Miss)-Ed: the Battle Over Sex Education in Texas Public Schools* Social Studies ##### **2024** 2024 *The Making of a Woman's World: A Policy Paper Proposing the Creation of a Cabinet-Level Position for Women's Rights in the U.S.* Government 2024 *Border(ed) Fictions: 21st Century Migration Narratives as Counter-Archives* History and Literature 2024 *“If Their Hair Is Pink, It’ll Be a Damn Good Drink”: The Trans Labor of Care and the Cafe Unionization Movement* Government 2024 *How We Got These Scars: Abject Embodiment and Posthuman Possibility in Online Joker/Original Female Character Fanfiction* English 2024 *Victimize, Romanticize, Transsexualize: Trans Women Protagonists in* Detransition, Baby *by Torrey Peters and* Nevada *by Imogen Binnie* English 2024 *Transing as Method in Theory, at Harvard, and in Disability Histories* History and Science 2024 *Through Mother's Milk* History and Science ##### **2023** 2023 *Queering the Lotus Blossom: Queered Time and the Racialization of Asian Femininity* 2023 *Classics War, Cold War, Culture War: Exploring the New Traditionalist Paradigm in the Battle for American Education* Classics 2023 *The Reign of the Welfare Queen* Government 2023 *Dietrich’s Dolls:* *The Postcolonial New Woman and the Creation of Marlene Dietrich’s Image from 1929-1932* History & Literature 2023 *Singing Sexuality: How Jewish Wedding Bards Shaped Communal Values in 19th Century Imperial Russia* History & Literature 2023 *Not the Master’s Tool: An Evaluation of Intersectional Theory in Anti- Discrimination Law* Social Studies 2023 *Peddling and Performing Racialized Sexuality: An Exploration of Asian Woman Porn Performers’ Narratives* Social Studies 2023 *Prison and Jail Birthworkers: Towards Radical Care for the Pregnant and Incarcerated* Social Studies 2023 *State v. DeLavallade: Reading Judicial Narratives and the Black Family Archive* Social Studies 2023 *Com’Era Verde La Mia Valle*: *Using Ethnography to Expand Essentialized Gender Roles in the Italian Agritourism* Sociology 2023 *Pandora’s Pill Box: Gendered ADHD Patienthood, Past and Present* Sociology 2023 *HORIZON: The Bodies We Forget* Theater, Dance & Media 2023 *Unbind this Book, Unstitch this Body* Theater, Dance & Media ##### **2022** 2022 *Plastic to Pixels: Commodified Fantasies of Femininity from Barbie to Virtual Influencers* 2022 *To Witness a Revolutionary Love: Mainstream Media’s Impact on Black Lesbian Social Citizenship* African and African-American Studies 2022 *“When and Where I Enter:” Preserving African American Women’s Histories Through Historic House Museums* African and African-American Studies 2022 *From a Whisper to a Roar: Reproductive Justice as the Future of National Reproductive Advocacy* Government 2022 *The Origins of Likhet: Gender, Colonialism, and Whiteness in Scandinavia from the Nineteenth Century to the Modern Day* Government 2022 *A Woman’s Place is at the Convention: Feminists Within the Republican Party, 1972-1980* History 2022 *Mother Monster and Queen Bey: Racialized Gender Performance in the 2010s Careers of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé* History and Literature 2022 *To the Stars, In the Closet: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in the United States Space Program, 1957-1987* History and Science 2022 *Because I Love You: Mothering as Praxis Toward a Black Feminist Politic of Futurity* Social Studies 2022 *Single (M)Otherhood, “It’s Difficult, But I Can Do It:” Community-Building Practices for Single Mothers in Southeast Michigan* Social Studies 2022 *What School May Not Teach, #LearnOnTikTok: (Mis)Education in TikTok’s Quasi-Curricula for American History and Sex Education* Social Studies ##### **2021** 2021 Gender Codes: Exploring Malaysia’s Gender Parity in Computer Science Computer Science 2021 The Voice of Technology: Understanding The Work Of Feminine Voice Assistants and the Feminization of the Interface Computer Science 2021 Whose Voices, Whose Values? Environmental Policy Effects Ofextra-Community Sovereignty Advocacy Environmental Science and Public Policy 2021 “Felons, Not Families”: The Construction of Immigrant Criminality in Obama-Era Policies and Discourses, 2011-2016 History and Literature 2021 Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin History and Literature 2021 Iconic Market Women: The Unsung Heroines of Post-Colonial Ghana (1960s-1990s) History and Literature: Ethnic Studies 2021 From Stove Polish to the She-E-O: The Historical Relationship Between the American Feminist Movement and Consumer Culture Social Studies 2021 “Interstitial Existence,” De-Personification, and Black Women’s Resistance to Police Brutality Social Studies 2021 \#Metoo Meets #Blm: Understanding Black Feminist Anti-Violence Activism in the United States Social Studies 2021 "Why Won’t Anyone Fight For Us?”: A Contemporary Class Analysis of the Positions and Politics of H-1b and H-4 Visa Holders Social Studies ##### 2020 2020 A Feminist Scientific Exploration of Minority Stress and Eating Pathology in Transgender Adolescents 2020 From Decolonization to LGBTQ + Liberation: LGBTQ+ Activism, Colonial History and National Identity in Guyana 2020 La Pocha, Sin Raíces / Spoiled Fruit, Without Roots: A Genealogy of Tejana Borderland Imaginaries Anthropology 2020 Capturing Authenticity in Indian Transmasculine Identity: Design of a Novel Penile Prosthesis Biomedical Engineering 2020 More Than Missing: Analyzing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Policy Trajectories in the United States and Canada, 2015-2019 Government 2020 “Almost Perfect”: The Cleansing and Erasure of Undocumented and Queer Identities through Performance of Model Families and Citizensh History & Literature 2020 "He Needs a New Belt:” Queerness, Homonationalism, and the Racial and Sexual Dimensions of Passing in Israeli Cinema History & Literature 2020 Our Healthy Bodies, Our Healthy Selves: Community Women's Health Centers as Collaborative Sites of Politics, Education, and Care History of Science 2020 “No Way to Speak of Myself”: Lived and Literary Resistance to Gender in French Romance Languages and Literatures 2020 Through Eastern European Eyes and Under the Western Gaze: The (Un)Feminist Face of the Russo-Ukrainian War Slavic Languages and Literatures 2020 Subversion and Subordination: The Materialization of the YouTube Beauty Community in Everyday Reality Social Studies ##### 2019 ##### 2019 Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, Why Can’t I See Myself At All?: A Close Reading of Children’s Picture Books Featuring Gender Expansive Children of Color African and African-American Studies 2019 Dilating Health, Healthcare, and Well-Being: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Thai People Biomedical Engineering 2019 The Consociationalist Culprit: Explaining Women’s Lack of Political Representation in Northern Ireland Government 2019 Queering the Political Sphere: Play, Performance, and Civil Society with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, 1979-1999 Government 2019 Playing With Power: Kink, Race, and Desire History and Literature 2019 “Take Root:” Community Formation at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library, 1970s-1990s History and Literature ##### 2018 ##### ##### 2018 Fetal Tomfoolery: Comedy, Activism, and Reproductive Justice in the Pro-Abortion Work of the Lady Parts Justice League 2018 And They're Saying It's Because of the Internet: An Exploration of Sexuality Urban Legends Online Folklore and Mythology 2018 (In)visibly Queer: Assessing Disparities in the Adjudication of U.S. LGBTQ Asylum Cases Government ##### 2017 ##### ##### 2017 Enough for Today 2017 Radical Appropriations: A Cultural History and Critical Theorization of Cultural Appropriation in Drag Performance 2017 Surviving Safe Spaces: Exploring Survivor Narratives and Community-Based Responses to LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence 2017 “The Cruelest of All Pains”: Birth, Compassion, and the Female Body in *The Book of Margery Kempe* English 2017 Virtually Normal? How “Initiation” Shapes the Pursuit of Modern Gay Relationships Social Studies 2017 How Stigma Impacts Mental Health: The Minority Stress Model and Unwed Mothers in South Korea Sociology 2017 The Future is Taken Care of: Care Robots, Migrant Workers, and the Re-production of Japanese Identity Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 2016 ##### ##### 2016 Bodies on the Line: Empowerment through Collective Subjectification in Women's Rugby Culture 2016 "In the Middle of the Movement": Advocating for Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex Anthropology 2016 Breaking the Equator: Formation and Fragmentation of Gender and Race in Indigenous Ecuador Social Studies 2016 Deconstructing the American Dream: *Visually Imagined Communities* in Kodak Advertisements and Shirley Cards in Post World War II American Culture Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 2015 ##### ##### 2015 Imposing Consent: Past Paradigms, Gender Norms, and the Continuing Conflation of Health and Genital Appearance in Medical Practice for Intersex Infants 2015 And I am Telling You, You Can’t Stop the Beat: Locating Narratives of Racial Crossover in Musical Theater History and Literature 2015 Reality® Check: Shifting Discourses of “Female Empowerment” in the History of the Reality Female Condom, 1989-2000 History and Science 2015 Dialectics of a Feminist Future Literature 2015 Lesbian Against the Law: Indian Lesbian Activism and Film, 1987-2014 Literature 2015 Talking Dirty: Using the Pornographic to Negotiate Sexual Discourse in Public and Private Philosophy 2015 Wars Are Fought, They Are Also Told: A Study of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism in U.S. History Textbooks Social Studies ##### **2014** ##### ##### 2014 Yoko as a Narrator in Nobuyoshi Araki’s *Sentimental Journey* and *Tokyo is Autumn* 2014 Reading at an Angle: Theorizing Young Women Reading Science-Fictionally English and American Literature 2014 “Are you Ready to be Strong?”: Images of Female Empowerment in 1990s Popular Culture History and Literature 2014 Constructing the Harvard Man: Eugenics, the Science of Physical Education, and Masculinity at Harvard, 1879-1919 History and Science 2014 Sex, Science, and Politics in the Sociobiology Debate History and Science 2014 "A Little Bit of Sodomy in Me”: Disgust, Loss, and the Politics of Redemption in the American Ex-Gay Movement Religion 2014 Art of Disturbance: Trans-Actions on the Stage of the US-Mexico Border Romance Languages and Literatures 2014 “Too Important for Politics”: The Implications of “Autonomy” in the Indian Women’s Movement Social Studies 2014 Yes, No, Maybe: The Politics of Consent Under Compulsory Sex-Positivity Social Studies ##### **2013** ##### ##### 2013 Inside the Master's House: Gender, Sexuality, and the 'Impossible' History of Slavery in Jamaica, 1753-1786 2013 Illuminating the Darkness Beneath the Lamp: Im Yong-sin’s Disappearance from History and Rewriting the History of Women in Korea’s Colonial Period (1910-1945) East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2013 "How to Survive a Plague": Navigating AIDS in Mark Doty's Poetry English and American Literature 2013 Respectability's Girl: Images of Black Girlhood Innocence, 1920-2013 History and Literature 2013 Defining Our Own Lives: The Racial, Gendered, and Postcolonial Experience of Black Women in the Netherlands Social Studies 2013 Beyond Victim-Blaming: Strategies of Rape Response through Narrative Sociology ##### 2012 ##### ##### 2012 From “Ultimate Females” to “Be(ing) Me”: Uncovering Australian Intersex Experiences and Perspectives 2012 Modernity on Trial: Sodomy and Nation in Malaysia 2012 *Paht-Bing-Soo*: Woven Accounts of Gender, Work and Motherhood in South Korea 2012 Sexual Apartheid: Marginalized Identity(s) in South Africa's HIV/AIDS Interventions 2012 The Pornographer's Tools: A Critical and Artistic Response to the Pornography of Georges Bataille and Anaïs Nin 2012 Cerebral interhemispheric connectivity and autism: A laboratory investigation of Dkk3 function in the postmitotic development of callosal projection neuron subpopulations and a historical analysis of the reported male prevalence of autism and the “extreme male brain” theory Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology ##### 2011 ##### ##### 2011 "Let's Just Invite Them In" versus "We Just Don't Have the Resources to Support You": Selective and Non-Selective College Administrators as Creators of Alcohol Policies and Practices, Campus Cultures, and Students' Identities, and Implications for Opportunities in Higher Education 2011 Plaintiffs' Role in Reinventing Legal Arguments for Same-Sex Marriage 2011 Facing Tijuana's Maquilas: An Inquiry into Embodied Viewership of the US-Mexico Border Romance Languages and Literatures 2011 "The Woman Who Shouts": Coming to Voice as a Young Urban Female Leader Social Studies 2011 Closet Communities: A Study of Queer Life in Cairo Social Studies 2011 Redefining Survival: Statistics and the Language of Uncertainty at the Height of the AIDS Epidemic Statistics ##### 2010 ##### ##### 2010 A Genealogy of Gay Male Representation from the Lavender Scare to Lavender Containment 2010 More Than "Thoughts by the Way": Young Women and the Overland Journey Finding Themselves Through Narrative Voice, 1940-1870 2010 Que(e)rying Harvard Men, 1941-1951: A Project on Oral Histories 2010 When Welfare Queens Speak: Survival Rhetoric in the Face of Domination African and African American Studies 2010 ACT UP New York: Art, Activism and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993 Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 2009 ##### ##### 2009 "Gay, Straight, or Lying?": The Cultural Silencing of Male Bisexuality in America 2009 "I had never seen a beautiful woman with just one breast": Beauty and Norms of Femininity in Popular Breast Cancer Narratives 2009 Diego Garcia: Islands of Empire, Archipelagos of Resistance 2009 Zion Sexing Palestine 2009 Are You Sisters?: Motherhood, Sisterhood, and the Impossible Black Lesbian Subject African and African American Studies 2009 Girl Interpellated: Female Childhoods and the Trauma of Nationalist Subjectivity History and Literature 2009 Breaching the Subject of Birth: An Examination of Undergraduate Women's Perceptions of "Alternative" Birthing Methods Sociology ##### 2008 ##### ##### 2008 Biomedicalizing the Labor of Love: Narratives of Maternal Disability and Reproduction 2008 Dis/locating the Margins: Gloria Anzaldúa and New Potential for Feminist Pedagogy 2008 Mommy, Where Do Babies Come From? Egg Donation and Popular Constructions of Authentic Motherhood 2008 Parallel Histories and Mutual Lessons: Advocates Negotiate Feminism and Domestic Violence Services in Immigrant Communities in Boston 2008 SILENCE=DEATH: (Re)Presentations of "The AIDS Epidemic" 1981-1990 2008 The "Sparrow in the Cage": Images of the Emaciated Body in Representations of Anorexia Nervosa 2008 Theater of the Abject: The Powers of Horror in Sarah Kane's *Blasted* 2008 Toward a Participatory Framework for Inclusive Citizenship: Haitian Immigrant Women's Claim to Civic Space in Boston 2008 "Keepin' it Real," Queering the Real: Queer Hip Hop and the Performance of Authenticity African and African American Studies 2008 On the Surface: Conceptualizing Gender and Subjectivity in Chinese Lesbian Culture East Asian Languages and Civilization 2008 Viewing Post-War Black Politics Through a New Lens: Tracing Changes in Ann Perry's Conception of the Mother-Child Relationship, 1943-1965 History and Literature 2008 Silent Families and Invisible Sex: Christian Nationalism and the 2004 Texas Sex Education Battle Social Studies 2008 White 2.0: Theorizing White Feminist Blogging Social Studies ##### 2007 ##### ##### 2007 Do Mothers Experience The Mommy Wars?: An Examination of the Media's Claims About the Mommy Wars and the Mothers Who Supposedly Fight In Them 2007 On The Offense: The Apologetic Defense and Women's Sports 2007 Stop Being Polite & Start Getting "Real": Examining Madonna & Black Culture Appropriation in the MTV Generation 2007 The Inviability of Balance: Performing Female Political Candidacy 2007 The Money Taboo English 2007 Somewhere Over the Rainbow Nation: The Dynamics of the Gay and Lesbian Movement and the Countermovement After a Decade of Democracy in South Africa Government 2007 Facing The Empress: Modern Representations of Women, Power and Ideology In Dynasty China Religion 2007 Re-Evaluating Homosexuality: Extralegal Factors in Conservative Jewish Law Social Studies 2007 Who's Producing Your Knowledge?: Filipina American Scholars Social Studies ##### 2006 ##### ##### 2006 "The Potential of Universality": Discovering Gender Fluidity Through Performance 2006 Coming Out of the Candlelight: Erasure, Politics, and Practice at the 2005 Boston Transgender Day of Remembrance 2006 May Our Daughters Return Home: Transnational Organizing to Halt Femicide in Ciudad Juarez 2006 She Let It Happen: An Analysis of Rape Myth Acceptance among Women Anthropology 2006 "This is no time for the private point of view": Vexing the Confessional in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton History and Literature 2006 Relying on the Experts: The Hidden Motives of Tampon Manufacturers, Feminist Health Activists and the Medical Community During the American Toxic Shock Epidemic from 1978- 1982 History of Science 2006 (In)visibility: Identity Rights and Subjective Experience in Gay Beirut Social Studies 2006 Popular Feminism in the Dominican Republic Social Studies 2006 Redefining the 'Crisis in Citizenship': The Emergence of Immigrant Women as Political Actors in the United States Social Studies 2006 The New Goddess: Women, Progress, and Patriarchy in the Hindu Nationalist Movement Social Studies ##### 2005 ##### ##### 2005 "Takin' Back the Night!" Buffy the Vampire Slayer and "Girl Power" Feminism 2005 Bread Winners or Bread Makers? The Professional Challenges for Working Women 2005 Power to the People! Or Not: The Exceptional Decrease in Women’s Formal and Informal Political Participation in Slovenia During Democratization 2005 To Whom Many Doors Are Still Locked: Gender, Space & Power in Harvard Final Clubs 2005 Coca Politics: Women's Leadership in the Chapare Anthropology 2005 Redressing Prostitution: Trans Sex Work and the Fragmentation of Feminist Theories Government 2005 The Media Coverage of Women, Ten Years Later, in the 108th Congress, Has Anything Changed Since 'The Year of the Women' in 1992 Government 2005 Divided Designs: Separatism, Intersectionality, and Feminist Science in the 1970s History of Science 2005 Completing the Circle: Singing Women's Universality and the Music of Libana Music 2005 Attitudes, Beliefs and Behavior Towards Gays and Lesbians Psychology 2005 Beauty and Brains: The Influence of Stereotypical Portraits of Women on Implicit Cognition Psychology 2005 "Rational Kitchens" How Scientific Kitchen Designs Reconfigured Domestic Space and Subjectivity from the White City to the New Frankfurt Social Studies ##### 2004 ##### ##### 2004 Begin By Imagining: Reflections of Women in the Holocaust 2004 Feminism within the Frame: An Analysis of Representations of Women in the Art of Americas Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston History of Art and Architecture 2004 The Fluid Body: Gender, Agency, and Embodiment in Chöd Ritual Religion 2004 Parodic Patriotism and Ambivalent Assimilation: A Rereading of Mary Antin's The Promised Land Romance Languages and Literatures 2004 Virgin, Mother, Warrior: The Virgin of Guadalupe as an Icon of the Anti- Abortion Movement Romance Languages and Literatures 2004 Feminist Evolutions: An exploration and response to the disconnect between young women and contemporary dominant feminism Social Studies 2004 Public Enemies: South Asian and Arab Americans Navigate Racialization and Cultural Citizenship After 9/11 Social Studies 2004 The Blue Stockinged Gal of Yesterday is Gone: Life-course Decision-making and Identity Formation of 1950s Radcliffe College Graduates Social Studies ##### 2003 ##### ##### 2003 At the Narrative Center of Gravity: Stories and Identities of Queer Women of Color 2003 Embodying the Psyche, Envisioning the Self: Race, Gender, and Psychology in Postwar American Women’s Fiction 2003 From Many Mouths to Her Mind: Pursuits of Selfhood, the American Woman, and the Self-Help Book 2003 Out of Love: The Permissibility of Abuse in Love and Self Development 2003 Promising Monsters, Perilous Motherhood: The Social Construction of 20th Century Multiple Births 2003 Sexing the Gender Dysphoric Body: A Developmental Examination of Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood 2003 The Specter of Homoeroticism: Recasting Castration in David Fincher's 'Fight Club' 2003 Women's Occupational Health: A Study of Latina Immigrant Janitors at Harvard Biology 2003 Accidental Bodies English 2003 Transformations in the Polish Female Gender Model from Communism to Democracy History of Science 2003 Between Nation and World: Organizing Against Domestic Violence in China Social Studies 2003 The Process of Becoming: Cultural Identity-Formation Among Second-Generation South Asian Women in the Contexts of Marriage and Family Social Studies ##### 2002 ##### ##### 2002 A Turn of the Page: Contemporary Women’s Reading Groups in America 2002 Bordering Home 2002 Canary in a Coal Mine: The Mixed Race Woman in American History and Literature 2002 Reflections in Yellow 2002 My Rights Don't Just Come to Me: Palestinian Women Negotiating Identity Anthropology 2002 “Progressive Conservatism”: The Intersection of Boston Women's Involvement in Anti-Suffrage and Progressive Reform, 1908 - 1920 History 2002 “What Can a Woman Do?”: Gender, Youth, and Citizenship at Women's Colleges During World War I History 2002 Building Strong Community: A Study of Queer Groups at Northeastern, Brandeis, and Harvard Sociology ##### 2001 2001 Taking Care: Stereotypes, Medical Care, and HIV+ Women 2001 Of Tongues Untied: Stories Told and Retold by Working-Class Women 2001 On Display: Deconstructing Modes of Fashion Exhibition 2001 The Un-Candidates: Gender and Outsider Signals in Women's Political Advertisements 2001 Tugging at the Seams: Feminist Resistance in Pornography 2001 Witnessing Memory': Narrating the Realities of Immigrant and Refugee Women 2001 “La Revolution Tranquille”: Concubinage: The Renegotiation of Gender and the Deregulation of Conjugal Kinship in the Contemporary French Household Anthropology 2001 What is “natural” about the menstrual cycle? Anthropology 2001 Multi-Drug Resistance in Malaria: Identification and Characterization of a Putative ABC-Transporter in Plasmodium falciparum Biology 2001 “We Was Girls Together”: The Role of Female Friendship in Nella Larsen's *Passing* and Toni Morrison's *Sula* English 2001 Pom-Pom Power--The History of Cheerleading at Harvard History 2001 Conception of Gender in Artificial Intelligence History of Science 2001 “Hysterilization”: Hysterectomy as Sterilization in the 1970s United States History of Science 2001 What's Blood Got to Do with It? Menarche, Menstrual Attitudes, Experiences, and Behaviors Psychology 2001 Facing the Screen: Portrayals of Female Body Image on Websites for Teenagers Sociology 2001 They're Not Those Kinds of Girls: The Absence of Physical Pleasure in Teenage Girls' Sexual Narratives Sociology ##### 2000 ##### ##### 2000 (Re)Writing Woman: Confronting Gender in the Czech Masculine Narrative 2000 “Like a Nuprin: Little, Yellow, Queer”: The Case for Queer Asian American Autobiofictional Performance 2000 Sex, Mothers, and Bodies: Chilean Sex Workers Voicing their Honor Anthropology 2000 Mapping his Manila: Feminine Geographies of the City in Nick Joaquin's *The Woman Who had Two Navels* English 2000 Precious Mettle: Margaret DeWitt, Susanna Townsend, and Mary Jane Megquier Negotiate Environment, Refinement & Femininity in Gold Rush California History 2000 From *Black Art* to *Black Girl Juice*: Analyzing the Aesthetics of Spoken Word Poetry History and Literature 2000 The Hymeneal Seal: Embodying Female Virginity in Early Modern England History of Science 2000 Suit Her Up, She's Ready to Play: How the Woman-in-a-Suit Tackles Social Binaries Social Studies ##### 1999 ##### ##### 1999 "From the Bones of Memory": Women's Stories to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1999 "When We Get Married, We'll Live Next Door to Each Other": Adolescence, Girl-Friends, and "Lesbian" Desires 1999 Healthy Bodies, Healthy Lives: The Women's Health Initiative and the Politics of Science 1999 Adah Isaacs Menken, The [Un]True Stories: History, Identity, Memory, Menken, and Me Afro-American Studies 1999 Situated Science: Margaret Cavendish and Natural Philosophical Discourse English 1999 From "Sympathizers" to Organizers: The Emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement from the New Left at Harvard-Radcliffe History 1999 Re-(e)valu[ate/ing] Madonna: Understanding the Success of Post-Modernity's Greatest Diva Music 1999 "Let's Not Change the Subject!": Deliberation on Abortion on the Web, in the House and in Abortion Dialogue Groups Social Studies 1999 A Socialist-Feminist Re-vision: An Integration of Socialist Feminist and Psychoanalytic Accounts of Women's Oppression Social Studies 1999 Common Visions, Differing Priorities, Challenging Dynamics: An Examination of a Low-Income Immigrant Women's Cooperative Project Sociology ##### 1998 ##### ##### 1998 "I Don't Want to Grow Up - If It's Like That": Carson McCullers's Construction of Female Adolescence and Women's Coming of Age 1998 Another Toxic Shock: Health Risks from Rayon and Dioxin in Chlorine Bleached Tampons Manufactured in the United States, a Public Policy Analysis 1998 Damned Beauties of the Roaring Twenties: The Death of Young, White, Urban, American Women and *The New York Times* 1998 Just Saying No? A Closer Look at the Messages of Three Sexual Abstinence Programs 1998 The Cost of Making Money: Exploring the Dissociative Tendencies of College Educated Strippers 1998 Whose Sexuality? Masochistic Sexual Fantasies and Notions of Feminist Subjectivity 1998 That Takes Balls…or Does it? A Historical and Endocrinologic Examination of the Relation of Androgens to Confidence in Males and Females Anthropology 1998 black tar/and honey: Anne Sexton in Performance English 1998 Redefining the Politics of Presence: The Case of Indian Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions Government 1998 The Psychic Connection: The historical evolution of the psychic hotline in terms of gender, spirituality, and talk therapy History 1998 Visions and Revisions of Love: *The English Patient* and the Crisis of Heterosexual Romance Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 1997 ##### ##### 1997 "I Feel it in My Bones That You are Making History": The Life and Leadership of Pauli Murray 1997 "Reports from the Front: Welfare Mothers Up in Arms": A Case Study with Policy Implications 1997 All the Weapons I Carry 'Round with Me: Five Adult Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Speak about Their Experiences with Impact Model Mugging 1997 *It's All About*: Manufacturing Multiplicity from American Fashion Magazines 1997 Listening to Stories of Prison: The HIV Epidemic in MCI-Framingham 1997 The Communicating Wire: Bell Telephone, Farm Wives, and the Struggle for Rural Telephone Service 1997 When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Good Girl: Adolescent Fiction and Patriarchal Notions of Womanhood 1997 Out of the Courtroom and onto the Ballot: The Politicization of the 1930s and '40s Massachusetts Birth Control Movement History 1997 "The Role For Which God Created Them": Women in the United States' Religious Right Social Studies 1997 Potent Vulnerability: American Jewry and the Romance with Diaspora Social Studies ##### 1996 ##### ##### 1996 "I Certainly Try and Make the Most of it": An Exploratory Study of Teenage Mothers Who Have Remained in High School 1996 In Their Own Words: Life and Love in the Literary Transactions of Adolescent Girls 1996 Math/Theory: Constructing a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics 1996 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…" Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, and the Self-Representation of Black Female Sexuality 1996 Racial Iconography and Feminist Film: A Cultural Critique of Independent Women's Cinema 1996 Real Plums in an Imaginary Cake: Mary McCarthy and the Writing of Autobiography 1996 Single-Mother Poverty: A Critical Analysis of Current Welfare Theory and Policy from a Feminist, Cultural Perspective 1996 Intra-household Resource Allocations in South Africa: Is There a Gender Bias? Economics 1996 Vision and Revision: The Naked Body and the Borders of Sex and Gender English 1996 Are Abusive Men Different? And Can We Predict Their Behavior? Psychology 1996 Racial Iconography and Feminist Film: A Cultural Critique of Independent Women's Cinema Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 1995 ##### ##### 1995 "What Does a Girl Do?": Teenage Girls' Voices in the Girl Group Music of the 1950s and '60s 1995 Continuing the Struggle: Gender Equality in an Egalitarian Community 1995 Elements of Community: Re-entering the Landscape of Utah Mormonism 1995 Loving and Living Surrealism: Reuniting Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst 1995 Reading the Body: The Physiological Politics of Gender in Charlotte Bronte's *Shirley*, Margaret Oliphant's *Miss Marjoribanks*, and Mary Braddon's *Aurora Floyd* 1995 Searching for a Place Apart: A Journey into and out of Bulimia Nervosa 1995 The Flagstad Case 1995 The Sound Factory 1995 Visual Strategies of the Contemporary U.S. Abortion Conflict 1995 Working Women, Legitimate Lives: The Gender Values Underlying 1994 Welfare Reform 1995 The Hormone Replacement Therapy Decision: Women at the Crossroads of Women's Health Anthropology 1995 The Economic Consequences of Domestic Violence Economics 1995 "It's My Skin": Gender, Pathology, and the Jewish Body in Holocaust Narratives English 1995 Essentialist Tensions: Feminist Theories of the "Maleness" of Philosophy Philosophy ##### 1994 ##### ##### 1994 Differences Among Friends: International feminists, USAID, and Nigerian women 1994 Helke Sander and the Roots of Change: Gaining a Foothold for Women Filmmakers in Postwar Germany 1994 On Dorothy Allison's *Bastard Out of Carolina* and Literary Theory on Pain and Witnessing 1994 Redefining *Malinchista*: A Study of Chicana Identity and the Malinche Image 1994 The Feminist Critique of the Birth Control Pill 1994 The *Femme Fatale* Re-visited: Women Villains in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 1994 The Framings of Ethel Rosenberg: Gender, Law, Politics, and Culture in Cold War America 1994 Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing 1994 When Pregnancy is a Crime: Addiction, Pregnancy and the Law 1994 Strategic Sentiments: Javanese Women and the Anthropology of Emotion Anthropology 1994 Engendering Bodies in Pain: Trauma and Silence in Dorothy Allison's *Bastard Out of Carolina* English 1994 The Flowers of Middle Summer English 1994 Conceptions of Self, Relationships and Gender Roles in Japanese American Women in California and Hawaii Psychology ##### 1993 ##### ##### 1993 Bad Mothers and Wicked (wo)Men: Facts and Fictions about Serial Killers 1993 Child of Imagination: Literary Analysis of Woolf, Steedman, Rich & Gilligan 1993 Gender Roles on Trial During the Reign of Terror 1993 Grief and Rage: The Politics of Death and the Political Implications of Mourning 1993 Jewels in the Net: Women Bringing Relation into the Light of American Buddhist Practice 1993 Mamas Fighting for Freedom in Kenya 1993 Rethinking "Feminine Wiles": Sexuality and Subversion in the Fiction of Jane Bowles 1993 Sexing the Machine: Feminism, Technology, and Postmodernism 1993 Sisterhood is Robin? The Politics of the Woman-Centered Feminist Discourse in the New Ms. Magazine 1993 "Thank God for Technology!" Taking a Second Look at the Technocratic Birth Experience 1993 Where She Slept These Many Years 1993 Women's Narratives of Anger: Exploring the Relationship between Anger and Self 1993 Edith Wharton's *A Backward Glance*: Gendered Paradoxes and Resistance to Representation English 1993 Sociocognitive and Motivational Influences on Gender-Linked Conduct Psychology ##### 1992 ##### ##### 1992 Conceptions of the Female Self: A Struggle Between Dominant and Resistant Forces 1992 Objectified Subjects: Women in AIDS Clinical Drug Trials 1992 Re-membering the American Dream: Woman in the Process of Placing a Beam in a Bag 1992 *Thelma and Louise*: Voices of Resistance 1992 Women and War 1992 Women of the Cloister, Women of the World: American Benedictines in Transition 1992 The Changing Lives of Palestinian Women in the Galilee: Reflections on Some Aspects of Modernization by Three Generations Anthropology 1992 Blending the Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Women and HIV Disease Biology 1992 Maestra: Five Female Orchestral Conductors in the United States Music 1992 Negotiating Identity: Multiracial People Challenging the Discourse Social Studies 1992 Pain, Privacy, and Photography: Approaches to Picturing the Experiences of Battered Women Visual and Environmental Studies ##### 1991 ##### ##### 1991 Incest and the Denial of Paternal Fallibility in Psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory 1991 Sex and the Ivory Girl: Judy Blume Speaks to the Erotics of Disembodiment in Adolescent Girls' Discourses of Sexual Desire 1991 Women's Secrets, Feminine Desires: Narrative Hiding and Revealing in Frances Burney's *Evelina*, Emily Bronte's *Wuthering Heights*, and Mary Braddon's *Lady Audley's Secret* 1991 Workers, Mothers and Working Mothers: The Politics of Fetal Protection in the Workplace 1991 Appalachian Identity: A Contested Discourse Anthropology 1991 Half-Baked in Botswana: Why Cookstoves Aren't Heating Up the Kitchen Economics 1991 "Management of Men": Political Wives in British Parliamentary Politics, 1846-1867 History 1991 re:Visions of Feminism: An Analysis of Contemporary Film and Video Directed by Asian American Women Social Studies ##### 1990 ##### ##### 1990 A Mini-Revolution: hemlines, gender identity, and the 1960s 1990 Feeding Women and Children First: A Study of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children 1990 On Refracting a Voice: Readings of Tatiana Tolstaia 1990 Private Lives in Public Spaces: Marie Stopes, The Mothers' Clinics, and the Practice of Contraception 1990 *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*: Meaning and Community Re-orient/ed 1990 With Child: Women's Experiences of Childbirth from Personal, Historical, and Cultural Perspectives 1990 Representing "Miss Lizzie": Class and Gender in the Borden Case History and Literature 1990 Seductive Strategies: Towards an Interactive Model of Consumerism History and Literature 1990 Nancy Chodorow's Theory Examined: Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active Adolescents Psychology 1990 Choosing Sides: Massachusetts Activists Formulate Opinions on the Abortion Issue Social Studies ##### 1989 ##### ##### 1989 Influence of Early Hollywood Films on Women's Roles in America 1989 Rethinking Sex and Gender in a World of Women without Men: Changing Consciousness and Incorporation of the Feminine in Three Utopias by Women 1989 A Different Voice in Politics: Women As Elites Government 1989 The Lady Teaches Well: Middle-Class Women and the Sunday School Movement in England, 1780-1830 History 1989 The Analytical Muse: Historiography, Gender and Science in the Life of Lady Ada Lovelace History of Science 1989 The Tragic Part of Happiness: The Construction of the Subject in *The Portrait of a Lady* Literatures 1989 The Ideology of Gender Roles in Contemporary Mormonism: Feminist Reform and Traditional Reaction Religion ##### 1988 ##### ##### 1988 La fonction génératrice: French Feminism, Motherhood, and Legal Reform, 1880-1914.