Honors Thesis Titles

An increasing number of Women’s Studies concentrators are taking advantage of the opportunity to work closely with Women’s Studies faculty and faculty in other departments to investigate a particular intellectual question through feminist, interdisciplinary scholarship. Below are the Women’s Studies honors graduates and the titles of the theses they have written. The Honors theses are available for reading in the Women’s Studies office.

Undergraduate Honors ThesEs by Year

2009

Micaela G. Battiste, Realizing Neoliberal Globalization:  A Transnational Feminist Reading of Fair Trade and Gender Mainstreaming
 
Amy M. Bowers, Embracing English, A Subtle Violence: 
Five Essays on Contemporary South Asian / Western Literature

Jamie Budnick, Subversive Stories / Hegemonic Tales: Conversations with Non-heterosexual College Women on Sexuality, Society, and Self
 
Amanda Grigg, Popping the Question:  (Do Marriage Promotion Programs Live Up to the Hype?) A Response to Feminist Concerns Over Federal Marriage Promotion

Rebecca Halpern, Making It Count:  A Gendered Analysis of the Survival of Incarcerated Women

2008

Emily Gelmann, The Promise of a Better Future: An Argument for Androgyny.  The Power of Children’s Books as a Socializing Agent for Change
 
Anna Luke, Food for Change: The WIC Program and Community-Based Care

Andrew McBride, Transmen in Porn:  Alternative Masculinities and Dilemmas of Visibility

Kelly Rauser, '‘FemHags’ vs. ‘Big Daddy Protector:’
The Fight over Women in Combat in the Blogosphere”

Ian Spear, Considering Crime: Reflections on the Resubjectivation of Gay Male Identity

2007

Emily Chaloner, A Never Ending Chase: Toward a New Understanding of Layered Agency in Prostitution

Stephanie J. Christians, Our Bodies, Our Cells: Toward a Preventative Prison Health Care Model for Women in Prison

Amanda Hooper, (De)Constructing Violence: Gender, Sexuality and Domestic Violence Discourse

Azmat Khan, Muslim Media Darlings: An Examination of the Monopoly on the Discourse of Islam and Gender in America

Rachel E. Lappin, Is there Really a Difference? Adolescent and Young Adult Women’s Use of Emergency Contraception: A Retrospective Study

Laura Pisarello, Domestic Violence: New Discourses in Hawaii, New York, and Texas

Jessica Roberts, Impacts of Centering Pregnancy on Feelings of Isolation in Latina Immigrants

Rebecca Rueble, Creating Active Agents: Transforming Girls’ IT Roles through the GirlTech Program

Elizabeth Turk, Representations of Rape in Medical Discourse: The SANE Perspective

Smita Walavalkar, Queer Activism and Women’s Same-Sex Desire in India

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2006

Tamar Goldenberg, Connecting Women and Resisting Multiple Oppressions: Strengthening Cross-Race Coalitions in the Anti-Violence Movement

Sarah Ingersoll, Improving Behavioral Change Communication: An Analysis of The Haniff HIV/AIDS Education Module

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2005

Jill Paul, The Effects of Welfare Reform on Women’s Criminality in Detroit

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2004

Dejah Rubel, Sex Work as a Feminist Question: Toward an Integrative Theory

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2003

Joni Angel, The Popular Representation of the Jewish-American Princess: A New Jewish Stereotype

Lucian Gomoll, Women Writing Art: Autobiographical Performances and Art World Politics

Vered Jona, Constitutional Abortion Rights: A New Equal Protection Analysis

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2002

Shiri Klima, Legitimizing the Category of “Women”

Carrie Soloman, Accounting for the Invisible Recipients: Are Welfare Policies in Southeast Michigan Assisting Survivors of Domestic Violence?

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2001

Sabrina Alli, From Degeneracy to Decriminalization: The Movement to Subvert Conventional Morals and to Decriminalize Prostitution

Britt A. S. Godchaux, “Jennifer Lopez is my Girlfriend:” Sex, Gender and Survival of the Lesbian Men of Kantura, Namibia

Meghan Rohling, The Effect of Gender on Perceptions of the Mentally Ill

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2000

Wendy Ascione, Through the Plexiglas: Children of Incarcerated Mothers

Leigh Botwinik, Understanding Gender, Pedagogy and Experience: A Qualitative Study of Female Faculty at the University of Michigan

Sarah C. Douglas, The Stories of African Women: Afrikaner Identities of Black African and Afrikaner Women

Emily D. Frydrych, Domestic Violence and Female Inmate Abuse: The Replication of Power and Control

Jill Marie Gotts, Let’s Talk About Sex: The Origins of Sex Instruction Pamphlets, 1880–present

Dana Leigh Watnick, Understanding Mandatory Arrest: Can It Help Battered Women?

Leseliey R. Welch, Voices Less Heard: African American Women Living with HIV and AIDS

Sarah A. Welchans, Weight and Age Factors in the Believability of Rape Victims

Kyle M. Yanchura, Domestic Violence and Pregnancy: A Resource Guide for Health Care Providers in Washtenaw County

Lara Zador, Love Your Mother: The Nature of Ecofeminism

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1999

Samuel T. Bauer, The Content of Prenatal Care: 1989–1999

Mandira Kalra, Visions of Flight: A Fanonesque Analysis of the Development of Gender in Colonial and Post Colonial India

Carla Pfeffer, Lesbians in Psychotherapy: Merging Identities and (E)Merging Voices

Lauren Shubow, The Round Table: Feminist Models of Leadership

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1998

Stephenie Lieber, The History of the Breast Cancer Movement: From Personal Anguish To Public Outrage

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1997

Puja Dhawan, Understanding the Egg: Indian Women’s Sources of Oppression, Struggle and Strength

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1996

Shenia D. Coleman, Seizing the Center: The Sexual Politics Of Rap Music

Rana Jaleel, Shooting Down the Walls of Heartache (Bang Bang) I am the Warrior: The Cultural Anxiety over the Female Combatant

Alicia Rivers, Viva La Otra! Movement Toward Social Pluralism in Chile

Jennifer Jean Rumisek, Tainted Ink: The Media’s Construction of Fact in Rape Reporting

Ami Shah, The Next Epidemic: HIV and Pregnancy In Adolescent Girls

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1995

Johanna L. Frank, Speaking the Hysterectomy: Performativity and Narrative

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1994

Gabrielle Durocher, Morrison’s Mother/Daughter Plot: Representations of Motherhood in Works of Toni Morrison

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1993

Jennifer A. Miller, Confronting Racism in the Feminist Movement

Dannielle Morano, Multicultural Groups and Stages of Group Development

Angelique Vivoni, Individual and Institutional Barriers to Help-Seeking Encountered by Battered Women of Mexican Origin

Shirley J. Yee, The Social Construction of Race, Gender and Class in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior—Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts