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
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
