As of May 2015, all Sarah Lawrence College Master’s theses are available digitally. They are made accessible in one of three ways:

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Theses from 2022

The Phantoms of Memory: Mothers and Women in Cinema Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, Megan Dolezal

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"Fight, And If You Can't Fight, Kick; If You Can't Kick, Then Bite": A Comparative History of Afro-Brazilian and U.S. Black Women’s Stories of Resistance, Nicole Hayes

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Working Witches: Fortune Tellers, Clairvoyants, and Astrologers in the Golden Age of Spiritualism, Grace Kredell

Selfish Bitch: Representations of Childfree Women in Media, Academia, and IRL, Laura Lee

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“Always a Friend” The Complex Life of Lady Gregory Aristocracy, Womanhood, and the Indigenous Irish, Sarah Weinstock

Surviving the Circus: Title IX and the Changes Survivors Need, Alexandra Zartman-Ball

Theses from 2021

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“The history of every life … is important”: Lydia Olsson, Growing up Swedish American, and Midwestern Girlhood at the Turn of the Century, Rebecca Hopman

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"They Would Do As They Pleased, As They Had the Power": Gender Violence and the American Settler-Colonial Project, 1830-1890, Noelle Iati

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Through the Stage Door, a Spotlight on 'Backstage' Work: Women Designers and Stagehands in Theatrical Production, Victoria Nidweski

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A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, and Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles

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The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody: Images of Menstruation in Television and in Menstrual Activism, Elizabeth Tripp

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The Emergence of Lesbianism From Women's Penal Institutions: Incarcerated Women-Loving Women, Interracial Coupling, and Women's Blues Music, 1895-1935, Sidney Wegener

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Nothing But Hype: Sex Trafficking And The Super Bowl, Kateca Wyette

Theses from 2020

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"Honey, I Am History:" The Life and Legacy of Onnie Lee Logan, Alabama Midwife, Kathryn Leigh Brantley

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For a Dark-Skinned Girl: A Retrospective Analysis on The History Of Colorism in America From 1950 to 1990, Monet N. Dowrich

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Land of the Clean and the Home of the Segregated: Sex-Separated Bathrooms in the Northeastern United States, 1870-1920, Emilyn Kowaleski

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Reimagining Early Interracial And Coeducational College Administration: A Historical Analysis Of Matilda Hamilton Fee And Berea College, Hannah Elizabeth McCandless

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Unmasking Gay Liberation Before Stonewall: Alfred C. Kinsey's Enduring Influence on The Mattachine Society, 1940-1970, Marian Phillips

Theses from 2019

Separation Versus Relationality: Settler Policies, Indigenous Storytelling and their Ways of Being in the World, Katya Duncan

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Sylvia Beach and Les Amies des Livres: The Forgotten Feminist Roots of the Shakespeare and Company Lending Library, Caitlin O’Keefe

Colonial and Patriarchal Discourse(s) Interrogated: Indian Muslim Women’s Voices as Critique, Fareeha Rashid

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Settling the Sexual Dust: Portrayals and Restrictions of Female Sexuality in 1980s Lifestyle Magazines, Cara C. Schooley

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Please Pull My Nightgown Down When You Are Through: Marital Rape Activism, Opposition, and Law, 1974-1989, Katherine Swartwood

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Barriers of Being Undocumented: Mexican Women, U.S. Immigration Law, and the Reporting of Sexual Assault and Abuse, Cristina Tanzola

Theses from 2018

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Game Changers & Scene Makers: Black & Brown Women of the Punk Underground, Courtney Aucone

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Jane Roe Gone Rogue: Norma McCorvey’s Transformation as a Symbol of the U.S. Abortion Debate, Christianna K. Barnard

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Between Villain and Victim: Jiang Qing and Women’s Roles in Revolutionary Model Opera During the Cultural Revolution, Cherie Gu

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Women at the Grassroots: Environmental Activism at the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and An Tairseach in Ireland, Corinne McSpedon

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Honey, Spice and Sometimes Nice: The 20th and 21st centuries Cultural, Social and Political Work of the Queen Bee, Sarah Elisabet Stanislawa Schmer

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“Did You Like It?”: Adolescent Sex Education in the United States, 1980-2018, Sydney Rayne Thompson

Theses from 2017

“what happens after the heart breaks the poem” : (An Experiment towards) Heartbreak and Hybridity in Women’s Writing, Sarah Ahmad

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“Maybe We Poor Welfare Women Will Really Liberate Women in this Country:” Tracing an Intellectual History of Mrs. Johnnie Tillmon-Blackston, Gwendolyn Fowler

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“Want to do something about it?”: Black Women’s Activism in the Era of the Equal Rights Amendment, Amanda Kozar

The Deliberate Contradictions in the United States Human Rights System: A Case Analysis and History of Post 9/11 Immigration Policies, Jacqueline Muir

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“Being a caregiver is the most sincere love you can have”: Experienced Caregivers Discuss Dirty Work and Good Care, Osmara Vanessa Osuna

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Gendered and Racial Nostalgia in the Protection of Topographies | Progressive Era Rhetoric in the Conservation and Preservation Efforts of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Gabriela Phend

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Queen Esther: The Life of Esther Gordy Edwards and Her Contributions to the Building of Motown Records, Velvet Aisha Johnson Ross

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Women Etched in Stone: The 1956 Women’s March and its Representation in South African Public History, Sara Sanders

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An Open Letter to Media Creators: History is a Noun. Women’s History is a Verb., Lauri Blaire Schulman

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I’m Gonna Ruin Your Childhood: Girl Power, Badasses, and the Social Impact of Young Adult Literature and Film from 1997-2007, S.E. Simon

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American Motherhood: A Discursive and Quantitative Analysis of Abortion and Racialized Constructions of Family in Political Speech, Pauline Stanfiel

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From a Whisper to a Rebellion: Examining Space, Race, Sexuality, and Resistance within the Confines of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Hannah Walker

Theses from 2016

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Belle Versus or Tramp Versus Child?: Contested Representations of the Scottsboro Trials, Henry Guston Kemp Broege

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Cultivating Solidarity: Leonora O'Reilly, Working-Class Women, and Middle-Class Allies in the American Woman Suffrage Movement, Jacklyn Collens

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Nazik al-‘Abid’s Nur al-Fayha: A Kurdish Woman’s Magazine in 1920 Damascus, Ceighley Cribb

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No More Silence: How Federal Policies Address the Culture of Sexual Violence on College Campuses, Michelle Kathryn Guile

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Lone Voice in the Wilderness: Centering Sex Workers’ Rights in Prostitution Policy, Emily A. Parker

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Challenging Silence: Traditions of Sex Education and the Mexican Immigrant Experience in the United States, Anita Botello Santoyo

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“Venus to the Hoop,” But Not to the Bank: Gender Inequity in Professional Basketball, Mercedes Ann Townsend

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Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future, Maria Camila Martinez Valasco

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The Art of Misogyny: The Struggle of Female Tattooists in an Industry of Men, Alison Waller

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Every Woman Has the Right to Look Beautiful: Beauty Products & Body Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Rachel Williams

Theses from 2015

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Coming to the Stage: Identity, Performance, and Persona in Women’s Comedy, Cynia Barnwell

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Radical Genealogies: Okie Women and Dust Bowl Memories, Carly Fox

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Power Dynamics of a Segregated City: Class, Gender, and Claudette Colvin’s Struggle for Equality, Samantha Gordon

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“You’re Not Going to Continue to Set My Kids Up”: Gendering Neoliberal Education Reform and Teacher Activism, Erin C. Hagen

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Our Lady of Perpetual Desire: Religious Discourses of the American Pin-Up Girl in World War II, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Kohr

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Unpacking the Trunk: Producing Whiteness in Private Memory-Making within One Southern Family, Margaret Taylor Russell

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“He can read my writing but he sho’ can’t read my mind”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Anthropological Gaze, Natasha Tatiana Sanchez

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Cockacoeske: “She didn’t give up.”, Susan Elizabeth Shook

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“You Know Me Best”: Perspectives of Adult Siblings with Typical Abilities and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Kristy Lynn Staniszewski

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Waiting in the Wings: A History of the Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II, Jessica Wilson

Theses from 1979

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A New Force in Politics: The Suffragists' Experience in Connecticut, Carole Artigiani Nichols