As of May 2015, all Sarah Lawrence College Master’s theses are available digitally. They are made accessible in one of three ways:
1. “Thesis – Open Access” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Open Access,” the thesis is available to download immediately via the Download button on the right. NOTE: If a thesis is embargoed for a specific length of time, the date after which the item will be available via open access is noted under the Download button on the right.
2. “Thesis – Campus Access Only” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Campus Access Only,” the thesis is available only on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College via IP address or via the Off-Campus Download button if you are a current SLC faculty, staff, or student. You will need your MySLC login and password to access from off-campus.
3. “Thesis – Closed Access” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Closed Access,” access to the thesis requires written permission from the author.
If you are not a member of the Sarah Lawrence College Community and you are interested in access to a “Campus Access Only” thesis, please contact the author (if the Contact Author button is available on the right) or request the item through Interlibrary Loan from your local librarian. For additional questions, please contact alester@sarahlawrence.edu.
Copyright for theses is held by the authors.
Theses from 2022
The Phantoms of Memory: Mothers and Women in Cinema Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, Megan Dolezal
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
“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
“The history of every life … is important”: Lydia Olsson, Growing up Swedish American, and Midwestern Girlhood at the Turn of the Century, Rebecca Hopman
Through the Stage Door, a Spotlight on 'Backstage' Work: Women Designers and Stagehands in Theatrical Production, Victoria Nidweski
A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, and Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles
The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody: Images of Menstruation in Television and in Menstrual Activism, Elizabeth Tripp
Nothing But Hype: Sex Trafficking And The Super Bowl, Kateca Wyette
Theses from 2020
"Honey, I Am History:" The Life and Legacy of Onnie Lee Logan, Alabama Midwife, Kathryn Leigh Brantley
For a Dark-Skinned Girl: A Retrospective Analysis on The History Of Colorism in America From 1950 to 1990, Monet N. Dowrich
Land of the Clean and the Home of the Segregated: Sex-Separated Bathrooms in the Northeastern United States, 1870-1920, Emilyn Kowaleski
Reimagining Early Interracial And Coeducational College Administration: A Historical Analysis Of Matilda Hamilton Fee And Berea College, Hannah Elizabeth McCandless
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
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
Settling the Sexual Dust: Portrayals and Restrictions of Female Sexuality in 1980s Lifestyle Magazines, Cara C. Schooley
Please Pull My Nightgown Down When You Are Through: Marital Rape Activism, Opposition, and Law, 1974-1989, Katherine Swartwood
Barriers of Being Undocumented: Mexican Women, U.S. Immigration Law, and the Reporting of Sexual Assault and Abuse, Cristina Tanzola
Theses from 2018
Game Changers & Scene Makers: Black & Brown Women of the Punk Underground, Courtney Aucone
Jane Roe Gone Rogue: Norma McCorvey’s Transformation as a Symbol of the U.S. Abortion Debate, Christianna K. Barnard
Women at the Grassroots: Environmental Activism at the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and An Tairseach in Ireland, Corinne McSpedon
Honey, Spice and Sometimes Nice: The 20th and 21st centuries Cultural, Social and Political Work of the Queen Bee, Sarah Elisabet Stanislawa Schmer
“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
“Maybe We Poor Welfare Women Will Really Liberate Women in this Country:” Tracing an Intellectual History of Mrs. Johnnie Tillmon-Blackston, Gwendolyn Fowler
“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
“Being a caregiver is the most sincere love you can have”: Experienced Caregivers Discuss Dirty Work and Good Care, Osmara Vanessa Osuna
Queen Esther: The Life of Esther Gordy Edwards and Her Contributions to the Building of Motown Records, Velvet Aisha Johnson Ross
Women Etched in Stone: The 1956 Women’s March and its Representation in South African Public History, Sara Sanders
An Open Letter to Media Creators: History is a Noun. Women’s History is a Verb., Lauri Blaire Schulman
American Motherhood: A Discursive and Quantitative Analysis of Abortion and Racialized Constructions of Family in Political Speech, Pauline Stanfiel
Theses from 2016
Belle Versus or Tramp Versus Child?: Contested Representations of the Scottsboro Trials, Henry Guston Kemp Broege
Cultivating Solidarity: Leonora O'Reilly, Working-Class Women, and Middle-Class Allies in the American Woman Suffrage Movement, Jacklyn Collens
Nazik al-‘Abid’s Nur al-Fayha: A Kurdish Woman’s Magazine in 1920 Damascus, Ceighley Cribb
No More Silence: How Federal Policies Address the Culture of Sexual Violence on College Campuses, Michelle Kathryn Guile
Lone Voice in the Wilderness: Centering Sex Workers’ Rights in Prostitution Policy, Emily A. Parker
Challenging Silence: Traditions of Sex Education and the Mexican Immigrant Experience in the United States, Anita Botello Santoyo
“Venus to the Hoop,” But Not to the Bank: Gender Inequity in Professional Basketball, Mercedes Ann Townsend
Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future, Maria Camila Martinez Valasco
The Art of Misogyny: The Struggle of Female Tattooists in an Industry of Men, Alison Waller
Every Woman Has the Right to Look Beautiful: Beauty Products & Body Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Rachel Williams
Theses from 2015
Coming to the Stage: Identity, Performance, and Persona in Women’s Comedy, Cynia Barnwell
Radical Genealogies: Okie Women and Dust Bowl Memories, Carly Fox
Power Dynamics of a Segregated City: Class, Gender, and Claudette Colvin’s Struggle for Equality, Samantha Gordon
“You’re Not Going to Continue to Set My Kids Up”: Gendering Neoliberal Education Reform and Teacher Activism, Erin C. Hagen
Our Lady of Perpetual Desire: Religious Discourses of the American Pin-Up Girl in World War II, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Kohr
Unpacking the Trunk: Producing Whiteness in Private Memory-Making within One Southern Family, Margaret Taylor Russell
“He can read my writing but he sho’ can’t read my mind”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Anthropological Gaze, Natasha Tatiana Sanchez
Cockacoeske: “She didn’t give up.”, Susan Elizabeth Shook
“You Know Me Best”: Perspectives of Adult Siblings with Typical Abilities and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Kristy Lynn Staniszewski
Waiting in the Wings: A History of the Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II, Jessica Wilson
Theses from 1979
A New Force in Politics: The Suffragists' Experience in Connecticut, Carole Artigiani Nichols