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/Dissertations 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/Dissertations 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/Dissertations 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/Dissertations from 1979
A New Force in Politics: The Suffragists' Experience in Connecticut, Carole Artigiani Nichols