Thinking Gender 2010 - 19th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

PLENARY SESSION: Intersectionality Acts From the Margins

Ana Guajardo, Crafting Sustainability: Latina indie Crafters and Public Institutions


Kimberly Robertson, Un-Settling Questions: The Construction of Urban Native identity and Violence Against Women


Jocelyn Thomas, "If I Wanna Act Freaky then That's My Business": Lil Kim and the Politics of Performing Public Sexuality for a Black Woman Rapper


Wendi Yamashita, What She Remembers: Remaking and Unmaking Japanese American Internment

SESSION 1: Contest Cultural Productions

Heather Collette-VanDeraa, Cinema of Minors: The Politics of Genre and Gender in American Teen Films of the 1980s


Erin Hill, The Gendering of Film and Television Casting


Taylor Nygaard, MTV's "Hills" of Money: How MTV Tapped the Postfeminist Demographic in an Age of Extreme Media Convergence

SESSION 2: Material Bodies and States of Feminism

Zachary Blair, Junk in the Trunk: Gender, Race, and the Political Economy of Truck Nutz


Samuel Galloway, The Limits of Equivalence: Gay Male Subjectivity Outside Feminist Theory


Neslihan Sen, Labiaplasty and the Construction of the "Normal"

SESSION 3: Lara Stemple

Catherine Jacquet, "Where Are All the Feminists?" The Joan Little Case and Anti-Rape Activism During the 1970s


Lori Sexton, Where the Margins Meet: A Demographic Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men's Prisons


Ji-Hye Shin, Immoral Women, Delusional Men: Gender and the Racial Differences Among the U.S. Immigrant Insane, 1892-1930

SESSION 4: Race-ing Resistance in Queer and Trans Politics: Historicizing Visibility Movement, and Meaning

Che Gossett, QTGNC Resistance, Neoliberalism, and Social Memory


Abram J. Lewis, Within the Ashes of Our Survival: Lesbian and Gay Antiracist Organizing in New York City, 1980-1984


Karla Padron, Taking it Outside: Latina Transgender Immigrants Claiming and Queering Space Within Immigrant-Rights Marches


C. Riley Snornton, Transfiguring masculinities in Black Women Studies

The following videos are available for viewing by email request.

Thinking Gender 2009 - 18th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

PLENARY SESSION: Changing the (his)Story: Women in Film and Television

Felicia D. Henderson, Mis-Remembering Lucille Kallen: The Erased Career of Your Show of Shows' Lone Woman Writer
Mirasol Riojas, Collaborative Film Authorship: Writing Latinas into the Picture
Julia Wright, Making the Cut: Female Editors and Representation in the Film and Media Industry

SESSION 1: In the World but not of it: Gender and Spirituality

Alexandra Apolloni, In the Beginning, There Was Rhythm: Embodiment, Divinity and Punk Rock Spirituality in the Music of The Slits
Lindsay Johnson, Pain, Desire, and Unattainable Ecstasy in Alba Tressina's Vulnerasti cor meum
Elizabeth Dilkes Mullins, 'In the World but not of it': Adrian Dominican Sisters Negotiating Modernity Through the Body, 1933-39
Paul Schwinn, The Malleable Man: The International YMCA and Christian Manhood, 1890-1940

SESSION 2: Curricular Politics

Joan Budesa, Abstinence makes the State Grow Stronger: The Politics of Sex Education in Croatia
Danielle Nicole Dubé, Mandatory Diversity Education with No Parental Opt-Out
Heather Switzer, Narratives of Resistance: Kenyan Massai Schoolgirls Make Themselves
Kim Foulds, Whose Gender?: Exploring Representations in Kenyan Social Studies Textbooks

SESSION 3: Shove, Swing, Summit: Women and Sports

Jennifer D. Carlson, Shoves and Kisses: Female Athleticism in All-Female, Amateur Roller Derby
Tan Leng Goh, SWET for the Summit: Exploration of Singapore's First All-Female Mount Everest Team
Philip L. Stutzman, 'Can You Say Fore?': The Legal Implications of the LPGA's Proposed English Rule and Applying Title VII in Non-Traditional Employment Relationships
Elise Paradis, Bodies, Gender and Social Structure: The Boxing Gym as Microcosm
Moderator Response: Toby Miller

SESSION 4: Performative Aggression

Sarah McCullough and Denise Green, Gender Jammer: A Multimedia Exploration of Roller Derby as Performative Transgression
Ana Paula Höfling, ‘It’s Turning Into a Dance’: Locating and Valorizing Femininity in Capoeira Angola
Miriam Margala(read by Vivian Davis), Translatress, Translator, Translation
Katie Oliviero, Performing Militarized Moral Citizenship: The Minutemen

Thinking Gender 2008 - 17th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

PLENARY SESSION: Lesbian, Counter, and Queer: New Directions in the Study of Femininity

Cathy Hannabach, Untimely Forgetting: Melancholia, Sexual Dispossession, and Queer Femininity
Julia Himberg, Lesbian 'Femininity' on Television
Stacy I. Macias, Aesthetic Rememberings: Counter-Femininities in the Art of Diane Gamboa

SESSION 1: Therapy, Health, Intervention

Felicia L. De La Garza-Mercer, Relationship Functioning and Immune Health in HIV+ Latinas: A Longitudinal Analysis
Kathleen Hentz, Affirming Incarcerated Women of Color as HIV Experts: Feminist Insight into the Possibilities of HIV Education and Participatory Action Research
Anubha Sood, lth in India: Comparing Psychiatry and Mystical-Spiritual Healing
Chantal Stepney, Leading Clients to SEE-Sistas Embracing Empowerment: Counseling Strategies for Black Women Experiencing Race and Gender Related Distress

SESSION 2: Gender & the Entertainment Industries

Imani M. Cheers, 'Who You Callin' a Bitch?' Black Women's Complicity in Misogynistic Hip Hop Mass Media
Stephanie Crahen, Madonna's Performance: Avant-Garde or Commercial Art for Sale?
Patti Lynne Donze, Gender and Record Label Strategies for Success
Marisa McFarlane, Queens of the Dancehall and Rudegyals: Rasta Women and Reggae-Dancehall in Brazil

SESSION 3: Penetrating Death

Christine Gottlieb, Penetrating Knowledge and Attacking Mysteries: The Cases of Dracula and Dora
Stephen Higa, Exposing Virgins in Early Norman England
Krystal Lords, The Importance of Gender Studies for Predynastic Egypt: A Case Study of Cemetery N7000 at Naga-ed-Deir
Ericka Swensson-Tsagakis, An Abbess Entombed: St. Mildrith and Female Monastic Enclosure

SESSION 4: Subaltern Sex

Yuning Chen & Monghwa Chin, The Role Replaced: Unmarried Taiwanese Women and Foreign Brides
You-Sun Crystal Chung, Representation and Its Discomforts: Writing a Subaltern History of the 'Comfort Women'
Lena McQuade, Reframing Reproductive Oppression: Medical Research into Mortality at San Juan Pueblo
Christina Owens, Liberal Intimacy and Racialized Women: Constructing the Japanese Female Child Abductor