Thinking Gender 2011 - 20th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

PLENARY SESSION: Making It Our Business: Development, Coffee, Sex, and the Workforce

Stephanie Santos, 'Dont Monopolize the Good': Development Aggression and Subaltern Filipinas


Evangeline Heiliger, Transcaffeinated: Transgender Phenomena in Cafe Femenino's Fair Trade Femininities


Benjamin Everly, The Effects of Gender and Sexual Orientation on Hiring and Compensation Decisions

SESSION 1: Gender & Media in the Post and Cold War Era

Molly Jessup, Girls Gone Wild? Respectability, Political Stability, and Gender


Diana Belscamper, Good Girls and Better Consumers: Teen Magazines and Teenage Consumers in the Cold War Era


Dawn Fratini, Female-Fashion Currency: The Cultural Exchange of Ideas of Womanhood, via Fashion and Cinema, Between Italy and the United States in the Post-War Era


Aubri McDonald, Frames Fatale: Deconstructing Media Framing of a Female Gang Member Convicted of Murder

SESSION 2: Mothers: From the Abject to the Archive

Mir Yarfitz, Uprooting the Seeds of Evil: Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos Aires


Christie Nittrouer, Funny M(Otherings): Abject Belonging in American Comedy


Clarissa Janssen Trapp, 'Sweet Salubrious Streams' from 'Breasts of Snow': The Maternal Physician and the Body as a Site of Cultural Production in the Early Republic


Cassia P. Roth, Maternity in the Archives: Historical Sources on Women, Reproduction, and Motherhood

SESSION 3: Surviving in LA: Space, Food, Justice

Analena Hope, Fast Food, Slow Death, and the Propaganda of Health: Jewel Thais-Williams’ Radical Battle for Black Survival


Cecilia Maria Salvi, All is Food for Thought, Nothing Is Dogma: Gender Relations in Food Not Bombs


Dayo Spencer-Walters, Intersections of Domestic Violence and Food Insecurity in California

SESSION 4: Cruising

Kyle B. Jackson, Queer Cruises: Global Gay and Lesbian Liberation or Sexual Colonialism on the High Seas?


Kyle Shernuk, Orientalism and the Politics of Pathology: Same-Sex Desire in Wang Xiaobo’s Gentle as Water and Zhang Yuan’s East Palace, West Palace


Mila Zuo, 'Exciting Terror' in Lou Ye’s Summer Palace