Academics
Past Graduate Theses
WGSS theses can be viewed in their entirety at USF's Scholar Commons.
2022
Elizabeth Gaines
Going Flat: Challenging Gender, Stigma, and Cure through Lesbian Breast Cancer Experience
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9775/
Sabeehah Ravat
Incorrect Athlete, Incorrect Woman: IOC Gender Regulations and the Boundaries of Womanhood
in Professional Sports
http://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9443
Alisha Romano
Transnational Perspectives on the #MeToo and Anti-Base Movements in Japan
http://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9450
2021
Zoe Knowles
Criminalizing LGBTQ+ Jamaicans: Social, Legal, and Colonial Influences on Homophobic
Policy
Available through ProQuest
Lauren Wright
Dismantling Hegemony through Inclusive Sexual Health Education
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/8892/
2020
Fyn Asay
Transfat Representation
Available through ProQuest
2019
Sunahtah Jones
Ain't I a Woman, Too? Depictions of Toxic Femininity, Transmisogynoir, and Violence
on STAR
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7818/
Cera Shain
“The Most Muscular Woman I Have Ever Seen”: Bev Francis Performance of Gender in Pumping
Iron II: The Women
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7936/
Leah Turner
"Roll" Models: Fat Sexuality and Its Representations in Pornographic Imagery
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7976/
2018
Jamie Lane
Reproducing Intersex Trouble: An Analysis of the M.C. Case in the Media
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7187/
Joshlyn Lawhorn
Race and Gender in (Re)integration of Victim-Survivors of CSEC in a Community Advocacy
Context
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7324/
Abby Schneller
Penalizing Pregnancy: A Feminist Legal Studies Analysis of Purvi Patel’s Criminalization
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7227/
Megan Wiedeman
A Queer and Crip Grotesque: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7244/
2017
Asli Aygünes
"Mothers like us think differently": Mothers' Negotiations of Virginity in Contemporary
Turkey
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6676/
Mary McKelvie
Surveilling Hate/Obscuring Racism?: Hate Group Surveillance and the Southern Poverty
Law Center's "Hate Map"
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7060/
Jessica Pinto
Resistance from Within: Domestic violence and rape crisis centers that serve Black/African
American populations
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6744/
Viki Peer
"Ya I have a disability, but it's only one part of me": Formative experiences of young
women with physical disabilities
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6739/
Shannon Suddeth
(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time
Queer Fandom
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6957/
2016
Sandra Carpenter
"The Afro that Ate Kentucky:" Appalachian Racial Formation, Lived Experience, and
Intersectional Feminist Interventions
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6200/
Richard Henry
"Even Five Years Ago this Would Have Been Impossible": Health Care Providers' Perspectives
on Trans* Health Care
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6094/
Kaeleen Kosmo
Tough Guy, Sensitive Vas: Analyzing Masculinity, Male Contraceptives & the Sexual
Division of Labor
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6282/
2015
Mary Dickman
Let’s Move! Biocitizens and the Fat Kids on the Block
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5937/
Rakshinda Shah
Interpretations of Educational Experiences of Women in Chitral, Pakistan
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5580/
2014
Aubrey Hall
Incredi-bull-ly Inclusive?: Assessing the Climate on a College Campus
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5233/
Kasie Holmes
Her-Storicizing Baldness: Situating Women’s Experiences of Baldness from Skin and
Hair Conditions
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5241/
Robyn Homer
In the (Radical) Pursuit of Self-Care: Feminist Participatory Action Research with
Victim Advocates
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5242/
2013
Morgan Eubank
A Global Feminist Analysis of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Privileging
of Americo-Liberian Indigenous Liberian Women’s Voices
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4480/
Heidi Tilney Kramer
Monsters Under the Bed: An Analysis of Torture Scenes in Three Pixar Films
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4525/
2012
Jessica Collard
Can You Believe She Did THAT?!: Breaking the codes of “Good” Mothering in 1970s Horror
Films
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4301/
Jennifer Ellerman-Queen
Don't Blame It on My Ovaries: Exploring the Lived Experience of Women with Polycystic
Ovarian Syndrome and the Creation of Discourse
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4034/
Zoe DuPree Fine
Valanced Voices: Student Experiences with Learning Disabilities & Differences
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4038/
Elaine Taylor
An Interactive Guide to Self-Discovery for Women
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4238/
Mary Catherine Whitlock
Selling the Third Wave: The Commodification and Consumption of the Flat Track Roller
Girl
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4255/
2010
Heather Curry
Beyond Survival: An Exploration of Narrative Healing and Forgiveness in Healing from
Rape
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3559/
2009
Jennifer Earles
Gender Trouble In Northern Ireland: An Examination Of Gender And Bodies Within The
1970s And 1980s Provisional Irish Republican Army In Northern Ireland
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1945/
Amanda LeBlanc
"You're going to Hollywood"!: Gender and race surveillance and accountability in American
Idol contestant's performances
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2057/
Tunisia Riley
From the Academy to the Streets: Documenting the Healing Power of Black Feminist Creative
Expression
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2164/
Stacy Tessier
Developing Feminist Activist Pedagogy: A Case Study Approach in the Women's Studies
Department at the University of South Florida
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3793/
Cyrana Wyker
Women in Wargasm: The Politics of Womenís Liberation in the Weather Underground Organization
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/93/
2008
Melissa Albee
Opportunities for Spiritual Awakening & Growth in Mothering
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/113/
Leisa Clark
I am Warrior Woman, Hear Me Roar: The Challenge and Reproduction of Heteronormativity
in Speculative Television Programs
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/179/
Jo Aine Clark
A Constant Struggle: Renegotiating Identity in the Aftermath of Rape
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/181/
2007
Jen Clement
Reforming Dance Pedagogy: A Feminist Perspective on the Art of Performance and Dance
Education
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/673/
Rebecca Willman
The Conundrum of Women’s Studies as Institutional: New Niches, Undergraduate Concerns,
and the Move Towards Contemporary Feminist Theory and Action
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3861/
Clare Walsh
Narratives of Lesbian Transformation: Coming Out Stories of Women Who Transition from
Heterosexual Marriage to Lesbian Identity
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2402/
2006
Erica Hesch Anstey
A Feminist Perspective on the Precautionary Principle of Endocrine Disruption under
Neoliberal Globalization Policies
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3750/
Michael Gipson
Asymptotes & Metaphors: Teaching Feminist Theory
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2532/
Oksana Lutsyshyna
Postcolonial Herstory: The Novels of Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine):
A Comparative Analysis
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3931/
2005
Allison Brimmer
Loving loving? problematizing pedagogies of care and chela sandoval's love as a hermeneutic
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2793/
Lindsey Blake Churchill
Exploring women's complex relationship with political violence: A study of the weathermen,
radical feminism and the new left
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2826/
Justine Kessler
The Voices of Sex Workers (prostitutes?) and the Dilemma of Feminist Discourse
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/722/
Cara Okopny
Reconstructing Women's Identities: The Phenomenon Of Cosmetic Surgery In The United
States
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/799/
Tracie Anne Welser
Fantastic Visions: On the Necessity of Feminist Utopian Narrative
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/910/
2004
Elizabeth Dedrick
The Politics of Being an Egg “Donor” and Shifting Notions of Reproductive Freedom
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1009/
Mindy Stokes
Women, Domestic Abuse, And Dreams: Analyzing Dreams To Uncover Hidden Traumas And
Unacknowledged Strengths
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1259/
2001
Suzie Siegel
Safe at Home: Agoraphobia and the Discourse on Women’s Place
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3881/
2000
Evaline Tiondi
Women, Environment and Development: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1549/