• Phantom Futures: The Cultural Politics of Education-Related Debt 

  Madden, Jaime (2017)

  My dissertation examines the cultural politics of education-related debt. In a time of spiraling higher education costs, I focus on students who face challenges repaying debts and participating productively in the market ...

• Soft Circuitry: Methods for Queer and Trans Feminist Maker Movements 

  Rogers, Melissa Susan (2017)

  Fiber craft practices such as knitting, crochet, quilting, embroidery, and weaving have been used as experimental, hands-on methods for queer and trans feminist knowledge production, especially since the 1970s and 80s when ...

• TOWARDS A FEMINIST RECONSTRUCTION OF PERSIAN SUFISM 

  Nourbakhsh, Safoura (2017)

  Contrary to many claims, Sufism is not a gender-neutral discourse and practice. Although women have been present since the inception of Sufism in the eighth century CE, like most androcentric knowledge, the foundational ...

• Talk Amongst Yourselves: Conceptions of “Community” in Transgender Counterpublic Discourse Online, 1990-2014 

  Dame, Avery (2017)

  Since the mid-1990s, digital technologies have played a key role in major political actions and social movement organizations in the US and elsewhere. Newly widespread public internet access mitigated issues related to ...

• Barriers and Facilitators to Homeownership for African American Women with Physical Disabilities 

  Miles, Angel Love (2016)

  This dissertation fills an important gap in the literature by exploring the social, economic, and health characteristics and experiences of members of a social group that has been otherwise under-examined: African American ...

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