M.A. Theses
2007
Melissa ArjonaOld World Mothers, New World Daughters: Images of Mexican Immigrant Motherhood, 1965 - 2002
Vanessa DeSantis"No Bright Lady's Shadow"; Villette and the Disruption of Mid-Victorian Constructions of Women, Desire and Representation
Samantha ErskineSlavery's Echo: Racism, Stigma, and the Politics of Respectability in the lives of Black Erotic Laborers
Juliet Gentile“The Sun rising from the West:” Gendered Perspectives on the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order
Linda HirschfeldPainting the Spanish Civil War: Frida Kahlo’s Palette of Personal and Political Allegory
Maranda Hyde“Each One, Teach One”: Uncovering the Historical Significance Behind the Distortions of the Black Panther Party’s Dynamics
Joon LeeThe Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA): Women of Color Organizing in the Revolutionary Era, 1970-1980
Patricia Litwin"How Could a Woman...Not Even Five Feet Tall, Change the World?": Rose Chernin and the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born
Lisa RudeWashington Debutante: The Coming Out of Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford
2006
Vanessa Carr"Just Because I'm a Woman": Country Music and Women's Liberation, 1964-1979
Rocio De La Rosa CamposThe Consequences of Globalization and Migration for the Lives and Experience of Salvadorian Immigrant Women
Jessica Dillard“A Whale of A Man”: Manhood, Homoeroticism, and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Maria Earle“Sing My Song”: The Legacy of Kathleen Stanford Grant
Desiree Fields“Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do”: Black Women, Desire, and Dissemblance in the New Negro Renaissance, 1920-1930
Angela Lupton“It’s About Time Someone Told That MOTHERLESS Lass She’s A Girl”: Transgressing Gender and Sexuality in Hollywood Musicals, 1953-1964
Rebecca SilversteinInducing Guilt: Mainstream Management of White Middle-Class Women During World War II
Meghan ToddHelen Keller: "Militant Blind Girl, Believes Suffrage Will Lead to Socialism”: Exploring Contradictions between Biographical Scholarship and One Woman's Radical Voice
Jessie WilkersonOut Front and Strong: Local Women of the Tennessee Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
2005
Ashley Beth ChaifetzIntroducing the American Dream: The Black Panther Party Survival Programs, 1966-1982
Sarah Crossley"For Toilers of the Hand and Brain:" Rose Pesotta and Worker Education, 1933-1942
Dianne Carla HaySaving "Our Girls:" Levi-Strauss, Social Darwinism, and Constructions of Migrating Young Women as Victims
Gwen KaminskiNew Perspectives on the Old World: Transnationalism and Its Limits in the Life and Work of Anzia Yezierska
Diwas KcOf Consciousness and Criticism: Identity in the Intersections of the Gay Liberation Front and the Young Lords Party
Emilie LaRocqueThe Manipulation of Victorian Gender Ideals: The Lives of Elvira Virginia Mugarrieta, Babe Bean, Beebe Beam and Jack Bee Garland
Jennifer MontalbanoWomen's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!): Gauging the Pulse of a Movement
Laura Ann PechacekThe Politics of Mothering: Harriet Jacobs, A Nineteenth Century Activist
Kirsten SpringerBuilding a Better Soldier: Cowboy Iconography and the Transmission of Ideology from Sand Creek to My Lai
2004
Megan BeeneNavigating Topos: The Shifting Meanings and Manifestations of Utopia and Dystopia in the Women's Liberation Movement.
Akiko Fukino IwaseReclaiming History and Collective Identity: Love and the Japanese American Women Writers 1973-1999
Jaime LockwoodSacred Vows: Changing Perceptions of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience in American Catholic Nuns
Margo NoteMonster-Making: The Representation of Aileen Wuornos
Lea OsborneAttempts at Bridging the Divide: The Alliances of the Liga Social Sufragista in the Struggle to Enfranchise Puerto Rican Women
Joshua RiegelAin't I A Wo/Man: The Politics of Masculinity & Communion in Stokely Carmichael & Charles V. Hamilton's "Black Power: the Politics of Liberation"
Natalie RoseAn Essential Indispensable Heritage: The SLC Women's History Program
Dawn WalshThe Lesbian Avengers: Placing Them in the Center of the Spotlight
2003
Rihana AzamMurder of a Pakistani Muslim Immigrant Woman in Chicago: A Defining Moment.
Tamara CohenAn Overlooked Bridge: Secular Women of the Jewish Left and the Rise of Jewish Feminism
Emily HolodPolitics of Accommodation, Practices of Integration: The Daughters of Bilitis and their Organizing around Differences of Race, Class and Sexuality.
Lenore KaroThe Racist Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
2002
Sarah KarpThe Heterodoxy Club: 1912-1920
Christine Mealey MudarriThe Viability of a Democratic Space: Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers
Erica PoffA Ministry of Presence: Women/Wednesdays in Mississippi, 1964-1965
Jessie Ramey"Execute Her!" Gender, Power and the Electric Chair
2001
Dawn Bates“I Am a Race Woman”: The Political Consciousness of Billie Holiday
Shelly HendersonPersonal Therapy, Political Healing: The Relationship Between Lesbians and Psychotherapy, 1970–1987
Marylyle McCueRiding with a Whole Flock of Angels: Box Car Bertha, Ben Reitman and Conventions of Gender in the 1930s
Valerie ParkUnited Tradeswomen: The Nuts and Bolts of Women’s Grassroots Activism in the New York City Construction Industry, 1979–1984
2000
Corinna Buchholz“The Ruffin Incident” and Other Integration Battles: How “Civilized” Clubwomen Answered the “Color Question”
Karen CampbellBella Visono Dodd: From Communist to Catholic Anticommunist, An American Life
Laura GoodwinPractical Faith and Faithful Practice: Religion and Reform among Congregational Friends, 1842–1850
Tara JamesSisters in Struggle: The Development of Black Feminism in SNCC
Erica Millette“What Becomes of Chorus Girls?”: A National Fascination with Subversive Heroines
Christine Nardi“Rogue Elephants”: The Republican Pro-choice Coalition and the Politics of Abortion
Seana O’ShaughnessyConstructing God: Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson as Symbols of Masculinity and Femininity in Popular Religion, 1910–1930
Nancy TufanoPatricia Highsmith Revisioned: The Politics and Aesthetics of Domesticity in Cold War American Literature
1999
Jane DusselierBon Bons, Lemon Drops and Oh! Henry Bars: Candy, Consumer Culture and the Construction of Gender, 1890–1920
Chrystie HillFlaming Youth: A Cultural History of Gender, Class and the American Cigarette
Kristen HillMyth America: The Many Lives of George Weldon
Mieko KojimaUmeko Tsuda and the Founding of Joshi Eigaku (Tsuda College)
Ilsa LundA Call to ARMS: Women’s Grassroots Welfare Rights Organizing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1980–1998
Jessica MatthewssBearing False Witness: Fiction and Fact in Hollywood “Nun Films,” 1943–1995
Kyes Stevens“By Our Surroundings Ye Shall Know Us”: Alabama Black Home Demonstation Agents and the Complexities of Moral and Social Uplift, 1928–1936
1998
Lashonda BarnettA Journey Home: New York African American Lesbians and Religious Autonomy
Staci Dixon“These Viral Times”: The Legacy of Women’s Activism in the Transformation of AIDS Biomedical Research
Sarah DowdyStark Contradictions and Glamorous Harmonies: Katherine Von Etten Lyford and the Cultural Politics of Travel in 1946
Isela GriffithAn Unfinished Sculpture: The Revolutionary Work of Judith Malina in America, 1968–1969
Rona HolubThe Rise of Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum: Criminal Enterprise and the ‘American Dream’ in New York City, 1850–1884
Leah NelsonThe Jewish Immigrant Question: The National Council of Jewish Women and Their Immigrant Aid Program of Work, 1914–1924
Rachelle SussmanConjuring Marie Laveau: The Syncretic Life of a 19th Century Voodoo Priestess in America
1997
Elisabeth McCallPhilosophy and Heroism: The Roles of Ideology and Activism in the Work of Matilda Joslyn Gage
Rebecca RaibleConquering Comstock Law: The Combined Efforts of Mary Ware Dennett and Margaret Sanger
Mary ReynoldsBusy Preserving Indian Culture: Margaret Lewis, Mabel Dodge and Elsie Parsons in the New Mexican Pueblos, 1921–1925
Nannette RomeroThe Ballad of Dolores Huerta: Heroine of La Causa
Holly StovallWomen’s Conscription Versus Motherhood: the Female Draft Debate During World War II
Davidde StrackbeinWomen’s ”Invisible Business“: Rural Household and Boarding Patterns in Mid-Nineteenth Century Greenwich, Connecticut
1996
Jean PoyntonsWoman as Ballerina: The Development of Her Role and its Genderization in Balanchine’s Company
Mariana RomanoConstructing the American Catholic: Sister Justina’s Veritas, Cincinnati’s Italian Problem
Jennifer TammiLosing Faith: The WTUL’s Disenchantment with Immigrants in the Progressive Era
1995
Kris Ann CappellutiThe Confines of Class: Alva Belmont and the Politics of Woman Suffrage
Lisa DeBoerFemale Gentlemen and Lesbian Ladies: The Hidden Lesbians in the Diaries of Anne Lister
Kristina EngstromRadical or Respectable?: Class and Ethnicity in the Early Student Peace Movement at Hunter College, 1932–1935
Tomoko IshiiThe Way “Civilized” Ladies Should Give Birth: History of Birthing Postures in America and George Julius Engelmann, an Advocate of Upright Birthing Positions in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Toko OshimaSisterhood is Powerful. It Kills Sisters: Ti-Grace Atkinson and the Feminists
Kate ShaughnessyNegotiating the Collective Self: Clerical Work Culture and Labor Militancy at the University of Minnesota, 1989–1994
Michelle Spinelli“Neither a Personal nor a Private Enterprise”: The College Settlements Association, 1897–1917
Wendy VictorCultural Arrogance and the Work of Benevolence: Women Writers’ Attempts to Reform Indian Policy in the New Republic, 1824–1884
1994
Kelly AndersonOut in the Fifties: The Daughers of Bilitis and the Politics of Identity
Rebecca HusmanAltering the Most Subversive Fictional Girl Detective: Nancy Drew in the 1930s
Maura McNamaraWomen in Combat: The History, Debate and Theoretical Issues Pertaining to Women in the United States Military
Lisa RudikoffWomen in the Popular Front Student Peace Movement: Vassar College, 1935–1941
1993
Elizabeth ColemanMary Ware Dennett: The ‘Sex Side of Life,’ a Reproductive Rights Agenda, 1910–1930
Grace HackmeierWork and Laws: Sexual Politics in Greenwich Village, 1907–1920
Sheila HaleSilence and Voice in the Autobiographies of Florence Kelley and Emma Goldman
Theresa KaneA Subtle Revolution: Significant Changes in the Lives of Roman Catholic Nuns in the Last Half of the 20th Century
Amy KhoudariLooking in the Shadows: the Life and Photography of Alice Austen
Evelyn LeongListening for the Silences: Chinese-American Women’s Autobiography as Historical Document
Susan Ochs-ScherShoptalk: Beauty Parlor Operators, Customers, and Work Culture, 1920–1940
Katherine SarnoLucy Stone: Anti-Racist Feminist and Woman Suffrage Leader
Noriko ShoyamaMetamorphosis: The Oral History of Japanese American Women Who Settled on the East Coast After the Internment
1992
Margaret Haas“The Great Opportunity: The Vanderbilt-Peabody Nursing Controversy”
Peggy Kavounas“Feeblemindedness and Prostitution: The Laboratory of Social Hygiene’s Influence on Progressive Era Prostitution Reform”
1991
Elizabeth Grundy
Planted by the Feminine Hand: Mercy Otis Warren and Republican Motherhood
Elizabeth ShanklinToward Matriarchy: The Radical Struggle in the United States to Reconstruct Motherhood, 1785–1925
Ronnie WalkerThe Lesbian History Archive of New York City: Its Founders and Their Contribution to Contemporary History
1990
Kay Griffin-JuechterFannie Lou Hamer: From Sharecropper to Freedom Fighter
1989
Margot Abels“A Shadow on the Land”: Mandatory Premarital and Prenatal Testing Legislation for Syphilis in the 1930s, A Sexual and Political Analysis
Ninia BaehrWith a Vengeance: Radical Pioneers of the Abortion Movement, 1961–1973
Judith Ann MageeMarie Curie: A Study of America’s Use of Marie Curie as a Devoted Wife and Mother, Saintly Scientist, and Healer of Humanity
1988
Takeko IinumaA History of the Women’s Peace Association of Japan: The Japanese Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the Period Before World War II
1987
Gayle V. FischerClothes Make the Woman: The National Dress Reform Association, 1856–1865
Maureen McCarthyPublicist for Peace: The Political Thought of Lucia Ames Mead
1986
Annette IgraMotherhood, Culture, and Class in New York City Jewish Women’s Consumer Protest of 1917
Anne JaniakWomen’s Struggle for Political Equity: Political Experiments and the Experience of the New York City Woman Suffrage Party and the League of Women Voters, 1909–1921
Mary McAteeIrish Immigrant Women at Work: Employment Patterns in Hartford, Connecticut, 1900
Elizabeth MetzgerDesigning a Curriculum for Women: Stephens College in the 1920s
Elizabeth Wolfarth-DempsterA New Creation on Earth: The Evolution of Christianity’s Blessed Mother Mary
1985
Thalia CassutoFrances Perkins: Establishing the Links Between New Deal Social Welfare Legislation and National Consumer’s League Social Welfare Policies
Ryoko KuriharaThe Japanese Woman Suffrage Movement in Comparison with the American Movement
1984
Stephanie Boccher-FrostProfile of a Woman Artist and Her Time: Elizabeth Robins and the 19th-Century English Theater
1983
Gail BraggFemale Enfranchisement and World War I: A Case Study of New York, 1915–1917
Joanne GoodwinWomen Workers in Applied Design: The History of the N.Y. School of Applied Design for Women, 1892–1917
Melanie GustafsonLola Maverick Lloyd
1982
Harriet AlonsoA Shared Responsibility: The Women and Men of the People’s Council of America for Democracy and Peace, 1917–1919
Kate Jastram BailianFame and Femininity in the Life of Fanny Burney: A Literary Lion in 18th Century England
Nancy CinnaterWomen Hoboes of the Depression, 1929–1939
Miriam Formanek-BrunellThe New York City Young Women’s Christian Association: Ballard School, 1879–1920
Bonnie JohnsonThere’s No More “Getting” on Their Knees’: An Historical Overview of Household Employment in the United States
Leslie Jones-WentzWomen’s Right to Control Their Bodies: The Development of an Ideology, 1800–1980
Kathleen Nilan“Peregrinations of a Pariah”: The Life and Work of Flora Tristan
1981
Jean AzulayFemale Networks for Social Change: Progressive Reform in the New Deal
1980
Pamela Elam“How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty”: Perceptions of the Militant Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S., 1916–1920
Peggy PascoeGirls’ Adolescence in the Northern American West, 1837–1900
Mary Louise RobertsFrances Wright and Ernestine Rose: Free Thinkers and Feminists
Mary WoodThe American Experience of Pre-World War II Jewish Refugee Women and Men
1979
Carole Nichols ArtigianiA New Force in Politics: The Suffragists’ Experience in Connecticut
Ginger ChihImmigration of Chinese Women to the U.S., 1900–1940
Delight Wing DodykWinders, Warpers, and Girls on the Loom: A Study of Women in the Paterson, New Jersey, Silk Industry and Their Participation in the General Strike of 1913
Lisa DugganSisters, Bondswomen, Arise!: Socialism and Feminism in England, 1820–1845
Christina GreeneKate Richards O’Hare: A Socialist Gadfly
Reverend Sheryl KujawaThe Greenwell Family of Maryland, 1625–1775: A Study in the Role and Status of Women Through Four Generations of a Roman Catholic Colonial Family
Sandra PeacockJosephine Butler: Middle-Class Supporter of Working-Class Feminism
Joan RappaportWorking-Class Women and the English State, 1870–1914: The Struggle Over Social Legislation
1978
Susan CayleffThe Eradication of Female Mid-wifery
Pat GaarderA Passe Controversy: The Life Decisions of Sarah Lawrence College Graduates, Class of 1930 and Class of 1952
Susan GottheilThe Invisible Citizen: The Political and Economic Position of Women in France During the Interwar Period
Marilyn GreenspanLadies in the Dark: A Study of Women Revealed in the American Musical Comedy, 1940–1950
Colleen McDonoughThe Founding of Sarah Lawrence College: A Case Study of the Contradictions in Progressive Education
Joyce PenderyWomen’s Secular Voluntary Organizations and Their Leadership, Stamford, Connecticut, 1860–1919
Denise StalloneA Life Cycle History of Second Generation Italian-American Women
Marli F. WeinerPlantation Women: Mistresses and Slaves
1977
Jacqueline CaseThe Society for the Study of Child Nature: Women Defining Their Own Roles
Nancy GilbertThe Civil War Career of Dorothea Lynde Dix: Reformer Turned Administrator
Rose GschwendtnerThe Impact of the 1834 British Poor Law on Poor Women
Elizabeth HohlThe Temperate Feminist: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Phyllis KriegelThe Daughter of Privilege and the Daughters of Labor: Grace H. Dodge and the Working Girls’ Societies, 1884–1896
Maggi LandauWomen in Politics: The Women’s Anti-Tammany Crusade of 1894
Ruth LyonThe Center for Continuing Education at Sarah Lawrence College (1962–1976): A Pioneer Program in Higher Education for Women
Carole MartinSpinsters: Role Models of Female Self-Sufficience, A Study of Publicly Active Single Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
Diane Miller SacconeThe Waist and Dressmakers of New York City, 1919–1925
Barbara SussmanThe Mother’s Pension Movement in the United States with Special Attention to the New York State Crusade, 1910–1915
1976
Judith BabbittsMary W. Dewson and the Entry of Women into the Democratic Party in the 1930s
Lois GarveyThe Movement for Vocational Education, 1900–1917: An Analysis of Its Consequences for Women
Clarisse GillcristThe Woman in American History: Teacher’s Guide to the Integration of Women’s History in the High School Curriculum
Deborah HejlHebert Spencer on the Evolution of the Family
1975
Jane Guthrie“A Very Singular Person”: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689–1762
1974
Joan ArcariTelling the Truth Collectively: The Consciousness Raising Group as a Force in the Women’s Movement
Amy SwerdlowAn Examination of the New York City Anti-Slavery Societies, 1834–1840: Organization, Leadership, Ideology, and Tactics
Anne L. WilsonThe Ambivalent Message: Sex-Role Training in the Mid-19th Century U.S. as Reflected in the Correspondence of Martha Coffin Wright to Ellen Wright Garrison
