Slashing/Gender: Fantasy, Sexual Difference, and (Im)Possibility in Counter-Narrative Fanfiction
Jessica Bowker
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Melendez




Ana Hyatt
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Gendered Other, Legitimized Nation: Discourses in a Post - 9/11 World
Mary Ellen Massa
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Violence Against Women and Abortion: The Silent Assualt
Gina Occhipinti
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls in Nepal
Babita Rana
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Keith



Raising Our Voices: A Gender Sensitive Radio Production and Media Literacy Training for Community Radio
Luz Ruiz
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Carrillo



Constructing Lesbian Urban Space in San Francisco's Mission District
Suzie Smith
In Progress
Primary Adivsor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Wilkinson



Racist TransActions: An Examination of White Privilege Within FTM Communities
Lee Staub
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sandell



Cultural Competence in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technologies
Pam Villanueva
In Progress
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Hemphill



Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in the 19th Century Red River Settlement
Demelza Champagne
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Nelson



Challenging Representations of Old Women in U.S. Films: Ageism Revealed
Rochelle Goldman
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Building Brandon: The Media Construction of a Transgender Icon
Michelle Gray
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sandell



Sexuality at the Border: Heteronormative Constructions of U.S. Citizenship in Immigration Policy
Kristi Lambert
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sandell



Environmental Conservation in Kenya: Why is it a Woman's Affair?
Sheba Onchiri
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Wangul



This is Not a Woman, But a Picture of a Woman http://www.jschuchard.com/thesis
Julie Schuchard
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sandell



Belles Rebelles: Maghrebines Negotiating Culture and Belief in France
Christina Solano
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Ethnic Studies



"Liberation" Through Fetishism: The Colonization of Afghan Women by United States Feminists
Chloe Stewart
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moellem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



American National Idenitity: The Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism
Natalie Terry
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Borders in Health: Undocumented Mexicans
Paloma Villegas
May, 2006
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Theorizing Femme: The Politics of (In)visibility
Katrin Greim
December, 2005
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Yep



Soldaderas :Marginalized Symbols of the Mexican Revolution
Cristal Wallin
December, 2005
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



"We Know Our Bodies Best:" Women's Health Zines, Feminism, and DIY Culture
Megan Crowley
May, 2005
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Feminizing Violence: (Re)presentations of Female Suicide Bombers
Kimberly Feig
May, 2005
Primary Advisor: Professor Roy, Secondary Advisori: Professor Sandell



Space, Gender, and Punk Community
Rebecca North
May, 2005
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Clay



Gurus, Footballers, and Diaspora: Commodification of South Asian Identities in Popular Culture
Anjali Asrani
December, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Tintiango-Lubales



Framed Speech: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Nicole Karalekas
December, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sandell



A Look at Feminist Spirituality and Academic Formation
Amber Marcia
December, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Assumed Motherhood: The Construction of Motherhood on Daytime Television
Heidi Wachter
August, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Sandell, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



The Mother of Tomorrow: American Eugenics and the Panama - Pacific International Exposition 1915
Elisabeth Arruda
May, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sueyoshi



The Cultural Politics of ftm Transsexuality: Representations and Identities of Transsexual Men
Tristan Josephson
May, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Sueyoshi



Breast Cancer: A Social Construction of Illness
Rickey Rickerson-Riese
May, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Cohler, Secondary Advisor: Professor Quesada



"Special Abuse" An Intersectional-Analysis of the Anti-Sexual Assualt Movement
Connie Wun
May, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Field Study Project
Heewon Yoo
May, 2004
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



Impact of Structured Adjustment Programs on Women
Kathryn Yoo
November, 2003
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Anton



Start the Presses: Culture and Identity in South Asian/American Women's Anthologies
Indira Chakrabarti
May, 2003
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Cohler



A Critique of "Memoirs of a Geisha" from the Perspective of Feminism
Yoko Kawakami
May, 2003
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Hsu



Raise the Black Lantern: An Autobiographical Manifesto
In Hui Lee
May, 2003
Primary Advisor: Professor Kjm, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Black Women and Suffrage: A U.S. History Untold
Rochelle Robinson
May, 2003
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Chinosole



The Traveling Text: Djeba's Fantasia, the Academy and the Marketplace
Katherine Day
December, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Stec



The Mechanization of Motherhood: Case Studies of Human Egg Donorship
Audra Carli
August, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Iranian Women and the Politics of Representation
Armita Parvizi
May, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Moellem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Bagakis, Third Advisor: Professor Quesada



Diasporic Sexualities: Discursive Formation of Iranian Queer Subjects in Diaspora
Sima Shakhsari
May, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Khani



Officially Cross-Dressing: Nationalism and Gender Performed in Modern Japan
Tomoko Taguchi
May, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Hsu



Cultural Production of Authenticity: The Case of Ethnic Restaurants
Neha Vora
May, 2002
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Quesada



Narrating the Sexual, Traveling the Textual: Travel Narratives and Female Sexual Subjectivity
Christine Guzaitis
August, 2001
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Rethinking Anti-Bias Curriculum: Reflections on Engaged Pedagogy
Antonette Greene
May, 2001
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Hemphill



From Conquest to Nostalgia, National Geographic Articles on Mount Everest: 1913-1999
Marie Rainwater
May, 2001
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Intimate Killings: Representations of Gender Performed in Modern Israel
Natalia Steinberg
May, 2001
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Organizing for Change: A Handbook for Women Firefighters
Karen Kerr
April, 2001
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Women, Agency and Subjectivity on an Automobile Assembly Line
Iliana Cordero
December, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Bourgois



The Creation of a Post-Million Woman March Committee, California '98
Dinah Hamilton
November, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Chinosole, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Latinas in the Struggle for Higher Education
Marisol Ruiz
October, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Pinderhughes



Women, Poverty and Global Capitalism: Nation, Gender, and Class in Postcolonial Korea
Chang ok Chun
September, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Deconstructing the Other in Herself
Ali Cannon
May, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Authorship, Representation, and The Politics of Forgetting
Mary Kelly
May, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Jaimes Guerrero, Third Advisor: Professor Hemphill



Decolonizing Feminist Theory: A Review of Literary Criticism Devoted to the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo
Valerie Larsen
May, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Confiscated Children
Rinat Abastado
April, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Project at the Riley Center
Megan Koroshetz
February, 2000
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Grewal



Institutionalized Prostitution and Sex Industry in Japan
Naomi Inagaki
December, 1999
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Adivsor: Professor Grewal



The San Francisco CEDAW Ordinance: Local Implementation of the United Nations Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Holly Friel
August, 1999
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Secret Lives: The Making of Feminist Red Diaper Daughters
Joan Meyers
May, 1999
Primary Advisor: Professor Caulfield, Secondary Advisor: Professor Quesada



Queering Domestic Violence: An Examination of Feminist Domestic Violence Theory Services
Caroline Thomas
May, 1999
Primary Advisor: Professor Moallem, Secondary Advisor: Professor Grewal



Desire, Body, Memory
Sonja Rogneby
March, 1999
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Chinosole



Women's Role in The Construction and Transformation of Twentieth Century Societies
Ann Blong
August, 1998
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor Moallem



Outside In: A Conceptual Deconstruction of Identities from a Feminist Perspective
Claudia Comerci
May, 1998
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



"Made in Taiwan": Nationalism, Ethnicity, Gender and the Production of Identity
Fennis Ho
May, 1998
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jesus



Middle Eastern America: Gendered Lives
Alexandra Kalaydjian
December, 1997
Primary Adivsor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Loomis, Third Advisor: Professor Chinosole



Transforming the Social Safety Net: San Francisco's Response to Welfare Reform
Johanna Finney
November, 1997
Primary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero, Secondary Advisor: Professor LeVeen



I Shop, Therefore, I Am: Culture, Capitalism and Identity
Marta Induni
May, 1997
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



U.S. Persecution of Refugee Women
Rachel Joens
May, 1997
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Chasing Carmen Sandiego: Childhood, Gender, Class, and Corporate Practices
Sandi Nenga
May, 1997
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



Shaman Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Race, Gender, Class and Corporate Practices
Kristin Peterson
May, 1997
Primary Advisor: Professor Grewal, Secondary Advisor: Professor Jaimes Guerrero



The Mark of Whiteness: Social Constructions of Race and Gender
Danielle Dobel
December, 1996
Primary Advisor: Professor Chinosole, Secondary Advisor: Professor Grewal



Understanding the Experience of Madness: 'Manic-Depressive' Women Tell Our Stories
Chris Domingo
May, 1995
Primary Advisor: Professor Caulfield, Secondary Advisor: Professor Folb



 
 
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