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Alien Femininities: Transcending Gender through Drag in an Aesthetically Restrictive Culture.

Herrera, Andrea (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

In this dissertation, I conceptualize femininities not as a static category of gender performance, but as a set of shifting configurations of dress, cosmetics, bodily comportment, and behaviors inflected by race, class, ...
Beyond Exploitative or Empowering: Sex Work and Embodiment

Bartoo-Smith, Nika (University of Oregon, 2022)

This thesis seeks to push beyond the idea that sex work is either exploitative and traumatic or empowering and pleasurable, two different stances that are often debated in feminist circles. The work is grounded in the ...
“Cacao as the Key to the Doors of Perception”: Embodied Spirituality, Transcendence, and Healing through Ritualized Entheogen Consumption

Burby, Taylor (University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)

Over the last two decades, cacao has become a sacrament within increasingly popular syncretic religious ceremonies that promote the energetic healing of the sacred self. Cacao is a psychoactive substance that is regarded ...
Communication and Curation: Embodied Meaning and Praxis

Swartz, Jeremy (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

This dissertation focuses on developing and furthering curation as a mode of inquiry for the discipline of communication, and how concepts can lead to action (praxis) for life. It will contribute to the ongoing repair of ...
Gender and Time

Burke, Megan (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

This dissertation examines how gender and temporality are co-constitutive of one another and what temporalities underlie the actuality of gendered life. I weave together the insights of feminist phenomenology and feminist ...
Hear Me Out: Remediating Bodies through Digital Voices

Pang, Aidan (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

This dissertation examines the issue of vocal “ability” where “passing”—as male, as white, as straight, or as abled—is a site of daily conflict for many people whose voices belie their marginalized identities. This disparity ...
The politics of the marked body: An examination of female genital cutting and breast implantation

Smith, Courtney Paige, 1979- (University of Oregon, 2009-06)

This project is a critical and comparative investigation of Western and non-Western practices of body modification. Situated in the realm of feminist political theory, the project engages the literature and debates concerning ...
Present Absence: Memory and Narrative in Los recuerdos del porvenir

Gladhart, Amalia (Hispanic Review, 2005)
There is a Body in the Sound: Timbre and Embodiment in the Overlap of Film, Music, and Dance

Oden, Chelsea (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

Dance, film, and music are living art forms. They unfold through time, motion, environments, and bodies. They take up shapes, rhythms, textures, and tones. They tell stories. And they often amplify one another in ways that ...