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(RE)FASHIONING GENDER: DRESS AS EMBODIED FEMINIST CRITIQUE IN MODERNIST WOMEN’S WRITING
(2022-05-18)
In this dissertation I examine early twentieth century women writers’ use of fashion as a mode of critiquing gender, race, and class oppression. Through close reading of the novels of Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, Anzia ...
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
(2017-05-05)
This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ...