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Browsing by Subject "Feminist studies"

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    "Burlesque Female Behemoths": transgressions of fat, Femme Burlesque
    (2012-09) Giusti, Jessica
    Burlesque Female Behemoths analyzes the rebirth of the American burlesque scene over the past two decades and considers the political and cultural landscapes that have allowed for the emergent movement known as neo-burlesque. Particularly, it examines the communities of fat-identified, queer femme dancers who vigorously challenge rampant fatphobia through the bump and shimmy of modern burlesque choreographies and routines. Rather than suggest a re-reading of fat, femme bodies through hegemonic notions of beauty, femininity, and ability, this dissertation engages recent scholarship on queer failure and reveals the transgressive nature of these performances that dare express fat and queer desire on stage. By considering fat, femme burlesque against the current moment of fat panic, this dissertation reveals the, often, political nature of these performances as they defy and attempt to dismantle neoliberal regimes of morality, responsibility, and shame. Burlesque Female Behemoths offers a reading of fat, femme performance as capable of producing a new body politic that subverts contemporary models of success, re-imagines queer failure through corporeal epistemologies, and causes paradigmatic shifts in categories of health, aesthetic, and desire to the benefit of all bodies.
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    Restoration's return in the age of climate crisis: toward a feminist environmental justice response
    (2014-11) Garvey, Michelle Jenneman
    This project is situated at the locus of discourses on feminism, environmental justice, climate change, and ecological restoration. Asking what kinds of responses to climate change are needed on this rapidly-changing planet, and which initiatives will address social and ecological dilemmas simultaneously, I turn to ecological restoration as a troubled but promising field to harness the insights of feminist environmental justice toward intervening in both the causes and consequences of climate change. In order to engender resiliency among human and nonhuman communities, I advocate a contextualized, grassroots response to climate change that I have coined justice-oriented restoration. This ideology and method strengthens voices and movements often marginalized by engaging diverse stakeholders in order to create ecologies responsive to climatically-induced biosocial shifts, as well as the declining field of restoration itself, which climate change threatens to render irrelevant. In so doing, this project contributes to debates on sustainability; to the cross-pollination of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; and to the momentum building worldwide for community-driven, site-specific adaptations, mitigations, and remediations to environmental vulnerabilities.