Pedagogy of Catastrophe traces a new attitude towards childhood that developed in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Focusing on moments of natural …
Reconceived: Women’s Reproduction after Roe v. Wade examines shifts in state support for pregnant women and mothers between the 1970s and 2000s. By bringing together …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of human milk banking at Hospital Agostinho Neto in Praia, Cabo Verde. In 2011, Cabo Verde inaugurated its first …
This thesis examines the interconnections of eugenics, domesticity, and the fortification of the American way of life in mass-market women’s magazines of the 1930s. Eugenic …
This thesis focuses on how the idea of motherhood was shaped both by state policy and female activism during the Sandinista revolutionary period in Nicaragua, …
This project explores the many ways in which women in the Black Panther Party navigated their roles as Black women, mothers, and revolutionaries and theorized …
Elegies is a collection of creative non-fiction essays about motherhood, mourning, and early childhood death. Each essay combines the author's personal experience and family history …