ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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An intersectional analysis of sex education in the U.S. reveals a need for a more nuanced and community-based approach to sexuality education. A Reproductive Justice framed sexuality education program attends to the needs and desires expressed by a community, while interrogating and resisting the interlocking systems of power that work to uphold white patriarchy and white supremacy. Reproductive Justice sexuality education is socially transformational when it centers student creation and community participation. Instead of risk prevention and rights-based sex education programs that often perpetuate oppressive structures and erase students' lived experiences, student-centered sexuality education with a Reproductive Justice framework allows for participants to feel safe and valued. This re/imagining of sex education also allows for pleasure instead of shame to be a product of sexuality exploration. Key words: Reproductive Justice, Sexuality Education, K-12 Sex Education, Community Created Curriculum, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Intersectionality
ContributorsFarrell, Ashley (Author) / Swadener, Elizabeth B (Thesis advisor) / Sandlin, Jennifer (Committee member) / Linton, Mellissa (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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Several research cycles were conducted using an action research methodology to explore student engagement in a higher education classroom. Cycle 0 focused on gathering data about the local context. This was followed by Cycle 1 - where the flipped classroom approach was implemented as a mini-intervention. After data collection and further reflection on the local context led to Cycle 2 - where the Community of Inquiry model was adopted. This body of study captures the outline of each of these cycles. The monograph tells the story of the earlier cycles of research. While the manuscript focuses on implementing the final intervention, the community of inquiry model. The interrogation of each intervention resists instructor-centered pedagogies and seeks to foster student-led ones. Following discussion of these interventions, this study makes recommendations for fostering engagement in a large gender studies classroom through interrogating learning experiences.
ContributorsEdwards, Lisa (Author) / Basile, Carole (Thesis advisor) / Thompson, Nicole (Committee member) / Henry, Paulette (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
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Research in intercollegiate athletics has provided a relatively large body of findings about the kinds of stressors found in high profile intercollegiate athletic environments and their effects on student-athletes. Research is less robust regarding stress and its effects on head coaches in high profile collegiate athletics. This study focuses on the types, frequencies, and intensities of stress experienced by NCAA, Division I head coaches. The purpose of the study is to identify the types, frequency, and intensity of stress common to 20 head basketball coaches participating in the study, as well as differences in their experiences based on gender, race and the intersectionality of race and gender. The participants in the study are 20 head coaches (five Black females, five Black males, five White females, and White males). The conceptual framework guiding the study is a definition of stress as an interaction between a person and her or his environment in which the person perceives the resources available to manage the situation to be inadequate (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). The study’s design is an adaptation of prior research conducted by Frey, M., 2007 and Olusoga, P., Butt, J., Hays, K., & Maynard, I., 2009, and Olusoga, P., Butt, J., Maynard, I., & Hays, K., 2011. This study used qualitative and quantitative methods that triangulated results scores on Maslach’s Burn-out Inventory and the Perceived Stress Scale with the thick data collected from semi-structured interviews with the 20 head coaches from each of the three data sources to enhance the validity and reliability of the findings. The researcher analyzed the data collected by placing it in one of two categories, one representing attributes of the participants including race and gender; the second category was comprised of attributes of the Division I environment.
ContributorsRousseau, Julie B (Author) / Gray, Rob (Thesis advisor) / Vega, Sujey (Committee member) / Wilson, Jeffrey (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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ABSTRACT There has been a significant increase in the number of female leaders in the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon in recent years. This seems to contradict traditional notions of the place of women in Arab societies. Traditionally, women in these societies are considered to be not as capable as men. And yet, a considerable number of the leaders in the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon tend to be women. This qualitative research is therefore aimed at examining the circumstances that have produced these female leaders. To achieve the purpose of the research, interviews and open-ended questions were administered to residents of various refugee camps in Lebanon. The results of this qualitative study indicate that while attitudes and perceptions of the role of women in Arab societies have not changed radically, certain factors have created the space for women to rise to leadership positions. Some of these include specific gendered restrictions on refugees by the Lebanese government that reduces men’s mobility and public presence. For instance, the immigration and refugee requirements are stricter for men than for women. As women step up to fill the administrative gaps in their refugee camps, they have demonstrated a type of leadership that overtly builds on their traits as mothers and thus generate trust in refugee camps. The research contributes to knowledge by directing attention to the patterns and strategies of effective leadership for women in societies that traditionally marginalize women or other minority groups.Keywords: refugee camps, communities, women, female leadership, Arab women
ContributorsAlzhouri, Yassar Ziad (Author) / Akpan-Obong, Patience (Thesis advisor) / Klagge, Jay (Committee member) / P. Trinh, Mai (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
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The purpose of this study is to examine how sex influences the physical demandof weapons used in homicide. The study focuses on two research questions using data
from Newark, New Jersey: (1) Does sex influence the use of a weapon that is more or
less physically demanding to commit homicide? and (2) Does the sex dyad of the
offender and victim influence using a weapon that is more or less physically demanding?
The descriptive analysis shows significant relationships between the sex dyad of the
offender and victim in homicide and the level of physical demand used to perpetrate
homicide. The logistic multinomial regression analysis shows suspect sex and suspect
and victim sex dyads significantly predict the physical demand of the weapons used to
perpetrate homicide compared to those who utilized weapons of low physical demand.
The results support the need to challenge traditional perspectives regarding the role of sex
in criminal decision-making and seek to integrate more intersectional and gendered
explanations into neoclassical theories of criminal behavior. Theoretical implications and
future avenues of research are also discussed.
ContributorsAlvarez, Gabriel (Author) / Pizarro, Jesenia M. (Thesis advisor) / Messing, Jill T. (Committee member) / Wallace, Danielle (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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The dissertation focused on mothering practices among cisgender Black and Latina women during the COVID-19 global pandemic. This research sought to understand their engagement with public (employment) and private (domestic) labor and the ways that COVID-19 amplified existing gender, race, and class disparities in American mothering practices within these communities. This exploration considered the unique positions that Black and Latina mothers shared through community mothering, resulting in shared survival tactics. Mothering practice formed a web of knowledge production that was shared through generational child rearing as a form of communal protection. The survival strategies and techniques, employed by Black and Latina mothers, relied heavily on community and “othermothering” practices. The research questions sought to reveal the ways that capitalism, patriarchy, and socio-cultural expectations created racialized and gendered conditions that manifested in the lives of Black and Latina mothers already experiencing a syndemic due to interrelated complex issues of social crises that disproportionately affected women of color. The research in this dissertation project found that all mothers in the study, no matter their race, class, or gender, experienced an increase of stress, productive, and reproductive labor. Additionally, the study uncovered that no matter their race, class or gender, mothers sought creative and innovative ways to educate their children, create structured environments, and engage in othermothering strategies in order to continue their paid employment and care for their children. The research found that socio-economic status played a small factor in the ways that mothers perceived their privilege; yet, mothers of working-class status also reported feeling “lucky,” “fortunate,” or “privileged” due to various factors such as positive outlooks, aspirational class, and support networks. This research underscored the ways that Black and Latina mothers successfully navigated a global pandemic, continued their paid labor and reproductive labor through acts of resistance, resilience, and thrivance.
ContributorsAcosta, Amber (Author) / Fitts-Ward, Mako (Thesis advisor) / Linton, Mellissa (Committee member) / Luna, Ilana (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024
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ABSTRACTThe Tigray conflict, which erupted in November 2020, has inflicted profound human suffering, with one of the most distressing dimensions being Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (CR-SGBV). This thesis aims to provide a meticulous exploration of the background, prevalence, and ramifications of CR-SGBV in the Tigray region, shedding light on the experiences of survivors, the tactics employed, and the inadequacies of response mechanisms. It also delves into the implications for international humanitarian law, the role of armed forces, and the urgent need for accountability and redress.
ContributorsNekinek, Mieraf Worku (Author) / Hepner, Tricia (Thesis advisor) / DeLargy, Pamela (Committee member) / Behl, Natasha (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024
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This dissertation delivers a timely scholarly conversation on differently imagined grassroots feminist politics in a non-Western neoliberal authoritarian context. The project pivots on a central inquiry: how do Chinese rural migrant women, whose lifetimes are cast under the shadows of “Made in China” global production and punctuated by multiple concurrent neoliberal crises, collectively give birth to community power for radical livability? Drawing from extensive ethnographic fieldnotes, six oral history interviews, and archival studies, the dissertation employs community-based participatory action research to document and advance community organizing efforts by Green Rose (hence GR), a migrant women-led grassroots collective in Shenzhen. Set against the historical backdrop of China’s post-socialist reform when South China emerged as the world’s factory for manufacturing globalization, my study traces the trajectories in which a group of migrant women, upon gaining exposure to transnational labor NGO activism in the early 2000s, asserted collective power at the frontline for intersectional gender and class struggles. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, when economic downturns and welfare austerity measures entangled with the resurgence of state authoritarianism targeting civic actions, GR women temporarily transitioned to guerrilla activism to bring emancipatory cultural organizing and mutual aid into the social arena of a precarious migrant neighborhood. To survive welfare segregation and economic-political contingencies, GR women tactically established a social work service NGO to translate their depoliticized service labor into radical actions. They animate a sisterhood kinship system to liberate individual care capacity from the privatized household; they reorganize people, spaces, and resources to build a care safety net for all. By foregrounding migrant women as political protagonists in China’s precarious and fragmented civic landscape, my study problematizes both male-dominant labor politics embraced by orthodox Marxist scholars and the mainstream feminist movement sponsored by urban middle-class feminists, all the while exposing the state censorship that attempts and yet fails to erase the history of the marginalized gendered collective.
ContributorsDong, Anzi (Author) / Quan, H. L. T (Thesis advisor) / Fonow, Mary Margaret (Thesis advisor) / Linton, Mellissa (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024
Description
In response to the growing visibility of trans communities, some countries, suchas Spain, have implemented policies designed to benefit trans individuals and grant them
rights and access to medical and legal services. As such, my dissertation research
centered on trans communities residing in Valencia, Spain, with a comparative focus on
migrant and non-migrant trans individuals to understand how policy changes and their
implementations impacted these communities’ lives. I especially looked at the effects it
was having on migrant trans individuals’ experiences, as their stories are typically
overlooked and under-researched. My research explored the experiences and identities of
33 trans individuals who live in Valencia, Spain, and some surrounding areas. I used a
multi-method and comparative approach and analysis to understand the lives of 19 trans
individuals born in Spain and 14 individuals who migrated from Latin America, Russia,
Ukraine, and Belgium. Relying on intersectional qualitative methodologies, semi-
structured interviews, a photovoice project, archival research, and over 100 hours of
participant observation, my research documents a critical historical moment for trans
communities. Situated in a historical period between 2000 till today, I show how various
trans communities have endured the Franco dictatorship and the various sociopolitical
challenges, including the most recent regional and national election in Spain. This
research focuses on non-migrant and migrant trans individuals’ sense of belonging and
incorporation into Spain’s public and private spheres. The dissertation sheds light on the
immigration experience of trans individuals fleeing their countries of origin, mostly from
Latin America, to escape gender discrimination in hopes of finding a safe place to live in
Spain. It also shows the critical role that social relations and support systems play in their
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overall well-being. Finally, this work focuses on how trans individuals describe their
gender identity, why they have embraced their identity(ies), and how they assert and
display them in different spaces.
ContributorsGarcia Reyes, Mirtha (Author) / Estrada, Emir (Thesis advisor) / Tsuda, Takeyuki (Thesis advisor) / Danielson, Marivel (Committee member) / Otero-Hermida, Paula (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024