Subverting the Male Gaze: Empowering Women through Art by Ally Wilber
Art
This essay analyzes the harmful effects of the male gaze in art and advertising throughout history, and highlights contemporary feminist artists who seek to subvert this gaze and create artwork that is both empowering and uplifting for women, utilizing the typically sexualized female form.
Alexandria Jean Wilber
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 18, 2017
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Majors: Studio Art, English
Navarino, Wisconsin
A Woman's Place According to the Second First Lady by Elizabeth Erdmann
History
This paper explores the views of Abigail Adams, wife of second President of the United States John Adams. Adams has been called an early feminist thinker because of her outspoken comments in written communication about how women ought to be treated. This paper explores the extent and depth of these comments by reviewing her extensive written communication legacy throughout different periods of her life. Examination of Abigail's early life, early marriage to John, life during the Revolution, life during John's Presidency, and late life reveal that she was not the cut and dry feminist that people believed her to be, but rather, acted in many ways like a woman of her time. This is not to say that Abigail did not have her bold, rebellious moments, as this paper highlights.
Elizabeth Erdmann
Senior Showcase Oral Presentation
Ripon College
April 18, 2017
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English
Majors: History and Sociology
Minor: Law & Society
The Difficulty in Being a Woman: Gender's Role in Complicating the Understanding of Autonomy by Alexandra Finken
Philosophy
Autonomy, as a concept, has typically been associated with the term "self-governance", but there has been many inconsistencies in a true definition among many philosophers. However, it is Thomas Hill's definitions which provides a well-rounded understanding and summarizes the different accounts of autonomy. Between descriptive and normative accounts, it's issues like gender and gendering which doesn't hold up one of those as it gets away from the true intent of autonomy. I will argue that gendering ultimately undermines autonomy and most importantly, autonomy, as a right, must be upheld in everyone and to undermine it is morally wrong.
Finken, Alexandra
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 19, 2016
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Majors: Philosophy, German
Minor: Law and Society
"We Are a Circle": Interpellation and Liminality in Neopagan Witchcraft Rituals
Anthropology
Circle Sanctuary, as an Ideological State Apparatus (ISA), interpellates Neopagan practitioners into ideologies such as interconnectedness through rituals following the structure of rites of passage. In the liminal stage of rituals, Altered States of Consciousness may be induced due to the physiological and psychological triggers in rituals, which produces psychological effects like hyper-suggestibility in practitioners. From this state of hyper-suggestibility, Circle Sanctuary reverends are able to easily interpellate practitioners into Neopagan ideologies through repetitive chants and other suggestions. In addition, Neopaganism is a felicitous system for this specific historical and cultural moment in America, due to its universalist, activist, and oppositional nature, which appeals to many people as modern Americans face the social and environmental crises of their time.
Rachel Steiner
Senior Showcase Oral Presentation
Ripon College
April 18, 2017
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Major: Anthropology
Minors: English and Women's & Gender Studies
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
How Adam Smith Forgot About Women by Rose Hogmire
Politics and Government
In an initial read of Adam Smith’s landmark work Wealth of Nations for the young economics student, concepts known from our daily observations of economics are ingrained into our culture thanks to his contributions: self-interest motivates the economy, the division of labor increases production where necessary, and international trade is advantageous for all nations, to name a few. What may slip the mind of readers is the exclusion of women from Wealth of Nations, especially as the word is only given considerable time at three points throughout the series. It is a lost cause to expect economic writers of Smith’s time to be bleeding heart feminists, as thankfully the role of women in the economy has certainly evolved in passing centuries. This essay identifies Smith’s limiting narrative of women as wives, child-bearers, prostitutes, and self-sufficient individuals as their role in the wealth of nations.
Rose Hogmire
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 17, 2018
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Majors: Politics and Government, Economics
History of Economic Thought
That's No Job For a Woman: Fictional Female Detectives and Gender Roles in American Crime Novels, 1930-1994 by Karlyn Schumacher
History
Schumacher, Karlyn
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2015
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Majors: English, History
Minor: Sociology
River Falls, Wisconsin
History 490 - Senior Seminar