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Aesthetics & Politics: A Brief History of Japan & The US’S 20th Century
Get PDFThis paper is a look at the combination of aesthetics and politics and how that combination effected the lives of black Americans, Japanese women and the people of Korea under Japanese occupation during the early 1900s
Selfish Bitch: Representations of Childfree Women in Media, Academia, and IRL
No full textSince the proliferation of America’s television sitcom in the 1950’s and 60’s, there has been one group of women that has been woefully underrepresented; those who are childfree by choice. During second wave feminism, this lack of both media representation and overall cultural acceptance was brought to the mainstream discourse by Ellen Peck and Shirley Radl, the founders of The National Organization of Non-Parents. Through their writing and their activism, Peck and Radl pushed for the acceptance of the childfree lifestyle, as well as fought to have it represented in the media. Over the years, however, this representation has remained elusive, with traditional heteronormative depictions of family continuing to be the norm to this day. The following work will look at how childfree by choice women are represented on television, and whether those representations are an accurate depiction of the childfree by choice lifestyle in general. Interviews with childfree women will both examine whether these fictional characters are an honest reflection of their lives as well as attempt to dismantle some of the more harmful stereotypes that these media depictions portray. This thesis will also try to provide a better understanding of the many reasons why women choose to be childfree, as well as how television can create a more nuanced approach to childfree by choice characters
The Poetic is Political
No full textThis Thesis Project, like Gaul in the beginning of Caesar\u27s Gallic Wars, is divided into three parts. The first part is this: a pseudo-conference paper as one would write for a year-long seminar, a justification and explanation of the project. The second part takes up a majority of the following pages: “who can tolerate the power of a woman:” A Chronological Anthology of the American Feminist Poetry Movement from 1963-1989. The third part, in true Sarah Lawrence fashion, is a creative project: a chapbook of my own work, lilac on the damned’s breath, inspired by the feminist poets I spent months anthologizing. This thesis project captures why I’ve loved Sarah Lawrence; it has allowed me to be truly interdisciplinary
Preschool and the Pandemic: Perspectives on Remote Schooling From Parents and Teachers
Get PDFThe pandemic affected many different aspects of family life, including children’s education. This thesis will explore the experiences of preschool children ages 3-4 over 2020 and 2021 through interviews with both teachers and parents from the beginning of the pandemic through the current time of spring 2022. The first section addresses how teachers interviewed felt about the use of online education in a preschool setting and examines the different factors that either promoted or hindered student participation and teachers’ feelings about the past two years. The second section considers how parents felt about their and their child’s experience with remote preschool learning, what they felt worked or didn’t work, and how they felt supported or not supported by the preschool administrators and teachers. Both of these perspectives will be analyzed for similarities and differences of thinking. The goal of this thesis is to understand how online preschool education was perceived by two of the main parties involved, and how it might be improved upon in the future if it is necessarily to switch to remote schooling again
Clinical psychology trainees\u27 perspectives on psychiatric genetic counseling and the genetic contribution to psychiatric disorders
No full textThis qualitative study examines the perspectives and opinions of clinical psychology students on psychiatric genetic counseling (PGC) and their prospective referral practices. PGC is underutilized and difficult to access despite multiple studies confirming its effectiveness in increasing patient empowerment and reducing feelings of guilt, self-blame, and stigma. Research until recently has rarely focused on how it is viewed by professionals with gate-keeping roles. Previous studies investigated the perspectives of psychiatrists and other physicians but not clinical psychologists, who are integral members of the mental healthcare management team. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 students from 9 PsyD programs in the United States using an interview guide created by the researchers. The interview transcripts were thematically coded and analyzed using interpretive description to identify actionable steps to increase accessibility. The greatest barrier to making referrals to PGC was a lack of education or awareness that this service exists, as has been reported previously. Additionally, the clinical psychology students we interviewed were protective of their clients and many articulated a need to form relationships with the providers to whom they refer out. They wanted to learn more about what happens during a PGC session and its accessibility as a service, and highlighted the need for more awareness of PGC and the importance of genetics in psychology practice in general. Providing opportunities for clinical psychologists or PsyD candidates to interact with psychiatric genetic counselors as well as providing more information on the content of a PGC session may help increase access to PGC
Destigmatizing the Conversation: Collective Visioning of New Horizons for Cultural Capital and the American Arts Worker
No full textThe future of art in America is in a process of being reimagined by cultural workers so that tangible connections can be drawn between attaching value to the creation of cultural capital and strategies for supporting equitable working conditions.
The current system, with its hierarchical leadership strategies, neglects the well-being of its workers and fosters an environment wherein artists are unable to sustain their creative practices within an extractivist model of labor production. Especially vulnerable to being affected negatively by these conditions are marginalized artists who lack outside financial resources.
This document surveys aspirational visioning projects currently underway within the arts sector which reimagine a more equitable system of remuneration for cultural workers including the work of Creating New Futures, Working Artists and the Greater Economy and Dance Artists National Collective. In surveying solidarity efforts, this research traces the influence of collective institutional critiques on individual artists engaged in the struggle for parity of incomes between cultural workers and non-cultural workers.
Drawing on several contemporary authors’ analyses of US labor history as well as first hand experience to inform the inquiry as a whole, the research examines how collective efforts can serve to destigmatize conversations surrounding parity. When populations of laborers are empowered to speak up about inequities within their workplaces, they can exert more pressure on institutions to change thus challenging the stigma that is commonly attached to such conversations.
Findings contribute to a conclusion that provides some evidence of hope for increasing equity in the cultural labor sector by means of ongoing mobilization of cultural workers working in solidarity with those in struggle towards a more equitable society