Dissertations Recently Completed in Related Fields

Adair, Joshua Garrett. “Sanctuary: Nurturing Gay Space in World War II Literature.” PhD diss., Northern Illinois University, 2009. Pp. 217.

Adams, James H. “The Problem of the Ages: Prostitution in the Philadelphia Imagination, 1880–1940.” PhD diss., Temple University, 2009. Pp. 284.

Bahoh, Carolyn. “Examining the Experiences of Women Who Underwent Illegal Abortions pre Roe v. Wade.” PhD diss., Alliant International University, San Francisco, 2009. Pp. 111.

Ben, Pablo. “Male Sexuality, the Popular Classes and the State: Buenos Aires, 1880–1955.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009. Pp. 361.

Christensen, Catherine. “Mujeres Públicas: Euro-American Prostitutes and Reformers at the California-Mexico Border, 1900–1929.” PhD diss., University of California, Irvine, 2009. Pp. 284.

Couti, Jacqueline. “Sexual Edge: Re-colonization of Black Female Bodies in Caribbean Studies.” PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2008. Pp. 397.

Faehmel, Babette. “Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality and Identity, 1940–1965.” PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. Pp. 468.

Henry, Chriscinda Claire. “Buffoons, Rustics, and Courtesans: Low Painting and Entertainment Culture in Renaissance Venice.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009. Pp. 439.

Hobson, Emily K. “Imagining Alliance: Queer Anti-Imperialism and Race in California, 1966–1990.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2009. Pp. 352.

Johnson, Stephen Patrick. “Staying Power: The Mainstreaming of the Hard-Core Pornographic Film Industry, 1969–1990.” PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2009. Pp. 383.

Mehlman-Petrzela, Natalia Yael. “Origins of the Culture Wars: Sex, Language, School, and State in California, 1968–78.” PhD diss., Stanford University, 2009. Pp. 374.

Moslener, Sara J. “By God’s Design? Sexual Abstinence and Evangelicalism in the United States, 1979–Present.” PhD diss., Claremont Graduate University, 2009. Pp. 214.

Nelson, Erica M. “Birth Rights: Bolivia’s Politics of Race, Region, and Motherhood, 1964–2005.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009. Pp. 283.

Park, Ji-Eun. “Quills of the Strange Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Women in Proverbs and the Song of Songs.” PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 2009. Pp. 217.

Perry-Samaniego, Lenora. “Queer Histories and Interstitial Territories: Transgressive Women from Early Modern Iberia to Postmodern Aztlan.” PhD diss., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2009. Pp. 235.

Pollard, Lisa. “Violence and Hope: A History of the Murder of Brandon Teena and GLBT Activism in the Modern American West.” PhD diss., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009. Pp. 260.

Portalatin Rivera, Nannette. “Julia de Burgos, Vanessa Droz and Olga Nolla: Study of a Tradition of Feminine Erotic Poetry in Puerto Rico.” PhD diss., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2009. Pp. 454.

Schmidt-Rosemann, Birgit. “Pox’d Whores and Virginal Fannies: Shifting Representations of Women’s Bodies and Their Effects on Female Satire in the Eighteenth Century.” PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2009. Pp. 228.

Sigler, David Scott. “Romantic Sexuation: The Enjoyment of Sexual Difference in British Romanticism.” PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2008. Pp. 234.

Stewart-Winter, Timothy. “Raids, Rights, and Rainbow Coalitions: Sexuality and Race in Chicago Politics, 1950–2000.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009. Pp. 379.

Yancy, Lisa Fleck Uhlir. “Pride and Sexual Friendship: The Battle of the Sexes in Nietzsche’s Post-democratic World.” PhD diss., University of North Texas, 2008. Pp. 199.