Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Fast Woman, Slow Art: Weaving Personal History Into the Fabric of Art, Jessica J. Brainerd
Transing My Gender: An Exploration of the Process of Becoming Me, Equinox Charette
The "Communal Gaze:" How the Collective Community Responds to the Narratives of Sexual Violence Vocalized by Black Women, Brianna Christie
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
"A Stranger in America": Queer Diasporic Writers and the American Politics of Exclusion, Caitlin Stanfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Not All Trails Are Straight: The Effects of Attachment on Rural Youth Residential Aspirations, Zach T. Davis
The Art of Surviving: Alchemy of Healing Trauma in Relation to Identity: A Self Study., Rebecca Morgan
What Women Bring to the Fight: An Analysis of Female Leadership in U.S. National Security, Alison Tobey
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Making Earth, Making Home: Technoscientific Citizenship and Ecological Domesticity in an Age of Limits, Emma Schroeder
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Creating Places-of-Memory: Photographs, Identity, & Matrilineality, Aylah Ireland
Laila Sholtz-Ames interviewed by Madison Riley, Laila Sholtz-Ames and Madison Riley
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
"There Isn't Anything that Guy Can't Teach About Cars": How Nontraditional Female Career and Technical Education Students Perceive Instructor Effectiveness, Christopher J. Healy
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Rural Women’s Perception of Environmental Degradation: A Case Study of Amhara, Ethiopia., Tizezew Shimekach Sisay
Playing at Women and Men: A Discourse Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Performance in an Online Play-by-Post Role-Playing Game, Caitlin M. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Heteronormativity and Representation of Gay Sexuality in HBO's Looking, Quang Ngo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Informed Consent, Abortion, and Reproductive Autonomy, Heather Dawn Lakey
Girl Who Lives in a Glass House, Sally Bower Levi
For Women and Themselves: Lou Hoover, Betty Ford, and the Women's Movements of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Lisa Marie Rude
Decolonizing Academic Writing on Native Non-Heteronormative Identity: Creating Space for Community and Nation-Based Scholarship, Meghan Elise Sills
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
No Really, I am a Lesbian!: The Precarious Nature of Achieved Identities, Ellen E. Newell
The Relationship Between Speaking Voice and Gender Identity Among Transgender and Transsexual Individuals, Addie J. Pelletier
Cultural Anxiety in Urban Fantasy: Changing Gender Roles in the Mercedes Thompson Series, Emily M. Rasely
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
An examination of hockey: identity, gender construction, hegemonic masculinity, women's hockey, and Turkey, Tyler Bilton
An Island Place: A Limited Archaeology of Technology Use Discourse, Jessica E. Brophy
Building Bridges for Women Through Service-Learning: Bringing Students and Communities Together To Combat Domestic Violence in Honduras, Darlene Metcalf-Bergeron
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Feminism on the Final Frontier: Perceptions of Gender Performativity in Joss Whedon's Firefly, Mandi Favreau
Reading Bitch Magazine: Audience Interaction with Third Wave Feminism, Chelsea L. Grieve
The Emergence of the Transsexual in Surgery: A Genealogical Analysis, Amanda L. Hallett
In the Middle: Work-life Integration Experiences of Mid-level Women Leaders in a Rural Community College System in the Northeastern United States, Andrea McGill-O'Rourke
Advertising's Red Light, Heather Small
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
How Maine Women's Involvement in the Woman's Board of Missions Expanded the Lives of Women at Home and Abroad, 1873-1927, Linda Cooper Costelloe
Chinese Women in the Chinese Restaurant: Work and Cultural Identity, Elizabeth Louise Hardink
At Home in Maine: A Documentary Film Series and Web Resource about Maine's Homebirth and Midwifery Community, Nicolle Littrell
Beauty and Double Duty: Elizabeth Hawes and the Politics of Fashion and Women's Work, Jennie Woodard
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Women and Animals in Affiliative Relationship: Healing Characteristics of the Animal Human Bond, Pamela Feeney
Women Who Gather: An Investigation into the Meanings of Membership in Women's Small, Shared-Leadership Groups, Barbara R. Harvey
The Palliative Role of Meritocracy in Women's Reaction to Impending Discrimination, Ellen E. Newell
Diversions of Pleasure: Singing Slave Girls and the Politics of Music in the Early Islamic Courts (661-1000CE), Lisa Emily Nielson
Making the Theory Work: How the Spruce Run Association Used Radical Feminist Theory in Their Organizational Practice, 1972-1992, Margaret A. Solic
"Absolute Equality for Women in Law and Custom"; Gail Laughlin's Fight for Gender Equality in the Maine Legislature, Phyllis Herrick vonHerrlich
Gender Norms Influence in Sexual Discrimination: Differential Response to Sexual Minority Victims, Joseph D. Wellman
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of College-Aged Males: A Comparative Study of the Last 20 Years, Patrick P. Cheek
"In Order to Establish Justice": The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick, Shannon M. Risk
Politics and Phenomenology of Embodiment in Adrienne Kennedy, Claudia Rankine, and Nicole Brossard, Mark A. Tabone
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
At the Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636-1718, Abby Chandler
"Madwomen" in Quebec: An Analysis of the Recurring Themes in the Reasons for Women's Committal to Beauport, 1894-1940, Mary Glennon Okin
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights: An Exploration of Attitudes on a Northeastern University Campus, Sarah B. Paterson
Chained behind the Shell: Poems, Amy Michelle Turenne
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Emerging Adolescent Sexuality: A Comparison of American and Dutch Women's Experiences, Maria Johanna Elisabeth Brugman
The Phoenix Always Rises: The Evolution of Superheroines in Feminist Culture, Jennie Leland
The "Star-Spangled Channel": money, the media, and gender in marathon swimming, 1900-1936, Marilyn Morgan
College Students' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence Based on Victim/Perpetrator Sex, Joseph David Wellman
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"Keeping House": The Hidden Economy of Maine Coastal Women, 1850-1900, Nancy Payne Alexander
The Impact of Stigma on the Self-care Behaviors of HIV-positive Gay Men : Striving for Normalcy, Christian Thomas Chenard
Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Gaze in the Early Writings of Mina Loy, Monica Elizabeth Fauble
Between Reality and Fantasy: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Harriet Hume, Yi Huang
Communication in Women's Weblogs: Narrative, Connection, and Identity, Amy LeMoine
Employed Mothers: Understanding Role Balance, Role Overload and Coping, Willow McVeigh
Configured Visibility in 'Elizabeth I as Europa': The Queen's Represented Body in Context of the Geographical Imagination, Heather Marie Parsons
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Fallen Woman, Nineteenth Century Media, and the Contagious Diseases Acts, Sarah M. Angell
Constructing the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian High School Students in Maine, Paul D. Knowles
Spiritual Development: An Exploratory Study of Women's Views on the Connection between Spirituality and Sexuality, Hannah C. Osborne
Conflict Management Skills in Women who Work Outside Home and Homemakers, Sandra Caceres Tijerina
Girls in the Woods: An Exploration of the Impact of a Wilderness Program on Adolescent Girls' Constructions of Femininity, Anja Whittington
Childhood Gender Nonconformity, Parent-Child Relationships, and the Development of Internalized Homophobia in Gay Men, Jeffrey A. Wickersham
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
MFK Fisher: Food and Feminist Identity, Diane F. Allen
Violence as (Masculinist) Epistemic Rhetoric: A Case for Memento, Robert Avery
Creating the World of the Táin through the Remscéla: Prologemena to Reading, Kay Lynn Retzlaff
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
My Mother Could Send up the Most Powerful Prayer: The Role of African American Slave Women in Evangelical Christianity, Sherry L. Abbott
Friendship Formation and Maintenance: Examining Friendship Patterns of Homosexual Men and Heterosexual Women in Close Relationships, Amanda G. Goodwin
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Factors Influencing Attrition and Retention of Female Students in the College of Engineering, Sheryl A. Brockett
Continuing in Overtime: Women of Retirement Age Who Are Still at Work, Elizabeth Johns
Social Information-Processing in Adolescent Girls: A Comparison of Sex Offending Girls, Delinquent Girls, and Girls From the Community, Elizabeth Knapp Kubik
Talking about Sexuality: Parent's Communication and Its Influence on their Children's Attitudes and Behaviors, Eilean G. Moskey
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Good Girl Bad Girl Dilemma: Exploring Rural Maine Girls' Sexual Desires, Behaviors, and Relationships, Mary Madden
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Content And Process Of Women’s Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism, Nancy Parent Bancroft
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Teen Pregnancy: What Brings Teens To Family Planning Clinics For Pregnancy Tests, Norma Reynolds Allen