His / Her / Hirstory: a symposium of projects offering intersectional analyses
Recent Submissions
Item His/Her/Hirstory Symposium Program
Department of Global and Intercultural StudiesElection 2016; His/ Her/ Hirstory : a symposium of projects offering intersectional analyses ; program pdfItem Fantastic Feminist Doll Application in Sexual Assault Case
Xia, Rongwan (Candice); Fuehrer, AnnThis topic covers using the fantastic feminist doll to heal sexual assault victims' mental hurt.Item Evolution and Effects: Title IX at Miami University
Winsett, Jane; Fuehrer, AnnThis project explores the evolution of Miami University’s sexual violence programming since the implementation of Title IX.Item NOW and Then: Women in the 1980s and Present Day
Simmons, Eleanor; Fuehrer, AnnThis presentation brings together the position of women and women’s rights in the 1980s and their position today. Discussion points include progress, stagnation, and changes still to be made.Item The Now of Then
Sefton, Holly; Fuehrer, AnnThis presentation explores the approaches and progress and lack of progress of feminist movements in the 1970’s and in 2016. It uses analysis to make suggestions about the best ways to combine the progressive movements in the first ten years of NOW and the new technological and intersectional approaches of today in order to create true equality.Item Eliminating Gender Roles Through Adverstisement
Pritchard, Caroline; Fuehrer, AnnThe main focus of this project is to explore how advertisement is beginning to fight to eliminate gender bias and gender roles through commercials and children’s toys. Starting from the 1970’s Fantastic Feminist Co-op’s non-gender specific doll to the present day career Barbie dolls and their “You can be anything campaign.” It is no secret that this election has many implications and that gender and sexism is still a huge problem in society. It is important that companies continue to advertise and spread messages to our society that gender is not a factor that should prohibit anyone from either being an athlete, doctor, successful business women or man and even the president of the united states.Item Campus Sexual Assault Prevention: Not Just Our Issue
Miller, Alexis; Fuehrer, AnnThis project further explores the idea of male-focused educational rape prevention from a campus sexual assault perspective. By switching the prevention focus, she hopes campus sexual assault rates will decrease.Item Rhetoric Towards Female Political Candidates
Anderson, Ryan; Fuehrer, AnnThis project explores how male candidates and males in general use sexist rhetoric to belittle female candidates. It also focuses on how these female candidates are framed and how they respond to such rhetoric.Item Transformation of Women's Sexual Health: The Fight Continues
Cahall, Rachel; Fuehrer, AnnFor many years, feminists have been fighting for control over their own reproductive heath and sexual education. Looking through the works of NOW and the Fantastic Feminist, we see evidence of this fight that has continued into our present political state. This project explores the ways in which women have tried to take control of their own sexual health.Item Connecting a Community: Analyzing Feminist Perspectives on Miami University's Campus
Wright, Jessi; Fuehrer, Ann; Professional Writing and Literature departmentThis presentation centers about research on whether or not the Miami student population considers their university to be feminist. It first describes some of the events that happened on campus during the Fall 2016 semester. Then, the presentation details polling results and interview responses that the author personally conducted. It concludes with a call to the public to decide for themselves whether Miami University is truly feminist in its entirety.