Since their formal recognition in the 1980’s, both HIV and AIDS have had a global impact on many aspects of life. The unknown nature of HIV led to a social and cultural marginalization of individuals with either condition ...
Daughter of Mothers addresses the ways that young adult daughters of LGB mothers understand motherhood, both in the abstract and as a possibility for their own lives. Considering the current controversy regarding homosexuality ...
This thesis examines FtM (female to male) transgender YouTubers, their relationships with Internet platforms, with each other, with their bodies, and with mass media. Exploring content uploaded by trans YouTubers, as well ...
This thesis explores the national and transnational climate that informs and influences Nigerian policy and approaches to combatting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It seeks to draw the connections between the historical, political, ...
This thesis is about chronic pain. Mysteries and intimacies of pain elude analysis. Through ethnographic fieldwork and public health initiatives at the Coordinated Homeless Outreach Center (CHOC) in Norristown, Pennsylvania, ...
Biofuels are widely recognized as a possible solution to some of the most pressing problems of the contemporary: energy insecurity, declining resources, and climate change. Rather than taking biofuels as already given, ...
Sexuality. What about it matters so much? Why is it a crucial part of who we are as humans? Why are we defined by it? For this work I set about interviewing people about their sexualities, as well their ideas surrounding ...
Abortion has been a constant of human reproductive life throughout recorded history. Its more recent history in the United States, however, has been extremely contentious. Abortion has turned into a polarizing issue for ...