Final Papers/Projects

Below find a catalogue of the final set of webpapers emerging from Computer Science/English/Film Studies/Gender &Sexuality 257, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College. Students are writing here about what most intrigued them in the intersections of gender and technology.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available for each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you…what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who–exploring the internet–might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the technologies of gender and the engendering of technology and… ?

• “You are Now Entering a No-Passing Zone”: A History of Passing and its Contemporary Application in Cosplay
  Cleo Calbot
• A Fluid and Transcendent Self
  SarahLeia
• Achieving The Avatar
  Mista Jay
• Androids in the Media: A Continuation
  prp
• Challenging the Existence of Women’s College Through Transgender
  Cat Durante
• Elizabeth Amanda Flynn
• Female Suicide Bombers – A Deeper Focus
  shikha
• Femininity and Spectacle: from Metropolis to RuPaul
  Ruth Goodlaxson
• Final Paper: Age and Technology
• Final Paper: Are we Passing?
  Ashley
• Final Paper: The Virtual Self
  Hlin
• Gender & Communication
  Kalyn Schofield
• Gender and Technology Blog Diversity
  AH
• Gender, Censorship, and the Internet: Who Decides What’s “Not Possible”?
  Hannah Mueller
• Handmaids as Technology and the Failure of The Republic of Gilead
  Guinevere
• Hindsight is always 20/20
  Carrie Soto
• Hybridity and subversion of gender norms in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate
  Michelle Bennett
• iPhone for Women
  Marwa
• Labelling the Stuff of Cake Batter
  Natasha
• Marlene Dietrich and Technology: Did she shape herself, or did it shape her?
  Melanie Bruchet
• Minds, Machines, and Memory: The Technology of Self in the Modern Day Human
  Alexandra Funk
• My Selves
  DC
• Should One Cross The Line?
  aaclh
• Technology of Ink: A study of the implications of tattoos on gender identity
  Simran Singh
• Technosystems Redux
  Alex M.
• The Cyborg Memory: The Brain, the Computer, and the Self
  Rebecca Church
• The Handmaid’s Tale: Just Little Bits of History Repeating
• The Lisa Frank Website: What is it Really Saying to Young Girls?
  Melinda
• The World Is Just Awesome
  The Doctor
• Virgin Territory in the “Space-Off”: How Technologies of Revirginization Reinforce Gender Dichotomies
  Roisin Foley
• Where’s the “you” in Utopia
• Women in Biology
  Hillary Cleveland
• Women in Economics Education
  Diana Ekman
• Women’s Bodies First. Fighting Second.
  ZY