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                                                Feminist Scholarship Award Recipients

Annually awarded for the top essay published in Women’s Studies in Communication. 

 

                          Recipient

 

                         Published Essay

                Year Awarded      

            (essay published in prior year)

Karma Chavez

“Spatializing Gender Performativity: Ecstasy and Possibilities for Livable Life in the Tragic Case of Victoria Arellano”

2011

Aimee Carrillo Rowe;

and

Sonja K. Foss & Karen A. Foss

“Subject to Power--Feminism Without Victims”

 

“Our Journey to Repowered Feminism: Expanding the Feminist Toolbox” 

2010

Christine Garlough;

 and

John W. Howard III & Laura C. Prividera

“The Risks of Acknowledgment: Performing the Sex-Selection Identification and Abortion Debate”

 “The Fallen Woman Archetype: Media Representations of Lynndie England, Gender, and the (Ab)uses of U.S. Female Soldiers”

2009

Sherianne Shuler

“Autoethnographic Emotion:  Studying and Living Emotional Labor in the Scholarly Life”

2008

Kim Golombisky

“Gendering the Interview: Feminist Reflections on Gender as Performance in Research”

2007

Monique A. Myers &

Mary Jane Collier

“Cultural Ascriptions Displayed by Restraining Order Court Representatives: Implicating Patriarchy and Cultural Dominance”

2006

Christina R. Foust

“A Return to Feminine Public Virtue: Judge Judy and the Myth of the Tough Mother”

2005

Angela Ray

“Representing the Working Class in Early U.S. Feminist Media: The Case of Hester Vaughn”

2004

Karrin Vasby Anderson

“Hillary Rodham Clinton as ‘Madonna’: The Role of Metaphor and Oxymoron in Image Restoration”

2003

Helene A. Shugart

“Isn’t it Ironic? The Intersection of Third-Wave Feminism and Generation X”

2002

Anne Teresa Demo

“The Guerilla Girls’ Comic Politics of Subversion”

2001

Radha S. Hegde

“Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal body and the Politics of Reproduction in a South Indian Context”

2000

Janice Hocker Rushing

“Putting Away Childish Things: Looking at Diana’s Funeral and Media Criticism”

1999

Rhonda G. Parker

“The Influence of Sexual Infidelity, Verbal Intimacy, and Gender Upon Primary Appraisal Processes in Romantic Jealousy”

1998

Jill Bernie Henke, Diane Zimmerman Umble & Nancy J. Smith

“Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine”

1997

Rona Tamiko Halualani

“The Intersecting Hegemonic Discourses of an Asian Mail-Order Bride Catalog: Pilipina ‘Oriental Butterfly’ Dolls for Sale”

1996

Cindy L. Griffin;

 and

Cheree Carlson

“A Feminist Perspective on Age: Anne Noggle’s Photographs on Women and Aging” 

“Aspasia of Miletus: How One Woman Disappeared from the History of Rhetoric”

1995

Nina Gregg

“Politics of Identity/Politics of Location: Women Workers Organizing in a Postmodern World”

1994

Sharon Downey & Karen Rasmussen

“The Irony of Sophie’s Choice”

1992