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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Breaking into Binaries: Exploring AI’s Constructions of Women and Feminist Perspectives on AI Interaction

Publication Date
2024-April-28
Authors
Muldowney, Priya
Department or Program
Computer Science
Women, Feminist and Queer Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Gender biases entrenched within artificial intelligence (AI) models have the potential to build upon and worsen the conceptualizations of women and reinforce misogynistic power structures. This happens through the biased datasets that are used to train AI, the feminization and...

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The Moral of the Mulberry: Early Vernacular Reinterpretations of Pyramus and Thisbe

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Bronstein, Molly
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This thesis concerns the transmission of Ovid's <em>Metamorphoses </em>and the story of Pyramus and Thisbe during the Late Middle Ages, and early reinterpretations of the tale in Italian, Old French, and Middle English in the fourteenth century. Ovid's original version...

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