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Vassar Scholarship

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.

How Do We Learn and Think about Sex? An exploration into the effects of popular media and media literacy on sex education

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2024-May-09
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This project is an exploration of the ways popular media interacts with sex education and sex-positivity. This paper is a mixture of scholarly research and auto-ethnographic work. While data and critical analysis often feels reductive to lived experiences, I approach...

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The Latina Body in Visual Culture: A Motion for Dance as a Medium

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2014-January-01
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This project calls for a re-thinking of how we consume the performance of choreographed dance in music videos in regards to the Latina body. By taking a look at the underlying mechanisms at work in the entertainment industry, this project...

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