Vassar College Digital Library

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.

Feminized Automobility: Racing the Car as a Cultural and Technological Artifact

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2020-January-01
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There are very few technologies that have so profoundly shaped society as the automobile has. However, what has been a liberating force for some has been an obstacle for others. Since its inception, the automobile has been imbued with masculine...

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Uncovering the Collective Labor Behind the Singer/Songwriter: A Collaboratively Produced Album

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2014-January-01
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This project is an album consisting of nine original songs that I arranged, performed, and recorded at Vassar College. The accompanying thesis destabilizes the media construct of the independent singer/songwriter by interrogating the medium-specific space between the composition and the...

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Word Play: An Interactive Response to Loneliness

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2024-May-12
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Like most people, I’ve struggled with loneliness and everything that comes with it. The depression, the anxiety, the social ineptitude, the non-interaction; I’ve seen it all, babey, and I wanted to make art in response. Not art that wallowed in...

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