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.

The Reinforcement of Power Structures in Medicine: An Analysis of Heteronormativity and Cisnormativity in Pediatric Healthcare

Publication Date
2023-May-01
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This thesis examines how the use of heteronormative and cisnormative language and communication styles by a medical professional can psychologically detrimentally impact the LGBTQ+ patient. Through the analysis of Reddit subgroups where individuals of this marginalized community share their personal...

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You and media

Publication Date
2016-January-01
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Whom is media theory for? Everyone is implicated. No individual is beyond the complicating effects of an increasingly mediated world, one in which people communicate in six-second image bursts and where college courses are taught online. And yet, the theorization...

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