Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! Reimagining Feminine Desire and Consumption in Mrs. Dalloway

Referencing Virginia Woolf’s work Mrs. Dalloway, Boulanger eloquently carries the reader through a current critique of societal takes on feminine consumerism. Since Woolf’s times, she argues, the reductionist, frivolous views of stereotypically feminine shopping habits actually map quite clearly onto both the feminist pursuits of belonging, agency, and emotional freedom as well as onto the […]

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Meaning in the Minutiae: Melancholia and Privilege of the Twentieth-Century Housewife

Through a cross-disciplinary analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Shivani Sawant investigates themes of domestic melancholia, patriarchal oppression, class structure, and intersectional identity. Engaging texts from queer feminist scholar Sara Ahmed and Freudian scholar David Eng with Woolf’s narrative, Sawant highlights main character Mrs. Dalloway’s privilege in her coinciding ignorance and romanticization of her unfulfilled […]

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Not Yours: The Solemn Art of the Strong Black Woman

In analyzing the written and cinematic works of Joan Morgan, Beyoncé Knowles, and Audre Lorde, Gracia Bareti explores how these three women use artistic self expression to challenge the stereotype of the Strong Black Woman. Her rich analysis examines how the Strong Black Woman stereotype has been enforced externally and internally in the lives and […]

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Nature and Nihilism in Crime and Punishment

Shreya Singh brings Crime and Punishment into its own time in her essay, deftly balancing close reading of Dostoevsky’s language with history of the social and political contest underpinning the novel’s belief system. She makes her claim clearly, backs it up confidently, and carefully considers alternative points of view, ultimately producing an analysis which not […]

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Looking Through the Windows of the Master’s House

Applying the ideas of Audre Lorde to the ballroom scene of Paris is Burning, Kali Adams aligns the struggles and aspirations of marginalized people in a thought-provoking and intersectional process that simultaneously pits them against themselves and explores the concept of what it means to be “other.” By questioning the very basis of the desire […]

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