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Boob Suit: Tales of the Dressed Flesh

Bancroft, Kelly A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1335401944

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2012, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Youngstown State University, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing).
This thesis explores the ways in which one woman learns to define herself through acquiring and casting off the costume of conventional roles. Set against a working class, Mid-West backdrop, the thesis seeks to understand how females identify themselves through collecting objects, playing roles, and ornamenting the body. The thesis also examines the margins between physical and spiritual, lover and loved, naked and costumed, and beauty and horror as the reader follows the narrator from childhood through womanhood. Its story is ultimately one of a woman's journey to feel comfortable in her own skin. The personal essays that comprise the thesis echo the assemblage of the narrator's self and are divided into two sections linked imagistically and thematically. The third and final selection is a journal of disease and reflection which explores the ultimate surrender of the self to the dissected body.
Phil Brady, PhD (Committee Chair)
David Giffels, MA (Committee Member)
Varley O'Connor, MFA (Committee Member)
148 p.
Womens Studies
cancer; hysterectomy; Midwest; tradition; women's lives; domestic; childlessness

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  • Bancroft, K. A. (2012). Boob Suit: Tales of the Dressed Flesh [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1335401944

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bancroft, Kelly. Boob Suit: Tales of the Dressed Flesh. 2012. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1335401944.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bancroft, Kelly. "Boob Suit: Tales of the Dressed Flesh." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1335401944

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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