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`Here We Are’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Pregnant Graduate Students within Neoliberal Universities

Merkle, Katlyn M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471004794

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2016, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
This research aims to improve how feminist geographers theorize people’s embodied connections to spaces and places through analyzing what pregnancy is like while attending graduate school. This study explores the interconnectedness between how pregnancy is experienced and embodied by graduate students at neoliberal universities within the United States along with how pregnancy disrupts established bodily boundaries for graduate students at universities. This research on maternities unpacks how pregnancy, is embedded in a set of social conditions that can be manipulated based on the gender politics that are culturally produced and maintained within everyday geographies. By learning more about the lived experiences of pregnant graduate students, this research hopes to create or spur conversations that could lead to more supportive environments for pregnant students within neoliberal universities.
Risa Whiston (Advisor)
87 p.
Geography; Womens Studies
Feminist Geography; Neoliberal University; Pregnancy and Pregnant Bodies

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  • Merkle, K. M. (2016). `Here We Are’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Pregnant Graduate Students within Neoliberal Universities [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471004794

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Merkle, Katlyn. `Here We Are’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Pregnant Graduate Students within Neoliberal Universities. 2016. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471004794.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Merkle, Katlyn. "`Here We Are’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Pregnant Graduate Students within Neoliberal Universities." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471004794

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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