Date on Honors Thesis
5-2020
Major
History
Minor
Biology
Examining Committee Member
Kathy Callahan, PhD, Advisor
Examining Committee Member
Marjorie Hilton, PhD, Committee Member
Examining Committee Member
Michelle Panchuk, PhD, Committee Member
Abstract/Description
Using four historical case studies this paper attempts to examine the effects of marginalization and exploitation faced by women in a modern context. It opens with a broad analysis of modern trends of exploitation like sex trafficking and pedophilia and how they center around groups based on sex along with race, class, and age. It ends with detailed studies of the lives of women of color: Saartjie Baartman, Julia Pastrana, the patients of J. Marion Sims, and Henrietta Lacks.
Recommended Citation
Royalty, Ocean, "Intersectionality and Exploitation The Commodification of the Bodies of Marginalized Women" (2020). Honors College Theses. 39.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/honorstheses/39
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