Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Seeley, J. Lotus
Abstract
This thesis aims to understand how en-wheeled women engaged in hyperfemininity as a stigma management technique in order to diminish asexualization. Grounding my work in the tradition of Goffman and symbolic interaction, I argue that women who do hyperfemininity as a stigma management technique do so in an attempt to make their identity as a woman more salient then their identity as someone who is disabled. As most of the research surrounding disability focuses on masculinity and disabled women‘s heterosexuality it is imperative to continue the expansion of scholarship at the intersection of disability and gender.
Extent
67 p.
Recommended Citation
Hargis, Rachel M., "Femininity on Four-wheels: How En-wheeled Women Manage Stigma" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1931.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1931
Identifier
FA00013006
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.