Past Senior Projects in Review

I found 3 or 4 pretty well put together senior projects that covered some aspect of my gay & lesbian studies major. Some I found were kind of boring(just page upon page of words typed onto white paper), others focused on some area that did not hold my interest, but all were well written. I found one in particular that I really liked. It was from the Spring Semester 2002. The title is, G(ender)-Spot: Masculinity and the Lesbian Erotic by Joanna Sigart.

A summary of the project seems most appropriate about now so here goes. The main focus of the paper was on the 2 major and different perspectives surrounding lesbian eroticism. There was considerable focus on looking at lesbian eroticism through the lens of both a heterocentric masculinity and then a female(lesbian specific) masculinity. Sigart looked at the uses of the lesbian erotic for both of them communities and analyzes these findings

I chose to comment on this particular project for several reasons. I really liked the focus of the paper, I was honestly interested throughout the entire reading. It was nice to not be forced to read and write about a topic that I do not care for. Secondly the layout of the final paper was wonderful. I loved it. She went beyond using straight-up scholarly text for this reseach paper. There was ample and appropriate use of the following: poetry, statistic charts, advertisements, other graphics/pictures, and more that I'm positive I've forgotten. The only critique was that a page was missing from the beginning, due to the binding being no more than one of those black metal clips. It appeared to me, however, that the copy left in the IDS dept was actually a copy of the original properly-bond copy because you could see what looked like an actual binder on the left of some pages, as if it had been copied. I would love to be able to incorporate more than simple text into my own project and this example gave me a way to see that vision properly executed.