Peace Corps culture and the language of violence: A Feminist discursive analysis

<p>Peace Corps is an international volunteer service organization and an agency of the United States Federal Government. Like all American governmental institutions, Peace Corps has an institutional culture with a heteropatriarchal, settler colonial legacy. In recent years, this has manifested in Peace Corps’ mishandling of cases of sexual violence against Peace Corps Volunteers. The agency has undertaken many reforms in response to public pressure, including changes at the level of language in policy and protocol. This project has two objectives, the first of which is an analysis of Peace Corps discourse on violence, victimhood, and responsibility. This discursive analysis is carried out within two distinct frameworks: a Liberal feminist framework and a Native feminist framework. My second objective is a comparative analysis of these two frameworks, which includes an explanation of why the Native feminist lens provides the more critical reading of the two.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Women's and Gender Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Johnk, Elizabeth Z

Contributors dc:contributor

• Margaret Crouch
• Ashley Glassburn Falzetti
• Elisabeth Däumer

• Discourse Analysis
• Feminist Studies
• Native Feminisms
• Peace Corps
• Settler Colonialism
• Sexual Violence
• Arts and Humanities
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/840

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2208