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Volume 3
Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2021September 06, 2021 EDT

La Diva del Bronx: Scopophilia, Counter-Gazes, and Feminist Latinidades in the Artistic Career of Jennifer Lopez

Carolina Ramirez Moreno,
popular culturelatinidadhyper sexualizationsexuality and genderjennifer lopez

Articles in Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2021

Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2021
  • Sunken River: a Novel
    Dahlia Li
  • Through the Eyes of Our Ancestors: The Power of the Black Female Creative
    Jazlyn Wilbur
  • Game On: Accessibility and Equality in Women's Sports
    Lily Amidon
  • Body Language: Harry Crews’ Metaphorical Use of Bodies in the Novels “Body” and “Scar Lover”
    Tristan A. Stinchcomb
  • “We Should Have Shocked the ‘New Woman’”: Mina, Lucy, and the New Vampire in Dracula
    Nicole Tota
  • Machines over Mind: Computational Literary Studies and the American Gothic
    Axel Bax
  • "I Will Not Be Silenced": Voice and Autonomy in Madeline Miller's Circe
    Morgan Thomas
  • “Leaving me unsure of my own eyes:” Scopophilia and Racial Entitlement in Valerie Martin’s "Property"
    Chi Le
  • “As Much as I Ever Expected": The Servant Perspective in Jane Eyre
    Callie Martindale
  • The Role of Face Masks in Native and Non-Native Speech Perception
    Lindsay ZhangAnanya VasudevSophia HillAnyah Stempien-Smith
  • The Metamorphosis: An Object-Oriented Parable
    Brett Harris
  • Irregularization in the English Past Tense
    Jackson Wolf
  • Interventions as Intrusions: Understanding the Betraying Heart through Patient Experiences in Literature
    Muhammad Abidi
  • From Gentle Wives to Female Christ: Womanhood, Protestantism and the Modern Nation-State
    Tianyu Liu
  • The Painter, the “Sad Clown,” and the Poet: An Inquiry of Watteau and Pierrot’s Linkage in Tablada’s Poetry
    Jair J. Torres
  • The Thin Line Between Church and State: An Intricate Examination of the Extent to which Personal Faith Contributes to the American Legal System
    Lauren Beizer
  • The Place Where Loss is Found
    Kayla Vasilko
  • The Effect of Trauma on an Individual’s Long-Term Health as Related to Mexican Immigrants and Refugees
    Julia K. Davis
  • Predicting the Curve: Barnett Newman and Post-Postmodernism
    Seanin Hall
  • Literature, Medicine, and Caregiving: A Novel Synthesis
    Isabelle Breier
  • In Conversation With Marion Buchman: A Creative Writing Proposal
    Joyce J. Ker
  • Hesitation as Freedom: Liminal Spaces in the Work of Philosophy
    Charles M. Ericksen
  • Colonized Guatemalan Education in I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
    Lindsey L. Pytrykow
  • “Far Happier Days”: Milton’s Ambiguous Felix Culpa
    Brailey Vine
  • Where Love Left Off
    Kayla Vasilko
  • The Subtle Classism of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Our Culture Industry
    Katarina Dulude
  • The Song of Roland, the Historia Turpini, and Anti-Islamic Stereotypes in Europe Before and During the High Middle Ages
    Lauren Selden
  • The Pressure of 10,000 Leagues: The Social Contract in Bioshock and Bioshock 2
    Nash Meade
  • The Effects of Bereavements on College Students: Finding Solutions for Support and Success
    Kayla Vasilko
  • The American Experiment Anew: Historical Discourse on the Social Developments Emanating from the Settlement of the Frontier
    Nicholas Thiel
  • How it Would Feel to be Free: Nina Simone and the American Music Industry
    Emma Beachy
  • Captain America: Disassembling Traditional Narratives
    Audrey Garcia
  • Women’s Motivations for Contested Land-Use Activism and Community Organizing in Sicily
    Sophia Luongo
  • The Will of the People? Brexit, Locke and Rousseau
    Sophie Boulter
  • The Empty Seat in the Classroom: A Philosophical Analysis of the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Zero Tolerance Policies
    Chelsea Marie D. Mojica
  • Shattered Stories; Authority's Decline and Its Consequences
    Carter M. Brassington
  • Reclaiming Identity: The Power of Code-Switching in So Far From God
    Vivian K. Lauver
  • Mission Expectations Not Matching Combat Outcomes Indicate Predisposal for PTSD
    Spencer Granville
  • Localized Voices Within the Mexican Oil Industry (~1900-1938)
    Inbar Michael
  • Intrinsically Linked: Selfhood, Politics and Complex Emotions in Xiaogang’s Bloodline Series
    Biba Duffy-Boscagli
  • Inherent Uncanniness: The Uncanny Duality of the Arts
    Philip Kaufinger
  • Hook, Ursula, and Elsa: Disney and Queer-coding from the 1950s to the 2010s
    Adelia Brown
  • Homespace: The Intimate Precarity and Oppositional Praxis of Migrant Workers in Singapore
    Khin Thazin
  • Gender Stigma and Male Same-Sex Relationship Stereotypes: Using the Eighteenth Century to Understand the Present
    Chloe J. Kauffman
  • Far From Heimat: German Nationality, Careers, and Allegiance in Kiautschou Bay
    Boopalakrishnan S. Arul
  • Exposing France’s First Female Photographer: Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri
    Noelle Barr
  • Elementary School Teachers’ Experience during COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Analysis between the US and South Korea
    Seeun Jeon
  • Drawing Parallels: Modi and the Machiavellian Prince
    Muda Tariq
  • Caves, Ladders, and Roads to Paideia: Genuine Education as Moral Development
    Armand Babakhanian
  • A Stake is Standing at Haman’s House: Cultural Connections through Public Execution in the Book of Esther
    Rae Bandy
  • A Qualitative Exploration of Visibly Muslim Women in US Public High Schools
    Melisa Hussain
  • The Storm Society and the Chinese Western-Style Painting Movement
    Barbie Kim
  • The Death of Disco Did Not Take Place: Disco Demolition Night and The Rhetorical Destruction of Disco
    Joshua Williams
  • Monasticism and Myth: The Conceptualization of Celtic Christianity
    Ella Padden
  • Imagine Sisyphus Vibing: The Existential Case for Psychedelics
    Michael Hyde
  • Fashionable Fascists: How Female Nazis Used Fashion for Empowerment During the Holocaust
    Kathryn J. Seu
  • Exploring Theories of Neighborhood Safety in European Cities: A Study of Safe Neighborhoods in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Milan and Rome
    Katrina Shuping
  • Cause and Effect: How Chickamauga Created the Spectacle of Missionary Ridge
    Angelica Fikes
  • Why Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work? A Peircean Account: Higher Powers as Symbolized Ideals
    Andrew Modaff
  • Violated Bodies and Suicidal Women: Ethics and Narrative in Augustine and Rufinus
    Kaitlyn Morrison
  • Using the Female Bildungsroman to Understand Holden Caulfield’s Journey Towards Adulthood
    Ansam Abdeljaber
  • Trigger Warnings in Psychology Classrooms?: Comparing Sexes from a Diverse Religious Institution
    Jasmine CollardHerbert W. Helm
  • Those Who Choose: A New Conceptual Model for the Origin of Religious Schisms
    Benjamin Hassan
  • The Personal is Public and Political: Käthe Kollwitz’s Final Drawing
    Arina Lurie
  • The Araxa Honorary Decree for Orthagoras: Dating and Historical Context
    Ilia C Curto Pelle
  • Site-Specific Art and Ephemerality
    Lauren D. Sigda
  • On the Shoulders of Giants: Helene Wecker's Subversion of the Female Golem Myth
    Marissa Herzig
  • Noiseless Andromeda
    C.J. Garrett
  • New Christendom's Rout: Jacques Maritain and Catholic Social Activism in Twentieth-Century Brazil
    Christopher T. Lough
  • Metatheater as Social Critique: Temporary Transgressions in Plautus and Shakespeare
    Katie Painter
  • Loyalty and Disloyalty in Urban America: A Comparative Study of New York City and Philadelphia Politics
    Justin Greenman
  • King David's War Crimes
    Elisha S. Breton
  • Joyce's Criticism of Sexism and Anti-Semitism Through the Use of Bloom's “Femininity” in Ulysses
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  • The Role of Faith in the Radicalization of Muslim Youth in America
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THE MACKSEY JOURNAL
Moreno, Carolina Ramirez. 2021. “La Diva Del Bronx: Scopophilia, Counter-Gazes, and Feminist Latinidades in the Artistic Career of Jennifer Lopez.” The Macksey Journal 2 (1).
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