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Abstract

Centered around a group of teenage girls at a Northern California Catholic high school, this thesis explores the ways that race, gender, sexuality, religion, and class affect individuals’ relationships with each other, and institutions of education and faith. The girls’ personal lives and hardships lead them to consider starting a feminism club at their school, despite the tensions that this club will cause within the group and the school at large. “Our Kind” is written to be the first act of a three-act novel, and thus focuses primarily on presenting the relationships the girls have with their school, classmates, families, and each other. The thesis is designed to set up the later two acts of the novel to effectively explore the consequences of breaking the status quo at an incredibly traditional institution.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1…………………………………………………………………………………………..1

Chapter 2…………………………………………………………………………………………15

Chapter 3…………………………………………………………………………………………34

Chapter 4…………………………………………………………………………………………43

Chapter 5…………………………………………………………………………………………61

Chapter 6…………………………………………………………………………………………83

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School	Emory College
Department	English and Creative Writing
Degree	B.A.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, American
Palabra Clave	Feminism Novel Coming of Age
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Joseph Skibell, Emory University
Committee Members	Sheila Cavanagh, Emory University William Gilders, Emory University Tiphanie Yanique, Emory University

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