Kelsey Rosendale

Kelsey Rosendale earned her master鈥檚 degree in Women鈥檚 Studies from San Diego State University, focusing on reproductive justice, necropolitics, nationalism, Hungarian gender politics, and popular culture. 

Her timely thesis, 鈥淧oliticizing the Woman鈥檚 Body: Incentivizing Childbirth to Rebuild Hungarian Nationalism,鈥 examined how the emerging authoritarian Hungarian state controls white women鈥檚 bodies to promote whiteness amid a declining population. Using an intersectional lens of gender, race, and class, it revealed how nationalist policies prioritize whiteness while reducing women鈥檚 autonomy, contributing to scholarship on population policy, eugenics, necropolitics, and biopower. 

Reproductive justice, necropolitics, nationalism, Hungarian gender politics, and popular culture

WGSS 101: Gender, Race, Sex, and the Body

WGSS 102: Gender, Race, Sex, and Society

WGSS 316/FEA 317: History of Women in American Film

WGSS 365: Popular Culture: Seeing Sex and Gender