Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar Theses, Dissertations and Capstones 2018 "This Isn't for You, This Is for Me": Women in Cosplay and Their Experiences Combatting Harassment and Stigma Christopher M. Lucas
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/etd Part of the Gender and Sexuality Commons, Social Psychology and Interaction Commons, and the Sociology of Culture Commons Recommended Citation Lucas, Christopher M., ""This Isn't for You, This Is for Me": Women in Cosplay and Their Experiences Combatting Harassment and Stigma" (2018). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1145. https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1145 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses, Dissertations and Capstones by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. “THIS ISN’T FOR YOU, THIS IS FOR ME”: WOMEN IN COSPLAY AND THEIR EXPERIENCES COMBATTING HARASSMENT AND STIGMA A thesis submitted to the Graduate College of Marshall University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology by Christopher M. Lucas Approved by Kristi Fondren, Ph.D., Committee Chairperson Robin Conley Riner, Ph.D. Jess Morrissette, Ph.D. Marshall University May 2018 ii © 2018 Christopher Matthew Lucas ALL RIGHTS RESERVED iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The process of writing a thesis is nothing if not daunting, arduous, and sometimes overwhelming. That this thesis turned out as well as it did is due in no small part to my truly exceptional committee.