Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Writing and Rhetoric
Reader 1
Kimberly Drake
Reader 2
Glenn Simshaw
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© 2025 Jada R Shavers
Abstract
My thesis uses argumentation, personal essay, letters, and writing about feelings to recount stories of three generations of women (my grandmother, my mom, and myself) to ultimately explore the controversies of sexual violence. To establish this point, I use a combination of writing techniques to challenge the typical framework of a memoir and destabilize a linear retelling of events. I also complicate the narrative to allow the reader to question their own understanding of sexual violence; ultimately defining sexual violence as a loss of autonomy, a feeling that extends far beyond any single or recurring event, and something that never has a single, correct reponse.
Recommended Citation
Shavers, Jada, "My Grandpa: How One Man Changed Our Life" (2025). Scripps Senior Theses. 2887.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2887
