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Being Sikh, being women: negotiating religion and gender in South Asian women's cultural productions
This dissertation addresses the relationship between gender and religion in Canada, specifically focusing on the Sikh woman. Using a multidisciplinary approach to examine cultural productions such as film, literature, drama ...
Me, Myself, and Interface: The Role of Affordances in Digital Visual Self-Representational Practices
(2015-08-28)
A growing number of digital games and virtual worlds allow users to create a virtual self, commonly referred to as an ‘avatar.’ Essentially, the avatar is a digital entity which is controlled by the user to attain agency ...
Social Citizenship and Disability: Identity, Belonging, and the Structural Organization of Education
(2015-01-26)
The framing of disability is an ongoing, negotiated discourse in which participants build upon, challenge, and reject the political, social, economic, and cultural influences that lead to constructions of impairment. ...
"Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future": Negotiating Spaces for Somali Women in Toronto through Gashanti UNITY
(2019-03-05)
This research presents and analyses the experiences of second-generation Somali women in Toronto, and argues that there is a significant gap in research about young Somali-Canadian women, and the way they utilize different ...
Preferences for gender of family physician among Canadian European-descent and South-Asian immigrant women
(Oxford University Press, 2002-04)
Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate expressed preferences for family physician (FP) gender among Canadian European-descent (CED) and Canadian South-Asian (CSA) immigrant women. Method. An ‘on-site’ survey ...
A Feminist Dialogic Encounter with Refugee Women
(2016-09-20)
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This study sought to examine (1) how refugee women who have experienced violent displacement manage the resettlement process and negotiate new identities in unfamiliar settings, and (2) explore ways in which ...
Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
(2016-09-20)
This study aims to further a feminist political economy of urban welfare regimes, applying a gender lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist political economy analyses of welfare state ...
Lighten up: Exploring Skin Lightening Practices among Canadian South Asian Woman
(2017-07-27)
This thesis examines how and why South Asian women decide to engage in the beauty practice of skin lightening within Canada. Skin lightening involves the use of products, treatments and procedures to lighten, whiten and ...
A Noble Mansion for All?: The Production of Difference in Selected Works By Mahesh Dattani and R. Raj Rao
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation reads selected works of two queer Indian writers, Mahesh Dattani and R. Raj Rao, as sites of the production of difference in contemporary, fin-de-millnaire India. The literary analysis in this project ...
Making it Work: A Study of the Decision-Making Processes of Personal Support Workers in Long-Term Residential Care
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation explores the decision-making processes of personal support workers (PSWs) in long-term residential care (LTRC). These workers are lowest in the LTRC labour hierarchy, performing the majority of "hands-on" ...