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Rhythm and the Monstrous: A Diary Manifesto for Oil Painters
(2015-08-28)
The invisible threads that form identity politics are especially messy today. Through the lens of a transnational/intersectional/feminist sensibility, my thesis paper and body of work weaves influences from both visual ...
Transnational Divorce: The Violation of Immigrant Japanese Mothers' Rights an the Hague Abduction Convention
(2015-08-28)
As a counterpoint to existing discussions of how Western fathers’ rights can be secured in the context of transnational divorce, this study raises the important question of how immigrant Japanese mothers’ fundamental rights ...
Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building
(2015-08-28)
Mangos with Chili (MWC) is a two-spirit, queer and trans people of color (2-QTPOC) performance arts cabaret based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research focuses on MWC performance content and personal interviews with ...
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 ...
The Second Sex of Tomorrow? Constructions of Masculinity in the Moral Panic About Boy's Education. A Content Analysis of Canadian News Media
(2015-12-16)
Based on qualitative content analysis of articles in ten major Canadian newspapers between 1990 and 2011, this thesis asks how masculinity is represented in discourses about gender and education. My analysis suggests that ...
Tracking Queer Kinships: Assisted Reproduction, Family Law and the Infertility Trap
(2015-08-28)
The global advent of assisted human reproduction has brought with it an upheaval in social, cultural and legal norms of the family. The centrality of biological reproduction to the traditional heterosexual family has been ...
The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's 'Sworn Virgins'
(2015-12-16)
This paper studies the linguistic tools employed in the construction of masculine identities by burrneshat (‘sworn virgins’) in northern Albania: biological females who have become ‘social men’. Unlike other documented ...
Adult Women's Learn to Play Hockey Experiences: A Case Study
(2015-12-16)
This research project examined the experiences of women enrolled in an Adult Learn-to-Play Hockey (ALTPH) program in Toronto, Ontario. This case study aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to participation in ...
"No Idle Sightseers": the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism(1911 - 1920)
(2015-08-28)
This doctoral dissertation examines the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC), an overlooked, but historically significant Ulster unionist institution, during the 1910s and 1920s—a time of great conflict. Ulster unionists ...
Transitioning Publics
(2016-11-25)
TRANSITIONING PUBLICS engages two forms of transitioning simultaneously: the shifting political landscape of transgender media representation in North America, and the technological shifts that impact forms of representation ...