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"Married, Single, or Gay?" Queerying and Trans-forming the Practices of Assisted Human Reproduction Services
(2014-07-28)
, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people in North America have historically been categorized as “disfavoured reproducers” and, through various legal, social, and political means, have been denied the right to parent. ...
Sexuated Topology and the Suspension of Meaning: A Non-Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to Textual Analysis
(2014-07-28)
This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation ...
Jamaica "Home of Community Tourism": An Analysis of Authenticity and Women's Everyday Geographies
(2015-01-26)
This research explores Countrystyle Community Tourism (CTT) operating in the rural communities of Beeston Spring and Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Data were collected over the summer of 2013 from semi-structured interviews and ...
Is it Worth the shot? Ontario Women's Negotiations of Risk, Gender and the Human Papillomavirous(HPV) Vaccine
(2014-07-09)
This research project has been an endeavor in understanding how Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy became gendered in Canada, how women in Ontario negotiated the concepts of “risk” and “gender” deployed in pharmaceutical ...
MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG: Visibility Through Theatre Creation
(2019-07-02)
The following thesis chronicles the process of creating, developing, rehearsing, and performing a solo theatre piece entitled MAD GIRLS LOVE SONG. The aim of this research is to create a solo performance of non-linear ...
Eat Me: Destabilizing Theatrical Forms of Representation in Order to Resist Reproduction of Prevailing Ideologies
(2019-07-02)
Eat Me is a praxis exploration in how to destabilize theatrical form in order for an artist to speak their truth as fully as possible. Inspired by the Italian Futurists, this journey takes into account different forms of ...
Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and Its Lost Subjects
(2015-12-16)
Using the Highway of Heroes as my point of departure, in “Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and its Lost Subjects” I interrogate the role of Canadian military commemoration in the production of hierarchies ...
Insinuated Bodies, Corporeal Resignification and Disembodied Desire in Novels by Jeanette Winterson
(2016-09-20)
My dissertation examines the various ways in which the following novels written by Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body (1992), Gut Symmetries (1997), The.PowerBook (2000), and The Stone Gods (2007) interrogate and ...
Rights and Rescue: Ethical World Making in the Anti-Trafficking and Sex Worker Rights Movements in Canada
(2019-03-05)
Grounded in ethnographic research on the anti-trafficking and sex worker rights movements in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with additional insights gathered from the migrant worker rights movement, and rooted in activist ...
Exploring Gender Mainstreaming in Primary Education: A Cambodian Context
(2017-07-27)
Gender and education has become a popular component to mainstream development discourse over the past decade. In such a short span of time, the focus, aims, implementation, and monitoring processes have shifted quickly. ...