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The Church and the law: examining the role of Christianity in shaping sexual politics in Jamaica
This thesis examines the ways in which a number of faith discourses and institutions seen to comprise 'the Christian religion' - at least in its Jamaican manifestations -continue to shape sexual politics and discourses in ...
Cracks in the glass ceiling?: laughter and politics in Broadcast News Interviews and the gendered nature of media representations
"This dissertation investigates politicians' laughter in televised Broadcast News Interviews (BNIs) and mass media representations of Hillary Rodham Clinton's laughter in the context of her failed bid for the Democratic ...
Public sphere in Muslim societies; its reflection on social, political thought and law case study: Iran and Turkey
This comprehensive study aims to situate and contextualize the meaning of the public sphere in Muslim societies, especially Iran as compared with the experience of Turkey, utilizing diverse tools of inquiry in qualitative ...
The cognitive processes underlying routine and novel naturalistic action performance: examining the role of executive function and memory
Naturalistic actions are multistep activities involving the manipulation of objects to achieve a goal. They can either be routine actions (NA) performed many times or novel actions (NNA) unfamiliar prior to instruction. ...
Logging in strained, logging out sustained: the utility of online support groups for caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancer
"The current investigation explored both the process and content of four separate online support groups run through CancerChatCanada, with a national sample of caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancers. A ...
Virgin martyrs in pre-modern England: emulation, appropriation, and refashioning
This dissertation explores literary representations of virgin martyrs in England from the thirteenth century into the reign of Charles I. Previous studies have identified the social significance of the literary virgin ...
Time, capitalism, and alienation: social time relations, clock-time and the making of world standard time
This dissertation enquires into the relationship between time and capitalism. In order to understand the nature of social time in capitalist societies, I perform a historical contextualization of the origins of clocks and ...
Stabilizing the technoscientific witness: a history of controversy, medicolegal practice, and the Ontario sexual assault evidence kit
Over its thirty-four years in Ontario, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) has gained credibility as the objective technoscientific witness of sexual assault. This dissertation traces the Ontario Sexual Assault Evidence ...
Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction
The Condition-of-England Question - a series of discussions that involve commentary on the state of relations between disparate groups and classed subjects - contains a nexus of competing and overlapping discourses, as ...
Breastfeeding: power, ethics, poetics
"In this dissertation I aim to put women back into breastfeeding through the development of an ethics and poetics drawn from Levinas, Irigaray and the later work of Foucault. In contrast with currently dominant discourses, ...