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The Nation's Gardeners: Social Work Professionalization and Interpretation Work in Scientific Adoption Practice, 1930-1960
(2016-09-20)This dissertation examines the relationship between scientific knowledge, social work and the social practice of adoption in Ontario, from 1930-1960. It focuses on the role of social workers in public agencies, specifically ... -
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 ... -
The SOX9 Dimerization Domain And Its Role in Cooperative DNA Binding
(2015-12-16)Nucleic acid binding proteins are key regulators in developmental processes and controlling the onset of diseases. Human SOX9 is a group E member of the SOX transcription family of proteins characterized by a conserved ... -
The Struggle for Security: Risk, Politics and Pension Policy in Ontario, 1960-2016
(2017-07-27)This dissertation traces the rise and decline of Ontarios workplace pension system that has resulted with growing emphasis on Canadas public pension system, focusing on the postwar period to 2016. Since the mid-1980s, ... -
Universities, Community Engagement, and Democratic Social Science
(2015-08-28)The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and compare differences between institutional conceptualizations of community engagement with the understanding and practices of faculty engaged in community-based research ... -
Unsettling Movements: Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Radical Struggles in Settler Colonial States
(2016-09-20)Recent decades have seen a rise in Indigenous resistance to dispossession by the settler colonial state and resurgence in culture, traditions, languages and forms of governance. These processes have had a profound effect ... -
Women's Experiences with Breastfeeding Support: Conflicting Practices and Discourses
(2017-07-27)Drawing on insights from critical scholarship on medicalization and professionalization, this thesis explores women's experiences with breastfeeding support in the context of medical, institutional, health policy and ...