Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies

The Sexual Politics of Clinical Psychoanalysis and Transgender Mental Health

Wiggins, Tobias B. D. (2019-07-02)

Perversion is derived from the Latin pervertere which means to turn around and has been broadly conceptualized as that which deviates or wavers from an original course. One could argue that the perverse is fundamentally ...
Women Lovin' Women: An Exploration of Identities, Belonging, and Communities in Urban and Rural Guyana

Kumar, Preity Rajanie (2019-03-05)

Over the last decade, there has been a surge of LGBTQ human rights movement and activism in the Caribbean region. Guyana, located in South America, and woven into the anglophone Caribbean, is not outside of these shifts ...
Frictions and Flows: Affective Economies of Fire Dance in the Thai Tourism Industry

Pollock, Tiffany Rae (2018-11-21)

This dissertation examines Thai fire dance, a form of labour in the Thai tourist industry, as a platform through which fire dancers confront and negotiate the tensions of increasing tourism, marginalization, capitalist ...