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Fattening Queer Femininities: The Pitfalls, Politics, and Promises of Queer Fat Femme Embodiments
(2022-03-03)This dissertation identifies and documents how women and non-binary people in Canada negotiate and resist fatphobia, heteronormativity, and femmephobia, alongside other oppressions. More precisely, using qualitative research ... -
Mapping the Oedipus Complex in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in Sun Trilogy
(2021-03-08)This thesis investigates the presence of the Oedipus Complex amongst transnational families Nurruddin Farah cultivates in his second trilogy. My analysis differentiates the complexs tension from its nuclear structure to ... -
Empowered Mothering & Employment: A Study of Employed Myanmar Diasporic Mothers in Greater Toronto Area
(2020-11-13)My research study focuses on empowered mothering and employment in relation to first-generation migrant women from Myanmar (Burma) who have relocated to Canada. Specifically, I investigate how employed Myanmar diasporic ... -
Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment
(2020-11-13)This dissertation examines the way fat womens experiences in and relationships to their bodies are shaped by the affective environment of Big Beautiful Woman (BBW) social events. Data from the researchers autoethnographic ... -
Reproducing and Resisting the Binary: Discursive Conceptualizations of Gender Variance in Children's Literature
(2020-11-13)This dissertation contends that within the slowly growing representation of gender variant characters in childrens literature, particular subjectivities of gender variance are often emphasized while others remain overwhelmingly ... -
Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture
(2020-08-11)Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture is a collection of four papers detailing the findings from my dissertation research, a six-month online ethnography of femme internet culture. In the first ... -
An Intersectional Analysis of Sexual Violence Policies, Responses, and Prevention Efforts at Ontario Universities
(2019-11-22)In the context of public scrutiny, heightened media attention, and the introduction of provincial legislation on campus sexual violence, Canadian post-secondary institutions are facing unprecedented pressure to respond. ... -
The Sexual Politics of Clinical Psychoanalysis and Transgender Mental Health
(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
(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
(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 ...
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