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Fall 2013
Swim the Shattered Rhine is literary collage: a fragmented travelogue arranged around both the sharp and dull edges of memory… a series of snapshots cemented together by fiction and nonfiction. As it meditates on the meaning of story and truth, this piece strives to answer the question of how it...
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Symptoms and Experiences of Chest Binding: A Cross-Sectional Survey Using a Patient Oriented, Harm Reduction Approach
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Objective: People bind their chest to relieve gender dysphoria and most people that bind experience negative physical symptoms as a result. The purpose of the current research is to: 1) explore the incidence, overall impact, and level of concern of adverse symptoms related to chest binding, and...
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The Architectural Subject: Space, Character, and Gender in Four Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novels
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This dissertation examines the impact of space, specifically domestic architecture, on the representation of female subjectivity in four eighteenth-century British domestic novels, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–48), Frances Burney’s Cecilia (1782), Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), and Jane...
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The fruits of nimble finger: garment construction and the working lives of eighteenth-century English needlewomen
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The research objective of this thesis is to re-examine women‟s labour in the eighteenth-century English sewing trades. Several aspects women‟s working lives in the sewing trades are explored in three sections. The first section examines diversity within the sewing trades, employment...
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The Influence of Gender and Food Insecurity on the Eating Practices of Poor, Pregnant Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between rising levels of food insecurity in the urban setting and the existing gender structures and their impact on eating practices while pregnant. Using a focused-ethnography with a feminist approach in an urban slum in Dhaka,...
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The Intersection between Culture and Postpartum Mental Health: An Ethnography of Bhutanese Refugee Women in Edmonton, AB
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This thesis is an ethnography of postpartum mental health outcomes in a group of Bhutanese refugee women living in Edmonton, AB. Previous research has shown that refugee women are at a higher risk of postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Despite this finding, the postpartum experiences...
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Fall 2018
The "mulata affect" may be understood as the repetitive process and movement of power and affect qualified in the mulata image over time. Through a lens of affect theory this study seeks to analyse how the mulata image in Cuba has historically been affected by, and likewise affected, cultural...