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Spring 2012
This study is a narrative inquiry. The study follows a recursive, reflexive process which allowed me to move between telling, retelling and reliving of stories while engaging alongside relationships. The participants and I created a variety of field texts and then moved to interim and finally...
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Locating Opportunities: Women, Ritualizations, and Social Experimentation in Early Jesus Groups
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The descriptions of women found in early Christian texts are not consistent. In some cases women are depicted as powerful and influential individuals who contributed to the development of their religious community, while in other cases women are described as marginal and problematic. This...
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Spring 2011
Current statistics suggest women form the majority of online learners. Their enrollment levels may be a result of promotional materials suggesting online learning allows learners access to flexible learning opportunities that will complement their busy lives. This research questions those...
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Navigating Protective Custody Classification: Examining the Lived Experiences of PC Inmates
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Classification systems in prisons have consequences in both formal and informal ways for inmates. Protective custody (PC) units are especially unique spaces in which traditionally the most vilified populations – informally often referred to as “skinners, rats, and scaredy cats” – have been...
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Physiological and psychological responses to treadmill and cycle ergometer exercise testing in men and women with COPD
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The purpose of this study was to examine the physiological and psychological responses to linear work rate treadmill and cycle ergometer exercise tests in men and women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 12 men and 8 women with COPD completed one treadmill and one cycle...
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Spring 2023
Even though Indigenous women are the fastest growing prison population in Canada and around the world, scholarship regarding the storytelling of incarcerated Indigenous women is extremely limited. My dissertation centers the stories of Indigenous women within Tightwire, a prisoner produced...
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Shaping the care they deserve: Needs, expectations and recommendations of healthcare provision at the New Canadians Health Centre for Afghan refugee women in Edmonton
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This qualitative inquiry delved into the healthcare needs and experiences of Afghan refugee women resettled in Canada, addressing three primary research questions. Employing a community-based participatory research approach alongside qualitative narrative inquiry, the study explored the lived...
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Sovereignty without nationalism,Islam without God A critical study of the works of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
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Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969) is widely perceived, particularly in Iran, as the leading social critic in Iran’s post-Mosaddeq, pre Khomayni era (1953-1978) and also as an inspirational figure for Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution. His concept of “occidentosis” (Gharbzadeghi in Persian), or...
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Fall 2014
My dissertation offers an innovative reading of three early modern domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and Othello, exploring parallels with the archetypal domestic tragedy of Adam and Eve through early modern commentaries on Genesis. Puritans, for whom marriage...
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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...