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Exploring Women’s Experiences with Deciding to Use and Access Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
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Women spend nearly half their life able to become pregnant. Despite the growing number of contraceptive options available, women continue to select user-dependent options over the user-independent long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). This in part contributes to the current rate of...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The proposed research focuses on suicide terrorism. It investigates operatives or captives of Boko Haram (Nigeria) who deliberately refused to detonate their suicide vests. Scholars have overwhelmingly focused on "successful" suicide terrorism with much attention on the...
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Faithful Stories: Exploring Shrine Veneration in Bangladesh in A New Light An Anthropological Study
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This research study looks into shrines and shrine veneration in Bangladesh in its current context. Shrine veneration as a social practice within South Asia and elsewhere has been controversial within the religious revivalist discourse for quite some time. The rising religious reforms under...
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09/27/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...
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2016-10-17
Insight Grant funded in 2017. the world of the present is a 'Petroculture', where cultural, economic, ideological, legal and political relationships --locally and globally-- have been shaped by oil and its networks of power. Energy transition demands social transformation. This research is...
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2010
This thesis is an exploration of unia mystica, the unity of divine and human will, as the final stage in an arduous process of growth in human consciousness, the central purpose of which is to directly apprehend God. Five women mystics, Julian of Norwich, Saint Catherine of Genoa, Saint Teresa of...
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2012
Women face many challenges upon release from prison and entering different communities, referred to as re-entry. Community programs are available to support them while they negotiate the challenges. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact that these programs have on the re-entry...
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Indigenous Women's Appropriation and Redeployment of Human Rights: A Comparative Study of the Native Women's Association of Canada and K'inal Antsetik (Mexico)
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Recent studies have examined the roles and politics of human rights in relation to Indigenous peoples. An analysis of the negotiation of rights discourse by Indigenous women in a comparative framework is however lacking in critical scholarship. This study examines how Indigenous women in Canada...
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Influence of gender roles and rising food prices on poor, pregnant women's eating and food provisioning practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rashid, Sabina F., Willows, Noreen, Mumtaz, Zubia, Levay, Adrienne V.
Background Maternal malnutrition in Bangladesh is a persistent health issue and is the product of a number of complex factors, including adherence to food 'taboos’ and a patriarchal gender order that limits women’s mobility and decision-making. The recent global food price crisis is also...