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Fall 2023
Thump Thump. Swoosh, swoosh. Kamlamunikk. Heart. Mi’kmaq teachings of heart are tied to concepts such as moontime, spirits, ancestors and blood knowledge. Being a Mi’kmaq woman from the west coast of Newfoundland with strong lifelong community connection I was aware that the understanding of...
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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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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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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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Exploring the Experiences of Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Advanced Cancer in Ghana
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Background: Every year, over 20 thousand new cancer cases are diagnosed in Ghana, the majority of which are at an advanced stage. Health services for persons living with advanced cancer are limited in Ghana and thus family members are usually the sole responsible caregivers. Purpose: The purpose...
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Digging Roots and Remembering Relatives: Lakota Kinship and Movement in the Northern Great Plains from the Wood Mountain Uplands across Lakóta Tȟamákȟočhe/Lakota Country, 1881-1940
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Most written Lakota histories jump from the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, briefly describe the refuge in Canada many Lakota people sought, and then resume in 1881 when Chief Sitting Bull returned to the United States. Typically, the people who stayed in the Wood Mountain Uplands, in...
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With Her Own Money: Female Benefactions, Urban Space, and Power Relationships in Ancient Rome
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While it is generally accepted that monumental public buildings in the ancient world communicated the power and wealth of their benefactors, whether and how this equation worked when the person funding the construction was female is a matter of current debate. Studies of this phenomenon have...
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Spring 2022
In this thesis I examine stories pertaining to women as told by the belongings recovered during excavations conducted at three hivernant Métis sites. The hivernants were groups of Métis families who banded together to form winter bison hunting brigades. Overwintering on the Canadian prairies,...
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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Accessing and Participating in Healthcare of Syrian Women who Arrived in Canada as Refugees
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Gaps in healthcare exist for newcomers, with many experiencing poor quality healthcare compared to the general population. Immigrant and refugee women are particularly disadvantaged and often experience unmet health needs. Despite this, there is a lack of research inquiring into the experiences...
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Spring 2021
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how exercise bloggers represent themselves and exercise information online, how young adult women perceive the believability of an exercise blog message, and whether believability predicted exercise-related intentions, and finally, to explore which...