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Fall 2018

Stephen A. Cruikshank

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...

Fall 2015

Wagner, Angelia C

This study examines the role of gender and municipal context in the political communication strategies of Canadian municipal candidates. Specifically, how do differences in candidates’ personal characteristics, municipal context, political circumstances, and campaign resources shape their...

Spring 2010

Chakraborty, Paulomi

In this dissertation I analyze the figure of the East-Bengali refugee woman in Indian literature on the Partition of Bengal of 1947. I read the figure as one who makes visible, and thus opens up for critique, the conditions that constitute the category ‘women’ in the discursive terrain of...

Fall 2012

Kelly, Wade B

In order to combat sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth suicide ideation and completion, the cultures of schools must change to become accepting and inclusive of this vulnerable group. SGM youth in rural spaces are at greater risk than their urban counterparts. For changes to occur, a deep...

Fall 2020

Cotton Cornwall, Olivia

During the second half of the eighteenth century, Britain saw a rapid growth of its printing industry and an expansion of both its national and international book trade. One of the most important export markets was the British Atlantic. This large and highly diverse region was home to some of the...

Fall 2009

Chivers-Wilson, Kaitlin

This thesis contributes to the growing body of gender-specific health research by integrating both psychological and neuroendocrine data to assess the impacts of stress and violence on women's health. Women seeking support for intimate partner violence (IPV) were compared with women seeking...

Fall 2010

Musselman, Kristin Elizabeth

This thesis includes four projects that examine motor learning and assess novel approaches for the training and evaluation of walking. In Project 1 we study motor adaptation in children aged 8-36 months using a split-belt treadmill. Split-belt walking, in which one leg moves faster than the...

Fall 2015

Farahbakhsh, Jasmine J

Background: Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain ability to obtain the quantity and/or quality of food that an individual or household needs. The topic of household food insecurity has been investigated in myriad vulnerable groups, including low-income families, women, black and Hispanic...

2006

Li, Yi

Using Clandinin and Connelly's (2000) approach to narrative inquiry, this dissertation explores the experiences and meanings of home and homelessness among international students after they have studied and lived in Canada for several years. The three research participants---Jasmine, Magnolia,...

Fall 2014

Kletke, Stefanie L

Today it is relatively unquestioned that Sulpicia, the elegiac woman of [Tib.] 3.8-18, was a historical woman of the same name who lived and wrote Latin elegies in Augustan Rome, and that the poems attributed to her are autobiographical records of love, thereby making Sulpicia a Roman version of...