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Fall 2021

Young, Tayler A

This study explores the relationship between online gender-based violence and symbolic annihilation. I ask the following questions: How extensively are Canadian cabinet ministers Catherine McKenna and Chrystia Freeland subjected to online gender-based violence on Twitter? What forms of online

gender-based violence do the two women experience? And how does online gender-based violence on Twitter function as a form of symbolic annihilation? To answer these questions, I conducted a content and discourse analysis of the top 200 liked tweets sent to the two women in the thirteen days immediately

capabilities, appearances, and agency. This research makes visible the far-reaching impact of online gender-based violence faced by prominent women, which is a growing problem around the world. It also offers a new conceptual approach through the lens of symbolic annihilation to construct a more holistic

Spring 2020

Conlon, Olivia C.R.

embedded in a social context. Objective: The primary objective was to examine gender differences in SC ability in children with ASD using narrative analysis. The secondary objective was to determine if the gender differences found in participants’ with ASD would also be found in matched typically

as adding descriptive words or phrases, and sources of confusion for a listener, such as examples of incoherence. To examine if gender differences were present when the participants with ASD were 8-years-old, a series of independent samples t-tests was run with gender as the independent variable (IV

) and the subtest/index scores (ERRNI, DTA) as the dependent variables (DVs). The second study’s aim was to determine the stability and pattern of the gender differences over time. The same participants were re-examined two years later at age 10, using the same measures, and their performance compared

Spring 2019

Hardy, Teresa

Background: Voice and communication modification training is a critical aspect of the gender affirmation process for many transgender people. Incongruence between communication characteristics and gender positioning can be a cause of gender dysphoria and lead to misattribution or being outed as a

transgender person, which can have significant negative social consequences (e.g., discrimination, physical harm). Consequently, identifying the characteristics of communication that contribute most to conveying one’s gender and masculinity-femininity is important for informing voice and communication

modification training practices. Objective: The two main objectives of my doctoral research were to 1) Identify a set of communication-based predictors (i.e., acoustic and nonverbal communication measures) of subjective ratings related to gender attribution; and 2) Explore relationships between communication

Fall 2016

Brooks, Sara

Abend warden by J.S. Bach, as well as a world premiere of I think they laugh in Heaven by Canadian composer Jeff Enns. The essay explores gesture and the perception of gender in the choral rehearsal or performance, and is appropriately introduced by the following statement: “When a woman makes a

certain gesture it is interpreted differently than when a man makes the same gesture.” – Marin Alsop Marin Alsop’s observation on a gender-specific approach to conducting invites reflection on the following question: what differences exist in the conducting gestures of male and female conductors, and

how are these differences interpreted by an ensemble? In contemporary society, research in gendered leadership in the areas of politics, education, and business is quickly evolving. Music scholars also acknowledge stylistic differences between male and female conductors. However, gender-specific

Fall 2009

Greene, Carole

discourse. This research also tested the hypotheses that the 'universal' structures of talk would apply regardless of gender, but would be used differently by the boys and girls, and by the instructors interacting with them. The relevance of the participants' institutional identities or gender to the

that they generally had positive attitudes toward girls and mixed attitudes toward boys. While the underlying sequences, the universal 'rules' of interaction, applied to interactions with both boys and girls, how (and how frequently) the sequences were used did vary by gender (i.e., typically 'male

' and 'female' speech styles). Also, some of the organisation of talk showed that the instructors did orient to the students' genders in the classroom. This research is significant as the first CA study of the sequential organisation of talk in an institutional setting in Russia. In general, this

Fall 2014

Douglas, Emily R.

framework, provides theorists with many new resources. The laughter norms which we are disciplined to follow constitute a subject’s gender and her rationality. We can disrupt these norms in at least three ways: by laughing when it is unexpected, by changing our comportment during laughter, and by

Spring 2016

York, Ashley Elaine

This dissertation explores the serial design model of The Closer. It answers the following question: How does The Closer offer multiple entry points along a spectrum of views on gender and feminism, appeal to a range of viewers, and thus secure popularity? To generate metadata of how The Closer

group study conducted with forty-two sample viewers in Tucson, Arizona in 2013. Combining textual, industrial, and ethnographic audience analyses, I find that The Closer’s historic popularity is due to the ways its television codes broaden hegemonic discourses, break gender binaries, and relieve the

dominant male gaze—that is, temporarily, subtly, and anachronistically. This smart serial design offers characterizations and content that chip away at hegemonic ideologies of gender over the series run. Viewers along a spectrum of feminism, gender, or sexuality are interpellated into the text through

Fall 2020

Cotton Cornwall, Olivia

way into the colonies, it took with it British ideals and worldviews, including an understanding of gender roles and identities. Using mainland America and Jamaica as case studies, this thesis will demonstrate that between 1750 and 1820, the consumption of British print promoted British ideals of

masculinity and femininity within these colonial societies and gave rise to transnational notions of gender identity. While the roles and responsibilities of men and women differed, as this study will suggest, they also shared several core values, including sociability, politeness, sensibility, and

cosmopolitanism. Tracing the formation of gender identity can prove challenging, but Atlantic-wide literary institutions such as coffee houses and circulating libraries, which contained strong gender connotations, act as useful frameworks to study how gender traits were acquired, promoted, and practiced

Fall 2012

Kolopenuk, Jessica

While scholarship has recognized the role that sex discrimination has played in the naming of “Indians” in Canada, one aspect of this depiction has been minimized. In addition to the gendering of Indigenous subjectivities, Canada has consistently racialized us/them through practices of juridical...

Spring 2016

Clune-Taylor, Catherine E

at securing cisgendered futures for patients unable to provide informed consent. These include not only pediatric management strategies for intersexed children, but also certain efforts used to treat children diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria (GD). Motivated by critiques of both the DSD treatment model

from cultural concerns regarding gender and identity, the latter of which were seen as motivating and justifying these surgeries. Unfortunately, this strategy appears to have failed and almost a decade after the adoption of DSD, it is accepted within the literature that the genital normalization of

sex/gender and impairment/disability—as well as the adoption of a sovereign or juridico-deductive account of power. This conceptual scheme misrepresents the ways in which medical knowledge/power functions to render certain lives unliveable, and obscures the historical constitution of sex/gender and