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Fall 2011

Weaver, Sara

“Essentialism about kinds” is the belief that there are necessary and sufficient conditions for membership in a kind. This thesis addresses the parallels in the discussions of essentialism across feminism and the philosophy of biology. Specifically, I address the similarities and differences...

Spring 2015

Artym, Corbett Raymond Walter

creation relating to genre, gender, and previous time spent playing digital games or using social media, and B) to quantitatively assess the computational thinking and game design skills demonstrated in the game they create. In the first paper, the games were classified into nine genre categories

, identified from the literature, and their differences were compared. Results indicate a significant quadratic relationship between genders on previous time spent game playing across the different age ranges that were explored (males played more). Both genders reported playing fewer hours of games in

-violent genres. However, when gender is a factor, males are significantly more likely to create violent action games, whereas there was no significance when testing the preferred game genre created by females. In the second paper, the Quality Practices of Game Design Survey was developed to measure 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 support

cortisol after the DST. IPV influences women's perceptions about EMD and perceived stress. By integrating neuroendocrine and psychological measures, further development of gender-specific stress models may occur.

Fall 2017

Horne, Rebecca M

Drawing on the relational developmental systems meta-model and a gender relations theoretical perspective, the present study analyzed data from 1,932 heterosexual couples from Waves 1 and 2 of the Germany Family Panel to answer three questions: (1) What are the longitudinal associations between

-representation and gender norms of affective care for male and female partners.

Fall 2019

Shandal, Monica

and women is pervasive even though gender equality is regarded as a basic human right. Compared to men, the average woman attains lower education, participates less in the formal labour market, receives lower wages, owns fewer resources, and exhibits weaker bargaining positions in household decision

-making processes. In India, women and girls frequently face social and structural barriers. Policymakers regularly employ gender-sensitive measure to attempt to close the inequality gap, but such policies are extremely difficult to implement correctly. Rather, the use of gender-neutral interventions such

reallocation of land from women to men (keeping all else constant) could significantly increase total agricultural production. Therefore, scholars have continually sought to explain if women farmers are inherently less productive then men farmers; or if the gender-differentiated profits can be explained by

Fall 2016

Sheckter, Jennifer L

order to create a conceptual space from which to govern. Like the perennially threatened borders of her realm however, this "conceptual space was inevitably a battleground, because in the performance of her power Elizabeth ... repeatedly crossed her society's unstable gender distinctions" (Frye

Queene (1590). In so doing, I also challenge the widely held assumption that Marlowe presents "a world of relatively uncomplicated gender roles in which emotions are the preoccupation of women, and power the preserve of men” (Gibbs, 164). Extending recent investigations crediting the behavior of

"construction of meaning ... through a stylized repetition of acts" (Gender Trouble,190; 191). Gendered imaginatively with the contemporary British monarch and responding to Spenser’s precedent-setting typologies, Marlowe presents his female characters as engaged in iterative performances of power. Organized

Fall 2023

Fernández-Sánchez, Higinio

age, gender, and employment status on reunited couples’ relationship pathways: 1) ending the relationship, 2) continuing the relationship, or 3) ending the relationship but continuing to live together according to agreed-upon arrangements. Overall, all families in Agua Dulce face reunification and re

focuses on using the intersecting principles of community engagement and social justice in qualitative community research. Chapter Four contains a critical analysis of 20 return migration policies in Mexico, and Chapter Five more deeply examines the intersection of age, gender, and employment status in

Fall 2014

Christensen, Samantha M

This thesis explores the social, political, and spatial extensions of food and eating in nineteenth-century young women’s coming-of-age texts in America. It focuses on novels and short-stories from women authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, Eleanor H. Porter, and Sarah Jewett in...

Fall 2011

O'Shaughnessy, Sara

feminist and feminist poststructuralist theory, this dissertation first elaborates a comprehensive analytical framework for investigating gender in the context of natural resource extraction. This framework contends that gendered identities are inherently multiple, and divisions of labour are embedded in

Fall 2020

Cromarty, Taylor

relate to this disease burden, with particular interest in differences in gender, and in households headed by unpartnered women relative to other households. I used data from projects conducted by the Canadian North Helicobacter pylori (CANHelp) Working Group to address community concerns about Hp

households, and in men relative to women, though there was insufficient statistical precision to conclude that the observed difference in the trend was beyond what would be expected from random variation. Thus, the Hp-associated disease burden seems related to social and gender inequities within Indigenous