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Fall 2011

Raphael, Daisy

This study explores the relationship between masculinity and political leadership as it was constructed in political humour about the 2008 Canadian federal election. I used content and discourse analysis methods to examine gendered depictions of the two frontrunners in that election – Stéphane...

Fall 2015

Rayner, Isabelle A.

This thesis is based on a textual analysis of three translations of a book in the New Testament, Ephesians, to look for differences in the translators’ treatment of gender. The three versions used are the older 1984 New International Version (NIV) and a retranslation of the NIV that uses inclusive

, does not seem to require a more gender inclusive version of the Bible, especially since French is a gendered language.

Fall 2017

Keyes, Nadia

The purpose of this study is to extend the rape myth literature to intimate partner violence (IPV) myths by evaluating the prevalence of IPV myth acceptance and clarifying whether gender and prior IPV victimization are associated with IPV myth acceptance. To this end, three research questions were

explored: 1) What is the prevalence of IPV myth acceptance amongst a student population? 2) Does gender correlate with IPV myth acceptance? 3) Do victims and non-victims of IPV accept IPV myths differently? University of Alberta students were contacted via posters and classroom presentations to participate

Fall 2018

Hamdon, Evelyn

public and artistic discourse through various media and by a range of political, journalistic, and artistic figures. This research deepens and extends emerging examinations and critiques of Orientalism by focusing on the way gender is used to garner support for ongoing Orientalist practices. The project

is theoretically located at the nexus of feminist, intersectional, Orientalist, postcolonial, and anti-colonial scholarship, and it addresses issues of patriarchy, Orientalism, gender, racism, colonialism, imperialism, and their presence within popular culture, and more specifically, in Hollywood

intersectional feminism to preclude defaulting to liberal or nationalist feminisms. The second is a test modeled on the Bechdel test for gender equity. The Hamdon test looks for the presence (and absence) of characters and characterizations in film that act as objet petit a, thereby disrupting the Symbolic

Fall 2017

Suddaby, Toryn A.

, this thesis seeks to re-evaluate interpretations of the site and these objects through a deconstructive, post processual approach with a particularly gender based focus. Explicit archaeological findings and implicit references to the site in literature are first detailed in an overview of the

assimilated. Perpetuated accounts of the site as solely concerned with the flagellation of young men, marriage, and coming of age ceremonies are opened to new questions regarding origins and purposes of the cult, participation by people with a diversity in age, gender, and social classes, and new questions

Fall 2016

Apps, Lara M.

departs from most previous historiography on pre-modern atheism by fusing intellectual- and cultural-historical approaches; most importantly, it incorporates gender analysis in the interpretation of atheist texts. This research demonstrates the importance of the eighteenth century to our understanding of

Fall 2014

Stephens, Laura M

Escobar’s individual character in accounts of this history. Significantly, as Escobar’s perceived historical import has increased, this moralization has become increasingly reliant on depictions of Escobar’s class, gender identity, and sexuality, as these are important ways in which Colombians understand

Fall 2023

Peters, Meaghan R

Objective: People bind their chest to relieve gender dysphoria and most people that bind experience negative physical symptoms as a result. The purpose of the current research is to: 1) explore the incidence, overall impact, and level of concern of adverse symptoms related to chest binding, and 2

Fall 2020

Kelly, Griffin

This Master’s thesis examines tradeswomen’s experiences of and responses to gendered harassment at camp-based work in resource extraction industries in western Canada. This study predominantly features women working in the Alberta oil sands industry. Gendered harassment at work has been...

Fall 2014

Brown, Stephanie

This research broadly examines how people consider two opposing but compelling ideas and whether they synthesize the two concepts or reject one of them. Specifically, I focused my research on evangelical Protestant adolescents who participate in church youth groups and look at how they negotiate...