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Fall 2014

Lewis, Alison J

This qualitative research study seeks to understand the educational experiences of elementary aged children who do not conform to gender stereotypes. The study explores the educational experiences of three children who have all identified as transgender while in elementary school. The study also

experience as a separate case and then brought the experiences together to represent a collective case. The data collected consisted of interviews, observation notes, personal narratives and educational documents. The data collected indicates that conceptualizing gender along the binary of male and female

does not allow for the creation of inclusive educational environments for students who do not conform to this binary. Therefore it is necessary to expand the understanding of gender to create a new normativity that accommodates gender diversity. In order to create inclusive educational environments

2002

Helgren, Keri Lynn.

Fall 2018

Wilissa M. Reist

This thesis addresses the intersections existing between gender, violence and political humour in Alberta political cartoons. I ask the following question: do cartoonists more frequently use hostile humour to represent women premiers, and, if so, what do these representations communicate about

gender and political leadership and Alberta political culture? To answer this question, I conducted a content and discourse analysis of 154 political cartoons presenting Alberta premiers Rachel Notley, Alison Redford, and Ed Stelmach during their first eighteen months in office. I argue that while

Fall 2017

Horseman, Darlene N

The purpose of this study was to prove that women are discriminated against within politics in Indigenous Communities because of their gender. It will demonstrate how the Cree people historically were once an egalitarian society. Even though women were not often seen in leadership roles, such as

, continue to be discriminated against. Yes, the laws have changed to eliminate gender discrimination, but now they face it within their own communities, by their own people. Women continue to be devalued and struggle to be treated as equals. Women have never been elected as chief and continue to be

Fall 2010

Campbell, Rachel

Connell’s constructionist perspective on gender, the dominant norms of the profession, the idealized traits and dispositions of engineers, and the impacts of a (mis)match between these broader norms and individual traits on commitment, are examined. The dissertation is structured around chapters that: 1

engineers (or the engineering habitus): a strong work ethic, individual responsibility, and being rational problem-solvers; 5) analyze a primary engineering trait, technical orientation, in relation to retention and gender; 6) describe masculinities enacted in the profession and how they parallel

Spring 2015

Abedinifard, Mostafa

In this dissertation, I read gender humour through the lens of masculinities studies and critical humour studies to contribute to gender studies and humour studies. I engage two crucial problems and propose solutions and possibilities. The first problem concerns the state of the concept of ridicule

—as a form/aspect of humour—within gender-related debates and specifically ridicule’s place in challenging and enforcing gender hegemony. In such discussions, ridicule and humour are frequently mentioned as insidious social control strategies through which certain forms of masculinity and femininity

, as occurring in mainstream gender humour, plays a panoptical role in enforcing inequitable gender relations. As a pervasive disciplinary tool, gendered ridicule causes self-regulation in social agents who then wish to consent to the cultural ascendancy of certain modes of gender performance and the

Fall 2017

Cytko,Elizabeth V J

Examining texts from the end of the Republic, an in-depth Roman perspective may be gained from the different writers preserved during this well-documented period. I intend to not only set up a working basis of masculinity but to argue that the Romans understood gender as a spectrum rather than a

binary. Removing gender from a binary opens up new ways to critically examine Roman society in the Late Republic. Understanding Roman gender as a spectrum allows a broader and more nuanced understanding of how precarious status was politically and socially. Gender, however, in many ways is an

inadequate term to use as a descriptor to comprehend the various segregations within society that often are entwined together. Sex within this paper can be understood as regulatory norms which demarcate and differentiate the bodies it controls. Gender is how the person performs the regulatory norms and how

Fall 2023

Hammond-Thrasher, Stephanie J

Previous research indicates that knowledge about sociocultural norms affects language processing immediately and automatically. One such example is the Stereotype Effect, where sentences containing violations of gender stereotypes take longer to read and are rated as less appropriate than sentences

without these violations. Gender stereotypes are embedded in both descriptive adjectives (e.g., dominant versus submissive) and occupational role nouns (e.g., doctor versus nurse). The current study takes the first steps to investigate gender stereotype processing at the multi-sentence (i.e., discourse

) level, providing an experimental exploration of the language comprehension of both noun- and adjective- level gender stereotype clashes within three-sentence short stories. Participants (N = 215) read 80 short stories pairing male/female gender stereotyped adjectives and role nouns with pronouns either

Spring 2016

Alexander, Katherine Vaughn

This thesis examines the role of gender in three versions of Carme Riera’s short story “Te entrego, amor, la mar como una ofrenda” [I Leave You, My Love, the Sea as an Offering] – the Spanish-language source text, and my own translations into English and French. As romance languages such as Spanish

and French exhibit grammatical gender in ways that English does not, texts written in these languages are able to play on the interaction between the gender of the words themselves and the themes of social gender in a way that an English-language text ostensibly cannot. This project explores the

effect of the linguistic category of grammatical gender on the themes of social gender through the process of translation, with special attention paid to the ways in which this interaction can present obstacles in the transfer and adaptation of the text across languages.

Spring 2014

Ngwenya, Kwanele

We investigate gender differentiated innovations regarding maize production among households in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. We find that innovation is positively influenced by access to information assets and on farm water, amount of land, and number of income sources, with Kenya and

Tanzania generally having more innovations than Uganda. The most common reasons cited for innovations are improving land productivity and availability, responding to amounts and patterns of rainfall, and increasing crop yields. Some types of innovations vary depending on which gender is responsible for