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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

2008

Forbes, D. A.

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.

2018-06-06

CIHR

Update on Sex and Gender Peer Review in the Project Competition, June 6, 2018

2021-04-16

Dhanoa, Tarleen

In this study, a quantitative design is being adopted to determine if English-Punjabi bilinguals’ perceptions of depression, mental health attitudes, and gender norms vary based on target reporting language. Sixty participants were recruited via social media. Participants varied from 18 to 51 years

old, including 39 women and 21 men. We hypothesized English-Punjabi bilinguals would report higher depressive symptoms in English and more negative perceptions towards mental health and gender norms in Punjabi. In part one of the study, participants received either an English or Punjabi version of the

following scales: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), WarwickEdinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMEBS), Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ), and Gender Role Attitude Scale (GRAS). After two weeks, participants received the opposite language version. We conducted 8 paired t-tests to determine if

Fall 2017

Rodriguez LaBrada, Eloy F

In this thesis, I give critical consideration to gender eliminativism, or the metaphysical view that gender (in a sense to be specified) is unreal and/or the normative view that gender (in a sense to be specified) ought to be purged from our social dealings. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses

of eliminativist proposals for contemporary feminist theory and activism (with particular implications for scientific and healthcare contexts). I ask whether, and why, a certain theory of gender eliminativism and practice of gender abolitionism might ever be serviceable for feminist purposes: In

? While I contend that the metaphysical component of eliminativism is philosophically question-begging and politically impractical, I float the idea that the normative component of eliminativism—called “abolitionism”—might be defensible as a “regulative ideal” for some feminist theorizing about gender

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

Spring 2023

Halpern, Daniel

gender, which have been normalized by the pharmaceutical and pornography industries, are dangerous fictions. And thus, this thesis is a small step in the formation of a queer world.