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Spring 2020

Johnson, Shelby Laine

this paper-based thesis was to uncover whether junior high students and staff associate learning about nutrition and food skills with lifelong healthy eating behaviours. For Study 1: “Is Learning to Cook Optional?” an objective was to investigate how gender and perceived academic value may impact a

the data were identified, coded, and categorized. Results: Study 1: “Is Learning to Cook Optional?” consisted of four main themes: Learning, Family, Gender, and Independence. Gender was significant as mothers remain primary educators for food skills and female students felt pressured to enroll in FSE

Spring 2013

Crookshanks, John Douglas

, the political-economic order that hinders Aboriginal control over housing. Combining questions about political economy, gender, and Aboriginal politics in Canada, I use a multileveled analysis to show how hegemonic ideas shape housing fields and the people within. At the same time, urban residents of

Spring 2014

Dassanayake, Wijaya Kumar

resources, division of labor and preferences in allocating household resources are likely to create gender differences in adoption of innovations. In the third paper of this thesis, we investigate the differences in the adoption of innovations in response to future climate change between men and women who

09/27/2021

Lemire. Beverly

SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...

Spring 2020

Nyakeru, Sarah Arlène

This research demonstrates the importance of taking into account the cultural and social history of African women who are part of the African diaspora of Canada, since these women immigrate with social and cultural background, including gender relations. In this work, we argue that the

today. The memoirs of Léonie Abo (Une Femme du Congo by Ludo Martens) and the autobiographies of Aoua Kéita (Femme d'Afrique, La vie d'Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même) and Simone Kaya (Les danseuses d'Impé-eya, jeunes filles à Abidjan) reveal that indeed, colonialism has added a second layer on gender

Spring 2015

Rodier, Kristin Anne

Feminist resistance to gender oppression, while surely a collective political project, has an important individual dimension. Individual resistance most often takes the shape of self-transformation where one works on the self to change desires, attitudes, and practices. I argue that paradigms of

self-transformation that rely on willpower or increased self-knowledge for change can responsibilize oppressed persons when changing proves difficult, which frustrates feminist ends. Because of this I argue that habit deserves increased attention from feminists working on personal resistance to gender

Fall 2023

Rosario, Esther M

dissertation offers a metaphysical account of sex as a biological kind, arguing that sex development is an emergent biological process. It also takes a conceptual engineering approach to sex as a concept, advocating for a new concept of sex decoupled from gender. This new sex concept is called ‘nonbaptismal

sex. Chapter IV presents and critcizes what I call the ‘layer cake’ model of sex development. Chapter V offers my account of sex as a biological kind. Chapter VI presents my nonbaptismal sex concept for social and epistemic aims. This dissertation aims to show that sex exists independently from gender

Fall 2016

Walker, Meghan A.

executive functioning measures. In addition, this research has sought to extend previous research and examine gender differences in children’s levels of attention problems, anxiety and adaptability in preschool. Data was collected from preschool children in Head Start programs and from their teachers in

children’s academic skills in the fall and spring, with higher levels of adaptability predicting higher academic scores. Levels of anxiety were not found to significantly predict children’s academic skills in the fall or spring of their preschool year. The current study did not find any significant gender

2017-01-01

Megan Perram

online health forums for women with PCOS, particularly SoulCysters.net, as life writing allow us to understand this writing as disrupting the authority of the normative medical system yet affirmative of stable notions of gender normalcy? In looking at the writing of women with PCOS through the lens of

Judith Butler’s theoretical framework, how can we understand the performativity of this writing and the ways in which it constructs the writer’s body, gender identity, and sense of self? What are the social advantages of constructing, through writing, androgen excess as a disease rather than one

variation of femininity? Does this stabilize an understanding of gender identity that we are reliant on? In order to address these questions, this paper examines posts on the SoulCysters.net blog by categorizing content in different themes, including what I perceive as transgressive processes which unsettle

1999

Massing, Duane H.