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Fall 2009

Green, Jill

protection against sexually transmitted infections (STI), and rates of STI and pregnancy as a result of first sex. In the second paper, gender similarities and differences were explored on reported aspects of first sex within a social constructionist framework. The third paper is a poster, which was

presented at the 9th European Society of Contraception Seminar in 2007, and highlights gender differences in emotional reaction to first sex. Results indicate a relatively positive view of sexual behavior and a possible convergence of social scripts for men and women. However, gender differences still occur

2010

Price J, Kramer-Kile M, Pritlow C, Abramson B, Seto L, Dale C, Marzolini S, Lapum J, Clark AM, Oh P, Angus J

Spring 2019

Sammons, Olivia

Great Plains, presents an exception to both of these generalizations, having inherited two systems of nominal classification from its source languages—French-derived gender (masculine/feminine), and Algonquian-derived animacy (animate/inanimate) (Bakker 1997; Papen 2003a). This study investigates Michif

nominal classification in detail, considering both the relationship between the animacy and gender values observed in Michif and their equivalents in Cree and French, and the assignment of animacy and gender values to loanwords from English. Corbett (1991) questions whether or not any clear-cut examples

of languages with “two independent gender systems” (188) can be identified cross-linguistically, and others have claimed that masculine-feminine gender in Michif is either weakening (Gillon & Rosen 2018) or fossilized (Stoltzfus & Boissard 2016). However, through quantitative investigation of animacy

Fall 2020

Gong, Crystal

systems, and human systems. Vulnerable groups, including women and children, are projected to experience increased vulnerability to climate change. These climate-health impacts are not sex or gender neutral; understanding the sex and/ or gender dimensions of climate-health in East Africa will inform more

equitable climate programming, planning, and policy. Therefore, the aim of this research was to examine the sex and gender dimensions of climate change as it relates to health in East Africa. First, a scoping methodology was utilized to systematically search three databases. Primary research articles that

which sex and/ or gender was or was not included in the broader climate-health literature. We found that the number of articles considering sex and/ or gender was increasing over time; however, the level of high gender engagement in these articles remained low over time in East Africa. Furthermore, we

Fall 2017

Dehnavi, Elahe

Films as cultural products are remarkable sources for examining different dimensions of the complex institution of gender in the society in which they are produced. Focusing on a selection of cinematic narratives from post-Revolution Iran and Post-Taliban Afghanistan, this project examines the

gender and sexuality are subjected to power. It considers both form and content and aims to provide textual and contextual analysis, but its main purpose is to offer a sociological reading of the selected films. Looking at images of girlhood, motherhood, women’s position in marriage and divorce, female

love and desire, and women’s political engagement, it aims to understand how, in what ways, and to what extent independent filmmakers challenge social strains, traditional authority, and political forces that form the dominant discourse of gender and gender relations in Iranian and Afghan cultures

Spring 2015

Hankey, Jeffrey R

School-based bullying is a pervasive issue in Canada, resulting in deplorable physical and psychological outcomes for victims, bullies and bystanders. Sexual and gender minority youth—and anyone perceived to embody variant sexual and gender norms—are especially at risk of abuse. I present evidence

to suggest that a community of inquiry such as Philosophy for Children (P4C) has potential to improve the situation; P4C works to collapse sexual and gender dualisms and reconstruct gender epistemologies, providing young learners with a space to discover, together, that sexuality and gender are

Fall 2017

Marrville, Caelan

This dissertation examines the association between the emotional dominance of verbs and the perception, or inference, of character gender. In the context of this dissertation, emotional dominance is described as the perceived level of power, or control, exerted by a verb. I hypothesize that when

analysis into patterns of co-occurrence between verbs and gender- marked verbal arguments. I continue through a series of five experimental psycholinguistic experiments that focus on the association between emotional dominance and character gender through two modalities: implicit causality bias and gender

four reading tasks, I find converging evidence that the association between gender and dominance significantly affects measures of reading time. Significant interactions are reported based on the dominance of verbs and the gender of stereotypical roles and occupations, gender-marked pronouns and

2019-01-28

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fall 2021

MANDIZADZA, SHINGIRAI

This research explores how land reform in Zimbabwe, and particularly the extension of primary land rights to women, influences gender relations. I carried out research in a resettled village where women had received individual title to land during Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP

) of 2000. Through in-depth interviews with single women (who were typically widowed, older and unmarried, or divorced) who had primary rights to land, as well as with married women and men in the village, I examined gender dynamics around land ownership. Land as space and place creates the contexts

and outcomes where gender and other social relations are performed, contested, and (re)produced. My findings reveal that the radical socio-spatial reorganizations of land reform can destabilize gendered relations of subordination tied to the land. I use a broadened conception of land to investigate

Spring 2020

Spanner, Leigh Anne

institutional support for their wellbeing than ever before. At the same time, the CAF is introducing new gender equality schemes, including integrating gender perspectives in operations, conducting gender-based analyses of CAF policies, and increasing diversity of its personnel through military recruitment and

retention strategies. These new institutional commitments to family wellbeing and gender equality suggest that the quality and culture of military life may be changing.The military family has received little feminist inquiry since the early 1990s, despite institutional efforts to reform family and gender

equality policies and practices in Western militaries. Recent research in the feminist international relations (IR) field tends to focus on gender in militaries, which builds on a substantial, well-established body of feminist IR research that indicates that militaries are deeply gendered institutions that