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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)The emergence of sex robots with rudimentary but slowly advancing AI is a relatively new phenomenon, and there is little understanding about what the possible implications of these automatons could be, particularly regarding ...
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Anthesis (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This thesis recounts the exploration of transmuting a mental health crisis into a potentially transformative experience that relies on multispecies relationships including the pedagogy of an agave. It uses the example of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This document details research I conducted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies program, jointly provided by Saint Mary’s University and Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)There are a variety of laws and policies in Canada that refugee claimants must navigate in seeking asylum in Canada. This study describes how law and policy affect the experiences of refugee claimants in the Maritime ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis focuses on an oral history interview conducted with Brenda Steed‐Ross, a former resident of Africville. In analyzing the interview, I examine how Brenda’s stories about gender, race, and power relations ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)I use the articulations of whiteness narrated by the prosecution and defence, in the high-profile, capital murder trial of Casey Anthony, as the focal point from which to begin my analysis, by looking at how both victim ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Dalhousie University : Mount Saint Vincent University : Saint Mary's University, 2005)In analyzing four specific cases of femicide covered in Canadian national newspapers through a feminist poststructuralist framework, this thesis demonstrates that femicide cases are regularly explained as isolated acts of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This thesis examines how representations of violence are minimized in the narratives of Hollywood blockbuster films. I analyzed the 25 top grossing films of all-time, worldwide, as of July 2003 to demonstrate whether and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Working from a post-structuralist framework, specifically drawing on the theories of Judith Butler, this thesis explores gender as a dynamic social construct that is affected by social discourses. In this work I engaged ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Using the reality television show, The Swan , as a narrative frame, my Master's thesis explores the discursive construction of feminine subjectivity, empowerment, liberation, choice, self-esteem and resistance in the context ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Using one of AMC’s “original series",The Walking Dead, as a narrative frame, this thesis offers a qualitative critical analysis of different and competing discourses of power, authority, gender, race, class, the law, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Narcissism not only influences, but can define the sibling relationship in psychoanalytic theory. The distinction of the sibling relationship is identified and discussed in psychoanalytic theory and film theory. Upon ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-08-23)This thesis examines the historical sex trade between 1893 to 1911 in St. John’s, Newfoundland using court and prison records. These records reveal a decline in arrests for prostitution and brothel-keeping due to changing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Personal narratives of queer community members of Halifax were collected. Using a dual theoretical lens from Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology and Edward Soja’s Thirdspace, a narrative analysis of these personal narratives ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)In this thesis, twenty-five selected fairy-tales from the first two Valor anthologies, featuring female protagonists, have been analysed using a multi-thematic methodology and an intersectional queer feminist lens. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Women do not fit nicely into the category of violent offenders. Using Oxygen Network‘s flagship franchise series Snapped, I present a historical study of the first season of the show that marks an important moment in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This project involves reflecting on the creative processes that questioned the ethical, feminist, and representative potential of verbatim theatre. The goal is to determine methods which enabled participants of the study ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)I explore how Korean religions affect South Korean lesbians’ identities and lives by capturing the perspectives of Korean lesbians who are Presbyterian, Catholic and Buddhist through this study. This study aims to raise ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-06-06)Representations of non/monogamies in popular culture offer opportunities for viewers to imagine new and different relationship models, yet non/monogamies in popular culture are most frequently conceptualized within narratives ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-06-05)This thesis explores how words might be more like art and how art might become more about artfulness. It grapples with my own relationship with words and their seemingly static, readable, and conclusionary nature, against ...
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