Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Author "Thomas, Gillian, 1944-"

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My heart has a strange courage : challenging the female life-course in Depression-era Halifax

Thomson, Joyce (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)

Encouraged by recent trends in social history, this thesis analyzes the clandestine diary of Bessie Melvin Wamboldt, written in Halifax from 1932 to 1936. This micro-historical exploration contributes a first person ...
Past nature : public accounts of Nova Scotia's landscape, 1600-1900

MacLeod, Heather L. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1995)

This thesis examines the ecological changes in the land that took place with the European colonization of Nova Scotia over a three hundred year period (1600-1900). Public accounts of Nova Scotia's landscape are studied to ...
Surveilled women : subjectivity, the body and modern panopticism

Gabriele, Sandra (Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 1998)

"Surveilled Women: Subjectivity, The Body and Modern Panopticism" explores the ways in which surveillance enacts the power to limit the self definition and thus the subjectivity of the female subject. Understanding the ...

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