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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Women and Gender Studies"
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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, 2022-04)Feminism can be found emblazoned on mugs, t-shirts, dishcloths and other knick knacks in just about any store you go into but what does it mean to wear a shirt that says feminist” without action to back up this identity? ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The last decade has seen a wave of national campaigns against violence against women in Latin America, yet little research exists on the topic. Based on fieldwork and using grounded theory, this thesis offers a case study ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)This study explores militarism, nationalism and gender within the scope of the discourse of women's conscientious objection. I engage in a post-structuralist feminist analysis of the discourse of women conscientious ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University : Mount Saint Vincent University, 2008)Treatment based on biomedical principles has become the normative structure for medical practice in Canada. This model, however, imposes on patients rather than involves them as active agents in care. This feminist case ...
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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, 2014)This thesis project by Rachel Fry entitled Craftivism: The Role of Feminism in Craft Activism explores the intersection of feminism, fibre-art practice and activism through an investigation of craftivism. Craftivism is the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Representations of female death and dying in Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra allow an exploration of Jacques Lacan's concepts of the male gaze and objet petit a within a historical and literary context. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis project identifies and analyzes a series of intersecting dominant social discourses of contemporary girlhoods in Susan Juby’s Canadian Young Adult Literature (YAL) trilogy titled Alice, I Think. Feminist Critical ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis explores the framing of #BringBackOurGirls on twitter and in the mainstream media, particularly through the lens of third world feminism. Using feminist content analysis, it explores themes extracted from the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-19)Using a feminist perspective, this research project examines the intersectionality among ethnic identity, beauty culture, body image, and societal pressures as experienced and reported by women between the ages of 19 ...
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(Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.), 2021)This document details the research that I conducted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies program, 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, 2022-08-12)The northern regions of Ghana are one of the most vulnerable regions to climate impacts due to its agriculture dependent economy, high rates of poverty, many development challenges and how the regions a located geographically. ...
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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, 2022-04-07)HBO’s Westworld is a widely viewed and critically acclaimed network television program centered on robotic characters in a science fiction setting. Westworld’s success has been attributed in part to HBO’s ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis provides a qualitative study of integration, identity and the sense of home and belonging of a small sample of young, first generation, Iranian, upper-middle class immigrants in Halifax, responding to the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)The aim of this research is to reveal Korean immigrant women's lived experiences in Halifax. It specifically looks at the changes of gender relations after immigration. This research uses anti-racist perspectives to ...
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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, 2023-03-23)This research thesis examines the surveillance of female bodies in religious landscapes and its impact on women's sexual experiences and well-being. The project focuses on the 1990s early 2000s evangelical purity movement, ...
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