Browsing by Subject "women"
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Blessed be the Paps: Early Modern English Medical Representations of Women’s Breasts, Breast Milk, and Breastfeeding
(2022-12-14)In this interdisciplinary study, I examine representations of women’s breasts in early modern English vernacular medical texts and posit that women’s breasts – as represented within these texts – are a visible and powerful ... -
Cariola in Context: An Exploration of the Female Servant in The Duchess of Malfi
(2019-09-03)This paper brings critical attention the figure of Cariola from Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. She has been neglected in scholarship, but her involvement in the play offers commentary on the cultural politics of Webster’s ... -
Commuting in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Exploring Midlife Women's Perceptions and Experiences of Active Transportation
(2010-09-16)Nova Scotia is one of the least active provinces in Canada and is experiencing rising levels of obesity and related diseases. Women in Canada have low rates of participation in physical activity, despite the many benefits. ... -
THE LETTERS OF DOROTHY MOORE-DURY: DIVINE CALLINGS, COVENANTS, AND THE SEARCH FOR WOMEN’S VOCATION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
(2024-08-23)This thesis builds on the backs of studies that have moved beyond a secular definition of feminism by emphasizing the significance of religion in women’s discussions of gender roles throughout the seventeenth century. ... -
Managing Criminal Women in Scotland: An Assessment of the Scarcity of Female Offenders in the Records of the High Court of Justiciary, 1524-1542
(2014-08-19)The records of Scotland’s High Court of Justiciary that run from 1524 to 1542 contain a remarkably low number of women charged with felonies and pleas of the crown, and reveal the justiciar’s reluctance to convict or execute ... -
The Missing Half: Reintegrating Women Into Pakistan’s Public Spaces in Lyari, Karachi
(2019-08-07)Women spatially inhabit a city differently than men, who are the default users in a patriarchal society. They negotiate the city differently, and they also perceive the boundaries of space differently. In the low-income ... -
Of Factory Girls and Servings Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain
(2009-12-17)My dissertation examines the political and formal aspects of poetry written by working-class women in England and Scotland between 1830 and 1880. I analyse a poetic corpus that I have gathered from existing publications ... -
RESETTLEMENT CHALLENGES AND GENDER: A CASE STUDY OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2011-01-04)This Master’s level research project investigates how gender shapes the resettlement challenges that liberian refugees have faced in Nova Scotia. The study investigates the impact of the reframing of gender relations during ... -
The Role of Communication Media in Enabling Inclusion of Women in Man-Dominated Teams
(2023-08-23)Does communication media influence women’s inclusion when they are minorities in man-dominated teams, and how? Drawing on media synchronicity theory, gender microaggression and gender differences literature, we investigated ... -
The Role of Sexual Violence in Shaping Women's Understanding of Possibility
(2021-06-16)This thesis examines women’s understandings of the relationship between sexual violence and their expectations for the future. Rooted in an anti-oppressive feminist theoretical framework, this thesis uses narrative inquiry ... -
“Their Voice is Music to my Ear”: The Role of Women in the Work of John Thelwall
(2019-08-23)“‘Their Voice is Music to my Ear’: The Role of Women in the Work of John Thelwall” contributes to the rapidly growing field of Thelwall studies by examining the mutual influence and representation of women throughout his ...
