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Fitness, fertility and femininity: Making meaning in the tying of tubes: A feminist discourse analysis of women's sterilization
(2007-07-19)As a contraceptive technology, women’s sterilization is a medical event that is uniquely situated in relation to the dominant discursive link between women and reproduction. Intended as a contraceptive option that permanently ... -
Reproducing Canada's colonial legacy: a critical analysis of Aboriginal issues in Ontario high school curriculum
(2007-08-29)Canadian education has historical roots in blatantly assimilationist policies bent on the social, economic, linguistic and spiritual subjugation of Aboriginal peoples and their cultures. Today, Canadian education has moved ... -
More than just 'notorious': critical considerations of gender in the early history of Kingston Penitentiary
(2007-09-13)For centuries, scholarship in the area of punishment, prisons and corrections has been generated by a number of different disciplines. It is difficult to argue the fact that there has been a bias in this literature toward ... -
Breaking Down 'Race': A Radical Retheorization of Racial Formation Theory
(2007-09-18)This thesis is a retheorization of Omi's and Winant's (1986) racial formation theory,which addresses the implications, inconsistencies and limitations of the initial theory. It is argued that Omi's and Winant's theory is ... -
H20 to Go: marketing and materiality in the normalization of bottled water
(2007-10-11)This thesis aims to explore the rise in the consumption of bottled water and the dominant narratives of normalization that seek to explain it. Commonly understood as the cumulative result of the power of marketing and ... -
Subject to Failure
(2008-02-01)My project here is to look at how uncovering those unconscious and phantasmatic identifications in the social field can lead to the possibility of altering subjectivity or, at the very least, tracing how subjects are formed ... -
Loyal Subjects?: Consumer surveillance in the personal information economy
(2008-04-25)This research examines loyalty marketing as an empirical case study of consumer surveillance. Focusing on the Canadian context, the research investigates the relationship between the personal information economy and loyalty ... -
Between man and machine: a socio-historical analysis of masculinity in North American motorcycling culture
(2008-05-08)There has been a longstanding fascination with motorcycling culture in popular mainstream North American media, but this culture has only recently become the focus of rigorous, contextualized academic research. While smaller ... -
ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
(2008-05-30)Modern Japan established three kinds of national identification (ID) systems over its population: Koseki, Alien Registration, and Juki-net. The Koseki system is a patriarchal family registration of all citizens. It began ... -
The Organizations of Immaterial Labour: Knowledge Worker Resistance in Post-Fordism
(2008-06-11)Liberal-democratic theories of knowledge work suggest that labour and capital are no longer at odds in the information society. This dissertation critiques such a position, proposing that knowledge worker professions, or ... -
Order in the household : domestic violence in 17th century Massachusetts
(2008-07-08)The 17th century was quite nakedly a period of nation-building, cultural dislocation, and renegotiation of status within the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As a binding legal document formulated on Puritan religious principles ... -
Disciplining Divorcing Parents: The Social Construction of Parental Alienation Syndrome
(2008-09-04)Using a social constructionist perspective, this thesis explores the development of the concepts of “parental alienation syndrome” and “false allegations” in the context of custody and access, as ‘social problems’. Following ... -
The I of the Storm: An Assessment of Celebrity and the Social Construction of Hurricane Katrina
(2008-09-15)Recent theory on the role of celebrity in a contemporary context emphasizes the unique manner in which celebrity pervades public discourse. This thesis examines the interrelationship between celebrity and disaster theory ... -
Fellowship as Social Capital
(2008-09-23)This thesis is an exploration of strain, its sources, its manifestation, and how individuals cope with it. The particular scenario under investigation is that of Christian university students in a secular academic ... -
The Canadian No Fly List: A Sociological Analysis of its Supposed Distinctiveness
(2009-01-15)Since the events of 9-11, aviation security has become a mounting concern for both the American and Canadian government. Because of the alleged “threats to security,” the Canadian government has followed in American ... -
Picturing Public Health Surveillance: Tracing the Material Dimensions of Information in Ontario’s Public Health System
(2009-02-02)The aim of this dissertation is to explore public health surveillance from a surveillance studies perspective. The public health system in Ontario, Canada, provides an ideal setting for such exploration, especially because ... -
The Experiences of Racialized Female Faculty at Queen's University
(2009-05-21)Racialized female faculty frequently experience discrimination in the academy. However, few scholars have attempted to understand such experiences. This study helps to fill this void by exploring the experiences of ... -
Living in a "Different World": Experiences of Racialized Women in the Criminal Justice System
(2009-05-21)The criminalization of women is an area of study that has intrigued many researchers. Using critical race theory, multiracial feminist theory, and radical feminist theory, this research attempts to explain this phenomenon. ... -
Guilty Until Proven Eligible: Welfare Surveillance of Single Mothers in Ontario
(2009-05-29)Since the commencement of welfare state restructuring in the mid 1990’s under the Harris government in Ontario, significant cuts to social assistance, or what symbolically became ‘Ontario Works’, have fundamentally altered ... -
Sexual Scripts and Structured Action: Exploring Gendered Language in Cases of Female Sexual Offending
(2009-08-20)Few research studies have examined female sexual offending. Furthermore, most of what we know about sexual offending is based on male perpetrators. Our conceptions of female criminals who act outside their designated sexual ...