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    Using General Strain Theory to Understand Drug and Alcohol Use in Canada: An Examination of how Strain, its Conditioning Variables and Gender are Interrelated 

    Asselin, Nicolas Robert Pierre (2009-09-03)
    This thesis uses the Canadian Drugs and Alcohol survey conducted in 1994 by Statistics Canada to explore how Agnew’s (1992, 2001, 2006) general strain theory can help to understand drug and alcohol use in Canada. Agnew ...
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    The Price of Loyalty: A Gendered Analysis of Consumer Surveillance 

    Cheston, Amelia (2013-06-27)
    Consumer surveillance, seen in the social sorting capabilities of loyalty marketing, is gendered. Using Canadian examples, gender is added to the existing literature on social sorting in relation to class (Burrows and Gane ...
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    Making Hair Matter: Untangling Black Hair/Style Politics 

    Watson, Nicole (2010-06-23)
    Hair is a remarkably complex material-semiotic entity. Caught on the cusp between self/society, meticulously contrived and purposely styled, hair is crucial in the articulation of identity and difference. However, although ...
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    Sexual Scripts and Structured Action: Exploring Gendered Language in Cases of Female Sexual Offending 

    Grimaldi, Jessica (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 ...
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    Fitness, fertility and femininity: Making meaning in the tying of tubes: A feminist discourse analysis of women's sterilization 

    Day, L. Suzanne (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 ...
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    More than just 'notorious': critical considerations of gender in the early history of Kingston Penitentiary 

    MacRae, Leslie Dawn (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 ...
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    Clashes in Confinement: Men's Gendered Experiences with Conflict in Canadian Prisons 

    Horton, Alicia
    This dissertation presents the results of in-depth qualitative interviews with twenty-three formerly imprisoned men regarding their lived experience with prison conflict and the pain of incarceration. The results suggest ...
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    Successful Aging with Illness 

    Carver, Lisa
    In twenty years almost one in four Canadians will be over the age of 65. How successfully these people age will influence their quality of life and contribute to their physical health. Illness and disease are frequent ...
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    The Reproduction of Social Disadvantage in South Africa: mapping consumer credit scoring onto the ANC’s policy of ‘social transformation’ 

    Singh, Sachil (2016-11-01)
    South Africa has the continent’s most sophisticated banking and credit systems with approximately 19 million credit-active consumers. Their credit profiles are based on automated algorithmic assessments that generate data ...
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    Does Gender Play a Role?: Judges and Trial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Cases in Canada 

    Riley, Leah
    Canada undertook a major reform of the laws surrounding rape beginning in 1983. As a result of this reform, rape was re-conceptualized as ‘sexual assault’, and laws surrounding consent and earlier sexual history were ...

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    AuthorAsselin, Nicolas Robert Pierre (1)Carver, Lisa (1)Cheston, Amelia (1)Day, L. Suzanne (1)Grimaldi, Jessica (1)Horton, Alicia (1)MacRae, Leslie Dawn (1)Riley, Leah (1)Singh, Sachil (1)Watson, Nicole (1)Subject
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