Latter Stratton, Lillian Claire(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-07-15)
This thesis explores the barriers that women face in accessing primary (family) health care in Nova Scotia, Canada. Specifically, this study is concerned with the barriers that Indigenous women, women of colour and immigrant ...
Crewe, Carolina(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2007-01-22)
The development of University Midwifery Education Programs (UMEPs) has been a key component of the midwifery professionalization process in Ontario and British Columbia. The choice to develop UMEPs has set a standard for ...
Winstanley, Viola(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-09-05)
Neo-liberal globalization, its ideology and its economic and political policies, are changing the modern world. Multinational corporations influence global and national economic and governmental policies. The discourse of ...
Fletcher, Stephanie(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-07)
Using a socialist feminist perspective, this thesis critically assesses the conflict between capitalist production and social reproduction in Canada, and the crises in care generated by this conflict, both historically and ...
McLellan, Angela Marie(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2005-09)
This research examines the lives and conditions of women involved in sex tourism and prostitution in the Philippines, based primarily on the voices and opinions of these women. In order to examine sex tourism and prostitution ...
MacDonald, Courtney(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019-09)
In this thesis, I look at the complicated business of “Making Women Mad” through a feminist and gender aware lens, with an interdisciplinary approach to examining women’s narratives of psychological oppression and resistance ...
yur, damla(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019-07)
The environments of war and terror has a direct effect on gender roles and their
representation. ISIS, as a global Salafi jihadist movement, is just one of the groups who force their morality upon women’s bodies with ...
Shoboiki, Abimbola S.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019-04)
My work is not just a story. It is a story of my childhood experiences, perspectives, values, assumptions and beliefs that have shaped my current understanding as a West African woman in and outside of the classroom. My ...
Thille, Patrica H.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2004-12-16)
W eight preoccupation and body dissatisfaction affect the majority of Canadian
women and can foster behaviours that adversely affect their well-being. Rather than
understanding these attitudes and behaviours as the problem ...
Anderson, Lyndsay(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018-04)
In September 2013, students at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
chanted about the rape of underage girls, an incident that garnered national and
international media coverage. Utilizing feminist poststructuralist ...
McKeen, Leah A. D.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2008-11)
In this thesis I attempt to uncover how religion is included as a topic of discourse
in Introductory Women’s Studies courses across Canada. This examination is framed by
theories on difference and the relatively new field ...
Rhodenizer, Jolani(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2011-11)
In this thesis, I explore the complex work and lives of feminist English language teachers in Gulf Arab contexts through interdisciplinary theoretical discussion and auto-ethnographic narrative. I consider three theoretical ...
Frisina, Stephanie(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018-03)
Working from a poststructuralist framework, using Butler’s theories on identity performance, this thesis uses content analysis to observe and report on normative and non-normative performances of masculinity and femininity ...
Skaling, Sharon(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2017-10)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a form of oppression that has received a great deal of interest and attention from feminists and other advocates for women’s health and well-being. While IPV has been ...
Ramos, Marlene Flores(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2016-08-25)
This thesis examines three anonymous embroidered textiles from the Philippines, created in the nineteenth century and collected by museums in Great Britain and Spain. These textiles, pañuelos (shawl) and handkerchief, are ...
Manning, Susan M.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2016-03)
The objective of my research is to explore how colonization, resettlement and ‘living
away’ are related stories of displacement for Newfoundland women, which have been shaped by similar political, social, and economic ...
MacLatchy, Jennifer(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2014-04)
An investigation into the possibilities of performance art for affecting social change, this
thesis explores the ways in which categories and theories often fail in the realities of
human experiences. Beginning with an ...
Neilson, Lisbeth(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2014-09)
This thesis examined low income mothers’ views of the community organizations, policies and programs that are put in place to provide support for them. It argued that low income mothers are able to voice their own suggestions ...