M.A. Social Justice and Equity Studies
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Girlie Girls Aren’t “Real” Athletes: A Critical Examination of Girls’ Experiences of Aesthetic Sports within a Post-Feminist Masquerade
The purpose of this feminist research was to understand the experiences of adolescent females currently participating in aesthetic sports. Specifically, I aimed to critically examine the ways in which the new feminine ideal ... -
Mishandled: Turnhill University’s Approach to Sexual Violence
Sexual violence on college and university campuses in Canada and the United States has been an unsettling issue for several decades. However, the understanding that politicians, policy makers, and academic administrations ... -
"It was easy to look for a place, but hard to actually get one": University students' experiences of racial discrimination in off-campus housing
This study examines university student perceptions of and experiences with racial discrimination in off-campus housing in Ontario’s Niagara Region. Using a qualitative methodology informed by critical race theory, the study ... -
“It’s just inappropriate”: The normalization of sexual harassment in Ontario schools as revealed through teachers’ stories
This study examines teachers’ experiences witnessing and addressing the sexual harassment of girls by boys in elementary and secondary schools in Southern Ontario. Through a feminist, poststructural framework using feminist ... -
-“Where are you, darling?” -“Here I am, darling!”: Call and Response as LGBTI Resistance Formation Before, During and After the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey
This social justice project examines the extent to which the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI) movement in Turkey has been affected by its participation in the Gezi Park protests that took place ... -
Back to the Garten: Inquiry-Based Learning in an Outdoor Kindergarten Classroom
Informed by alternative learning theories that apply a constructivist approach to education, this research study explores one form of experiential, hands on education; inquiry-based learning. Grounded in the new sociology ... -
‘Designer Vaginas': The Representation of Female Genitals on Canadian Cosmetic Surgeons' Websites
This thesis critically examines the online marketing tactics of 10 (English language) Canadian cosmetic surgery clinics’ websites that offer Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS), specifically, labiaplasty (labial reduction) ... -
"They're trying to trick us!": Making sense of anti-oppressive children's literature in the elementary school classroom
This study examines how children make sense of “anti-oppressive” children’s literature in the classroom, specifically, books that integrate and promote positive portrayals of gender non-conformity and sexual diversity. ... -
Anachronistic Me: An Autoethnographic Account of Recovery through Volunteerism
(Brock University, 2014-04-29)The purpose of this autoethnography was to reflect upon the ways in which my recovery was aided by the personal connections made while volunteering in a homeless shelter. Congruent with autoethnographic best practice, ... -
Indigenous Language Reclamation: The Learners Perspective
(Brock University, 2014-03-24)ABSTRACT This study explored the link between learning an Indigenous language and the meanings second language learners attach to their language recovery experiences. The study delves into the factors that motivate, enhance ... -
Youth, Global Citizenship and Help: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Free The Children
(Brock University, 2014-01-27)Since 1995 Free The Children (FTC) has grown to be one of the largest and most recognized youth-focused and youth-led non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Canada. FTC has distinguished itself by developing slick marketing ... -
All of My Blood is Red: Contemporary Metis Visual Culture and Identity
(2013-04-15)This thesis explores notions of contemporary Metis identity through the lens of visual culture, as articulated in the works of three visual artists of Metis ancestry. I discuss the complexities of being Metis with reference ... -
Management Material: Understanding the Contradictory Perspectives of Lower Level Managers in a Canadian Call Centre
(2013-04-09)Call centres have emerged during a time of rapid technological change and represent a form of ready employment for those seeking to replace or supplement "traditional" forms of employment. Call centre work is considered ... -
Depopulating the Political Sidelines: CBC News Online Forum and Public Spheres in Canada
(2013-04-08)The subject of the Internet's potential to foster a public sphere has become a growing area of research in the social sciences in the last two decades. My research explores comments made by participants on the CBC News ... -
A Home at School: Building Stronger Indigenous People through Cultural Resurgence in an Urban Ontario Public School Context.
(2013-04-02)In this thesis, I work through the educational narratives of young Aboriginal women and men as I explore the relationship between cultural programming and student engagement. My analysis is structured through a collaborative ... -
Queer Encounters: exploring experiences of (gender)queers in women's public washroom spaces
(2013-01-02)This thesis is based on 13 qualitative interviews conducted with 12 individuals whom I refer to as (gender)queers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and St. Catharines, Ontario. Drawing on queer theory and the literature of ... -
Between the panels: How anti-Black racism has recycled myths of the Black body in comic books
(Brock University, 2012-11-07)Anti-Black racism continues to be a widespread problem, and as such deserves investigation and elimination. As Jackson (2006) says; “There is a hyperawareness…of the negative inscriptions associated with the Black masculine ... -
Child care by choice or by default? : examining the experiences of unregulated home-based child care for women in paid work and training
(Brock University, 2010-10-27)This thesis aims to uncover the dynamics, causes and outcomes of women's reliance on unregulated home-based child care in Ontario, Canada, and the implications ofthis form of care for women's equality. Drawing on a ... -
Perennial negotiations/elemental encounters autoethnographic perspectives on approaching food sovereignty
(Brock University, 2010-10-27)This thesis uses a multifaceted process to engage with the topic of food sovereignty in California. It employs diverse methods, including critical and creative prose, photography, autoethnographic mixed media, storytelling ... -
Fitness to stand trial : how discourses of rationality, reasonableness and culpability inform the law and psychiatry to create standards of normal
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the importance of the concepts of rationality, reasonableness, culpability and autonomy that inform and support our conception of both the person and the punishable subject. ...
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