Graduate Papers & Publications
Women and Gender Studies Master’s Research Papers
2009-2010 Titles:
Bullen, Darcel, “Slave Dungeon, Sex Dungeon: Black Queer Politics and the Erotic Terrain of Contemporary Freedom.”
Cookson, Tara, “Transnational Connections: Departing from the National Story of Article 88.”
De Szegheo-Lang, Naomi, “‘Fucking with Me:’ An intimate exploration of the self and its others.”
Brianna Hersey, “Queer Melancholia: Or, how sick queers can live forever.”
Kanagasingham, Deana, “Transcending the Wounds of Narcissism: A Transformative Model of Self-focus for Emotional Well-being.”
Khan, Zainab Ali, “A Critical Analysis of the Zina and Qisas & Diyat Ordinances.”
McMahon, Michaela, “‘Change a Life, Change Your Own’: The Intersections of Nation, Race, Gender, and Compassion in the Discourses of Child Sponsorship.”
Niu, Tianmaio, “Representation of Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion in a Transnational Era: The Identity Transformation in Tzu Chi Foundation.”
Shamdani, Sara, “The Shadow of a Ghost: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Iranian National Psyche.”
Tarasoff, Lesley Ann, “Interrogating normative institutions, ideologies, and identities through the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of women with physical disabilities.”
Welsh, Ann, “Narrating the Rural: Thinking Immigration through Frames of Gender and Space.”
2008-2009 Titles:
Bhanji, Nael, “Trans/sciptions: Home, Transsexual Citizenship and Racialized Bodies.”
Burnet, Jaime, “Pushing the ‘gay’ out of ‘gaybourhood’: Ongoing gentrification and the need for inclusivity in Toronto’s Church Wellesley Village.”
Chen, Flora, “‘A long way from your Chinese restaurant’: Food, Chineseness, and the ruptures of liberal subjectivity.”
Da Silva, Maureen, “Working Together Through the Politics of Inclusion: Feminist Collaborations in Art.”
Daly, Alyson, “Playing with Unacceptable Violence: Rape Simulation Video Games and the Violent Subject.”
Ephgrave, Nicole, “‘Don’t you want to ‘save’ Africa?’ Bringing Context back into Darfur.”
Greensmith, Cameron, “A 2-Spirit Critique of Pride Toronto: Finding the space for recognition.”
Gurdyal, Jacqueline, “Representations of Indo-Trinidadian Women in Calypso and Chutney Music.”
Hanzawa, Hanae, “Multi-Directional and Reversible Transgender Identities: The Travelling Itinerary of Gender Identity Disorder in Japan after 1997.”
Harrison, Elisabeth, “‘The Images Can Seem to Be Controlled’: Mental Illness as a Problem of Containment in Public Service Announcements and Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements.”
Mason, Corinne, “Men-streaming Development in the World Bank: A Transnational Feminist Response.”
Nketiah, Rita, “KLM Babies: First-Generation Ghanaian-Canadian Womyn and Identity Formation.”
Renna, Cris, “Tenuous Belongings: Shame, Loss and ‘Moments of Arrival’ in Queer Lifeworlds.”
Spearn, Ainslie, “Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, American Popular Culture, and Individualism: 1950s-1980s.”
Surajbali, Preeia, “South-South Encounters: Temple Affiliation, Identity Formation and Authenticity among South-Asian, Indo-Caribbean and Indo-African Hindu Women.”
Tanjeem, Nafisa, “Space, Place and Restaurants: The Making of the Bangladesh Diaspora in Toronto.”
Wood, Rebecca, “Affective Encounters; Disclosures of the Body in Search of the Self.”
2007-2008 Titles:
Andrew, Jill, “Body Image is a Black Woman’s Issue Still.”
Alexopoulos, Anastasia, “‘Two Girls for Every Guy’: Ideology and the Criminalization of Plural Marriage in Canada and the U.S.”
Chandrashekar, Jessica, “Re-Envisioning Citizenship: Cultural Citizenship Practices by Tamil Youth as a Means of Subverting State Hegemony over Citizenship and the ‘Family of Man.’”
D’Angelo, Christine, “From ‘Ethnics’ to Insiders: Race, Class Mobility and the Assimilation of Canadian-Italians in Toronto.”
Edwards, Danielle, “Challenging Normative and Deviant Femininities: Theorizing Capitalist Body Hierarchies and Biomedical Eugenics Re/producing Sexist Middle-Ageism.”
Finkenauer, Sabine, “Egg Freezing: Critical Discourse Analysis of Media.”
Hakimian, Donna, “Iranian Bahai Women Prisoners and the Quest for Justice.”
Lavrisa, Rachel, “Las Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.”
Macdonald, Sarahjane, “(S)exclusivity: An analysis of exclusive sexual difference research and theory and a feminist attempt to synthesize frameworks of inclusion.”
O’Connor, Helen, “From Birth On: The Effects of a United Nations Maternal Mortality Program on Haitian Women.”
Rozenberg, Sara, “‘Public Feelings’ and Diasporic Life Writings: An Analysis of the Affective Potentials of Diasporic Organizing and Cultural Productions.”
Saghatchian Shomali, Talayeh, “Multiculturalism Policy and its Critics.”