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Holding the Eel of Science by the Tail: Women's Sociability in the Eighteenth-Century British Scientific World
(2017-12-22)
In eighteenth-century Britain, intellectual and scientific activities were primarily organized through the operations of formal societies; however, these scientific societies did not admit women as members. Despite this, ...
BARRIERS TO WILDLIFE HARVESTING AMONG ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN CANADA AND ALASKA
(2016-06-21)
A large body of research confirms that access to wildlife resources can reduce conditions of food insecurity and health-related illness among Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Alaska. This thesis is premised on the belief ...
THE SILVER SEER: GENDER, SEX, AND THE DIVINE FEMININE IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
(2018-09-20)
This Project Thesis considers Ursula K. Le Guin’s application of feminist difference theory in her most celebrated science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. Le Guin’s work is consistent with much of the art and ...
Women's experiences with migration in Nicaragua : connections between globalization and local health
(2006-08-30)
Economic globalization is characterized by increased liberalization, privatization and deregulation of national economies, principally imposed via the International Monetary Fund’s and World Bank’s structural adjustment ...
RAISING VOICES, BROADENING INTERESTS: A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN CANADIAN FOREST SECTOR PUBLIC ADVISORY COMMITTEES
(2018-07-17)
For decades, forest companies have used public advisory committees as a primary strategy for demonstrating public involvement in forestry. A national survey of committees was conducted in 2016 to determine whether gender ...
In Transition: Analyzing Shifting and Competing Anglophone Discourses Impacting Canadian Trans People
(2018-08-08)
Medical, community, and academic discourses offer competing interpretations of sex, gender, and the complexities of trans experiences, with variable attention to trans contributions to social and political thought and ...
Women and debt litigation in seventeenth-century Scotland : credit and credibility
(2006-04-17)
Many scholars suggest that credit networks were fundamental to the operation of early modern towns. Unfortunately, the majority of this scholarship ignores the role of women in the debt and credit system. The legal ...
A case study of gender, health, and Fair Trade in Nicaragua
(2010-04)
The impact of global economic policies on health equity and social development has been well-documented and, in the current phase of economic globalization, profound health inequities have been attributed to these policies. ...
Shifting discourses : the work and friendship experiences of women chartered accountants
(2008)
The number of women in the Chartered Accounting (CA) profession has continued to rise since the 1970s; women now make up one-third of working CAs in Canada (Tabone, 2007). Yet, the number of women in the upper levels of ...
Women's experiences and representations of diversity management and organizational restructuring in a multinational forest company
(2007)
This thesis examines the relationship between worker identity and workplace practices from the perspectives of white and Aboriginal women working in a multinational forest company in the northern prairies. Over the course ...