Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
(Athabasca University Press, 2016)Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly ... -
Witnessing-condition Heterogeneity and Witnesses’ Versus Investigators’ Confidence in the Accuracy of Witnesses’ Identification Decisions
(APA, 2000-06)Undergraduate participants were tested in 144 pairs, with one member of each pair randomly assigned to a “witness” role and the other to an “:investigator” role. Each witness viewed a target person on video under good or ... -
Women and (dis)interest in government: How the status quo affects attitudes toward female politicians and intentions to participate in politics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)When people are motivated to justify their socio-political systems they come to view the current status quo as the most desirable status quo--a process termed injunctification (Kay et al., 2009). Here, two studies suggest ... -
Women and tourism in White Harbour, Newfoundland: Filling the Gap between Tradition, Innovation, and Globalization
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-26)Rural communities, often called outports, throughout Newfoundland are currently experiencing important socio-economic changes. External forces, such as the ever-growing oil industry in Alberta and provincial planning based ... -
"Women Don't Belong to Prison, They Belong to Communities": Governing the Criminalized Mother under the Auspices of Canada's Institutional Mother-Child Program
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)Since its inception in 1996, the institutional mother-child program has suffered from a lack of funding, increased restrictiveness in eligibility for participation, and in some cases has been cancelled entirely. Over the ... -
Women in Management: A Canadian Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The gender distribution in the Canadian labour force has changed significantly over the course of the past few decades. Women have gained employment in areas of industry and occupational sectors where they were previously ... -
Women's Shelters: Governance, Neoliberalism, and the Creation of the “Shelter-Citizen”
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)In this thesis, I expand upon existing governance research by examining the strategies deployed in women's shelters and theorize them as neoliberal mechanisms of governance intended, through “gentle coercion” (Cruikshank, ... -
Word Birds
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)This paper is intended to serve as a supporting document for the exhibition Word Birds that was held at the Render Gallery at the University of Waterloo, April 22-27, 2008. The drawing and sculpture in this exhibition ... -
The Work of Wealthy Women: Female Discipleship in Luke 8:1-3
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-01)Luke 8:1-3 is the only explicit indicator in scripture that Jesus receives financial provision during his ministry. Interestingly, the donors are wealthy women. From a social historical perspective who are these women who ... -
Working Smarter and Working Harder: Combining Learning and Performance Goals to Improve Performance in a High-Complexity Task Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)In a high-complexity task environment individual productivity can be improved through exerting more effort (i.e., working harder) as well as by learning improved task strategies. I examine the productivity effects of both ... -
Working Towards Collaborative Archaeology: Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeological Topics and Research Questions in Nain, Labrador
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-12)Archaeology is one avenue that people use to understand the past. It is through these contemporary understandings of the past that cultural identities are created and maintained. Unfortunately, Indigenous perspectives have ... -
Workload, Risks, and Goal Framing as Antecedents of Shortcut Behaviors
(Springer, 2017-08-01)Purpose: Shortcut behaviors are methods of completing a task that require less time than typical or standard procedures. These behaviors carry the benefit of increasing efficiency, yet can also carry risks (e.g., of an ... -
Workplace Gossip, Paranoia, and a Deviance Dilemma: A Warning for Deviance/CWB Research
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)Organizational research has long conceptualized workplace gossip as a form of deviance and included gossip in many measures of deviance and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). However, empirical evidence regarding the ... -
Workplace Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Employee Age
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Drawing on prior research from several areas of psychology, I predicted that different forms of organizational justice would predict counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) depending on employees’ age. In particular, I ... -
Worth the Effort? The Effects of Task-Centrality, Annoyance, and Arrogance on Manager Effort Allocation During Feedback-Seeking Episodes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Employees seek feedback from managers to reduce work-related ambiguity. However, managers typically have other competing demands on their time, and as such, may not allocate sufficient effort to providing feedback. To this ... -
The Write Choice
(University of Waterloo, 2009)This paper compares and contrasts movies, television, and video games from the perspective of the writer. This is done in order to determine which is the superior story telling medium. It is accomplished by examining how ... -
"The Writer Within Did it!" Metafiction and Ulf Miehe's Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-05)As one of the first scholarly studies of Ulf Miehe’s Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin, this thesis undertakes a close reading of the novel, thereby providing a basis for further research. According to Linda Hutcheon's ... -
Writing identity - Negotiating Gender in Leopold von Sacher Masoch's "Venus im Pelz" and Robert Musil's "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)The age of the Industrial Revolution has led to a variety of changes in human society. One of these changes was a shift in gender-roles for men and women. The social role and the behavior of people became a consequence of ... -
Writing the Historian's Macroscope in Public
(American Historical Association, 2014-10)Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope - A short book summary by the authors exploring their own rationale, and the historical context for the book's themes, including descriptions of the collaborative ... -
Writing the Self: An Examination of Self-narration and Identity Construction in Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-19)Through a close reading of Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark (2008) and Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf (2008), this thesis examines the process of identity building as it is articulated and produced in self-narration. The goal ...