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Battlefords Domestic Violence Treatment Option (BDVTO) Court: Examining the Standpoint of Female Victims
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07) Michaels, Samantha Joanne; Hurlbert, Margot; Hampton, Mary; Greenberg, Hirsch; Juschka, Darlene
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and complex social issue with potentially fatal consequences. Beginning in the 1990s, specialized domestic violence courts gained prevalence throughout several jurisdictions in Canada as a mechanism to address victims’ needs (i.e. safety, support, participation and empowerment) while, largely by the use of therapeutic jurisprudential tenets, increasing offender accountability. The Battlefords Domestic Violence Treatment Option (BDVTO) began holding bi-weekly docket court on April 10, 2003. This study presents the lived experiences of three female survivors who volunteered to share their standpoint, regarding their involvement with the BDVTO Court. Through the survivors’ detailed first-hand testimonies, obtained through qualitative, semi-structured interviews, this study explores whether the BDVTO Court is achieving its stipulated goal of meeting victims’ needs. A feminist standpoint theory was utilized as the epistemological position throughout the study. Aiming to give voice to females at the margins, this theoretical position informs the manner in which the interviews were conducted, the data analyzed, the findings presented, and how the recommendations and implications for further research were established. In order to determine whether the Court (process) is able to fulfill victims' needs, the preliminary inquiry required establishing the survivors' precise needs as they expressed them. Although many of the survivors' assertions were consistent with the literature, particularly regarding the need for support, information, participation, and so forth, none of these needs were more vital than safety. Through the survivors' lived experiences, it was found that the BDVTO Court cannot in isolation bring about optimal safety for female victims. Consequently, it is advanced in the final chapter that, in order to meet female survivors' needs, a multi-pronged strategy must be employed to reduce the occurrence of spousal violence and, when it does occur, better protect victims. While addressing the shortcomings in the application of the law as well as transforming the prevailing community attitudes and beliefs, this strategy intends to strengthen the various components of the Court.
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Bringing It All Back Home: Apocalypse, Colonialism, and The Study of Religion
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-09) Bailey, Jesse McKenzie; Arnal, William; Volker Greifenhagen, Franz; Juschka, Darlene; McCutcheon, Russell T.
In the study of religion, it will not take long before students come across the term “apocalypse” or “apocalypticism.” The place that such terms have made in the study of religion suggests that they refer to very tangible aspects of religious traditions. Moreover, the vast majority of scholarship, by way of comparison, reinforces the idea that the category apocalypse and apocalypticism represent a genre of writing native to Christianity and Judaism. Thus, studies of so-called apocalyptic texts often engage in comparisons of other “apocalyptic” materials contained within the Judeo-Christian tradition. These studies often base their comparisons on literary themes, and in the process participate in the tacit reification of the sui generis category of apocalypse. In an attempt to approach apocalypticism and the category apocalypse in a different light, and using the Book of Revelation as a model, this study attempts to account for the social and historical roots of apocalyptic texts as they occur under conditions of foreign domination. Comprised essentially of two primary sections, this analysis begins by establishing the theoretical framework first by considering the context of colonialism as a discourse that defines the social and political environment in question, and second by establishing the intellectual framework of this analysis in postcolonial and performance theory. By utilizing these theoretical frameworks it is possible to analyze the complex sets of relationships that are active in the colonial frontier. The second half of this analysis is concerned exclusively with historical data. First, by describing the provincial territories under the Roman Empire, discussing first i how Rome represented itself as a legitimate form of rule for its subjects, and second how provincial cults interpreted their new political circumstances. As a final provocation this analysis will conclude with a selective comparison of the book of Revelation with the modern American political movement known as the Tea Party. In this analysis, we will look specifically at how the social and political concerns of both Revelation and the rhetoric and language of the Tea Party find similar expressions in their respective discourses. In addition to the similarities of the respective data, this thesis will also argue that categories such as “apocalypse” and “religion” mystify the data in question, placing it outside the confines of the intelligible, social world. ii
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2016-2017
(University of Regina Library, 2017) Ackerman, Jennifer; Ackerman, Katrina; Anderson, Robert; Arnal, William; Aziz, Madina; Blake, Raymond; Blakley, Janelle; Coleman, Cory; Dai, Liming; DeSantis, Gloria; Diaz, Joshua; Doke Sawatzky, Katie; Engel, Brenna; Gane, David; Gidluck, Lynn; Gottselig, Jared; Grant, Trevor; Grimard, Celine; Jaffe, JoAnn; Johnson, Dale; Juschka, Darlene; Kikulwe, Daniel; Hillabold, Jean; Mah, Jeannie; Marroquin, Rebbeca; McDonald, Anne; Meehan SJ, John; Nzunguba, lbio; Pete, Shauneen; Pirbhai-Illich, Fatima; Powell, Marie; Russell, Gale; Shami, Jeanne; Solomon, Michaela; Stringer, Kyrsten; Taylor, Caitlin; Triggs, Valerie; Vetter, Mary
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2020-2021
(University of Regina Library, 2021) Afolabi, Taiwo; Bates-Hardy, Courtney; Battis, Jes; Bradley, Crista; Brigham, Mark; Carter, Claire; Clausson, Nils; Cote, L. Lynn; Cote, Margaret R.; Coupal, Chelsea; French, Lindsey; Gacek, James; Hanson, Cindy; Hu, Shuchen; Juschka, Darlene; Khan, Tanisha; Macdonald, Iain; Marsh, Charity; Melançon, Jérôme; Morgan, R. Grace; Okimasis, Jean L.; Piercey, Robert; Plummer, David William; Powell, Mary; Purdham, Medrie; Ratt, Solomon; Trussler, Michael; Wolvengrey, Arok
The past year has disrupted many things in both our academic and personal lives, but something that has not changed is the commitment of the University of Regina community to advancing research and sharing knowledge and stories with a world-wide audience. The Dr. John Archer Library and Archives is again proud to unveil our new Celebration of Authorship booklet, highlighting books and other creative works published in-print or electronically over the past year by faculty, staff, students, retirees, and alumni of the University of Regina and its federated colleges.
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Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation, A Case Study of Men and Women Farmers in Eritrea
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-03) Tesfamariam, Yordanos; Hurlbert, Margot; Diaz, Harry P.; Stewart, Michelle; Juschka, Darlene; Schick, Carol
This study is based on qualitative research conducted by the writer using semi-structured interviews with key informants, including elderly male and female farmers. An analysis based on a theoretical framework of vulnerability and coping mechanisms was also conducted on the lived experience of farmers in Berik, in the Central Highlands, and Barentu/Sosona, in the lowlands of Gash Barka, related to climate change, including some practical recommendations they made to help them in their daily struggles for food security. Eritrea is a sub-Saharan African country suffering from food insecurity due to climate change. Subsistence-level rain-fed mixed crops and livestock comprised 95% of its agricultural products. Low rainfall and droughts adversely affect these products. Adaptation strategies are related to accessing natural resources, as well as political, economic, social, and cultural factors. Furthermore, climate change does not affect everyone in the same way. Female-headed farms, which comprise 30% in Eritrea, are affected differently than those headed by males and their adaptation strategies differ, especially in food production. Even though female-headed farms are important producers they do not have equal access to resources provided by the Ministry of Agriculture because they are not considered to be primary farmers. This situation is exacerbated by the limited availability and affordability of agricultural inputs such as land, fertilizer, seeds and labour. Four prevailing root factors emerged during this study. First was rain variability which impacted heavily on food security. Second were social/cultural views of women which prevented them from being regarded as equal primary farmers. Third was the indefinite national service, which removed farmers from their family farms, especially males. Fourth were state farms that sold products for foreign currency and used national service workers for labour, which conflicted with the needs of family farms.
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Colonialism’s Impact upon the Health of Métis Elderly: History, Oppression, Identity and Consequences
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-03) Desmarais, Diedre Alexandria; Green, Joyce; McIntosh, Thomas; Schick, Carol; Hunter, Garson; Juschka, Darlene; Dhamoon, Rita Kaur
In this dissertation I examine colonialism through the theoretical lens of racialized power relations. I consider the identity regulation imposed upon Aboriginal peoples and extrapolate the impact of colonialism on the health of a sample of elderly Métis. Health, care and access to services are vital social indicators in any society. The traumas of colonialism can be measured by the health of colonized people. I focus on the Métis elderly because our elders are the most revered members of Aboriginal society and they have been impacted by colonization the longest. Unlike status Indians, the federal government does not have a legislative relationship with Metis nor does it accept responsibility for Métis health. Métis have the same access to health care and services as the general public available via provincial policy. However, racism and poverty militate against the Metis being treated as other citizens. Colonialism has affected all aboriginal peoples negatively, evidence for which can be found in every Aboriginal community across Canada. It is spelled out clearly in the dire socio-economic statistics that characterize Aboriginal communities. I argue that Aboriginal peoples were colonized in the name of empire with the intent of claiming Aboriginal territory and resources; control of Aboriginal peoples was maintained through identity regulation, which artificially divided Canadian Aboriginal peoples into three distinct cohorts with differing claims to rights and recognition from the Canadian state; and these artificial divisions facilitated inequitable rights and policy among Aboriginal peoples, creating the conditions for unequal power relations, competition and racism. The Results include the perilous health care and health conditions of Metis elders, and the poisoned context for all Metis in Canada.
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Crossing the Racial Hiring Divide in Public Education: First Nation Teachers Encounters with Employee Fit, Merit, and White Racial Innocence
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-09) Eastmure, Lori R.; Schick, Carol; St. Denis, Verna; Tymchak, Michael; Hampton, Eber; Juschka, Darlene; Peden, Sherry
In the Yukon Territory, significant social, political and legal efforts have been put in place to articulate equality between First Nations and non-First Nations people, not as equality based on good will, but equity as a legal right. These significant accomplishments in the advancement of First Nations rights include recent land claims agreements and self-government agreements, employment equity policy and staffing protocol. In contrast to these statements of legal equality, this study examines the ways in which hiring challenges encountered by First Nations teachers—as racialized individuals in Northern Canada—are made to appear normative and natural. The hiring challenges exist despite a pressing need for teachers of First Nations ancestry. The key mode of inquiry for this study is critical race theory that recognizes that racism is a systemic, normative, and everyday practice. Critical race theory takes into account the structural and institutionalized nature of racialization as expressed in liberal discourses of racism, racial inequalities and white supremacy. Critical race theory also acknowledges the importance of the legal and political status of Aboriginal people and their right to land claims. As a methodology, this study uses critical discourse analysis and institutional ethnography as interpretative methods to analyze discourses and documents related to hiring teachers in the Yukon Territory. These methods uncover examples of unequal power and hierarchical relations embedded in everyday discourses and reflected in the hiring policies and practices of public schools. The hiring criteria of what constitutes “suitably qualified” candidates was examined from three approaches: the concept of employee “fit”, meritocracy (and employment equity) and white racial innocence. These approaches used as hiring criteria show themselves to be unexamined “sorting” concepts on the part of white educational professionals who are making hiring decisions for public schools. The long-standing practice of hiring white teachers from the south and failing to hire well-qualified, locally trained First Nations teachers in their own territory suggests a school system deeply rooted in colonial practices. These practices underscore the systemic bias of a white-dominated education system and the unquestioned and long standing teacher identity as a racially superior white person. How can a teacher of First Nations ancestry measure up in this context? Through this research it became apparent that hiring challenges experienced by these northern First Nations teachers are not based on their training or lack of experience although these are the take-for-granted reasons. The matter of better training or lack of teaching experience are not the real issues for failing to hire First Nations teachers even though these statements are often made. Rather, as increasing numbers of First Nations students take up the challenge of higher education, these are simple and convenient criticisms that mask the investment that white society has in maintaining public education as a white institution. As this study found, because racial inequality appears as normal and natural and furthermore, benefits white society, there is little incentive to change the structures and processes that perpetuate it. Despite the efforts, abilities and skills of First Nations teachers, they are held to a higher level of scrutiny that belies true equality within a racialized social order, without changing the order itself.
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Desire Lines: Treading Trails and Telling Tales of Lesbian Mothering
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-03) Bailey, Elizabeth; Juschka, Darlene; McNinch, James; Marsh, Charity
This study highlights the ways in which the marginalization of lesbian families in Canada and the United States is perpetuated by heterobias and exacerbated by the legislation that continues to exclude non-hetero families. As demonstrated in this study, however, this marginalization is actively being countered as lesbian mothers disrupt the hegemonic notions of motherhood and family by seeking to make their voices heard and stories known in the public sphere. The focus on lesbian parented families in this thesis is important and timely in its engagement of the social debate that continues to surround the queer community as a whole. Data was collected online by accessing five publicly posted blogs authored by self-described lesbian mothers, with narrative inquiry and grounded theory used as methodological approaches. Reading the blogs with a queer feminist critical lens and using an intersectional framework studying the dynamics of queer(/)mother identities as they have been presented within the blogs, the primary questions I ask in this study are: how do lesbian women go about creating and maintaining personal and family identity despite the prevalence of heterobiased and homophobic attitudes that comprise their social context?; and, what stories are being told about their experiences in an online, blogged setting? The question of how opportunities for community building are introduced by sharing these stories online also emerged as I conducted this study. In considering the dearth of research that includes the voices of lesbian mothers as expressed through blogs (Hunter 2015), this study is important in its ability to capture, document and analyze existing and emerging counter-narratives. As a central theme, I offer the notion of blogging as activism, both in terms of the act of storytelling, and also where bloggers have challenged the hegemonic notions of lesbian/mother/family in the context of every day interactions with others. The rationale for blogging as described within the data fell under the themes of information sharing, support seeking and community building. In examining the blogs, themes emerged that described the experience of trying to conceive outside of a heteronormative context; the difficulties of living in a heterobiased culture; and strategies for resistance. Despite the fundamental challenges described in the blogs with regard to living and parenting on the margins of the dominant culture, this study demonstrates blogging as a form of rebellion in disrupting the silence/silencing of queer lives though the public offering of counter-narratives.
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The Different Stories of Cree Woman, Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) and Dakota-Sioux Woman, Amber Tara-Lynn Redman: Understanding Their Disappearances and Murders through Media Re-Presentations and Family Members' Narratives
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-10) McKenzie, Holly Ann; Bourassa, Carrie; Kubik, Wendee; Diamantopoulos, Dimitros; Juschka, Darlene; McKenna, Flora; Pete, Shauneen
Mainstream media re-presentations continue to position Aboriginal women as naturally hypersexual and immoral. This discursive strategy justifies, enables, and incites violence against Aboriginal women (Keating, 2006; LaRocque, 1990). In order to explore 1) how media outlets and agents can be responsive to family and friends of disappeared and murdered Aboriginal women and 2) how media re-presentations can effectively disrupt rather than re-produce white masculine and colonial hegemony, I conducted this thesis project with my co-researchers, Pauline Muskego and Gwenda Yuzicappi. Pauline is the mother of Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego), a Cree woman from Onion Lake First Nation who disappeared in 2004 and was found, murdered, in 2008. Gwenda is the mother of Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, a Dakota Sioux woman from Standing Buffalo First Nation who disappeared in 2005 and was found, murdered, in 2008. This research process involved 1) engaging in conversations with Pauline and Gwenda about their daughters, 2) conducting an analysis of how mainstream and Aboriginal media outlets re-presented Daleen and Amber’s disappearances and murders, and 3) interviewing journalists who covered these stories. In this thesis, I relate the stories Pauline and Gwenda shared with me about their daughters and their experiences with journalists. I also examine the ways Amber and Daleen’s stories were framed during the time they were missing: through the justice system’s efforts to find Daleen and Amber, Amber and Daleen’s family members’ search for them as well as their experiences missing Amber and Daleen and not knowing where they were, as well as the broader issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Then, I examine media re-presentations of Amber and Daleen’s murders and the trial of their (accused) perpetuators. I discuss how the stories of Daleen and Amber’s murders were primarily re-presented through justice system processes and discourses. I take the position that the dominance of justice system discursive materials, spokespeople, and processes in these re-presentations effectively individualizes Daleen and Amber’s murders. I discuss the importance of media outlets and journalists re-presenting family members’ healing journeys in addition to what has traditionally been accepted by media outlets as newsworthy events. Then, I provide recommendations for media outlets, which are also relevant to Aboriginal organizations, family members of disappeared and murdered Aboriginal women, and allies. My purpose in conducting this research and making these recommendations is to add to the dialogue about how media outlets can be more responsive (to family members) and transformative (of white masculine and colonial hegemony) when covering stories of Aboriginal women who have disappeared or been found murdered. At the same time, the discursive and material landscape of Canada under the current Conservative government has stifled this conversation. The recent cuts to CBC (2012), Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Sisters In Spirit initiative (2010) and Health Department (2012) as well as the defunding of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (2012) illustrates how the current federal Canadian government, with its morally and fiscally conservative white-settler ideology, is reinforcing Aboriginal women’s marginalization and undermining their safety.
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Embodied Social Capital: An Analysis of the Production of African-Canadian Women’s Identity and Social Network Access
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-10) Brockett, Terra Lee; Jaffe, JoAnn; Juschka, Darlene; Schick, Carol; Polster, Claire; Hanson, Cindy
This study examines how race and gender mediate access to social networks. Following the work of Louise Holt, the theoretical framework is informed by Judith Butler’s work on performativity with Pierre Bourdieu’s work on embodiment as well as W.E. Dubois’ notion of double consciousness and Gloria Anzadua’s concept of the New Mestiza (2008; Anzaldua, 1999; and Falcon, 2008). Research methods were framed by Black feminist theory and included eight semi-structured interviews with racialized African Canadian women who ranged in age, length of time lived in Canada and had a range of social networks, incomes, and children. The findings in this research identified the racial and gender markings experienced by participants, the methods participants used to negotiate these markings and the diversity of social networks participants accessed as a result, in part, of this negotiation. Participants identified being racially marked as degenerate and not belonging to Canada. The racial marking of their bodies was governed by white hegemony that informs both the Canadian nationhood and colonial narratives. In terms of gender, participants identified being regulated by masculine hegemony through the cult of True Womanhood and neo-liberal principles. They further identified images that reflected the compounding nature of race and gender as they were also regulated by the images of the Jezebel and Matriarch that are specific to women recognized as African. Participants consciously embodied alternative racial and gender markings of their bodies to produce identities that spoke back to unfavorable discursive marking. They also accessed different social networks as a way to negotiate or embody particular markings of their bodies. This negotiation of gender and race led to the production of a diverse range of social networks.
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Every ‘Body’ Has A History: Embodied Values of Ballet Teachers
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-06) Ritenburg, Heather Margaret; Kipling Brown, Ann; Mulholland, Valerie; Juschka, Darlene; Bond, Karen E.; Fisher-Stitt, Norma Sue
This dissertation is an inquiry into the meaning of the teacher’s body in the pedagogy of female dance teachers. It explores how teachers experience their bodies, and considers the values which become embodied and normalized through the style of dance recognized as classical ballet and the international training institution known as the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD). Framed by hermeneutic phenomenology, the research incorporates a poststructural genealogy and related concepts to situate experience as constituted historically, culturally, and institutionally. Feminist concerns inform, and arts-based ways of knowing infuse, both methodology and method. Participants were recruited through a purpose-driven sampling process. All trained both as students and as teachers in classical ballet through the RAD. Initial data creation included participant writings and interviews. Nine themes emerged from the phenomenological analysis: As dance teachers, participants experienced their bodies as 1) involved; 2) important to my teaching; 3) observed, on display, demonstrating; 4) remembering my ballet training; 5) body parts; 6) not essential to my teaching; 7) verbal; 8) clothed; and 9) losing the ability to dance, demonstrate, or do ballet. Institutional and cultural discourses identified through the poststructural analysis included six normalizing discourses about ballet teachers and teaching: 1) the ideal female dancer’s body; 2) teaching as about dancers dancing; 3) ballet as real dance; 4) teacher as a dancer or was a dancer; 5) elitism; 6) excellence. The poststructural analysis was brought alongside the phenomenological analysis through the creation of a theatrical text incorporating data generated throughout the research and dissertation process creating a multi-media phenomenological text. The phenomenological themes describing the teachers’ experiences, when contextualized by the poststructural analysis, are understood as reflecting the body’s knowledge about the “truths” of classical ballet, that is, the values that have emerged and have become normalized. Through the theoretical framework metaphor of gathering in a round-table conversation and the creative metaphor of weaving as an analytical scripting process, this study provides a methodological understanding of how our individual histories together with social and institutional histories become embedded and embodied, and constitute our beings, as phenomenological, lived, or felt experience. In bringing together these two theoretically separated experiences, we are able to see how inseparable they are. Directions for future research are discussed.
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The Evolution of Feminism in Nigerian Media: A Look At IGBO Culture Films
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-01) Emelogu, Joy Adanna; Petty, Sheila; Ramsay, Christine; Juschka, Darlene; Carter, Claire
This thesis addresses the subject of feminism in the Nigerian media, particularly on how issues related to women’s rights and gender discrimination have been addressed in Igbo culture Nigerian films. For several decades, the Nigerian home video industry, dominated by Igbo culture-themed films, has been one of the most influential media forms across Nigeria and Africa in general. These films are a staple in many homes; the images, narratives, and ideas that they disseminate go a long way in shaping or reinforcing public perceptions about the role of women and their status in society. Taking a critical look at how feminism has evolved in Nigerian films, this thesis investigates the extent to which films merely reflect the existing reality of Igbo patriarchal societal structures or persist in propagating dated and unrealistic stereotypes by specifically focusing on two relevant Igbo culture films –Things Fall Apart (1987) produced by Peter Igho, directed by David Orere and Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) produced by Andrea Calderwood and directed by Biyi Bandele. Both films were adapted from novels of the same titles by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie, respectively, and illuminate the depiction of women in the Nigerian media. Based on insights generated from the research evidence, this thesis establishes that Igbo culture films were previously instruments for perpetuating gender inequality by reinforcing and disseminating socially constructed notions of female subordination and male dominance. However, in the last decade, there has emerged an increasing tendency in modern Igbo films towards activism for gender equality and social change. Films like Wives on Strike (Omoni Oboli, 2016) and Dry (Stephanie Linus, 2014) for instance, have tackled issues of child marriage and female education. The thesis concludes that the prospects for a more positive depiction of women and feminism in Igbo culture films and in the Nigerian media generally are influenced by the prevailing societal orientations towards the issue within Nigerian society. It is suggested that films, being important agents of social change and orientation, can play a critical agenda-setting role in stimulating changes in attitudes towards issues of gender equality within the Nigerian society.
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Female Sexuality And Intimate Partner Violence
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-07) Safinuk, Danaka Raine; Hampton, Mary; Baydala, Angelina; Juschka, Darlene; Ji, Xia
Sexuality is a broad term that is used to include biological sex, sexual acts, sexual feelings, gender roles, and attitudes towards sexual behaviour (Jackson & Scott, 1996). It is a dynamic construct that can be influenced by many factors, including experiences of violence and abuse. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one factor that can affect women in many ways, including their physical health, mental health, parenting, and sexuality (Burgess, 1983; Faravelli, Giugni, Salvatori, & Ricca, 2004). The focus of this qualitative study is to understand how IPV impacts women’s sexuality in a sample of women who have experienced IPV. A review of the literature describes the many existing barriers that make it difficult for women to develop a positive sexuality, and discuss what role IPV may have in this development (Russell, 2005). IPV has been shown to influence women’s sexuality both directly, by a partner inflicting physical injuries and conditions that interfere with sexual functioning, and indirectly, through resulting lowered self-esteem, flash-back memories, mental health problems, and various other consequences of IPV (Cobia, Robinson, & Edwards, 2008; Faravelli et al., 2004; Meston, Rellini, & Heiman, 2006). This research project examined IPV survivors’ experience of their sexuality by analyzing 31 qualitative interviews using grounded theory methods (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). A propositional theory was discovered, grounded in the words of the participants, that allows for a better understanding of the impact that IPV has on female sexuality. This theory states that IPV negatively impacts both sense of self and sexuality. Damage to sense of self through abusive relationships could also act to damage sexuality, while regaining sense of self could contribute to the healing of sexuality. Emotional abuse aimed at weight, appearance, sexuality, or gender was found to be particularly damaging to sexuality. The women in this sample helped to define emotional-sexual abuse, which may inform future research attempting to understand specific types of abuse that impact sexuality. The findings from this study may provide insight and understanding about female sexuality and IPV that can inform sexuality education programs, and front-line staff and programs.
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From Sarah Smith to Hesba Stretton: Hidden in Plain Sight
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-12) Toth, Cheryl Elaine; Juschka, Darlene; Ganev, Dorothy; Mulholland, Valerie
Sarah Smith (1832-1911), under the pseudonym of Hesba Stretton, was a popular author of children’s and adult literature in the Victorian era and a founding member of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. This thesis explores how Sarah created herself as the author Hesba Stretton: choosing a pseudonym and subject areas that both revealed and concealed who she was; using the popularity of her works to negotiate with publishers for a living wage for herself and her sister; and parlaying her authorial fame to argue and organize for reform on social issues important to her. Utilizing the insights of feminist literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun, Smith/Stetton’s life is reconstructed to consider the unique opportunities, decisions, contributions and consternations of her life. Her logbooks, travel diaries, short stories, novels and articles, as well as the public record of her involvement in social issues of the day, are the primary sources used for this biographical interpretation of her life. Feminist scholarship, historical and literary, is utilized to give context and critical consideration to Hesba Stretton’s life and work. Finally, in keeping with Heilbrun’s precept that biographies are fictions—constructions of the biographer of a story she needs to tell—brief self-reflective pieces are included. In each chapter the reader sees an aspect of Heilbrun’s theory explored, a time of Hesba Stretton’s life examined, and a connection to the biographer’s life elaborated.
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Healing Through Justice: The Application of Holistic Healing to Racialized and Sexualized Violence against Aboriginal Women of Saskatchewan
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-01) Karpa, Kimberly Dawn; Juschka, Darlene; Bourassa, Carrie; Jones, Nicholas; McKenna, Elder Flora; Pete, Shauneen
Over the last three decades, feminist research has brought violence against women to the attention of policy makers and the general public. In more recent years, researchers have begun to explore the intersection of race, colonialism and gender when examining the issues of violence against Aboriginal women and women of colour (Brownridge 2009, 164-200; Dylan, Regehr, Alaggia 2008, 678-696; Razack 2002, 123-156; 1998, 56-87; Smith 2005, 7-33; Stevenson 1999, 49-80). Aboriginal women in Canada experience exponentially higher rates of violence than non-Aboriginal Canadians do (Amnesty International 2004, 23; Johnson 2006, 14; Sinha 2013, 19). Further, Aboriginal women’s mortality rates as a result of violence are three times higher than for non-Aboriginal women (Amnesty International 2004, 25). In 2004, Amnesty International released a report, “Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada,” that brought attention to the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. In 2005, The Native Women’s Association (NWAC) Sisters in Spirit (SIS) Initiative began conducting a five-year study that found 582, and still counting, cases (2010, i). An observation in this report is that many of the families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls have encountered barriers when working with the police and the other components of the criminal justice system. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the barriers that families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Saskatchewan experience when working with the Canadian justice system, particularly the police; seeking out the changes that need to be made in order to overcome these barriers; and exploring alternative forms of justice that may be more suitable for such cases. More specifically, this research project seeks to explore the viability of restorative justice processes for families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls; what kinds of restorative justice processes might be most beneficial; and finally how the restorative justice processes could work to the benefit of the families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.
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Imagining Ramona: The Mythologization and Martyrdom of a Zapatista Resistance Fighter
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-05) Keating, Bridget Kathryn; Robertson, Carmen; Anderson, Mark; Farrell-Racette, Sherry; Juschka, Darlene; Rogers, Randal; Ramsay, Christine; Brady, Miranda
During the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN/Zapatista) campaign, images of insurgent leader La Comandanta Ramona circulated across Mexico and the globe, encouraging popular support for the Indigenous resistance movement, which was launched from Chiapas’ Lacandón jungle on January 1, 1994.1 Deemed “the petite warrior”2 and a “modern-day David battling Goliath,”3 the masked Maya woman, according to political scientist Karen Kampwirth, captured “[m]ore than any other single Zapatista woman…the imagination of millions.”4 Indeed, by challenging the Mexican government and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples, Ramona became one of the most important revolutionary women in the country’s history. In an official pantheon of virile heroes and hypermasculine icons, including Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, Comandanta Ramona exists, however, as an enigmatic figure—largely overlooked and dismissed in the nation’s revolutionary canon. For instance, while an extensive body of literature explores the Zapatista uprising and its strategic use of imagery, there is a paucity of work interrogating Ramona’s significance in this resistance movement. This dissertation argues that discursive representations in Mexico’s national press render Ramona within archetypal and bifurcated framings that reproduce dominant ideologies in textual and visual news sources. While these imaginings attempt to weaken her political agency and diminish the complexities of history, gender, and race in the theatre of resistance, Ramona ruptures and subverts such ideological trappings, wresting herself from the stranglehold of mediated determinations. In doing so, Ramona defines herself as a dissident agent in the counter-archive of women’s insurgency.
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The Impact of Intimate Partner Stalking on Women Targets: A Narrative Inquiry Analysis.
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-01) Zorn, Kimberley Gayle; Hampton, Mary; Baydala, Angelina; Juschka, Darlene; Price, Heather; Rossiter, Katherine
Over the past decade, research on intimate partner stalking has been expanding. The vast majority of these studies have utilized quantitative methods to investigate the impacts of partner stalking on victims. The few qualitative studies that have been conducted were based on an American sample and did not examine women’s experiences with the criminal justice system or various other service providers (e.g., Melton, 2007b). Logan and Walker (2009) call for future research to utilize narrative inquiry methodology in order to expand on previous findings. As such, the purpose of the current study was to collect stories and experiences from women targets of male perpetrated intimate partner stalking within the Regina, Saskatchewan, area. This community-based research built on a previous study conducted by Family Service Regina’s Domestic Violence Unit, which was funded by a Prairie Action Foundation CARE Grant, designed to inform police, justice, and front line service providers about the impacts of stalking. Data collection and analyses were guided by narrative inquiry methodology as recommended by Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach and Zilber (1998). This methodology was the most appropriate approach for the given research questions as I aimed to hear stories from the viewpoint of participants. Findings from the current study provide further information on the immediate and residual effects of intimate partner stalking. Although previous research has been conducted in this area, to date no research has utilized narrative inquiry methodology with a diverse Canadian sample of women to examine the impacts of partner stalking. Likewise, no studies to date have employed qualitative methods to examine women targets’ experiences with Canadian police and justice services.
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Intimate Partner Violence in Rural and Northern Communities: A Canadian Perspective
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-06) Wuerch, Melissa Anne; Wright, Kristi; Klest, Bridget; Juschka, Darlene; Williams, Jaime; Beshai, Shadi; Martin, Stephanie
Over the past decade, research has largely focused on the type, frequency, and severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) incidents, and has also documented the significant long-term consequences associated with experiencing IPV. To date, a large proportion of research examining IPV in relation to geographical location has focused on urban centres, which cannot be generalized to non-urban areas due to landscape differences (Burke, O’Campo, & Peak, 2006). Furthermore, a small proportion of research has begun to explore the complexities associated with living in rural and northern regions; however, the bulk of these studies span international contexts, and thus, cannot be generalized to a Canadian context (e.g., Beyer, Wallis, & Hamberger, 2015; Zakar, Zakar, & Abbas, 2016). Therefore, although important contributions have been made to increase our understanding of IPV in rural and northern communities, research examining this important topic within a Canadian context is limited (Moffitt, Fikowski, Mauricio, & Mackenzie, 2013; Wuerch, Zorn, Juschka, & Hampton, 2019; Zorn, Wuerch, Faller, & Hampton, 2017). This community-based research expanded on two previous studies, entitled “Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations” and “Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence,” which were funded by SSHRC and SSHRC/CURA, respectively. The purpose of the current investigation was to: (1) explore the challenges that service providers face when supporting survivors of IPV in rural and northern communities, (2) explore the barriers that survivors of IPV face when seeking refuge in rural and northern communities, and (3) identify helpful and/or promising practices being implemented within geographically diverse regions in Saskatchewan. Thus, semi-structured, qualitative interviews were completed with 16 services providers from rural regions and 16 service providers from northern regions within Saskatchewan, Canada. Data collection and analysis was guided by thematic analysis as recommended by Braun and Clarke (2016) through a phenomenological lens (Pietkiewicz & Smith, 2014). Six overarching themes were identified for rural communities, including Root Causes of IPV, Barriers to Leaving IPV Relationships and Accessing Services, Areas in Need of Improvement and Change, Working with Indigenous Peoples, Promising Practices in Rural Communities, and Overall Perception of Work as a Service Provider. In addition, six overarching themes were identified for northern communities, including A Cycle of Disadvantage, Barriers to Leaving IPV Relationships and Accessing Services, Areas in Need of Improvement and Change, Concern about Court Structure and Police Services, Promising Practices in Northern Communities, and Overall Perception of Work as a Service Provider. Higher order themes and subthemes were further identified for the overarching themes. The knowledge gained from the current research will be used to enhance, inform, and improve the effectiveness of national services and the allocation of funding to support survivors of IPV in rural and northern communities within Canada.
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Jesus Christ Superscribe: Knowledge, Interpretation, and Teaching in the Gospel of Matthew
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-07) Guillen, Esther Marie Snarr; Arnal, William; Juschka, Darlene; Bond, Kevin; Braun, Willi
Jesus-characters are most often created as a reflection of their authors, and the author/s of the text traditionally known as “The Gospel According to Matthew” is no different. Matthew creates a Jesus that is focussed on knowledge retention, interpretation, and dissemination. Throughout the text, they set up different scribe-characters as foils for Jesus, so that Jesus’s superior ability to interpret and teach the Hebrew writings can be displayed. Like ben Sira, Matthew creates an “ideal scribe” in their Jesus, and also displays the characteristics of the “ideal scribe” in the composition of the text. This scribe is an able teacher, has complete knowledge of the Hebrew prophecies and the Law, and has been granted, from a divine source, the ability to correctly interpret their knowledge. Matthew’s biography is a creative work, formed by re-working sources and use of original material. The author/s interest in the nature of prophecy and divine knowledge is distinct from other Jesus-biographies, which is displayed by creation of composite prophetic quotations, a requirement for verbatim fulfillment of prophecy, and use of dream-revelations. These are Greco-Roman literary techniques, and Matthew’s biography, alongside other biographies of Jesus, should be imagined to have the same compositional process as other texts of its period and genre.
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Legislated Oppression: Racism, Patriarchy and Colonialism in the Status Provisions of the Indian Act
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-06) Burton, Michael James; Green, Joyce; Juschka, Darlene; Schick, Carol; Dick, Caroline
The status provisions of the Indian Act have, since its passage in 1874, endeavoured to define who is and who is not an Indian. The foundation of this status regime has been based on European conceptions of racial and cultural superiority as well as patriarchy. By defining, through legislation, what qualifies people to be Indian the colonial state has caused divisions within First Nations communities and among First Nations people. Through an examination of the different amendments to the status provisions and enfranchisement measures within the different iterations of the Indian Act, this paper makes the case that the current system, even following amendments in 1985 which were meant to bring the status regime in line with The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, maintains the patriarchal, racist and colonial foundation. Further examination of legal challenges to the status provisions of the Indian Act under both Canadian and international law will show that even following the 1985 amendments and the 2011 amendments, the status regime imposed via the Act remains foundationally discriminatory. Using post-colonial theory this paper defines the imposition of the status regime as racist, sexist and Eurocentric and discusses the negative effects that regime has on the colonized peoples of Canada as well as on the colonizers who impose the regime. Finally, this paper will propose a process by which the status regime can be ended and replaced by system of First Nations citizenship that is determined by First Nations, is based on customs and traditions, but also lives up to internationally accepted human rights standards.