Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation traces the emergence of the "transgender predator" discourse on social media. Taking its cue from the 2019 British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal case Yaniv v. Various Waxing Salons, in which a white Canadian trans woman named Jessica Yaniv unsuccessfully filed a series of complaints against a number of racialized cisgender aestheticians claiming that they… more Full Text: Contemporary Discourses About Trans Women: The Making of the “Transgender Predator” A doctoral dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of …
Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Perkins, Sarah Rachel, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Thesis advisor (ths): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Principe, Concetta, Degree committee member (dgc): Bhanji, Nael, Degree committee member (dgc): Nichols, Naomi, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis considers the fanfiction genres of slash-fiction, and Alpha/Beta/Omega fiction through an analysis of fandom's embedded gift economy structures. Previous research on fanfiction and fandom structures have often characterized the gift economy nature of these spaces as countercultural and as separate from the frequent exploitation inherent in economic-based systems. There… more Full Text: Ripe for the Taking: Disrupting Narratives of a Queer Utopia in the Alpha/Beta/Omega Fanfiction Gift Economy A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty …