Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Slater-Meadows, Angela, Thesis advisor (ths): Buccieri, Kristy, Degree committee member (dgc): Rapaport, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Many middle-class families, according to Whiteman (2023) find it challenging to manage unless both parents contribute financially through employment. I chose to become a professional because I'd wanted better employment options. My academic research interests soon had me wondering what working-while-parenting experiences were like for other professionals. The overarching topic of my… more Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Since 1984, poetry slams have emerged as a politicized expressive movement of performing the personal and political through poetry competitions. Slams are also discursively spatialized, often represented as "spaces" that are "safe," "inclusive," etc. In this thesis, I investigate how, why, and to what effect the Peterborough Poetry Slam produces,… more Full Text: “THIS IS WHERE THE POETRY COMES OUT”: EXAMINING THE PETERBOROUGH POETRY SLAM AS RESISTANT SPACE-MAKING Melissa Baldwin (c) Copyright by Melissa Baldwin 2017 Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies M.A. Graduate Program Trent University Nogojiwanong …
