The Gender Studies MA program at UNBC offers the opportunity to work with scholars in a variety of disciplines who share a focus on women and/or gender as a category of analysis.
The program has particular strengths in areas such as gender, literature, and cultural studies; gender, history, and anthropology; gender, colonialism, and postcolonialism; gender and globalization; feminism, justice, and ethics; gender and health; and gender and international studies. Gender Studies MA students have the opportunity to design a course of study that incorporates gender- or feminism-based methodologies and interdisciplinarity while developing expertise in an area of concentration. While providing a transnational frame of reference, we also pay attention to the national and regional; students will therefore emerge from the program with both a broad analytical framework and a well-developed focus.
Application deadlines are found in this calendar under "Semester Dates" or online at: www.unbc.ca/calendar/graduate, also under "Semester Dates." The Gender Studies MA Program accepts students for the September and January Semesters.
For additional information about graduate admissions or to download application materials, go to the Graduate Programs website at www.unbc.ca/graduateprograms.
Here are the answers to prospective applicants’ most common questions. Please read them carefully, and contact us should you have further questions.
2023-2024 Gender Studies Handbook
Gender Studies Master's Theses Completed at UNBC
(Click on the author's name to read the abstract)
Boateng, Sandra (2022)
"Exploring factors leading to the justification of marital rape among Ghanaian-Canadian married women"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Ibu, Esther (2021)
"Assessing the impacts of conflicting gender ideologies on domestic violence: a case study of Nigerian-immigrant women in Canada"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Pikkarainen, Jessica (2020)
"'Kitchen crafters': Canning, feminism, and the value of 'women's work'"
Supervisor: Dr. Kristen Guest
Blawatt, Sarah (2020)
"The embodied experiences of alienation and opioid use: examining the body as a site of direct exchange through the double lens of theory and narrative"
Supervisor: Dr. Maryna Romanets
Coburn, Jennifer (2019)
"The 'girl push up': The effects of gender stereotypes on women's competence and participation in physical activity"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler and Dr. Loraine Lavalee
"Flesher, Devon (2017)
"Negotiating the conditions of Bella's desire: Sexuality in the Twilight saga"
Supervisor: Dr. Karin Beeler
Fraser, Ley D. (2016)
"Individuality in approaches to emotionally demanding work and coping among experienced British Columbia social workers"
Supervisor: Dr. Dawn Hemingway
Adjei, Doris (2015)
The cycle of poverty and early marriage among women in Ghana (a case study of Kassena-Nankana)
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Bradley, Reeanna Elizabeth (2014)
"ARTivism : gender and artistic expression at AWAC"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Doucette, Kathryn Suzanne (2014)
"Femininity and female identity of forest industry workers in northern British Columbia from 1960 to 2000"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Eka, Somina Aleleba (2014)
"Expressions of mother-daughter disconnections and homelessness in Prince George"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Taylor, Benjamin Duncan Scott (2014)
"The cultural evolution of masculine body image : an interdisciplinary analysis of male body image regulation within men's lifestyle magazines"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Shaw, Anita Jane (2012)
"Adolescent girls' experiences of unwanted intercourse and unintentional pregnancy : a retrospective study"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Skorecka, Agata (2012)
"'Wwoofing' BC : an autoethnography"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Euverman, Susan Maureen (2011)
"Exploring gender equity in a multimodal novel study"
Supervisor: Dr. Willow Brown
Oliver, Diandra Mary Ann (2011)
"Standing in the way of control : me + third-wave feminism"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Harding, Zandra Dahne (2010)
"Voices and visions : transformative creativity in a northern context"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Myers, Charlene Dianne (2010)
"Gender harassment of women in unionized nontraditional professional occupations in British Columbia : an evaluation of legal redress procedures"
Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Poff
Sharp, Elezabeth Anna (2010)
"Masculine identity in a "woman's" role : stay-at-home dads in northern British Columbia"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Duke, Dolores Jean (2006)
"The representation of sexuality and gender in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair"
Supervisor: Dr. Maryna Romanets
Payson, Jennifer Elizabeth (2006)
"How should I eat these? With your mouth, asshole" : First Nations women's literature responds to colonial discourse
Supervisor: Dr. Dee Horne
Onciul-Omelus, Jamie Marie Lynn (2005)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as "shero": re-defining the mythological hero
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Budde
Plante, Jacqueline Rachelle (2005)
"Reconceiving utopian movement : realizing the transformative potential of literary and philosophical exchange"
Supervisor: Maryna Romanets
Box, Carol Lynn (2003)
"Madeline Izowsky, 1885-1979 : a Polish woman in western Canada"
Supervisor: Dr. Marianne Ainley
Walther, Maria Elizabeth (2003)
"Towards body-recovery : a collage of orality : herstorical poetry-tellings within feminist and ecological feminist narratives"
Supervisor: Dr. Si Transken
Worfolk, Melinda Joy (2003)
"Almost fond of the damned town" : women's concepts of community in Mackenzie, British Columbia"
Supervisor: Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske
Chrisara, Adeja Houle (2002)
"Issues of voice, changes of heart : personal and political implications of women's feature film production in Canada"
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Emberley
Perry, Amber Leigh (2002)
"Meanings of health and well-being for rural lesbians in northern BC"
Supervisor: Dr. Jo Anne Fiske
Domshy, Helen Christine (2001)
"(Re)imaging the breast : a feminist analysis of a cultural obsession"
Supervisor: Dr. Joanne Friske
Wei, Hsueh-lin (2001)
"Running with wounded feet : a Taiwanese daughter's views on familial issues of filial piety, home and marriage"
Supervisor: Dr. Joanne Friske
Thacker, Julie Christine (2000)
"Mothers who live apart from their children"
Supervisor: Dr. Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
Thien, Deborah Lynne (2000)
"Across the street : an intimate feminist geography in Aotearoa/New Zealand"
Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Herringer
Marucci, Georgina Elizabeth (2000)
"Lake Babine women's rites of passage: an archaeological inquiry"
Supervisor: Dr. Jo Anne Friske
Tepperman, Suzanne Louise (2000)
"Fatty fatty two-by-four, can't get through the bathroom door: a feminist analysis of the discourse on fat and the strategies used to challenge fatphobia"
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Emberley
Ginn, Patty Jean (1998)
"Wife Battering, Institutional Appropriation, and Treatment Discourse: A Struggle for Discursive Control"
Supervisor: Dr. Jo Anne Friske