Critical Sexuality Scholarship
A critical sexuality studies perspective guides our work. This approach addresses the ways sexology and popular discourses produce…
Read more
Read more
Research Focus
Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies
Feminist epistemologies and methodologies – with feminist poststructuralism and discursive approaches as central analytic tools – direct our theoretical…
Read more
Read more
Sexual Meanings, Messages and Practices
We have studied sexual meanings, messages and practices in the context of health issues, such as: sexuality in…
Read more
Read more
Sexual Technologies
We join a body of feminist scholarship directed at expanding epistemic and empirical conversations beyond sexual empowerment/oppression oppositions…
Read more
Read more
Current Projects
Postfeminism, Pornography, and Sexual Proficiency (PI: M. Gurevich, Ryerson SRC and Research Assistant Funds, 2011) The erotic landscape…
Read more
Read more
Recent NewsView All News
New York Times Interview with Tarana Burke: She Founded Me Too. Now She Wants to Move Past the Trauma
The #metoo movement has travelled over the past decade... Interesting interview with founder, Tarana Burke, about moving forward with healing. Click the photo below to access the interview! [...]
Read More...2020/21 Ontario Graduate Scholarships Awarded to SHiFT PhD Candidates!
Time to celebrate! 🥳 Both our SHiFT Lab PhD candidates, Stephanie Cosma, MA, and Emily Thomas, MA, have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships in the amount of $15,000 each. We are v [...]
Read More...New SHiFT publication!
Hot off the press! Our SHiFT PhD candidate, Stephanie Cosma M.A., in collaboration with Dr. Maria Gurevich, have a new publication! Cosma, S., & Gurevich, M. (2020). Securing sex: Embattled ma [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Attends Association for Women in Psychology 2020 Conference in Austin
Lab news! Dr. Maria Gurevich and our two graduate students, Stephanie Cosma M.A., and Emily Thomas M.A., attended the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 conference in Austin at the beginning of [...]
Read More...Congratulations to SHiFT member Nicole Cormier on her successful PhD dissertation Defense!
A message from Dr. Maria Gurevich, SHiFT lab director: Congratulations to Nicole Cormier, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of [...]
Read More...