Critical Sexuality Scholarship
A critical sexuality studies perspective guides our work. This approach addresses the ways sexology and popular discourses produce…
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Research Focus
Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies
Feminist epistemologies and methodologies – with feminist poststructuralism and discursive approaches as central analytic tools – direct our theoretical…
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Sexual Meanings, Messages and Practices
We have studied sexual meanings, messages and practices in the context of health issues, such as: sexuality in…
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Sexual Technologies
We join a body of feminist scholarship directed at expanding epistemic and empirical conversations beyond sexual empowerment/oppression oppositions…
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Current Projects
Postfeminism, Pornography, and Sexual Proficiency (PI: M. Gurevich, Ryerson SRC and Research Assistant Funds, 2011) The erotic landscape…
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Recent NewsView All News
Lab member Stephanie Cosma wins CCDP TA Award!
Huge congratulations to SHiFT's one-and-only Stephanie Cosma for winning a Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) Teaching Assistant Award for 2018!! [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Member Emily Thomas wins CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence!
More big news from the SHiFT Lab: our one-and-only Emily Thomas has been selected to receive a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Master's Thesis! Congratula [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab on Standpoints, Psychology's Feminist Voices' Blog!
Check out SHiFT Lab Director, Dr. Maria Gurevich's, post about the lab's work on Standpoints, Psychology's Feminist Voices' blog! [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Members Stephanie Cosma and Emily Thomas awarded SSHRC scholarships
So excited to announce that SHiFT Lab members Stephanie Cosma and Emily Thomas have each been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship from SSHRC!! [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Member Emily Thomas named O'Brien Foundation Fellow!
Big congratulations to Emily Thomas, who was granted a fellowship award from The O'Brien Foundation! Read Emily's write-up here! Established in 1971, The Leonard and Kathleen O'Brien Humanitaria [...]
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