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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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...Congratulations to SHiFT member Alexander Vasilovsky on his successful PhD dissertation Defense!
A message from Dr. Maria Gurevich, SHiFT lab director: Congratulations to Alexander Vasilovsky, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Mainstream Psychology and the Gender Binary: [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Member Emily Thomas interviewed in FASHION Magazine's article on consent workshops at Toronto's Oasis Aqualounge
Check out SHiFT lab member Emily Thomas' interview in "Green Light," FASHION Magazine's cover of consent-first workshops at a Toronto sex-friendly club, Oasis Aqualounge. Emily talks about her researc [...]
Read More...July issue of The Psychologist Magazine features coverage of SHiFT Lab presentations at 2018 POWES Conference
Hot off the presses! Coverage of SHiFT Lab presentations at this year's British Psychological Society's Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) Conference in Windsor, UK – in the July iss [...]
Read More...SHiFT Lab Member Emily Thomas comments on media attention around her research in June 2018 Sexualities article
Check out SHiFT Lab member Emily Thomas' commentary, "Mis/representation and the media: A reflection on experiences with media engagement", in the June 2018 issue of Sexualities journal! She and co-au [...]
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