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Canadian Hockey English: Production And Perception, Julie Dallinges
Canadian Hockey English: Production And Perception, Julie Dallinges
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The present dissertation investigates the English spoken by ice hockey players in Canada, asking whether there might be a distinct language variety that could be called “Canadian Hockey English”. Applying acoustic analysis to recorded samples from the PAC-LVTI Ontario (Canada) Hockey English Corpus, I study two well-known Canadian English phonetic features: Canadian Raising and the Canadian Vowel Shift. I am particularly interested in determining whether these two variables are conditioned by the degree of hockey players’ engagement in the sport. In parallel, using a three-part online survey, I explore anglophone Ontarians’ knowledge and awareness of both Canadian English and Hockey …
Nonhuman Melancholy: Objects Of Decay, Darkness, And The Computational Gaze, Sasha Opeiko
Nonhuman Melancholy: Objects Of Decay, Darkness, And The Computational Gaze, Sasha Opeiko
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Is it possible to conceptualize a new interpretation of melancholy, one that pertains not to subjective experience but to the nonhuman? Through various case studies of contemporary art, I approach this question through a speculative realist interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari’s machine ontology, Levi Bryant’s machine-oriented ontology, and Reza Negarestani’s conceptions of decay. Nonhuman melancholy is ultimately conceived through several characteristics of disintegration: withdrawal, disintegrative asignifiance (asymbolia), temporal indeterminacy, and corpo-motor retardation (deceleration). Each case study focuses on different manifestations of nonhuman melancholy. First, melancholy is embodied in objects on a material level. On a larger scale, its symptoms are …
A Defense Of Virtual Veridicalism, Yen-Tung Lee
A Defense Of Virtual Veridicalism, Yen-Tung Lee
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Virtual reality is poised to be increasingly important in our lives. This dissertation investigates the philosophical foundations of virtual reality, probing the metaphysics and epistemology of perceptual experiences of virtual environments. Specifically, it asks 1) what there is in virtual reality and 2) how we perceive virtual things. It defends virtual veridicalism, the view that perceptual experiences in virtual reality are as veridical as ordinary experiences. The defense consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 explains why such questions need to be addressed. Chapter 2 develops a realist view of virtual objects and properties, arguing that virtual objects exist and instantiate …
Against Eternity: A Critical Reading Of Transhumanism, Alessandra Mularoni
Against Eternity: A Critical Reading Of Transhumanism, Alessandra Mularoni
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Amid ongoing global political and ecological crises, transhumanists proselytize visions of a more equitable, healthy future made possible by advanced computation. Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including death. My research identifies a racist, colonial, patriarchal impulse in the transhuman pursuit of immortality. I begin by situating transhumanism biopolitically within the discourse of population control and genetic optimization. Tracing early transhuman thinking alongside sterilization and assisted reproduction, I identify a eugenic link between transhumanism and reproductive medicine. I then reveal how contemporary transhumanism functions through a paradigm of potential …
Newspaper Coverage Of Child Emigration Through The Children’S Emigration Homes From 1872 To 1895, Michael T. Brown
Newspaper Coverage Of Child Emigration Through The Children’S Emigration Homes From 1872 To 1895, Michael T. Brown
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From 1872 to 1895, the Children’s Emigration Homes, under the care of Birmingham philanthropist Dr. John T. Middlemore, facilitated the emigration of children to a receiving home and sent them to live in Ontario as domestic servants and agricultural labourers. Newspapers played an important role in promoting child emigration as a viable solution to reduce poverty in Great Britain by rehabilitating the public perception of child emigrants from a drain on the taxpayer to a benefit to Canadian communities. Newspaper coverage focused on several key themes: the transformation of a child’s character; the success of the organization’s mission; organizational accountability; …
The 17th Century Legacy Of Neo-Stoic Ethics, James Mackey
The 17th Century Legacy Of Neo-Stoic Ethics, James Mackey
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Justus Lipsius was a 16th -century renaissance humanist and literary scholar who, crucially for the history of philosophy, was involved in the publication and reinterpretation of Stoic thought, primarily focusing on the works of Seneca. Despite a fair amount of scholarship on Lipsius’s contribution to the history of philosophy, the role of Stoicism in the early to mid-17th century is still not well understood. In this thesis I show, through close examination of Lipsius’s work, that Neo-Stoic ethics in the 17th century amounts to a view about the relationship between providence and human actions. After identifying ways that Stoic philosophy …
Eyes Open In The Dark, Brittany A. Forrest
Eyes Open In The Dark, Brittany A. Forrest
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An unusual dissertation that presents a science fiction autobiographical narrative, following a trial of trauma and identity dysphoria. Through a trans-queer biological female lens, the vulnerable tone of the author invites the reader into wording that describes matters they will care for on a human level. This study probes the question of what lives within the silence of our perceptions by appraising reverberations between interactions that coerce the human condition. Interrogating memory is inevitable when questioning how defense mechanisms interrelate and adapt to human needs. This study penetrates the complexities of perception fabrications, power dynamics, sensory perceptions, systemic moralities, and …
"The Whole World Opened Up, There's No Better Word For It Than Euphoria": Experience Of Embodiment In Trans*Feminine Individuals, Sara M. Stanley
"The Whole World Opened Up, There's No Better Word For It Than Euphoria": Experience Of Embodiment In Trans*Feminine Individuals, Sara M. Stanley
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The “experience of embodiment” is a construct that captures how an individual experiences the body in their socio-cultural context and has important implications for mental health and well-being. The construct was originally developed to explain the experiences of cis-gender girls and women, and has not been investigated in trans*feminine individuals. Grounded in social constructivism, and integrating the gender minority stress model and principles of intersectionality, the present study investigated trans*feminine experiences of embodiment. To expand our understanding of this construct, trans*feminine participants engaged in focus groups (n=28), a photo-elicitation task (n=25), and one-on-one semi-structured interviews (n=25). Using a combined inductive …
The Question Of Opium: Money, Morality And Japan’S Transimperial Participation In Opium Regulation, 1868 – 1925, Brian F. Gibb
The Question Of Opium: Money, Morality And Japan’S Transimperial Participation In Opium Regulation, 1868 – 1925, Brian F. Gibb
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‘The Opium Question’ was not a question, but rather it framed the issue of the under-regulated production, trade and consumption of opium in Asia throughout the nineteenth century. How did opium contribute to Japan’s imperial expansion? Furthermore, how did Japan learn from other imperial powers and use non-state epistemic knowledge to learn to expand its empire? Historians of drugs often use the term prohibition in relation to illicit drugs, when I argue that we should be discussing their regulation. Meiji Japan was faced with the issue of Chinese imperial subjects who were also dependent on opium. As part of the …
Solidarity Building In A Structurally Unjust World, Emily T. Cichocki
Solidarity Building In A Structurally Unjust World, Emily T. Cichocki
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This thesis focuses on structural injustice and political solidarity in resistance to structural injustice. The first article grapples with the tension between complicity in structural injustice and political solidarity in resistance to injustice. I explore how complicity in structural injustice can inhibit the conditions needed for a meaningful sense of political solidarity. However, given that it is not realistic to eliminate all complicity in structural injustice, I argue that solidarity requires that we reckon with complicity and offer an account of what this involves. The second article focuses on Iris Marion Young’s practical concern that interpreting our responsibility for structural …
How Can I Be Ok With The E/And Of The World?, Jessica I. Joyce
How Can I Be Ok With The E/And Of The World?, Jessica I. Joyce
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This dossier, a companion to my MFA thesis exhibition, communicates research on climate anxiety and contemporary art’s engagement with the Climate Emergency. It gathers contemporary art and fiction, graphic novels, environmental philosophy, Indigenous literature and theory, and feminist theory. The Comprehensive Artist Statement articulates how I process and respond to my own climate anxiety through my contemporary painting practice. A material commitment is elucidated, and a collaborative painting strategy outlined, both in the service of better connecting my tangible studio output with my research to form a cohesive whole. These experiments influenced the images and art materials that I worked …
The Sino-Vietnamese War: How To Forget A Victory?, Kunji Wang
The Sino-Vietnamese War: How To Forget A Victory?, Kunji Wang
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This thesis explores the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and its extended conflicts through the 1980s, focusing on the forgotten narratives and marginalized experiences of the war's veterans. It aims to uncover why this victory has been intentionally omitted from China's official historical narrative and to highlight the veterans' ongoing struggles in a rapidly transforming society.
This research combines oral histories, extensive fieldwork, and a review of both Chinese and non-Chinese scholarly works. By integrating diverse sources, the thesis challenges the official narrative and emphasizes the need for a more inclusive historical memory that acknowledges the sacrifices and experiences of …
Nuthin' Lasts, Steve Debruyn
Nuthin' Lasts, Steve Debruyn
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Nuthin’ Lasts is a Master of Fine Arts thesis project comprised of the dossier and exhibition documentation presented at the Artlab Gallery from June 27th to July 18th, 2024. My multidisciplinary work and related research explore connections between materiality and autoconstruction. The Comprehensive Artist Statement is the first chapter of the dossier and explores the working methods I employ within my practice, as well as my interest in temporality and historicity. I describe my process and how it integrates improvisation and transformation, as well as the importance of ephemerality. The second chapter includes documentation of my work …
The Imbalanced Interaction Of Verbal Ambiguity And Pro-Drop: The Functional Hypothesis In Homeland And Heritage Varieties Of Calabrian Italian And Ciociaro, Michael Iannozzi
The Imbalanced Interaction Of Verbal Ambiguity And Pro-Drop: The Functional Hypothesis In Homeland And Heritage Varieties Of Calabrian Italian And Ciociaro, Michael Iannozzi
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In languages like Italian and Spanish, verbal inflection is often able to disambiguate the subject for person and number. These languages also permit a null subject pronoun (pro-drop). In other Romance languages, such as French, verbal paradigms are much more syncretic, and overt subject pronouns are required in most instances.
The functional hypothesis proposes a causal relationship between these two aspects of a language: if a verb’s inflection disambiguates, an overt subject can be redundant.
In this dissertation, I investigate pro-drop in Ciociaro—a sibling language of Italian, which is spoken in Frosinone, Italy. Ciociaro’s verbal inflections are highly syncretic compared …
Capital, Christopher J. Miller
Capital, Christopher J. Miller
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Capital is a piece for orchestra, baritone, and pop band that portrays the proliferation of economic inequality in the Unites States, and the failures of capitalism as a whole. Capital is guided by extramusical texts: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, and Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The text, for baritone, is taken from particularly poignant moments of Das Kapital that represent Marx's critique of capitalism, while the glissando, in the string section, is a musical translation of the income inequality chart by Thomas Piketty. The approach of this piece is hauntological. Specifically, that we are haunted by …
Botho - Inspired Social Entrepreneurship In Sport: A Decolonial Intersectional Perspective On Social Entrepreneurship In Sport, Denise Kamyuka Ms
Botho - Inspired Social Entrepreneurship In Sport: A Decolonial Intersectional Perspective On Social Entrepreneurship In Sport, Denise Kamyuka Ms
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Botswana is on a mission to reach high-income status by 2036. Therefore, the government has called for inclusive economic growth from all sectors of the economy, including the sport sector. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is recognized as a viable tool for inclusive economic growth as it presents economic opportunities for marginalized populations (particularly African women). The literature shows that SE will be beneficial in Botswana, given its high unemployment rate for women (26%) and the high percentage of female-led households (45%). However, the government’s strategies for growing the sport sector do not mention SE. In this dissertation, a group of Batswana …
"Une Chose Pour Le Théâtre": Ines Pérée Et Inat Tendu De Réjean Ducharme, Lidiya Boteva
"Une Chose Pour Le Théâtre": Ines Pérée Et Inat Tendu De Réjean Ducharme, Lidiya Boteva
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Réjean Ducharme’s collection houses a treasure trove of typescripts and manuscripts, among which are five dactylograms of his inaugural play, Ines Pérée et Inat Tendu, officially published in 1976. Delving into the dossier of his work not only offers insights into the motivations behind each unpublished version but also allows us to uncover the playwright Ducharme as he forged his own style of conceiving a dramatic play. As we discover the unpublished variants, a tempting question emerges: can we truly grasp the essence of a play solely through its official published text? Interviews with stage professionals who have brought …
Preternatural Laughter: Rhetorics Of Animality In The Literature Of Insanity, 1798-1882, Melanie Byron
Preternatural Laughter: Rhetorics Of Animality In The Literature Of Insanity, 1798-1882, Melanie Byron
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This project meets at the intersections of critical disability theory and critical animal studies to interrogate the rhetoricability of mad and animalized rhetors. Insofar as disability theory argues that the values inscribed on the disabled body are the product of cultural, social, and historical determinants, I ask: how is the voice of madness constructed? Whereas mad characters of the nineteenth century novel frequently shout, laugh, cry, and even speak in fully formed utterance, these voices are just as frequently absent in dialogue and undermined in their authority. Madness comes to hold a distinctly (a)rhetorical presence, as authors grappling with the …
Laughing [Until/Because] It Hurts: Finding Time For Queer Joy And Belonging Through Art And Aesthetics, Amy Keating
Laughing [Until/Because] It Hurts: Finding Time For Queer Joy And Belonging Through Art And Aesthetics, Amy Keating
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This thesis explores queer art and aesthetics as rich in potential for the affects of queer joy and queer belonging. In addition to existing in a world that punishes deviance from systemic norms, marginalized groups are expected to be the leaders of systemic deconstruction. Moreover, I argue that the constraints of chrononormativity uniquely affect queer folks. These burdens are heavy. How, then, do queers find time for laughter? How do they create the opportunity to connect without the immediate pressure of socio-political reformation? When reformation is critical for survival, how do queer folks make time for joy? Research often prioritizes …
Period Poverty And Menstrual Perceptions Among Unhoused Menstruators In An Urban Center In Southern Ontario, Kristina D N Fernando
Period Poverty And Menstrual Perceptions Among Unhoused Menstruators In An Urban Center In Southern Ontario, Kristina D N Fernando
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The purpose of this study is to uncover, describe and examine period poverty among unhoused menstruators accessing an urban shelter in Southern Ontario. Situated in a postmodern feminist lens and explored through thematic analysis, I employ participant observations and semi-structured interviews with shelter residents (n=13) and shelter staff (n=3) to conduct an exploratory case study at Dahlia Women and Family Shelter. The study findings suggest that menstruators at Dahlia experience period poverty and undergo significant challenges to their menstrual hygiene management. Menstrual perceptions were also found to vary based on the menstrual education that menstruators received …
Decolonizing Music Education: A Journey Of Reflection And Reconciliation, Eric J. Zwicker
Decolonizing Music Education: A Journey Of Reflection And Reconciliation, Eric J. Zwicker
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This research-creation project explores the journey of an Indigenous music scholar seeking to decolonize music education by embracing Indigenous methodologies and reflecting on their identity and culture throughout the music-making process. Drawing inspiration from Indigenous stories, knowledge, and cultural practices, the researcher creates a musical artifact as the central outcome of the project, which highlights the significance of music as a form of reconciliation.
The researcher emphasizes the value of practice-based creative processes within research-creation, highlighting the paradigm's compatibility with Indigenous ways of knowing. The project advocates for research-creation as a pathway that leads to a more diverse and authentic …
On Mothers And Measures: The (Re)Production Of Mothering Ideologies In Psychological Measures Of Motherhood, Ella R. Keogh
On Mothers And Measures: The (Re)Production Of Mothering Ideologies In Psychological Measures Of Motherhood, Ella R. Keogh
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Across disciplines, researchers look to motherhood as a site of theorization about the growth and wellbeing of the population because of their important role in biological and social reproduction. Psychologists frequently study motherhood and as such play an important role in producing an ideal maternal subject. Past research has shown that the measurement tools we use in psychology are laden with bias, stereotypes, and ideologies about the group being studied and as such are producing ideologically charged results that filter into the world under the semblance of scientific objectivity (McClelland et al., 2020). Using critical measurement analysis, I found that …
Contemporary Painting: Autopoietic Improvisation And A Relational Ecology, Philip James Gurrey
Contemporary Painting: Autopoietic Improvisation And A Relational Ecology, Philip James Gurrey
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Contemporary painting as a form of research-making and knowledge acquisition through applied practice calls for a re-evaluation of the relationship between painter and painting. This dissertation examines the complexity of this relationship by displacing authority over the artwork and its meaning from the artist. From this poststructuralist starting point the thesis expands upon Derridean ideas of deconstruction by folding them back into Martin Heidegger’s concepts of earth and world. The aim is to reintroduce the physical materiality of paint back into the relationship between painter and painting, prompting a reassessment of the importance of a wider ecological context. Through an …
A Discourse In Strength: Suite For Orchestra, Thomas Yackimec
A Discourse In Strength: Suite For Orchestra, Thomas Yackimec
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A Discourse in Strength is a nineteen-minute, five movement suite for full orchestra. Its five movements are entitled Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro and Presto. Through the five movements, the work aims to aurally depict a pyramid of strength training-based concepts that would be found in a typical strength training program. A Discourse in Strength utilizes sounds from the orchestra and numbers from the Fibonacci sequence and the sequence itself to simulate the following concepts of muscular growth and strength building. The first movement explores neuromuscular control and balance, the second looks at muscular endurance and the third portrays muscular hypertrophy. …
A Musicology Of Record Production - Research Creation, Gender, And Creative Reflective Practice In Project-Paradigm Music Production, Lydia Wilton
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This research-creation project elucidates the “methodology” of producing records. As an artist-researcher, I investigate how a record producer uses the recording studio as a “musical instrument”. My primary research goal is to answer two fundamental questions about record producing that have yet to be addressed and which cannot be explored successfully by other means: “Does the record producer’s creative agency have musical consequences?”, and “If so, what are they?” Through the creative practices I adopted for this project’s artefact - an album of nine tracks, called Blasphemy, that I produced for the London, Ontario-based rock band Nameless Friends - …
Creating Legitimacy: The Dyarchy In Spartan Social Memory, Stephanie J. Dennie
Creating Legitimacy: The Dyarchy In Spartan Social Memory, Stephanie J. Dennie
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Scholars of the constitutional development of Archaic Sparta and its dyarchy (or dual kingship) have long considered Tyrtaios’ Eunomia contemporary evidence for the mysterious lawgiver Lykourgos, whose alleged reforms have largely been reconstructed from late-Classical and Roman sources. According to orthodox narratives of Lykourgos, seventh-century Sparta enjoyed internal stability and good governance, but Tyrtaios’ seventh-century poem strongly suggests the continued existence of civil strife. Drawing on social memory studies and archaeological survey data, this dissertation questions the Lykourgan grand narrative and explores the capacity of Tyrtaios’ Eunomia to help us recontextualize Sparta’s socio-political development in the seventh century BCE.
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“We Make Things Today For Tomorrow”: Artists’ Publishing For The Future, Ruth Skinner
“We Make Things Today For Tomorrow”: Artists’ Publishing For The Future, Ruth Skinner
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This dissertation is an exploration of artists’ book, artists’ publishing, distribution, and archival practices from a number of vantages in order to explore the activist possibilities of contemporary arts publishing. The concept of urgent artifacts, developed by publisher Paul Soulellis, reverberates throughout this research. The liveliness of this term is enhanced through applying additional modes of experience: clairvoyance, forensics, thinness, as well as their tricky interplay. In exploring what artists’ publishing might require for the present and the immediate future, this research-creation project considers the possibilities that clairvoyance—in particular, the figure of the medium—and archival intuition might offer. Borrowing from …
Performing Masculinity: Calgary Men In The Great War, Andrew J. Hawkes
Performing Masculinity: Calgary Men In The Great War, Andrew J. Hawkes
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This thesis explores the masculinity of soldiers from Calgary during the Great War using a theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity. The first chapter establishes a normative masculine standard in Calgary using local newspaper coverage of battalion departure parades. These events were rituals that celebrated militarized masculinity and reinforced the hegemonic ideal that existed across the British Empire in the early 20th century. The second chapter assesses how masculinity was performed in letters during the war. Although men strove to embody the masculine ideal, their letters were not uniform endorsements of martial masculinity. The third chapter analyzes how hegemonic masculinity …
Extinction Anxiety As Zeitgeist: An Examination Of The Cultural Anxiety Surrounding Extinction Threats, Spencer J. Kett
Extinction Anxiety As Zeitgeist: An Examination Of The Cultural Anxiety Surrounding Extinction Threats, Spencer J. Kett
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This thesis examines extinction anxiety as a zeitgeist that manifests through nuclear war anxiety and climate change anxiety. I define extinction anxiety as the cultural mood of anxiousness surrounding extinction threats in the past, present, and future. I use Monika Krause’s sociological conception of zeitgeist to understand these anxieties as a cultural mood. I demonstrate using Jean-Paul Sartre’s conceptualization of materially derived subjectivity, how these moods of anxiousness are internalized through material conditions. I build my concept of extinction anxiety by comparing and contrasting the mood of anxiousness surrounding nuclear war during the Cold War and the current mood of …
Listening To "Silence": Alternative Modes Of Communication In Korean And Korean American Women's Literature, Judy Joo-Ae Bae
Listening To "Silence": Alternative Modes Of Communication In Korean And Korean American Women's Literature, Judy Joo-Ae Bae
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South Korean feminist activity may be relatively unknown to many Western readers; however, a distinct form of feminist activism can be seen when considering alternative modes of communication that are not less than, simply different from “speech” or “voice” as forms of agency celebrated in the West. Alternative modes of communications such as silence, song, touch, and performance also speak important messages which can be heard when understood through local knowledges. In the three cases of South Korean and Korean American women’s fictions used in this dissertation, I unpack these alternative modes of communications used by the female protagonists through …