M.Phil. Dissertations 1991- 2009
Abbot, Vivienne: An Evaluation of New Opportunities for Women (NOW) - an
EC funded Development Programme for Women (1995).
Agnew, Cecilia: The Impact of One Personal Development Programme on Women's SelfAwareness (1993).
Ambrose, Steven: Joy Riders and Death Drivers: Finding Radical Practice through
Representation (2008).
Amey, Abigail: Tracing a Line - From Afanas'ev's Skazki to Kharms's Sluchai
(1994).
Asher, Rachel: Queering Marriage: An Examination of Policies, Laws, and Proposals of
Marriage in Ireland, Denmark, and Canada (2007).
Aslan, Canan: An Investigation into Women's Position among Legislative
Elites in the Republic of Ireland (1992).
Awan, Fatimah: Keeping Up With The Joneses; Does the relationship between the Media and
Feminism have the potential to speak positively to a new generation of women in the 21st
century? (2002).
Bane, Lindsay: Angelic Reflections: Theorising the Filmmaking of Vivienne
Dick through Luce Irigaray's Sexual Difference. (2004)
Barker, Pat: The Tsunami Wave terminates on the Golden Beach for Elite Women in the
Accountancy Profession – Some Lessons (2008).
Baskett, Susan: Social Change in Ireland and the Portrayal of Women in Advertising (1998).
Benjamin, N.: In her Own Image (1994). Benson, Sarah: Female Citizen, Female Subject
(2000).
Berry, Megan: A Doomed Generation? The Body Image of Teenage Girls: A
Cross-Cultural Study in Ireland and the United States (2002).
Bilgen, Asli: Veiling and Politics in Turkey: Comparative Study of Veiled and Unveiled
Women (2000). Blake, Helen: Women, the City and the Design of Utopia (1992).
Boyce, Niamh: An Analysis of the Representation of Unmarried Mothers in the
Press (1996).
Bridgeman, Mary: There’s something about Meyer: A Feminist Reading of Stephenie
Meyer’s ‘The Twilight Saga’ (2009).
Burns, Jeris: A Study of Attitudes Towards Mixed versus Single-Sex University Education in
Trinity College, Dublin: 1878-1906 (2005)
Brewer, M.: Dying to Eat: The Legacy of Anorexia in Women's Struggle for Subjectivity
(1994).
Britton, Helen: The Role of Women in Agricultural Development in Nigeria: A Study of the
Gender Policies of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria (1995).
Broderick, Michael: Women and Bunreacht na hEireann: aspects of the debate in May and
June 1937 (1993).
Buckley, Alison: Delia Larkin and the Founding of the Irish Women Workers' Union(1996).
Burke, P.: Prostrate Before the Child-God: the Influence of Psychoanalysis upon
Representations of Femaleness in Feminist Literature (1993).
Burns, Kellie: Treading On New Ground: Body Image and the Female Long Distance Athlete
(1998).
Butler, Sarah: Knowing the Subject: A Critical Inquiry into a feminist Subjectivity (1996).
Byrne, Clodagh: Rethinking the religious question: Irigarary, the divine and sexual
difference (1999).
Caherty, Therese: Choosing to tell: Women's accounts of the experience of abortion (1993).
Callan, Maeve: The Mysticism of Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete (1993).
Campbell, Veronica: Female Entrepreneurship - Is it a Liberating Experience? (1994).
Carpenter, Laura: A Woman's Way Through Times of Social Change: definitions of
femininity, gender role and the older woman as seen through the pages of Woman's Way
Magazine 1963 - 1990. (2007).
Clancy, Deirdre Mary: Patriarchal Provenance, the Fourth Gospel and Eva Gore-Booth:
Toward a Female-Inclusive Concept of a Pre-existent Deity (1995).
Clark, Carolyn: A Lesbian by Any Other Name: Lesbian Identity in Mary Dorcey's Writing
(1994).
Clarke, Hilary: Growing up in the Context of Different State Gender-Role Attitudes: A
Comparison of Irish and Swedish Girls' Attitudes towards Men and Women's Work and
Family Roles (1999).
Clear, Christine: The Liabilities of Patriarchy: Feminist Challenge to Patriarchy (1992).
Cleary, Joan: Breast Cancer: Experiences of Some Irish Women (1994). Cochrane, Diane:
Re-thinking Antigone: Irigaray’s Ethics of ‘Between’ and Antigone’s Cave (2003).
Cody, Eithne: A Study of Traditional Marriage in Rural Ireland, 1965-1995 (1995).
Coffey, Claire: Mary Lavelle: Traveller in Unexplored Places (1993).
Connor, Valerie: Go Figure! Julia Kristeva's Sublime (1996).
Coogan, Anne: Irish Deaf Women, The Appropriateness of their Education? (2003).
Cotter, Gillian: Not Your Muse; A Look at the Female Poetic Tradition in Ireland,
Specifically at the Work of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnail and Medbh
McGuckian (2006).
Coveney, Emer: The Feminization of Power: Women's Agency in Inner City Dublin (1996).
Cregan, Catherine: Utopian Dreams, The Moral and Political Philosophy of Mary
Wollstonecraft (2002).
Crowley, Sharon: Ethics and Ecofeminism (1994).
Curley, Ann: Women Call the Shots: Contemporary Irish Women film makers and their
vision (1994).
Cutshaw, Gillian: In the Words of First Responders: Examining the Role of Service Providers
in the Sexual Assault Reporting Process (2008).
Davis-McPeake, Anne: Gender Awareness in the Implementation of an Equal Opportunities
Policy (1992).
Daverth, Gwen: Contemporary Academic Literature on Fatherhood Research into the Deficit
Paradigm (2004).
Deegan, Catherine: An Analysis of Sandra Cisnero's Fiction in Light of Post-Colonial and
Feminist Theory (2006).
Dempsey-O'Driscoll, T.: Gender Equity in Religious Education (1993-94).
Dhanoon, Yvonne: The "Imaginary Grievance": A Study of Women's University Education in
Ireland in the Early Twentieth Century (1996).
Dooley, Joan: An Investigation into Voluntary and Statutory Responses to the
Issue of Domestic Violence in Ireland (1995).
Doyle, Caitlin: The Miseducation of Enchantment: Compulsory Heterosexuality as a
Prescription of Traditional Fairytales (2000).
Dullea, Bridget: Irish Lesbian Literary Representation: Helping Heterosexual
Women Reunite with Body (1996).
English. Mary: Traditional Beliefs and Practices Among Luo Women of Kenya of Care and
Pregnancy (1992).
Feeley, Roberta: Fathers, Husbands and Lovers in Jane Austen's Novels (1997)
Fitzgibbon, M.: Order in Change - Women in Religion (1993).
Fitzsimons, Patricia: Silent Women Given Voices on Stage: Women in Fifth Century Athens
BC and their Counterparts in Attic Tragedy (1994).
Flanagan, Rita: Men and Women in Technology: Gendered by Design (1996).
Flynn, Mairead: Self-Actualisation: A Study of Married and Single Women in the Dublin
Area (1992).
Fottrell, Monica: Domestic Labour Strategies: a case study of the negotiation,
division and management of housework and childcare over time by three
heterosexual, dual earner, married couples. (2002).
Fox, Christie: Myth as a Cultural Weapon: Analysis of the use of the Deidriu Myth in the
Cultural Nationalism Surrounding the 1916 Rising (1995).
Foy, Nathalie: Telling Tales: Lesbian Fictive Autobiography (1993).
Freedman, Victoria: I Wouldn't Say My Mother-in-law was Fat - Women in Stand-Up
Comedy (1994).
Gallagher, Blaithin: Sexism in Bisto Award-Winning Children's Books (1992).
Gallagher, Philomena: And Oral History of the Imprisoned Female Irish
Republican Army (1995).
Gardon, A.: The Leaving Certificate Novel - A Feminist Perspective (1994).
Gardner, Nichola: Imperfect Beings': Women, Education and Madness in
Selected Victorian Fiction (1995).
Geis, Terri: Consuming Women at the Carnival: A Literary Analysis of Like Water for
Chocolate and The Edible Woman (1999).
Glenn, Bernadette: Attitudes towards Childcare in Ireland: A Study of Mothers
of Pre-school Children (1999).
Goodman, Aoife: The girls’ school as a setting for the female Bildungsroman, 1910-1950
(2001).
Gormally, Eleanor: From University to Particularity: A Challenge to Feminist
Theology (1993).
Gossett, Windy: A Requisite Demand For Change: Gender Bias in Fifth Grade History
Curricula (2002).
Grace, Paula: Amid Strange Pleasures and Palaces: Spain as a Locus of
Female Liberation in the Work of Kate O'Brien (1995).
Halpin, Fionnuala: Challenging Sectarian and Gender Stereotypes: A Study of Two Plays by
Marie Jones (1998).
Halpin, Maeve: Feminist Therapy: A Contradiction in Terms? (1991).
Hanratty, A.: Listening to Irish Girls: A cross sectional study of Brown and Gilligan's theory
of a relational impasse in adolescent girls (1994).
Harman, Joan: A Qualitative Study of Women Returning to Work: Their Pre-
Training Expectations and Post-Training Evaluations (1992).
Healy, Lorna: Dressing Up and Coming Out (1994).
Healy, Rosamund: Baby.com: Motherhood in Consumer Society (2006).
Hedberg, Ase Katarina: The Role of Fashion in the Social Construction of
Femininity and Masculinity (1996).
Heneghan, Mary C: Book Clubs: A Contemporary Form of Consciousness-Raising Practice?
(2007).
Heslin, Maeve: 'The Place Where Meaning Collapses:' finding the Semiotic in the films of
Christopher Nolan (2007).
Hynan, Martina: Pools of Tears and Rivers of History Beyond the Threshold of
Silence (1996).
Jacobson, Heather: Multiple Meanings - Young Women's Experiences with Contraception
(1994).
Jasten, Christine: An Exploration of Development Policies and Approaches towards Women's
Advancement from a Gender Analysis Perspective (1998).
Johnson, Rebecca: The X Case and Rights: An Analysis of Letters to the Press on the
Abortion Debate in Ireland - February-March (1992).
Kanta, Vasiliki: Clytemnestra, Antigone, Medea; Rebellious Heroines and Feminist
Implications in ancient Greek Tragedy. (2001).
Kelly, Hilary: Strategies for Strengthening the Participation of Women in the Irish National
Teachers Organisation (1994).
Kenny, Gayle: Can the Symbols Judeo-Christian Tradition be Reconstructed Meaningfully
for Feminists? (1992).
Kiernan, Karen: School Sex-Education in Ireland -Towards a Feminist Perspective (1992).
Kinsella, Christina: Aosdána and the Female Visual Artist (2008).
Kirwan, Elizabeth: A Study of Frances Power Cobbe in the 1860’s (2002).
Kojamo, Kristiina: Transsexuals, Transvestites, Transition: Gender performance, cinematic
gaze and identity construction in Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire (1987), All About My
Mother (1999) and Bad Education (2004)
(2007).
Langheld, A.: Socialisation and Personality Characteristics and their Relationship to
Attitudes to Women in Politics (1994).
Laserre, Beatrice: Space and Experience of Motherhood: How Do Suburban Women with
Young Children Relate to Space? (2006).
Le Prince, Emeline: Gender and Women’s Issues in Irish Public Policy, 1970-2003 (2003).
Leavy, Susan: Women and Long-Term Financial Security – An exploration of financial
insecurity among current and future female pensioners in Ireland (2009).
Ledwidge, Susan: Blyton's Girls: A Study of Sex-Role Stereotyping in Enid Blyton's novels
(1999).
Lentin, Ronit: Twice an Outsider: A Study of the Dual Exile of Three Jewish American
Women Writers (1992).
Levite, Caryn Adair: Empowering the Mid-Life Woman: Women, Menopause and HRT
(1997).
Lodge, Maire: Punishment and Prisons 1800-1830 (1998).
Lyder, Hazel: Silence and Secrecy: Young Women Negotiating Sexuality in 1940’s and
1950’s Dublin (2000).
Malet, Montserrat Fargas i: Wartime Mothers: The experience, imagery and policies of
Motherhood in World War II Britain (2003).
MacCurtain, Jacqueline: Job sharing in Irish State-Sponsored Bodies - A Survey of
Management (1993).
MacNamara, Noirin: (Re) Thinking the Feminine: Julia Kristeva and Bracha Ettinger on
Subjectivity (2008).
McAuley-Meade, Susan: Women, work and equality in the former USSR (1993).
McAuliffe, Bridget: An Investigation into Christian Feminism in the Lives of Irish Women
Religious (1992).
McCaffrey, Geraldine: Women’s choice of Clothing as a form of communication and the
rules governing their choice of clothing (2003).
McDermott, Anne: Living With Difference: A Presentation Congregation Experience (1997).
McDermott, Mary: New Age Discourse: A Feminist Analysis (1992).
McGoldrick, Elaine: Working Motherhood and Guilt (2006).
McGuane, Ceire: A Study of internet pornography use among Irish female students (2009).
McGrath, Ciara: From a Mobile Home: Identity and Nationality in the Work of Nuala Archer
(1998).
McKenna, Isobel: Female Genitalia: The Last Taboo? Do Western Society's
Conceptualisations of the Taboos Surrounding Female Genitalia Relate to Young Irish
Women's Frameworks of Thought Around the Taboos Surrounding Female Genitalia, and
Their Sense of Sexual Empowerment? (2006).
McKenna, Maura: The Modern Woman in Ireland 1920-1932 (1997).
McKeown, Grainne: The Fight Against HIV and AIDS: Mass Media
Campaigns and School Education Programmes in Ireland - Towards a
Feminist Perspective (1993).
McNally, Sheila: An Exploration of the Views of Karen Horney and Helen Deutsch on
Female Development Psychology (1991-92).
McNamara, Catriona: Women and Mental Health in Rural Ireland (1993).
McGuiness, Maura: An Investigation into using CSPE as a vehicle for dealing with gender
equality issues in junior cycle education in Ireland (2003-04).
Muhle, Eva Maria: Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Contemporary Irish
fiction (2003-04).
Mesharafa, Meral: The phenomenon of veiling in Egypt: perceived reasons for donning the
veil (1993).
Mestrustry, Debbie: Doctor-Patient Gynaecology Consultations (1993).
Mitchell, Elizabeth: Yours, Mine or Ours? The Contribution by Married
Couples to the Allocation of Housework (1997).
Modi, J.Jasten Jaguru Christine: Women’s Development In The Third World: An Exploration
of Development Policies And Approaches Towards Women’s Advancement From A Gender
Analysis Perspective (1998).
Molloy, Jacqueline: Towards an Integrated Theory of Sex-Role Socialisation (1992).
Moloney, Angela: The Problem of Christology for Contemporary Feminist Communities
(1992).
Morley, Catherine: Oral history: woman boxer (1993).
Morris, Deirdre: Women and Social Change in Ireland: an Oral History Case Study (2007).
Morris, Rosemary: Legitimate Mothers - Women and Adoption in Ireland (1996).
Mortell, Deirdre: Is There a Feminine Management Style? (1992).
Mullen, Phil: Hatred, Obedience and Profit: theorising Rwandan women's use of violence
during the 1994 genocide (1999).
Mullinger, Emma: Cargoes of Virtue: The Work of Vere Foster and Charlotte
Grace O'Brien for Nineteenth-Century Women Emigrants (1996).
Murad, Mishka: The Writings on Ethereal Walls: Constructions of a Brown Female Gaze
(2008).
Murphy, Alexandra: Gender and Technology in Images from Abu Ghraib: An Analysis of
Representation and Identity in the Scopic Field (2005).
Murphy, K.: Women, Work and Women's Work (1994). Murray, Kathleen: Rape Crisis
Centres and Law (1992).
Nadal i Anmella, Monica: The New Reproductive Technologies: Creating a
Need, Positing New Challenges to Motherhood (1997).
Nyland, Teresa: An Analysis of a Diploma in Community Development Practice Course from
a Practical Strategic Gender Needs Perspective (1995).
O'Brien, Joan: Feminism, Co-operation and Co-operatives (1995).
O'Connor, Patricia: Mary Sarton: Her Vision and Her Voice (2006).
O'Donnell, Deirdre: The "Feminisation of Ageing", Constructions of Gender
and Ageing as They Affect Social Engagement in Later Life (2006).
O'Driscoll, Aoife: Powered Flight: Space, Subjectivity and Agency in the Work of Jeanette
Winterson (2006).
Ollington, Jennifer: Women and the Asylum Process: An Examination of Female Persecution
(1999).
Omran, Amel: Muslim Women in Ireland and Racial Prejudice (1996).
O'Neill, Ray: The Last Seduction: Society, Paedophilia and the Bankruptcy of Childhood
Sexuality (2006).
O'Regan, Maura: Attitudes Towards the Role and Status of Women in Japan: A replication
and comparison with Ireland (1993).
O’Reilly: Exiles and Migrants – New Female Subjectivities in the Literature of Some
Twentieth Century Irish Women Authors (2005).
O’ Rourke, Mollie: Women’s Accounts of Sexual Violence: The Influence of Pornography on
Violent Relationships (1900).
O’ Shea, Louise: Sapphic Stages: Irish Lesbian Theatre, 1974 – 2000 (2000).
O’ Shea, Susan: Powerful Voices, Embodied Desire; An Examination of Desire and the
Female Voice in Popular Music (2001).
O'Shea, Suzanne: His Story/Her Story - Lady Morgan's National and Irish Tales (1992).
O'Shuilleabhanin, Ita: Gender Disadvantage in Occupational Achievement: An Experimental
Study in the Modification of Children's Attitudes to Careers (1992).
O'Sullivan, Clare: Not A Women, Quite, Maternity, Womanhood and the Search for Self in
the Poetry of Anne Sexton (1997).
O’Sullivan, Mairead Ann: The Legitimisation of War: A Feminist Analysis of the
Construction of the Enemy (2003).
Pastoor, Florence: This Time Read It as a Womb: Irigaray's rereading of Plato's Cave
(1997).
Perperidou, Athina: Attitudes Towards and Effects of Pornography: A Qualitative Study of
Young Irish Adults (2006).
Perregaux, Myriam: White Skin, White Masks: A Study of the Social Construction of
Whiteness in Fictions by Black and White Female Writers (1998).
Phillips, Audrey: An analysis of the Image of Women in the Press Coverage of Selected
Cases of Infant Abandonment (1994).
Pickering, Emily: An Excellent Ideal: Charlotte Mary Yonge and the Redundant Woman
Controversy in Mid-Victorian England (1997).
Pietroiusti, Lucia: Material Encounters: Mapping Mourning, Gender and Sexuality in
Contemporary Art, Towards a Transitional Conceptualisation of Matter (2007).
Pilcher, Rosa: Life within the microcosm: 100 years of Trinity Hall (2009).
Plack, Belinda: Marital Rape: Law and Reform in Germany and Ireland (1998).
Pretzsch, Birgit: A Postmodern Analysis of the Phenomenon Lara Croft: Identity, Body,
Reality (1999).
Quentin, Claire Marie: Reclaiming the woman’s body? - Women’s voices in the East German
and West German abortion debates of the late 1960s and early 1970s (2008).
Quinn, Deirdre: Mayo Women and Politics of the Land in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth
Century (1995).
Raftery, Barbara: Women's Development and Empowerment in Pakistan: A Case Study.
Reid, Siobhra: What’s in a Name? A Study of Contemporary Naming Practices (2000).
Reyna-Byer, Sara: Not Your Mother's Romance Novel: An Analysis of Gender and Power in
Slash Fanfiction (2006).
Ringham, Amanda: When Medusa Sings: What Hélène Cixous’ Resistance Sounds Like
Today (2005).
Robinson, Catherine: Coming to Terms with the Feminine Forces: Julia Kristeva and Luce
Irigaray Altering Perceptions of the Human Condition - Reworking the Social Contract
(2006).
Robinson, Evelyn: ‘The Women in the White Coats’: A Study of Women’s Career
Progression in Medical Laboratory Science (2001).
Rocca, Michelle: Ariel cuts the cord: Identity and Individuation from the mother in the works
of Sylvia Plath (1999).
Roche, Margaret: The "Walking Nuns" Are Still Walking: A Study of Mercy Sisters in Ireland
(1998).
Rooney, Rene: Identity Development: Women's Studies as a Formative Process (1996).
Rosen, Rachel: The Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit: Feminism, Rape Law and the New York
Experience (1997).
Rowley, Davina: September 11th: Cultural Representations of American Masculinities
(2002).
Ryan, Siobhan: Services for Self Harm (2004).
Ryan, Christina: Judicial Attitudes in Rape and Sexual Assault Cases in the Republic of
Ireland: Sentencing in the Appellate Courts (1997).
Ryan-Flood, Roisin: The Rape Crisis Services in Stockholm and Dublin - A Comparative
Study (1998).
Rydland Naerum, Sara: The Right to Care: Leave Entitlements for Irish Fathers (2007).
Schmidt, Nicole: Feminism and Irish Republicanism: A Historical Perspective (1995).
Shanahan, Kate: The Irish Presidential Election 1990 and the Irish Woman Voter: An
Analysis of Gender Politics in Ireland (1992).
Shaw, Georgina: From Essence to Existence; La Feminine Jouissance? (2001).
Shea, Davina: Reproduction Care Experiences of Some Women Drug Users (1992).
Sheridan, Sheila: The Feminization of Power: Women's Agency in Inner City Dublin (1996).
Sherry, Geraldine: Motherhood in the novels of Toni Morrison (1993).
Siddal, Jillian: The Sexing of Tragedy on the Irish Stage: A Study of the Published Dramatic
Works of Marina Carr (1995).
Silvi, Daniela: Performing the Performative: Orlan and the Process of Identity (1999).
Simek, Meghan: Women and the perceptions of Self and Age During Three Life Periods
(2004).
Smith, Breffni: Birth and Death: Mysteries of Motherhood in the Art of Paula ModersohnBecker and Kathe Kollwitz (1995).
Smith, Eileen: Women Returners: Women's Dual roles as Carers and Workers (1994).
Smyth, Carmel: Is it Possible for Female Painters to Reclaim their Own Bodies? (1998).
Smyth, Maureen: Playing like Gentlemen; Behaving like Ladies. Women in the World of
Sport (2003).
Soulak, Stephanie A: The Role of Women Working in Bed and Breakfast Establishments in
Ireland (2003).
Sullivan, Hana: Beyond the Forbidden Door: A Psychoanalytical investigation
into the Theme of Desire in Snow White and Bluebeard (1999).
Steiner, Barbara: ‘Shoot the Women Terrorists First’ Ultrike Meinhof, Feminism and Women
in Left-wing Radical Movements in Europe (2002).
Sweeney, Deborah: Nine More Stories: Women’s Studies Students Tell Their Reasons for
Studying Women’s Studies (2009).
Sweeney, Theresa: Discreet Words, Blue Ink and Freedom: A Study of
Sanitary Wear Advertising (1997).
Tarpey, Kathryn: The Indian Nationalist Revival of the Aryan Woman as an Iconic
Representation of the Nation: A Gendered Perspective (1995).
Tiernan, B. Fiona: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. A Case Study of an Irish
Organisation (1996).
Tuohy, Orla: Women in East Germany: Losers Twice Over (1992).
Vazquez-Cupeiro, Susana: Feminism and Socialism in Ireland (1998).
Veale, Ailish: ‘…and my own country couldn’t give me what England gave me…’:
The emigration of Irish nurses to England in the 1950s (2009).
Wall, Rosemary: In Conflict or in Control: A Study of Single Women’s Perceptions of
Singleness (2001).
Wallace, Jennifer: Unmarried Mothers in Ireland in the Middle Decades of the
Twentieth Century (1994).
Walsh, Cross Deirdre: From the ‘Sheltered Gentility and Black? The Problematic of
‘Selective Remembering’ and British Women 1914-39 (2003).
Warham, Millicent: Women and Sexual Experience (1993).
Watson, Nicole: Abortion in Ireland: Determining Compatibility with Women's Human
Rights (1999).
Watson, Tanya: Tribal Tactics and Progressive Voices: Protestant Women in
Formal and Informal Politics in Northern Ireland (1999).
Weigle, Bryan: U.S Masculinities and War Films: A Paternalistic Perspective (2004).
Whelan, Peigi: Girls rather boys, and boys rather girls’ – How children’s
engagements with pop music reflect their gendered identities (2003).
Williams, Carolyn: DC Comic Book Heroines: The Remaking of the Postmodern Myth
(1999).
Wilson, Jennifer: Women in Therapy (1995).
Young, Anne: A Feminist Critique of Jungian Interpretations of Representation
of Female Figures in Fairy Tales (1998).