Melanie Knight

Ryerson University · Department of Sociology

The number of racialized women entrepreneurs has grown exponentially in recent years. Despite this growing trend, these businesswomen are more likely to operate on a small scale; their labour-intensive businesses are characterized by low profits and limited mobility. Two fields of research attempt to illuminate — albeit problematically — the comple...

The past decade has seen an exponential growth of postsecondary entrepreneurship programs. This article focuses on curriculum and training materials as they enable an analysis of the nuanced ways in which entrepreneurship and the enterprising are conceptualized, and how texts inform future entrepreneurs to embody the language of entrepreneurship. I...

Since its election in 2006, Stephen Harper's Conservative government has made a number of dramatic budgetary moves, transforming gender-based infrastructure and cementing a decade-long erosion and delegitimization of the women's movement in Canada. The most significant change has been the reconfiguration of Status of Women Canada (SWC), the main go...

This paper examines the current dynamics of the Canadian women's movement in the wake of sweeping fiscal policy decisions aimed at deinstitutionalizing feminism. Following a historical overview of the movement, we employ qualitative interviews with feminist activists across the country to "take stock" of the movement. We examine how feminist organi...

This study examined the degree of acceptance of qualitative research by medical trainees and physicians, and explored the causes for any differences in their support of qualitative versus quantitative research. Thirty-two individuals at four levels of medical training were studied. Eight philosophers of science served for construct validation. Afte...

Using critical discourse analysis, this paper examines how the female entrepreneurial subject is constructed/produced within entrepreneurial discourses, how this subject is racialized, gendered and classed, and examines what practices contribute to the shaping of the female entrepreneurial subject. I specifically look at four areas/discourses centr...