Resources for Feminist Research articles from January 2000

Resources for Feminist Research archives from January 2000

Restructuring and women workers in Australian home care.
January 1, 2000... The aim of this paper is to discuss the effect of industry restructuring on women workers responsible for home care of the aged. Two aspects of restructuring, both initiated in the late 1980s, are considered: award restructuring which sought to...

Women's work as voluntary board members.
January 1, 2000... Voluntary boards of feminist organizations inevitably embody questions about the distribution of power and influence. The pressures of globalization which have resulted in the federal government's slow withdrawal from universal funding provide...

Constituting 'post-welfare state' welfare arrangements: the role of women's movement service groups in Quebec.
January 1, 2000... This article retraces the involvement of women's shelters, rape crisis centres and women's centres in the restructuring of health and social services in Quebec over the past two decades. The study shows how women's movement service...

Redesign or downloading of services? A critical examination of a restructuroing program for foster care in New Brunswick.
January 1, 2000... Foster mothers are volunteer or poorly paid caregivers for children that present themselves with increasingly more complex problems. Foster mothers have expressed discontent concerning their "working" conditions. New Brunswick is trying to...

Women's magazines as spaces for dissent: restructuring in Poland.
January 1, 2000... The post-communist restructuring in Poland has included a redefinition of gender relations and conceptions of womanhood. The paper compares the deployment of gender identity and citizenship in two women's magazines during the Communist period...

Critical review of flexible labour: gender, race and class dimensions of economic restructuring.
January 1, 2000... In this article, the authors comparatively analyze and synthesize some of the recent academic literature that examines new flexible employment arrangements emerging in the rapidly expanding service sector economy, such as employers' use of...

Burdens of history: British feminists, Indian women, and imperial culture, 1865-1914.
January 1, 2000... BURDENS OF HISTORY: British Feminists, Indian Women, end Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 Antoinette Burton Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994; 301 pp. One wonders if it is by accident or by design that...

By snowshoe, buckboard and steamer: women of the frontier.
January 1, 2000... BY SNOWSHOE, BUCKBOARD AND STEAMER: Women of the Frontier Ketheyn Bridge Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1998; 231 pp. This book consists mainly of the journal accounts of four women who came to British Columbia from England between 1860...

Contracting masculinity: gender, class, and race in a white-collar inion, 1944-1994.
January 1, 2000... CONTRACTING MASCULINITY: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 Gillian Creese Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1999; 278 pp. This is an interesting book filled with insights going beyond the case...

Emigre feminism: transnational perspectives.
January 1, 2000... EMIGRIE FEMINISM: Transnational Perspectives Alena Heitlinger, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996; 292 pp. I welcome this edited volume by Alena Heitlinger, an outcome of a conference on Emigre Feminism, held at the...

Family shifts: families, policies, and gender equality.
January 1, 2000... FAMILY SHIFTS: Families, Policies, end Gender Equality Margrit Eichler Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1997. Margrit Eichler is one of Canada's eminent social analysts who seeks to understand the ways in which economic, legal and...

Feminist nationalism.
January 1, 2000... FEMINIST NATIONALISM Lois A. West, ed. New York: Routledge, 1997; 294 pp. The scholarship on nationalism has grown enormously in the past 20 years. Theories of nationalism have been vigorously debated as we enter the new...

Limites de l'identite sexuelle.
January 1, 2000... LES LIMITES DE L'IDENTITE SEXUELLE Sous la direction de Diane Lamoureux Montreal: Les editions du remue-menage, 1998, 197 p. Compte rendu par Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed Departement de francais et des etudes sur la femme Centre...

Memoirs from away: a new found land girlhood.
January 1, 2000... MEMOIRS FROM AWAY: A New Found Land Girlhood Life Writing Series / 6 Helen M. Buss/Margaret Clarke Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999; 153 pp. In the foreword to this book, the author indicates that when she...

No car, no radio, no liquor permit: the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997.
January 1, 2000... NO CAR, NO RADIO, NO LIQUOR PERMIT: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997 Margaret Hillyard Little Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998; 293 pp. No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit is both scholarly and...

One-eyed science: occupational health and women workers.
January 1, 2000... ONE-EYED SCIENCE: Occupational Health and Women Workers Karen Messing Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998; 244 pp. Karen Messing's book, One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers, has two primary purposes. One...

Quand la violence parle du sexe: analyse du discours therapeutique pour hommes violents.
January 1, 2000... QUAND LA VlOLENCE PARLE DU SEXE : analyse du discours, therapeutique pour hommes violents Lise Letarte Montreal, Institut de recherches et d'etudes feministes, UQAM, 1996, 130 p. La recherche analytique de Lise Letarte, un memoire...

Transforming psyche.
January 1, 2000... TRANSFORMING PSYCHE Barbara Weir Huber Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999, 244 pp. Based upon her stated need for symbols which might "act as a model of affirmation for all aspects of female life --...

Trouble with normal: postwar youth and the making of heterosexuality.
January 1, 2000... THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality Mary Louise Adams Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997; 224 pp. This rich study of sexual meanings and regulation in Canada between 1945 and 1960...

Women in early modern England, 1550-1720.
January 1, 2000... WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, 1550-1720 Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998; 480 pp. Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, each a well-established historian, nearly 20 years ago set themselves the...

Women and the Canadian Welfare state: challenges and change.
January 1, 2000... WOMEN AND THE CANADIAN WELFARE STATE: Challenges and Change Patricia M. Evans and Garda R. Wekerle, eds. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997. The Canadian welfare state has been dramatically altered during the past two...

Women working the NAFTA food chain: women, food and globalization.
January 1, 2000... WOMEN WORKING THE NAFTA FOOD CHAIN: Women, Food and Globalization Deborah Barndt, ed. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1999; 280 pp. Feminist and environmentalist in spirit, Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain is an example of a...

Canadian feminist periodicals, 1998.
January 1, 2000... Atlantis Patricia Elliot. "Some Critical Reflections on the Transgender Theory of Kate Bornstein." Atlantis, vol. 23, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 1998), pp. 13-19. This article critically engages aspects of Kate Bornstein's transgender theory...