Resources for Feminist Research articles from March 2001

Resources for Feminist Research archives from March 2001

Editorial / Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... The articles in this issue of RFR/DRF, "New Feminist Research," range from explorations of various aspects of feminist research methodology, to a look at text-mediated midwifery practices in Ontario, the experiences of homeless women who are...

Skin-Bleaching: Poison, Beauty, Power, and the Politics of the Colour Line.
March 22, 2001... In this paper I explore the practice of skin-bleaching whereby women (and some men) use highly dangerous chemical agents on their skin in order to achieve a lighter skin tone. Using medical literature from medical and dermatology journals,...

Exploring Legislated Ontario Midwifery: Texts, Ruling Relations and Ideological Practices.
March 22, 2001... Most babies in the world are born into the hands of midwives. Until recently Canada was one of the few countries in the world where midwives were not legally recognized. However, with the enactment of the Midwifery Act in 1994, Ontario midwives...

Homeless Women and Victimization: Abuse and Mental Health History among Homeless Rape Survivors.
March 22, 2001... Using the database of a hospital-based sexual assault care centre, this study examined data about previous and current victimization from homeless women clients and compared them to data from housed women clients. More homeless women than...

The Evaluation of University Teaching: Exploring the Question of Resistance.(resistance to social change)
March 22, 2001... The evaluation of university teaching has many political and ideological dimensions that have not been sufficiently explored in the literature dealing with evaluation practice. The problem I raise in this paper concerns how students can use the...

Fieldwork Among Friends.(feminist research)
March 22, 2001... This paper raises some of the actual methodological concerns from a research study predicated on relations of friendship. It examines ideas about friendship, the role of friendship in organizations, the ties to individuals and consequence for...

Feminist Research on Mothers and Illegal Drugs (1).
March 22, 2001... Drawing from interviews with mothers who use illegal drugs in Canada in a research study completed in 1996, 1 this paper discusses the need for further feminist qualitative research on women and illegal drug use. The paper explores the social...

Invisibility, Interviewing, and Power: A Researcher's Dilemma.(researcher and subject relationship)
March 22, 2001... The ability to conduct humane, sensitive qualitative research is an important goal for all scholars. In order to accomplish this, researchers must examine the process of data collection. The issue of power is important to these discussions;...

In/Out/Side: Positioning the Researcher in Feminist Qualitative Research (1).
March 22, 2001... This article considers issues of "outsiderness" and "insiderness" that arose in the context of a feminist qualitative research project on the experiences of academics, especially women, in faculties of social work, education, pharmacy and...

A Female Economy: Women's work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970.
March 22, 2001... Mary Kinnear Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998; 215 pp. My first impression of Mary Kinnear's A Female Economy was tinged with skepticism -- how could the author hope to do justice to a topic as expansive as...

Ghosis in the Machine: Women and Cultural Policy in Canada and Australia. (Books Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Alison Beale and Annette Van Den Bosch, eds. Toronto: Garmond Press, 1998; 264 pp. Edited by a Canadian communications scholar and an Australian art historian with expertise in arts administration, Ghosts in the Machine: Women and...

Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Nancy Theberge Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000; 182 pp. One of the greatest challenges to feminist scholars of sport is overcoming sport's important ideological role in demonstrating so-called "natural" physical or...

Les Femmes De L'Immigration Au Quotidien. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Sous la direction de Nadia Bentchicou Amiens/Montreal: Editions Licorne/L'Harmattan, 1997; 126 pp. Compte rendu par Carolle Simard Les femmes de 1'immigration au quotidien reprend l'essentiel des questions debattues lors d'un...

The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the problem of Mothering. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Patrice DiQuinzio New York, NY: Routledge, 1999; 275 pp. Patrice DiQuinzio's The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering analyzes feminist theorizing about mothering within Western ideological...

Transformative Motherhood: On giving and getting in a Consumer Culture. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Linda L. Layne, ed. New York University Press, 1999; 222 pp. Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture brings together essays exploring how rhetorics of "the gift" become redeployed through practices of...

Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Susan Stanford Friedman Princeotn, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998; 314 pp. In response to the question of whether it is ever possible to really know the "other," anthropologist Sherry Ortner offers the simple rejoinder, "try."...

Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Susan Knutson Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000; 233 pp. The celebrated "linguistic turn" in the human sciences was a positive boon for later twentieth-century feminist theory, enabling critiques of patriarchal...

Paths of Desire: Images of Exploration and Mappping in Canadian Women's Writing. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Marlene Goldman Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997; 256 pp. Paths of Desire is a series of postmodern readings of images of exploration and cartography -- more specifically, of the way in which those images apply to the...

Politics and Feminism. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Barbara Arneil Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1999; 284 pp. Barbara Arneil's book, Politics and Feminism, either in whole or part, will be enjoyed at both the undergraduate and graduate level in courses on feminist theory,...

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Barbara A. Crow, ed. New York: New York University Press, 2000; 590 pp. An unfortunate narrative on radical feminism has developed leading to the widespread misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and silencing of numerous earlier...

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Karen Dubinsky Toronto: Between the Lines 1999; 282 pp. Karen Dubinsky's The Second Greatest Disappointment is feminist history at its most fun. It brings a fresh and yet substantive account of the politics of heterosexuality to bear...

Taking Back Control: African-Canadian Women Teacher's Lives and Practice. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Annette Henry Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998; 205 pp. In this work, Annette Henry explores and problematizes the challenges, barriers and restrictions facing Black educators who seek to assume control of education...

Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus).
March 22, 2001... Leah F. Vosko Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000: 278 pp. In these 278 pages, Leah F. Vosko describes and analyses the political economy of temporary work in Canada and its remarkable growth over the past three decades as part...