Resources for Feminist Research articles from March 2007

Resources for Feminist Research archives from March 2007

A tribute to Jeri Dawn Wine.(INTRODUCTION)
March 22, 2007... Jeri Wine was an activist, a teacher, a scholar, and a therapist. She was an extremely important mentor to me as a lesbian, a feminist, and as a professor in Community Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). I very...

Lesbian academics in Canada.(REPRINTS)(Reprint)
March 22, 2007... (Reprinted from "The Lesbian Issue," RFR/DRF vol. 12, no. 1, March 1983) My interest in writing this paper emerged from my own experience as a recently "out" lesbian in academia. My growing feminist consciousness has been enriched by my...

Gynocentric values and feminist psychology.(Reprints)(Reprint)
March 22, 2007... [Reprinted from Feminism: From Pressure to Politics, Angela Miles and Geraldine Finn, eds., Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1989] Feminist perspectives in psychology are slowly emerging, a process that is a painful and controversial one, but...

Feminist activism and the feminist studies classroom.(Reprints)(Reprint)
March 22, 2007... [Reprinted from Women and Social Change: Feminist Activism in Canada, Janice Ristock and Jeri Wine. eds.. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1991] Feminists who have reflected on feminism in academia are deeply cognizant of women's studies' activist...

"I am not a disorder": the Chrysalis community-based treatment program.
March 22, 2007... Introduction In 1980, I took a job as a social worker in a Children's Aid Society treatment centre in Toronto. Within this context, I began to meet women and children who had been subjected to the most brutal forms of physical, sexual, and...

Critiquing the "psychiatric paradigm" revisited: reflections on feminist interventions in mental health.
March 22, 2007... I still remember my first meeting with Jeri Wine. It was the fall of 1986 and I was visiting Toronto from the west coast. The notion of going to graduate school had just begun to take form in my mind and I was in Toronto to investigate what was...

"Am I that name?": constructions and misconstructions of lesbian studies.
March 22, 2007... Since it was first proposed by scholars such as Jeri Dawn Wine in the early 1980s, and continuing for roughly 15 years, radical feminist academics struggled to disrupt oppressive structures of thought about gender and sexuality by installing...

Women, knowledge and change: gender is not enough (1).
March 22, 2007... Introduction Feminists who have reflected on feminism in academia are deeply cognizant of women's studies' activist roots and its highly political orientation to change.... (Wine, 1991, p. 342) In 1991, Jeri Dawn...

Interview with Paula Caplan.(INTERVIEW/ENTREVUE)(Interview)
March 22, 2007... Paula J. Caplan is former Full Professor of Applied Psychology and former Head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Currently, she is Visiting Scholar at...

Feminist friendship.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... One day you decide to run for the executive of the Canadian Women's Studies Association/ Association des etudes feministes. OK, so it's not quite like that. One day someone phones you (this is pre-email) and asks you to volunteer. This is not a...

Containing death.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... February 6, 2005. The memorial celebration for Jeri Wine is being held in Room 2-214 of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), the building where we once worked together. I find a seat in the large, bleak room and survey the...

Celebrating the "Feminist-as-Lesbian": Jeri Dawn Wine.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... When Jeri Wine was chair of the Department of Applied Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the 1980s, the name-plate on her office door stated unequivocally, Jeri Wine, Chairwoman. This was at a time when many...

Jeri Wine: out and proud.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... I had been a teacher in Northern Ontario for over a decade, living with my partner of many years, out to friends we knew were lesbians, and to nobody else. The very idea of being out was terrifying and the thought of "my secret" becoming known,...

Jeri Wine and the Feminist Party of Canada.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... I worked closely with Jeri Wine in the Feminist Party of Canada. Founded in 1979, the party was a high profile, vibrantly successful, visionary challenge to male politics as usual for a few years before succumbing to our failuthe inability to...

Community matters: Jeri Wine, feminist teacher and mentor.(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... There was nothing really remarkable about the morning. It was like any other, arriving at work; where the rhythm of the morning is so predictable, that my movements are automatic. In sequence, I turn the lights on, check the email, return...

Revisiting and reflecting on a piece written for Jeri Wine in 1984: "Feminist issues as they relate to my grandmother, my mother, and myself".(REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONS)
March 22, 2007... Preface I had my first course from Jeff Wine at OISE in 1984, 23 years ago. When she strode into the room with her long curly hair barely contained around her face I thought, "Who is this?" She was small, she was intense, she brooked no...