Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 22 2002

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 22 2002

A critical introduction to Feminist Cultural Production: there's only two or three things [we] know for sure. (Introduction).(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... The title of this issue of RFR/DRF, "Feminist Cultural Production: Critical Debates and Practices," suggests that both "debates" and "practices" are central to what constitutes "feminist cultural production." The articles critically debate...

"Mirror, mirror on the all, who's the fairest one of all": troubling gendered identities. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... This paper playfully uses text, photographs, participant interviews, autobiographical stories and the metaphor of a mirror to explore the power and limitations of three strategies for troubling gender. Firstly, look to the outdoors as an...

Mahasweta Devi's documentary/fiction as critical antidote: rethinking bonded labour, "women and development" and the sex trade in India. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... In this paper, I argue that Mahasweta Devi's meticulously researched "documentary/fiction," which moves fluidly between fiction, history, ethnography and reportage, provide a crucial antidote to three vexed problems in South Asian studies:...

F(r)ictions: women writing in working class contexts. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... This paper engages with working class women's discussions about cultural production. A beginning place for this project explores the gaps and absences in whose narratives are produced and whose stories are taken up in cultural contexts. As an...

Body, interrupted: textual montage, traumatized bodies, and the de-disciplining of knowledge. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... This work examines the production of cultural knowledge through alternative writing practices such as textual montage. lam interested in demonstrating the experimental value of textual montage for the representation of personal and embodied...

The mainstreaming of dissent: women artists of colour and Canadian arts institutions. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... In this paper, I develop a theoretical framework that addresses key debates relevant to women artists of colour in Canada. I explore the relationship between established Canadian art institutions and women artists of colour and the...

Entangled discursivity: women's social relations in a collaborative filmmaking process. (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... This paper raises questions about collaboration and difference as spheres of struggle. Focussing on a filmmaking collaboration of two women, I investigate difference as a matter of gendered and racialized discursive practices that shape how...

Venus ruined: photographs from Hannah Wilke's "Intra-Venus". (Research Articles/Rapports De Recherche).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... The aim of this paper is to explore the photographic work of Hannah Wilke in her exhibition entitled "Intra-Venus." The importance of the body as a site of illness will become paramount in this discussion of Wilkes work; including the...

Radical possibilities: feminism, pedagogy and visual culture. (Reflections on Feminist Critical Practices).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... This paper addresses assumptions made in feminist pedagogical literature by considering the author's experiences in teaching courses in visual culture. Cet article remet en question les a priori de l'ecriture feminste pedagogique travers...

Dramatic arenas for ethical stories. (Reflections on Feminist Critical Practices).(Feminist Cultural Production)
September 22, 2002... In this discussion paper, the author weaves a thread between three kinds of feminist critical projects: theatre, education, and research. Using feminist performances of plays, ethnographic research, and pedagogical spaces in drama classrooms,...

Coming to knowledge about Metastatic Breast Cancer: a drama. (Discussion Papers/Documents De Travail).(epistemic practice of creating drama)
September 22, 2002... The drama Handle with Care? Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer was created by researchers, women with breast cancer, actors and theatre professionals. The process of creating the drama was also a process of creating knowledge. Drawing...

Riding the third wave: women-produced Zines and feminisms. (Discussion Papers/Documents De Travail).
September 22, 2002... This paper aims to provide insight into the role women play as cultural producers by examining women-produced zines. Zines (independently-produced magazines) provide an opportunity to explore cultural production by women which is unconstrained...

Archive radio temporaire. (Issues in Theory, Gendered Space, Identity and Embodied Practices).
September 22, 2002... Radio temporaire is a project that emerged in 1999 from a meeting between Zeigam Azizov, Sylvie Desroches, Dean lnkster, Adrien Laubscher, Alejandra Riera and Caecilia Tripp as a proposal for a potential exhibition space in the context of a...

"The solemn geography of human limits": some notes on art, space and gender. (Discussion Papers/Documents De Travail).
September 22, 2002... Using Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, this paper argues that art is essentially heterotopic. In particular, current forms of feminist installation art uniquely exercise and produce the kinds of reflections of the construction of lived...

Micro-strategies of resistance (1). (Discussion Papers/Documents De Travail).
September 22, 2002... Micro-strategies of resistance are particular confrontations with and resistances to the local impositions of dominating power. These incremental moves are not assembled from direct confrontations but rather operate as discrete traces within a...

Measuring milestones: feminist histories of architecture in Canada and the United States. (Discussion Papers/Documents De Travail).
September 22, 2002... This paper reviews and compares selections from the feminist historiography of architecture in Canada and the United States in order to consider how feminist revisions have affected architectural history in each country. By looking at some...

And On That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Monda Halpern Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001; 234 pp. A good book engages us. And a good academic book challenges its readers to think more profoundly about the issues it raises. There were several occasions, while...

Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Wendy Chan and Kiran Mirchandani, eds. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2001; 221 pp. Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada is a welcome addition to the literature on criminalization in Canada. As the...

Double Jeopardy: Motherwork and the Law. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Toronto: Sumach Press, 2001; 229 pp. At two recent conferences, I spent time talking with two feminist law professors who are mothers about the difficulties they experience in finding time to do their academic work, particularly the...

Driven Apart: Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001; 318 pp. Annis May Timpson's examination of employment equity and childcare policies in Canada came across my desk at an opportune moment. Canadians are reflecting on the 20th...

The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Jennifer Scanlon, ed. New York and London: New York University Press, 2001; 397pp. In an excellent review essay in The Nation, American historian Lawrence Glickman observes that, in the past decade and a half, the study of consumer...

In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001; 374 pp. In Praise of New Travelers is an impressive contribution to the study of Caribbean women's literature and theory. Situating herself as a sensitive, self-reflective outsider,...

No More secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Janice L. Ristock New York/London: Routledge, 2002; 226 pp. In moving away from an attempt to simply document the social problem of relationship abuse or compare lesbian abuse with heterosexual abuse, Janice Ristock utilizes a...

Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Roxanne Rimstead University of Toronto Press, 2001; 348 pp. Remnants of Nation is an incisive and imperative contribution to Canadian literary and cultural criticism. Spanning the concerns of sociology, history, critical geography,...

Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Allyson Mitchell, Lisa Bryn Rundle and Lara Karaian, eds. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2001; 364 pp. As a feminist scholar of popular culture, of just about the same age as the editors of this book, I feel I am very much on home territory. I...