Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 22 2003

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 22 2003

Contradictions in feminist pedagogy: Black women students' perspectives.
September 22, 2003... This paper explores Black students' perspectives and subjectivities in order to understand how power and authority get played out in interactions between teacher and student in the feminist classroom. The ways in which the student views...

Learning too late? A psychoanalytic reflection on the affective, defensive and repressive dynamics of learning about "race" in women's studies.
September 22, 2003... Drawing on psychoanalytic theories of defense and repression in learning, this paper analyzes the author's attachment to a personal story of conflict and contestation over issues of identity, race and prejudice in the Women's Studies classroom....

Leaving the gallery, entering the fray: feminist curating in public space.
September 22, 2003... This article examines the curatorial struggle of two emerging feminist artists/curators to communicate, through three exhibits, with an audience mostly comprised of students. Students expressed bemusement, hostility, misogyny and homophobia in...

La recherche feministe en milieu patriarcal ecclesial. Implanter des changements structurels: est-ce possible?
September 22, 2003... Les femmes sont actives dans les taches pastorales en Eglise catholique, mais les structures decisionelles masculines traditionelles de l'Eglise continuent sans consulter ou integrer des femmes. La structure hierarchique concentre le pouvoir en...

Answering questions and asking more: reflections on feminist participatory research.
September 22, 2003... This article is a reflection on the nature of participatory feminist research in general, and the issue of self-disclosure to participants of a research project in particular. The author struggles with the ethical and practical implications of...

Are the movement's organizations open to the movement's members? A study of democratic practices in women's groups in Quebec.
September 22, 2003... This article looks at the processes of participation of women's groups in Quebec, for both board/staff and clients, and asks in what ways accessibility, representivity and accountability are applied and achieved. The authors focus on the women...

In sickness and employment: women living and working with chronic illness.
September 22, 2003... This article reports on a study of women with chronic illnesses and their relationship to the workforce in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Workplace accommodation for disabilities is posited as a key concern, and new paradigms for work that would allow the...

Embu women: food production and traditional knowledge.
September 22, 2003... This article reports on the results of a study on food production among Embu women in Kenya. As food production is a main source of income for rural women, and as it is strictly gendered, the author applies a feminist methodological framework...

Baby's First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lisa M. Mitchell Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, 258 pp. Lisa Mitchell's book, Baby's First Picture, is a fascinating look at how certain technological advances are seamlessly incorporated into women's experiences of...

Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Naomi Black and Gail Cuthbert Brandt Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999; 295 pp. In 1978, when I began studying the role of women on family farms in Quebec, very little information was available about the work...

Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Meg Luxton and June Corman Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 326 pp. Meg Luxton and June Corman's valuable monograph, Getting By in Hard Times, depicts the working lives of women and men from Hamilton, Ontario. It is based on...

Punishment in Disguise: Penal Governance and Federal Imprisonment of Women in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Kelly Hannah-Moffat Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 250 pp. Kelly Hannah-Moffat's Punishment in Disguise is a fascinating account of penal reform and the governance of women prisoners in Canada. Hannah-Moffat begins with...

Women, Work And Computing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ruth Woodfield Cambridge, UK/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000; 209 pp. Why haven't we seen more research on computer scientists who are women? Feminist research on computers, computer science and digital technology has...

Books received/livres recus 2002.
September 22, 2003... Abu-Laban, Yasmeen and Christina Gabriel. Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002. Adamoski, Robert, Dorothy E. Chunn, and Robert Menzies, eds....