Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 2004

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 2004

All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... ALL THE RAGE: The Story of Gay Visibility in America Suzanna Danuta Walters Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003; 338 pp. Bothered by the corporatization of Pride festivities? Fed up with the we-are-just-like-you...

Alternatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... ALTERNATIVES: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation Ranu Samantrai Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002; 219 pp. In AllerNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation, Ranu Samantrai examines the activism of the Black...

Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity and the Education of Girls.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... BETWEEN FEMININITIES: Ambivalence, Identity and the Education of Girls Marnina Gonick Albany: State University of New York, 2003; 225 pp. The 1990s signalled the international decade on the "girl child." The decade also marked a...

Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... FEMINISM AND ANTIRACISM: International Struggles for Justice France Winddance Twine and Kathleen M. Blee, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2001; 389 pp. In their book Feminism and AntiRacism: International Struggles for...

The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... THE GIRL AND THE GAME: A History of Women's Sport in Canada M. Ann Hall Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002; 284 pp. The intent of The Girl and the Game is to trace how male hegemonic values have contributed to the development of...

How Should I Read These? Native Women Writers in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... HOW SHOULD I READ THESE? Native Women Writers in Canada Helen Hoy Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 264 pp. How Should I Read These? Native Women Writers in Canada is a book I found refreshingly different from the usual ways...

I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... I KNOW WHO I AM: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada Yvonne Bobb-Smith Toronto: CSPI/Women's Press, 2003; 250 pp. In I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada Yvonne Bobb-Smith is particularly interested in reminding us...

The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... THE MAKING OF A CYBERTARIAT: Virtual Work in a Real World Ursula Huws New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003; 208 pp. Ursula Huws's collection of essays, The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World, reveals the work of an...

Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... NARRATIVES AT WORK: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities Linda K. Cullum St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2003; 383 pp. "Storytelling is not simple here" (p. 18). How is it that we...

Racism, Eh? A Critical interdisciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... RACISM, EH? A Critical interdisciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada Camille A. Nelson and Charmaine A. Nelson, eds. Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2004; 465 pp. Racism, Eh?, as a title raises in Canadian colloquialism the...

Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... SEARCHING FOR LIFE: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina Rita Arditti Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999; 235 pp. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo drew international attention to...

Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization.
September 22, 2004... SELLING DIVERSITY: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002; 202 pp. How can we understand the processes that have refashioned...

Skeptical Feminism: Activist Theory, Activist Practice.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... SKEPTICAL FEMINISM: Activist Theory, Activist Practice Carolyn Dever Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004; 219 pp. Perhaps the most important sentence in Carolyn Dever's Skeptical Feminism is her deceptively simple and...

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... STRONG WOMEN STORIES: Native Vision and Community Survival Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence, eds. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003; 264 pp. In contrast to an earlier generation of Aboriginal women writers who often argued that feminist...

The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... THE SUMMER OF HER BALDNESS: A Cancer Improvisation Catherine Lord Austin: University of Texas, 2004; 248 pp. In The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation, Catherine Lord conflates existing notions of cancer as horrific disease...

Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... UNEQUAL FREEDOM: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002; 306 pp. In Unequal Freedom, Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an extensive and...

Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... VOICING CHICANA FEMINISMS: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity Aida Hurtado New York: New York University Press, 2003; 361 pp. In Voicing Chicana Feminisms. Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity, Aida Hurtado...

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... WATCHING RAPE: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky New York: New York University Press, 2001; 311 pp. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture provides a systematic examination of the...

Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES Pinar Ilkkaracan, ed. New York: Women for Human Rights (WWHR), 2000; 455 pp. A discussion of women's sexuality in Muslim societies begs for compliance with an unspoken convention that...

Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... WOMEN IN THE CANADIAN ACADEMIC TUNDRA: Challenging the Chill Elena Hannah, Linda Paul, Swani Vethamany-Globus, eds. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002; 273 pp. The title of this book, "Women in the...

Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... WOMEN TRADERS IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares Linda J. Seligmann, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001; 308 pp. In myriad ways, women of the informal economy must negotiate and suture...

Books received 2003-2004/Livres recus.
September 22, 2004... Agnew, Vijay. Where I Come From. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. Anderson, Kim and Bonita Lawrence, eds. Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003. Anderson, Mary...

Abstracts/precis de lecture 2001.
September 22, 2004... ACTIVISM/ACTIVISME Balaban. Michelle. "The Revolution at Last!" Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Special issue: Young Women: Feminists, Activists. Grrls. vol. 20/21, no. 4/1 (Winter/ Spring 2001). pp.124-126. The author...

Abstracts/precis de lecture 2002.
September 22, 2004... ACTIVISM/ACTIVISME Briskin, Linda. "Women's Organizing: A Gateway to a New Approach for Women's Studies." Atlantis. Special Issue: Gender, Globalisation and Development, vol. 26, no. 2 (2002), pp. 78-91. Women's organizing as a subject...

Abstracts/precis de lecture 2003.
September 22, 2004... ECONOMICS/ECONOMIE Hadley, Karen. "'And We Still Ain't Satisfied': A Report on Gender and Income Inequality in Canada." Atlantis, vol. 28, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2003), pp. 3-13. The gender gap is much wider than is commonly believed. This...