Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 2007

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 2007

Beyond the Big Divide? The Humanities and Social Sciences in Women's Studies.(INTRODUCTION)
September 22, 2007... The three essays in this section arose from a panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Women's Studies Association in 2005 on the topic, "Beyond the Big Divide? The Humanities and Social Sciences in Women's Studies." (1) The...

Culture at the crossroads.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... "The young feminists are different, they're into culture." --Judy Rebick, "Fresh Air," CBC, 26 March 2005 A big divide? What is driving the wedge between the Humanities and Social Sciences? Formulated in the interrogative, our title...

Teaching women's organizing and the women's movement: the question of arts and culture within feminism.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... In sum, for one who loves it, culture will always be more free, more complex and more mysterious than any political or historical reflection on it. --Dacia Maraini Introduction The main question addressed in this article is quite...

"Copy, cut, paste": a reflection on some institutional constraints of teaching a big intro course.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... The phrase "copy, cut, paste" might be taken to epitomize a quick fix or an effective editorial intervention in an era dominated by the computer. However, I want to stretch this metaphor further to describe a situation when, through...

Shape-shifting beauty: the body, gender and subjectivity in the photographs of Claude Cahun.(NEW FEMINIST RESEARCH)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The figure twists its head towards the camera, offering a profile view of its face, haunting and lonely. Immediately, the body seems odd. The neck appears wrung like a cloth, as if the head has spun itself 360 degrees....

Epistemological reflections on sex and fieldwork.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Overture This article is part of a collaborative endeavour by Pauline Greenhill and Madeleine Pastinelli. Madeleine's first language is French and Pauline's is English, but we remain committed to bilingual dialogue. Madeleine is a...

Mensonges, peur, liens de confiance et gestion du risque dans l'enquete sur le terrain au feminin.(professors Madeleine Pastinelli and Pauline Greenhill discuss feminism, social perceptions and anthropology )
September 22, 2007... Ouverture Ce texte conjoint adopte la forme de variations autour d'un theme. Au cours des dix dernieres annees, nous, Madeleine Pastinelli et Pauline Greenhill, avons decouvert que nous reflechissions toutes les deux au rapport entre le...

Developing transnational relations and subjectivities: the politics of virtue and empowerment in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Scholarly discussions of globalization have recently expanded from a debate about its defining characteristics, to include a focus on complex transnational flows of people, culture, and power. (1) While many feminists have attended to the...

A thematic bibliography and literature review of rural, remote and Northern Women's Health in Canada 2003-2006.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... Introduction While it has long been acknowledged that health is determined by a variety of social and physical factors, research into the interplay among these various determinants of health is still emerging. From 2001 to 2003, the...

Une bibliographie thematique et une revue de la litteraturesur la sante des femmes en milieux rural, eloigne et nordique du Canada 2003-2006.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Bien qu'il y a longtemps que l'on reconnaisse que la sante soit determinee par divers facteurs sociaux et physiques, l'emergence de la recherche qui porte sur l'agencement de ces divers determinants de la sante se poursuit...

Caring For / Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Caring For / Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving Karen R. Grant, Carol Amaratunga, Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Ann Pederson and Kay Willson, eds. Aurora, ON: Garamond Press, 2004; 2000 pp. This edited collection...

Conscience subalterne, conscience identitaire. La voix des femmes assistees au sein des organisations feministes et communautaires.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Conscience subalterne, conscience identitaire. La voix des femmes assistees au sein des organisations feministes et communautaires Jacinthe Michaud Ottawa : Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, Collection Etudes des femmes, 2005; 234 pp....

Doing Time on the Outside: Deconstructing the Benevolent Community.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Doing Time on the Outside: Deconstructing the Benevolent Community Madonna Maidment Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006; 188 pp. The 1990s and the early days of the new millennium seem to have ushered in an era in which...

Transnational Ruptures: Gender and Forced Migration.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Transnational Ruptures: Gender and Forced Migration Catherine Nolin Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006; 246 pp. With this book, Catherine Nolin makes visible the historical-geographical specificity of a little studied population, and...

"Decolonising the Body: Restoring Sacred Vitality.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The transformation of the impacts of sexual, facial and colonial violence on Native women requires unlearning the ways of thinking and being that have been etched onto the body. This article examines a program developed for urban Native women...

"The Ultimate Betrayal: Claiming and Re-claiming Cultural Identity.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper explores issues relating to Aboriginal people in child welfare programs. It includes a creative non-fiction testimonial about the author's experiences as an adoptee. This experience is placed within the broader colonial and political...

"Aboriginal Self Determination: Individual Self and Collective Selves.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The aboriginal political discourse regarding self-determination would be more useful to communities if it incorporated an understanding of the individual as relational, autonomous, and self-determining. That is, a developed perspective of...

"Beyond Cultural Differences: Interpreting a Treaty Between he Mi'kmaq and British at Belcher's Farm, 1761.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... It has been argued that the 1761 treaty between the Mi'kmaq and British at Governor Belcher's farm proves that their relationship was a simple one of conqueror and conquered. This paper offers an alternative interpretation of the 1761 treaty....

"Otiyaner: The 'Women's Path' Through Colonialism.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper examines Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women in the context created by the challenges of colonization on the balance and maintenance of gender roles in traditional Haudenosaunee society. A distinctly female Haudenosaunee perspective...

"After the Fur Trade: First Nations Women in Canadian History, 1850-1950.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper explores the dominant themes and trends in the historical literature on First Nations women in Canada between 1850 and 1950. Fifteen academic sources are examined in detail. Findings challenge the liberal progressive view of history...

"Divorce and Real Property on American Indian Reservations: Lessons for First Nations and Canada.".(Atlantis)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Four case studies of American Indian nations' treatment of matrimonial real property disputes under formal tribal law, customary law, state law, and some mixtures are presented. Derivative lessons suggest that First Nations, supported by the...

"Wahlgidouk--Giver of Gifts.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article describes the successful language revitalization efforts of a strong, Kasaan Haida elder woman and her efforts to document her family and village history. It also tells the story of Kasaan Haida people as effected by the Alaska...

"Traditional Ecological Knowledge: An Anishnabe Woman's Perspective.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Analysis of recent literature is combined with the author's life experience to produce a personal yet academically supported reflection on the current state of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) research in Canada as it relates to...

"Loving Indians: Native Women's Storytelling as Survivance.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Native Women writers are storytelling to create social change in their communities. Central to this writing is a perception of "loving Indianess" that acknowledges how we may articulate our worldview and experience are "Indianess" differently;...

"Re-Constructing the Colonizer: Self-representation by First Nations Artists.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... What are the options for Native women artists, within a colonial context? Using literature from the fields of decolonization, semiotics and cultural studies, this article examines the colonial gaze and celebrates the work of Native women...

"Mrs. Canada Goes Global: Canadian First Wave Feminism Revisited.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... An intensive re-examination of first wave feminism in Canada is long overdue, especially in light of new and important questions, which have been raised in the international literature. A more systematic exploration of feminism and the making...

"Women's History, Gender Politics and the Interpretation of Canadian Historic Sites: Some Examples from Ontario.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Although women's history has flourished in Canada for over thirty years, this has had little impact on historic sites in Ontario, which are dominated by military themes and male interpreters. Research shows that this is historically inaccurate,...

"Representation of Canadian Women at the Cabinet Table.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This examination of the appointment of elected women to Canadian federal, provincial and territorial cabinets from 1917 to 2002 analyzes both the numbers of women appointed to cabinets and the nature of their cabinet posts, revealing that while...

"Gender, Immigration and Labour Market Integration: Where We Are and What We Still Need to Know.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article reviews current literature about the link between gender and immigrants' employment and equity-based economic integration. It concludes with three recommendations for future research (Journal Abstract). Atlantis, vol. 30, no....

"Making Experience Meaningful: Interpreting Chinese Canadian Women's Personal Encounters with Racism.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Using Philomena Essed's theory on everyday racism, this paper explores how Chinese Canadian women interpret racism. It argues that differences in interpretation can be explained by examining personal biographies that attend to subjective...

"Un regard feministe sur les modeles de famille.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The feminist study of the influence of family models on the issue of prenatal responsibility allows us to see that its ownership through division of parental roles does not take place the same way in the different family models. Whether they...

"Feminist Understandings of Embodiment and Disability: A 'Material-Discursive' Approach to Breast Cancer Related Lymhedema.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Breast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) is a disability related to breast cancer treatment, which may significantly affect women's everyday lives. We used a "material discursive" lens to analyze women's accounts of BCRL. Themes, which emerged,...

"Total Packages of Work: Women Living in Atlantic Canada Compared to the Rest of Canada.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Atlantic Canadian women report significantly longer total hours of work (paid plus unpaid) than their sisters living elsewhere in Canada. We examine a variety of potential explanations, including demographic, economic, social/ cultural and...

"Training in the Gendered Labour Market: New Realities, Requirements, and Rewards for Canadian Women.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This study investigates the gender dimensions of the dynamic between training and other aspects of the reward structure of the labour market by using structural equation modeling to develop a causal model of women's training participation based...

"Duty, Passion and (Re)Production of a Gendered Life: One Young Woman's Struggle to Craft a Meaningful Vocational Project.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This longitudinal narrative case study traces one young woman's vocational journey from age 17 to 23. Drawing on youth transitions literature and feminist scholarship on the gendered division of labour, the paper considers how her journey was...

"Cyber-Dilemmas: Gendered Hierarchies, New Technologies and Cyber-Safety in Schools.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper addresses gender issues relating to cyber-bullying among adolescents, which is reflective of adult Internet use. It highlights legal considerations to address the policy vacuum on this emerging form of gendered violence (Journal...

"First Blood: How Three Generations of Newfoundland Women Learned about Menstruation.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article discusses how girls in Newfoundland learn about and experience menstruation. The project focused on three generations of women, and we found differences, over time, in how young girls acquire appropriate knowledge and how the event...

"'I'm Not a Militant Feminist': Exploring Feminist identities and feminist Hesitations in the Contemporary Academy.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Drawing on interviews with 21 university women (students, teaching assistants and faculty), the author shows how and to what extent university women's studies classrooms is a route to feminism. Some of the women in this study are reluctant to...

"Feminism in Nova Scotia: Women's Groups 1990-2004.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This study compares audits of Nova Scotia women's groups in the years 1990 and 2004 to argue that such groups, which sustain feminism, have increased in number although there have been changes in structures and in respect to salient issues...

"Women's Studies in Focus. Feminist Challenges to Knowledge.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This contribution explores some of the issues that led to the development of Women's Studies in Canada in the 1970s. It offers a report of a workshop on this topic and presents two of the eighteen minipapers that participants wrote for the...

"Representing the Reprehensible: Fairy Tales, News stories & the Monstrous Karla Homolka.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Fairy tales and new stories are not often linked; however, in many news stories, Canadian media depicted Karla Homolka as both passive princess and evil witch. This paper argues journalists used aspects of popularized fairly tales to shape and...

"Meridel Le Sueur's Feminist Bildungsroman: When Class Meets Gender.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... American communist, Meridel Le Sueur's legacy is hardly known. On the contrary, feminist critics are currently rereading Mikhail Bakhtin's work. Through a feminist Bakhtinian critical perspective, this article examines Le Sueur's forgotten The...

"Femininity, the Picturesque, and the Canadian Landscape: The Drawings and Watercolours of Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale.".(ATLANTIS)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Elizabeth Simcoe's and Elizabeth Hale's drawings and watercolours are primarily esteemed as early descriptions of Canada. This paper extracts additional meaning from Simcoe's and Hale's pictures by addressing their gendered experiences as...

"Reconsidering Self-Portraits by Women Surrealists: A Case Study of Claude Cahun and Frida Kahlo.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Both Claude Cahun and Frida Kahlo were affiliated with the Surrealist movement in the 1930s for political and professional ends. In their respective bodies of self-portraiture, they mirrored or doubled their own images and stretched the...

"Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn: Performing Class, Sentiment, and Femininity in the People's War.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Vera Lynn embodies nostalgic constructions of World War II as a good war. Though phenomenally popular, her radio performances inspired debates over sentimentality and women's voices on air. This article examines how her performances enacted...

"The Later Years: Women Instructors at the Winnipeg School of Art in the 1940s.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Women were employed as art teachers at the Winnipeg School of Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in unusual numbers from 1940 to 1950. Beneficiaries of a proper art education, they "kept the home fires burning." When the men came back they were let go...

"Templates for Activism: Creative Convergences in Feminist Art and Law.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Community arts are an under examined approach to creative social advocacy that catalyzes a shift in perceptions about social issues through cultural, symbolic and artistic means. One example, Templates for Activism, forges new geographies...

"Purposeful Play: Women Radio Artists in Canadian Campus and Community Radio.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Studies show that women are under-represented in Canadian campus and community radio. Based on ethnographic research and survey data, this article posits a theory of "purposeful play" a set of strategies employed by women radio artists to...

"Emerging Voices: Encounters with Reflexivity.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper focuses on the power of voice and the nature of reflexivity in feminist ethnography starting with a definition of reflexivity, a brief historical context, and closing with several mini-case studies, including: Japanese traditional...

"Radical Ambivalence: Engaging Poststructurally with Performance, (Re)Envisioning the Political.".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper uses poststructural theories, in particular Judith Butler's work, to analyze the performances and interviews of Vancouver-based performers Heather Roberts and Nikki Prime-French and explores how feminist political intervention need...

"Performing Postfeminism: Escaping Identity Politics?".(ATLANTIS)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Examining works by three artists, this article discusses whether their sensationalist strategies and transgressions reflect a postfeminist misrecognition of privilege and evasion of identity politics--or a third-wave feminist analysis of...

"Queer Parenting in the New Millennium. Resisting the Normal.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author looks at the changes that have taken place with queer parenting over the past 20 years. She also asks some important questions about the current political climate and how it impacts on parenting especially the issue of same-sex...

"Redrawing National Boundaries. Gender, Race, Class, and Same-Sex Marriage Discourse in Canada.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper analyzes the discourses involved in same-sex marriage by examining articles about same-sex marriage published in Canadian gay and lesbian newspapers between June 2003 and April 2004. The author discusses how same-sex marriage...

"The Difference of Queer.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This author argues that Bill C-58 does not necessarily challenge society's homophobia and regulation of sexuality. Rather it just allows some individuals access to heterosexual culture. As an alternative, she proposes that queer culture is a...

"Queering Heterosexual Spaces. Positive Space Campaigns Disrupting Campus Heteronormativity.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... A Positive Space Campaign at Brock University is the focus of this article. The author acting as a researcher and an activist was a member of the Positive Space Campaign. She challenges the dominance of heterosexuality in public spaces. Her...

"Regulated Narratives in Anti-Homophobia Education.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article examines the role of coming out stories in education programs that seek to stop homophobia. The author discusses her experience of being a lesbian and a Muslim and how these identities influence one another, making it difficult for...

"Pour le dire ... Les Services sociaux et les services de sante pour les lesbiennes.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article presents the findings of research conducted in Quebec to identify the numerous barriers faced by lesbians when they need to access healthcare services, require medication/treatment and/or require the assistance of social services...

"Lesbian Motherhood and Access to Reproductive Technology.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper provides a history of how lesbians have been discriminated against in terms of their access to reproductive technologies. The author looks specifically at Assisted Insemination Using Donor Sperm (AID) and she analyzes how lesbian...

"Why Do Children Do So Well in Lesbian Households? Research on Lesbian Parenting.".(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Lesbian-led families are a relatively new phenomenon and have thus not been well explored in the literature. The research that does exist however consistently finds equal or superior developmental outcomes for children raised in lesbian...

"Vieillir en etant soi-meme.".(study on senior lesbian)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The authors present the findings of their research among aging lesbians and advocate the establishment of homes for seniors where sexual difference is respected (Journal abstract). Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme. Special...

"Stumbling into Sexualities. International Development Encounters Dissident Desire.".(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author discusses the experiences of Third World queers and how their realities are often overlooked. She argues that their human rights and living conditions have been more revealed because there are local groups who fight for the equality...

"Taking Off the Gender Lens in Women's Studies: Queering Violence Against Women.".(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author argues that same-sex domestic violence must be included in Women's Studies violence against women courses. She describes how she achieved this goal at her university by redesigning a violence against women course in such a way that...

"Rural Queers? The Loss of the Rural in Queer.".(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article states that rural queers are frequently invisible and this phenomenon needs to change. The author points out that urban queers are often considered the norm in media and academic circles. She offers an example of queer space and...

"Playing Peter Pan. Conceptualizing 'Bois' in Contemporary Queer Theory.".(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author analyzes "boi" identity and in what ways this term has changed the meanings of identities such as lesbian, transgender, butch and tranny-boy. She argues that bois can be seen as an event that problematizes the notion that identities...

"Reconsidering the Socio-Scientific Enterprise of Sexual Difference. The Case of Kimberly Nixon.".(Case study)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article examines the Kimberley Nixon case to see the influence transsexuals have had on sexual politics. The author explains that Nixon was not allowed to work al a Vancouver tape crisis center because she was a male-to-female trans woman....

"Neutral Pronouns. A Modest Proposal Whose Time Has Come.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author looks at the history of non-sexist language use, especially the use of pronouns. She argues that gender neutral language is important for developing non-discriminatory social norms. This article analyzes how the pronouns he/she...

"Does A Lesbian Need a Vagina Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? Or, Would the 'Real' Lesbian Please Stand Up!".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author analyzes a cartoon from Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For series by asking "who qualifies for a lesbian these days and for what reasons?" She argues for definitions of lesbians as well as for keeping an open mind about how...

"Queer Identities. Rupturing Identity Categories and Negotiating Meanings of Queer.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This project looks at who uses "queer" as a category of identification and how they interpret this for themselves. The author discussed this issue with seven women over the internet and she includes her own experiences in this analysis process....

"Out, Creative and Questioning: Reflexive Self-Representations in Queer Youth Homepages.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This paper examines the websites that are "by, for and about queer girls and trans youth." The author explores how queer girls and trans youth websites represent how they construct "interactive and contradictory selves". Specifically, she looks...

"Better One's Own Path: The Experience of Lesbian Grandmothers in Canada.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author studies the experiences of lesbian grandmothers in Canada. She discovered that these women's lesbian identity arrived late in their lives. Also, she uncovered that their lesbian identities "represent an accomplishment." This article...

"Two-Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article discusses the history of two-spirited identities, the politics involved with this identity and why it is problematic for non-aboriginal queers to use this term for themselves. The author argues that for aboriginal queers a...

"Things Which Aren't To Be Given Names: Afro-Caribbean and Diasporic Negotiations of Same Gender Desire and Sexual Relations.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author argues that the term "global gay" is not useful for comprehending "diasporic Afro-Caribbean experiences of same gender desire and identity." She analyzes labeling as an important component of how Afro-Caribbean people interpret their...

"Hidden Histories of African Homosexualities.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article discusses the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Africa south of the Sahara. The author argues that these indigenous voices must be heard, otherwise the interplay between race, sexuality and power...

"Reparative Therapies: A Contemporary Clear and Present Danger Across Minority Sex, Sexual, and Gender Differences.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author looks at the mainstream North American health and mental health associations and how they have deemed reparative therapies as inappropriate for youth. She also provides a critical discussion of anti-gay ministry, Courage, that must...

"Performing k.d. lang.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This essay uses the ideas of performance to analyze the complex interactions of resistance, subversion and displacement with regard to work and life of k.d. lang. The author discusses her status the gay and lesbian community, and how she has...

"Strange Sisters and Boy Kings: Post-Queer Tranz-Gendered Bodies in Performance.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author is one of possibly two female-to-male transsexuals working in a Canadian university and the only one working in a Women's Studies department. She discusses the implications of this identity for her courses and the inflexibility of...

"It's Not About the Sex: Racialization and Queerness in Ellen and The Ellen Degeneres Show.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article discusses the coming out of Ellen Degeneres as well as her character Ellen Morgan in her TV series. The author analyzes how race is dealt with in this narrative and she follows the history of Ellen Degeneres as a gay star....

"Camping Out With the Lesbian National Parks and Services.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author looks at how dykes in queer and lesbian communities interact with camp. She examines Shawna Dempsey's and Lori Millan's project "Lesbian National Parks and Services." This project uses humour and parody to disrupt the stereotypes of...

"'You Are Mostly Promised You Will Not Be Alone': Women Farm Leaders Speak Out About Resistance and Agrarian Activism.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article is about farm activism, farmers' resistance, leadership and women's ways of working. It is the result of a collective interview with four women farm leaders of the National Farmers Union (NFU): Nettie Wiebe, Wendy Manson, Karen...

"Everyone Should Have a Voice, Everyone's Equal: Gender, Decision-Making and Environmental Policy in the Canadian Arctic.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The author analyzes the role of hunter and trapper organizations and their gender representation. She argues that women are in a minority and they should be included in the decision-making and environmental policy that is such a crucial aspect...

"Learning About the Place of Women in Forestry and Land Use Debates on British Columbia's West Coast.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Brief article)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... This essay is an analysis of a research project in which the author attempted to understand the situation of women who supported industrial forestry on northern Vancouver Island during the 1990s. The author discusses how these women...

"Have You Heard the One About the Farmer's Daughter? Gender-bias in the Intergenerational Transfer of Farm Land on the Canadian Prairies.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article explores how traditional property rights, gender-specific property transfer/inheritance practices, and a patriarchal culture have come together on the Canadian prairies to create a systemic gendered disempowerment of women in...

"Addressing the Rural Deficit in Women's Political Leadership.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article looks at electoral results and notes that there is a gender disparity that is mostly a rural issue. The author analyzes why this is of concern: one, women's election to Canadian legislatures has s]owed a great deal and two, the...

"Politics, Gender and the Farmyard.".(CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME)(Report)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... This article explores the effect of climate change from the typically marginalized experiences of rural communities and rural women. Examining climate change from rural and gendered perspectives gives context to the problem and provides...