Herizons articles from January 2004

Herizons archives from January 2004

Hey Jude!(the letters)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... We incorrectly identified a photograph of Judy Darey in our last issue as lawyer Mary Cornish. Both women Judy Darcy were mentioned in a nelliegram on a pay equity settlement reached with five unions, including the Canadian Union of Public...

The chosen family.(Illustration)
January 1, 2004... Here comes trouble Hello, Rosebud [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brenda... long time no see. How's life at Family Services? Good... and how are you? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skip the chit chat, Brenda... I'm staying here......

Bulk up.(the letters)(Bulk Subscriptions to Herizons)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... We have special Bulk Subscriptions to Herizons that are perfect for women's studies departments of universities or large organizations with many board members or committees. Order a minimum of 50 Bulk Subscriptions to Herizons--shipped...

This issue.
January 1, 2004... Each issue of Herizons is collaborative effort of about 30 contributors, writers and photographers, designers and volunteers. We'd like to introduce you to a few of the people who made this issue of Herizons happen. STACEY KAUDER ...

Shoot the messenger.(guest room)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... Okay so I'm still here, shoot me why don't you. Please shoot me. I'll pay you to shoot me. But I'm going soon. How can I not watch Kim Derry's opening act? And it's worth it because get this: Derry has his notebook from the Balcony Rapist...

Secure our rights: Afghan women.(nelliegrams)(Afghan Women's Network)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Afghan Women's Network, striking what it believes is a balance between women's rights in international law and Islamic law, has come up with a wish for the country's new constitution. The network's proposal includes banning fathers and...

AD gets the boot.(nelliegrams)(sexist advertising)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Terra Footwear got a stomping over its ad campaign when trade union members threatened to give the boot to the company's products. Terra's billboard ads appeared across the country and depicted women wearing lingerie in suggestive poses...

Will Campbell close them down?(news)(Premier Gordon Campbell )
January 1, 2004... (VANCOUVER) A year ago, the B.C. government announced that it planned to eliminate funding to the province's women's centres by 2004. The B.C. Coalition of Women's Centres has been busy ever since, mounting protests and lobbying efforts to...

The new face of Afghanistan.
January 1, 2004... (INDIA) An old, bus-like vehicle called a Tunis takes 26-year-old Mary Akrami through the dusty roads between Peshawar. Pakistan and Kabul, Afghanistan. Akrami's journey began when a bomb tore through her house in Kabul, killing her...

Iranian woman wins nobel prize.(nelliegrams)(Iranian writer, lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Norwegian Nobel committee awarded the 2003 peace prize to Iranian writer, lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. The lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer and activist says Iran's top human rights priorities should be freeing...

South African judge honoured.(nelliegrams)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... A South African judge noted for her leadership of the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was the joint recipient of the Women's Rights Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation this fall. Navanethem Pillay, along...

Media watch.(sites we like)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... www.mediawatch.ca Sexist advertising getting you down? Take action on the Media Watch website. Click to the best and worst gallery, which will inspire and ire you. You'll find plenty of research, and action tools to transform the media...

Canadian lesbian and gay archives.(sites we like)
January 1, 2004... www.clga.ca File under queer history-lots of it. The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives website lets you browse the catalogue of photographs, newspapers and many more items held by the Toronto volunteer archivists since 1973. While you...

Thirdspace.(sites we like)
January 1, 2004... www.thirdspace.ca Scholar solace. An on-line academic journal of feminist theory and methodology, thirdspace offers emerging feminist scholars more opportunities for professional development, Raising the profile of feminist scholars and...

Systers are doin' IT.
January 1, 2004... (Tamil Nadu, india) Most of us have heard of the Taj Mahal, built in memory of Mumtaz Mahal. But few may have heard about her aunt, Nor Mahal, who invented the device to perform attar distillation from flowers to make perfumes. Despite...

Urine trouble.(nelliegrams)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Trickle-down economies is alive and well in Manitoba. The province, which has the largest concentration of pregnant mare's urine (PMU), reports a 30 percent reduction in the demand for PMU. The animal urine is used to manufacture hormone...

Will child care quality slide?
January 1, 2004... (TORONTO) The federal government's Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care will sea $900 million handed over to provincial and territorial governments for early learning and child care during the next five years. However,...

Columnist gets post.(nelliegrams)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Herizons columnist Lisa Rundle is now senior editor at The Walrus, Canada's newest magazine devoted to politics and culture. Touted as Canada's answer to Harper's, The Walrus has a tall order to fill. One of Rundle's responsibilities is...

Foundation feasts on fundraiser.(nelliegrams)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Canadian Women's Foundation raised $130,000 at its annual professional breakfast in Margot Franssen September in Toronto. Funds will support the foundation's economic development projects aimed at helping low-income women gain financial...

Tax expert nets gain.(nelliegrams)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded University of British Columbia law professor Claire young the 2003 Therese F. Casgrain Fellowship. The $40,000 fellowship, named in honour of the late senator Therese...

A studio of one's own.
January 1, 2004... Conceived one sunny afternoon over martinis by friends Kim Sawchuk, Kathy Kennedy and Patricia Kearns, Montreal's Studio XX was established in 1995. The centre is more than a multimedia resource centre for women artists. The goal of this...

Progress not clear-cut.
January 1, 2004... (TOFINO) It's been a decade since the mass logging blockades in Clayoquot Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. In 1993, thousands gathered at the Friends of Clayoquot Peace Camp in a clear-cut area dubbed the Black Hole, which...

Green goes orange.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Former federal Green Party leader Joan Russow has joined the New Democratic Party, Joan Russow saying party leader "Jack Layton is a passionate advocate for peace, social justice, the environment and human rights." B.C. voters in...

Anderson awarded.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Canadian Journalism Foundation awarded its lifetime achievement award to Doris Anderson, editor of Chatelaine from 1957 to 1977. Anderson, an officer of the Order of Canada, kindled spirited feminist coverage of issues such as abortion,...

The straight goods on Ellen.(cole's notes)
January 1, 2004... You may think the big news of the new television season is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Or maybe you're just relieved that Trading Spaces--the closest thing to a reality show that feminists openly admit to watching--features special...

Flying high: an interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald.(Interview)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... Ann Marie MacDonald's second novel. The Way the Crow Flies (Random House of Canada. 2003), follows her award-winning Fall On Your Knees, a first novel that sold more than 300,000 copies in Canada and was selected for the Oprah...

Go with the flow.
January 1, 2004... I started making my own pads about 10 years ago. There I was, home on a university break, crouched over my parents' kitchen table and my mom's trusty Singer. I was surrounded by metres of flannelette in myriad colours and styles, and holding...

All the rage: bio-identical hormones gain in popularity.
January 1, 2004... Last year's groundbreaking study by the Women's Health Initiative on the long-term use of Prempro raised the awareness of millions of women in North America about the health risks associated with long-term use of traditional...

Feeling blue? Why a prescription may not be the answer.
January 1, 2004... The escalation in prescription rates for antidepressant drugs over the last decade suggests that rates of depression have reached epidemic proportions, particularly among women. The idea that depression is an illness for which antidepressants...

Stirring up discomfort.(out of bounds)
January 1, 2004... So I went to get a Pap smear. Are you cringing yet? I was, too. I've had some bad run-ins with health professionals during this particular exam. Let's see: I'm 29. I caught my first glimpse of the ol' curling iron/stirrup, one-two combo when...

Evalyn Parry Unreasonable.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
January 1, 2004... INDEPENDENT, 2003 Whether wittily dismissing Canadians' obsession with all things American, as in "Canada Dreams of California," or contemplating the possible state of the world the Sunday morning after the revolution. Evalyn Parry is...

Po' Girl Po' Girl.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
January 1, 2004... Jericho Beach music, 2003 Featuring everything from "inner city blues to old shaggy banjo tunes," the self-titled debut recording from Po' Girl is really grounded in traditional blues. Songs like "Bad Luck Baby." "Bleak Street" and...

Arlene Bishop Cut A Man's Heart Out.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
January 1, 2004... BLARE! MUSIC 2003. Like Evalyn Parry. Arlene Bishop is a Toronto-based performer of diverse talents. Having released her third CD, Cut A Man's Heart Out, she is at work preparing her first stage show. And while Bishop's ability as a...

Norine Braun Now & Zen.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
January 1, 2004... INDEPENDENT, 2002. Vancouver's Norine Braun's fifth release. Now & Zen, is the musical equivalent of the trilogy of needs in the Wizard of Oz. This is definitely a work with courage, heart and brains. Although its content is often...

Mercy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Alissa York RANDOM HOUSE CANADA, 2003 Alissa York has written a fine debut novel that's rife with the required gothic elements: lust, sin, religious duty, madness and a spooky setting. Set in the fictional town of Mercy, Manitoba...

Sometime Daughter.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Melanie Duggan second story press, 2002. In her recent novel, Sometime Daughter, Melanie Duggan's portraits of life in a nursing home are perceptive, and her descriptions of the mixed emotions of a woman indulging in an extramarital...

She Writes: Love, Spaghetti and Other Stories By Youngish Women.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... edited by Carolyn Foster SECOND STORY PRESS, 2002 I confess. I usually dread collections of stories seemingly united by generalized categories such as geographic proximity, nationality or ethnic origin, or, as in this case, age. They...

Voice in the Desert: an Anthology of Arabic-Canadian Women Writers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... edited by Elizabeth Dahab GUERNICA, 2002 The nine authors included in this volume represent a cross-section of Canadian writers and Arab-Canadians. Anne-Marie Alonzo, Andree Dahan, Yolande Geadah, Mona Latif Ghattas and Nadine Latif were...

When She Was Electric.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Andrea MacPherson POLESTAR, 2003 When She Was Electric is a powerfully poetic story of secrets and departures that vibrates with the energy of family ghost and chilling events. Set in a time when the attention of the world was...

The Perpetual Ending.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Kristen den Hartog Knoff Canada, 2003 The fragmented story of Jane, the main character in Ontario writer Kristen den Hartog's second novel, is not an easy one to tell. It portrays a young woman tormented by memories of her dead twin...

When the Emperor Was Divine.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Julie Ostsuka ALFRED A. KNOFF, 2002 It is the spring of 1942. In Berkeley, California, a woman on her way to the library notices a sign displayed in the window of the post office. It is later revealed that the sign is entitled...

Tent of Blue.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Rachel Preston GOOSE LANE EDITIONS, 2002 Rachel Preston's first novel, Tent of Blue, is a complex and unique story of mother and son over a period of three decades. Narrated through both characters, the story allows the reader to...

No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travellers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Barbara Hodgson GREYSTONE BOOKS, 2003 No quick trips in air-conditioned planes of comfortable cars. No comfortable clothing, either. These intrepid women travelled for weeks and months during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. To cross...

Cashing in on Pay Equity: Supermarket Restructuring and Gender Equality.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Jan Kainer SUMACH PRESS, 2002 Warning: Jan Kainer's so-little-success story about the implementation of Ontario's Pay Equity Act in supermarkets is a little hard to stomach. The pay equity process is shaped not only by the law and...

Take Back the Truth: Confronting Paper Power and the Religious Right.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Joanna Manning CROSSROAD PUBLISHING, 2003 Faith is a funny thing--its very essence is powerful conviction in the absence of proof. Joanna Manning's blistering book celebrates her faith in Catholicism and her tenacious work on behalf of...

Becoming George: the Life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Ann Saddlemyer OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003 Behind many a great man stands a helpful, self-effacing woman, and no woman could be more self-effacing than Georgie, wife of W.B. Yeats. At first she seemed badly cast for the role. From a...

Heroines.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Lincoln Clarkes ANVIL PRESS, 2003 Heroines is an unlikely collection of models. Photographer Lincoln Clarkes' presentation of women who lived in Vancouver's Downtown East Side is, in some ways oddly similar to the presentation of...

Kamasutra: a New, Complete English Translation from the Sanskrit Text.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002 The erotic has varied vastly throughout time and place. However, frameworks such as the heterosexualized one that only recognizes the oppositional male/female binary tend to...

Well-versed.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Two books of poetry released this fall by Coach House Press--Di Brandt's Now You Care and Nathalie Stephens' Paper City--interrogate the artist's role in a society bent on self-destruction but they do so from almost contradictory stances. ...

Giving birth to new traditions.(intersections)
January 1, 2004... Call it a generational moment. My crew is suddenly breeding. Hardly a revolutionary concept. Or is it? What happens when radical race-, class- and gender-conscious hell-raisers start to multiply in the belly of the beast? We look...

Verily, life is a bitch.(on the edge)
January 1, 2004... I wanna be a bitch. Nope, that's not quite it--I want to be a B*I*T*C*H*. Not for me the lower-case stuff of bitchery; I want the big capital letters, Full Monty of B*I*T*C*H*. But why you ask, verily, why? That may not be the correct use...