Recently added articles from Resources for Feminist Research:
Decolonizing Spaces/Espaces decolonisants.(INTRODUCTION)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Decolonizing Spaces is a special issue of Resources for Feminist Research that confronts the longstanding utopian feminist project of seeking possibilities for breaking down barriers and dominant power structures. We conceptualized this issue through the framework of "decolonizing" in ...
Community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Mar 22, 2008; ... This paper examines the rewards and problematics of doing community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. British Columbia, It examines how the research process, experiences, and goals of a project may differ depending on one's social location in and outside of the project ....
Re/moving forward?: spacing mad degeneracy at the Queen Street site.
Mar 22, 2008; ... This article explores the site of the Queen Street Mental Health Centre (now CAMH) in Toronto. The building of Ontario's first asylum in 1850 on this site was a result of moral interventions in order to build Canada as a respectable nation. The site became and has remained a "problem" ...
"So, what's a white girl like me doing in a place like this?": rethinking pedagogical practices in an indigenous context.
Mar 22, 2008; ... This article addresses the question of whether a white academic can act as an ally to Native students and faculty in their struggle to "Indigenize" the Canadian university system. Through an analysis of two personal experiences teaching in an Indigenous context, the author argues that ...
Re-imagining home and belonging: feminism, nostalgia, and critical memory.
Mar 22, 2008; ... I begin this paper with some personal childhood narratives about the ambivalence I associate with the concept of home. I use a visit "back home" to Lebanon as an opportunity for re-imagining home and for understanding what is at stake when we think of home uncritically as a place of safety ...
Gentrification and playful disregard.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Currently in Vancouver, BC, a process of rapid development within the urban centre as well as the containment and regulation of entertainment space is occurring. Drawing from interviews, observation and analysis of print media, this paper discusses how one local house party that took place ...
Three sisters.(DISCUSSIONS)
Mar 22, 2008; ... We begin our conversation about decolonization on our way to the lower longhouse of the Cayuga Nation, the first stop on Jacqueline's tour of Six Nations of the Grand River and surrounding area. Our journey ends at the site of an old residential school in Brantford. Lila: To ...
The yellow peril revisited: the impact of SARS on Chinese and Southeast Asian Communities.(DISCUSSIONS)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Introduction News of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first hit Canada in early March 2003. For the duration of the spring and into the summer, extensive media coverage with headlines like "U.N. warns of worldwide threat from killer ailment," and lack of access to ...
Housing statement of forward.
Mar 22, 2008 ... We are the women of FORWARD, Feminist Organization for Women's Advancement, Rights & Dignity. (2) We meet every week at Sistering, a women's drop-in centre in Toronto, Canada. We have experienced homelessness and bad housing conditions. When we talk about women's homelessness, we want ...
Beyond the Big Divide? The Humanities and Social Sciences in Women's Studies.(INTRODUCTION)
Sep 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 session developed from discussion among some ...
Culture at the crossroads.(Essay)
Sep 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 resonates with many other ...
Teaching women's organizing and the women's movement: the question of arts and culture within feminism.(Essay)
Sep 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 simple. How did we come ...
"Copy, cut, paste": a reflection on some institutional constraints of teaching a big intro course.(Essay)
Sep 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 administrative decisions, a flagship course like "On ...
Shape-shifting beauty: the body, gender and subjectivity in the photographs of Claude Cahun.(NEW FEMINIST RESEARCH)(Critical essay)
Sep 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. From beneath the scooping collar of the ...
Epistemological reflections on sex and fieldwork.(Essay)
Sep 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 relatively new faculty member who completed her ...
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 )
Sep 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 sexe et le travail de terrain. Nous avons ...
Developing transnational relations and subjectivities: the politics of virtue and empowerment in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan.(Essay)
Sep 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 trajectories and effects of economic power in a ...
A thematic bibliography and literature review of rural, remote and Northern Women's Health in Canada 2003-2006.(Bibliography)
Sep 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 Centres of Excellence for Women's Health ...
Une bibliographie thematique et une revue de la litteraturesur la sante des femmes en milieux rural, eloigne et nordique du Canada 2003-2006.(Bibliography)
Sep 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 toujours. De 2001 a 2003, les Centres ...
Caring For / Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving.(Book review)
Sep 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 is a welcome addition to the ...