Friday 12 March 2010

Featuring papers by students and community members on women making change individually and collectively, locally and globally and covering a range of topics including the history of the women’s movement in London, women’s organizing in Iran, inter-generational debates abut feminism, the creation of feminist communities, and women in burlesque, punk and underground music cultures.

Media:

Click HERE for Women Making Change's Call for Papers

Click HERE for conference poster.

Click HERE for conference program.

Click HERE for the press release on WMC's keynote speaker Stephanie Nolen, South Asia Correspondent for the Globe and Mail and author of 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa.

E-Proceedings

Alissa Mazar (Western) - Union Women: The Women's Movement and The Labour Movement

Andrea Gal (Laurier) - Managing the Farm Home: Rural Ontario Women’s Consumption,
1900-25

Caitlyn Triebel (Alberta) - Women Pursuing Their Voices in Punk and Underground Music Culture

Caitlynn Cummings (Alberta) - My Mom Wore Red Lipstick, I Wear Pink: A Photographic Inquiry into Generational Differences in Thought About Gender

Catherine Ollerhead DeSantis (Guelph) - Household work and social networks: The Diary of Almyra Waite Clary

Clare Tattersall (Western) - Unpacking and Tracking the London 2nd Wave Feminist Movement

Humera Javed (Laurier) - Making Feminist Muslim Spaces

Jennifer Gartner (Western) - Lesbianize the Gods: Violence and the “New Form” in Monique Wittig’s Le Corps Lesbien / The Lesbian Body

Jessica Adach (Guelph) - Resisting their Roles: Women Making Change in Nazi Germany

Kaleigh Alkenbrack (Queen’s) - The Craftivism! Project: An Investigation into the Possibilities and Problems of Craft as a Mode of Feminist Community Building and Social Action

Kate Hargreaves (Windsor) - Stripping Away Hegemonic Power: Subversive Gender Representations in Modern Burlesque

Katie Anderson (Guelph) - The Role of Wives of Veterinarians: The Formation of Support Networks and Women’s Auxiliaries to the Veterinary Profession During the Mid Twentieth Century

Kellie L. Chouinard (Windsor) - Writing Female: Making Text of the Body

Mary Beth Backewich (Laurier) - The Making of ‘Her-Story’: An Exploration of the Rape and Forced Impregnation in the Teaching of Contemporary Bosnian History

Mouna Hanna (Ottawa) - Finding the “We” in “I”: Unifying a Feminist Approach against Online Sexual Harassment

Nazli Farokhi (Iran) - The Inside Story of the Struggles of Iranian Feminists to Create Equal Structures and Decision-making Processses: Focus on the One Million Signatures Campaign Against Discriminatory Laws

Rebecca Jackson (Acadia) - Destabilizing Dialect: Imagining a New Construction of Sexual Identity through Language

 

Conference Sponsors

At Brescia University College:
The Institute for Women and Leadership (iWIL)
The Circle Women’s Centre

At Western:
Dept. of Women’s Studies & Feminist Research
Western’s Caucus on Women’s Issues
Faculty of Education
Office of the President and Vice-Presidents