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Rating Internet Content

Yazan: Candace | 11 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Canadiana, Technology

The American Civil Liberties Union article “Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?”[1] illustrates how mandatory rating of Internet content will lead to blocking of information, create barriers between information sharing, and will result in an Internet dominated by big business. I agree with the ACLU’s position that rating Internet content compromises the free speech of individuals. […]

Guilty of Appropriation

Yazan: Candace | 10 August 2005 | Comments Off on Guilty of Appropriation
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Racism, Women's Studies

Every summer I take my children camping with a group of homeschooler families. This year’s trip is to a 17th century reconstruction of an Iroquoian village. The trip includes observing a ‘day-in-the-life’, performances of traditional Native dance and storytelling, canoeing down the river and sleeping in a longhouse. The goal of the village is to […]

Blogher Canada

Yazan: Candace | 09 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Canadiana

Since the Blogher conference on 30 July 2005 the blogosphere has been filled with posts galore about the experience, the knowledge sharing, the future of blogging, and the building of a blogging community with personal friendships at its core. For all those people who cannot make it to California, I’m suggesting we put together a […]

Ballet tutus

Yazan: Candace | 08 August 2005 | Comments Off on Ballet tutus
Categories: Feminism, Women's Studies

I struggle with the symbolism of the ballet tutu every day. I’m a ballet teacher: it’s a skill I have that allows me to buy groceries for my kids. Most of my students are girls under the age of 10. Many sign up because they’ve seen movies of beautiful Barbie princesses dancing beautifully about and […]

Midwifery in Ontario

Yazan: Candace | 05 August 2005 | Comments Off on Midwifery in Ontario
Categories: Bodies, Feminism, Women's Studies

When my grandmothers were having babies (in Canada before WWII) going to the hospital was for middle class women, poor and isolated women had their babies at home. By the time my mother was having babies almost no one was having babies at home anymore. (And almost no one was breastfeeding). Science, medicine, and technology […]

Constructing an Identity

Yazan: Candace | 04 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Feminism, Women's Studies

In “The Power of Self-Definition” Patricia Hill Collins describes identity self-construction in terms of race and gender. Bell and Valentine’s article, ““The Sexed Self: Strategies of Performance, Sites of Resistance” concentrates on how sexual identity impacts life. Both show how the multiple dimensions of identity impact an individual. According to Hill Collins, Black women’s standpoint […]

Guaranteed Living Income

Yazan: Candace | 03 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Feminism, Women's Studies

“The Feminist Statement on Guaranteed Living Income” (FSGLI, 2004) written by Lakeman, Miles and Christiansen-Ruffman and Gwendolyn Mink’s “The Lady and the Tramp (II)” both protest the economic insecurity experienced by women and particularly by single mothers. Both articles recognize the social value of caretaking and both articles demand Guaranteed Living Income (welfare) as a […]

Defining Sexism

Yazan: Candace | 02 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Sexism, Women's Studies

Defining sexism is difficult because whether feminists view sexism in terms of women’s oppression or male privilege they face serious difficulties, such that neither definition is preferable to the other. Each of these methods neglects important issues and combining the two definitions leaves further issues unaddressed. This paper will outline the difficulties associated with defining […]

Getting Old

Yazan: Candace | 01 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Aging, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Sexism, Women's Studies

Aging, Disability, and Illness. It’s frustrating to me that these topics constantly get lumped in together. I feel that even though there are some common concerns between the three, the issues of aging are significantly different than the issues of illness and you could say the same for disability. The issues of aging are complex […]

Taking It Off

Yazan: Candace | 01 August 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Women's Studies

There are many reasons why people take off their clothes. When I was suddenly single, pregnant, mother of 2 kids, no food, no money, no welfare I modeled for visual arts drawing classes. As a pregnant, desparately poor woman with no hope or future (or so it seemed) my body seemed the only resource I […]

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