Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Summer Job in Toronto at NAC

Yazan: Candace | 29 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Life, Sexism, Technology, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I got this today from the Women’s Studies department. Looks like an interesting summer position, but too far away for me. Could be a great opportunity for a geeky feminist if you live in Toronto and are still looking for a job. Communications Assistant (Summer Student) Employer: National Action Committee on the Status of Women […]

Man the maker, Woman the consumer

Yazan: Candace | 23 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, History, School, Sexism

Ruth Oldenziel (2001) argues that producers and consumers are linked and that the mythology that distinguishes men as exclusively “makers” and women as solely “consumers” is false. Consumers shape what is produced, just as producers create what will be consumed (p. 143). Telephones were originally intended only for short, efficient business calls (Martin, 1998). When […]

Quickie on social construction of gender

Yazan: Candace | 17 May 2007 | 8 Comments
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Sexuality, Women's Studies

Gender is a fluid construct. It is not determined by our biology, but is a product of our environment, our performance, our choices, and our society. Our society sets up gender as a dichotomy: masculine and feminine. Masculinity includes traits like brave, noisy, and strong. Femininity includes being timid, quiet, fragile, and nurturing. Nothing is […]

Good feeling from 43 things

Yazan: Candace | 14 May 2007 | Comments Off on Good feeling from 43 things
Categories: Academia, Culture, Family, Gardening, Happy, Life, Relationships, School

I got this in my email this morning from 43things and it gave me such a good feeling. One week ago today I handed in my last exam and met with my advisor to discuss my major paper. Here’s what the email said: Dear future self, I’m reminding you about your stated goal on 43 […]

Laptops in the Classroom

Yazan: Candace | 10 May 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Culture, Privacy, School, Technology

I went to the Teaching and Learning Conference at the University of Windsor on Tuesday. It turns out that this conference is worth at least a couple of blog posts. First one up is about laptops in the classroom. The session was called “Excellence in Teaching: Ten Useful Strategies for New and Experienced Faculty” and […]

CSS Get Naked Day

Yazan: Candace | 05 April 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Culture, Life, Technology

What happened to the design? Today is the 2nd Annual Naked Day, when people everywhere disable the styles on their websites. The idea is promoting Web Standards. It’s a good time to see how your site loads (i.e. how far down the page is your real content?) I tested to see how it would look […]

Casey Froese, hockey player: are we ready for girls in the boys’ room?

Yazan: Candace | 30 March 2007 | 7 Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Front page of the Windsor Star today: Casey Froese (age 11) is a minor hockey player in Windsor, Ontario. Recently it was discovered that she’s been suiting up all season in the boys’ (ages 9-10) locker room. Since then, she’s been told to suit up somewhere separate from the boys. Glenn Froese, her father, says […]

John Jay High School

Yazan: Candace | 09 March 2007 | 7 Comments
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Language, Life, School, Sexism, Sexuality, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Wasn’t it just International Women’s Day? Couldn’t we celebrate instead of attacking women? Update: Contact phone number for John Jay High School in NY: 914 763-7200 Leave a message with the principal in support of the Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson. I got a link to the censorship taking place at John Jay […]

Grocery Musings

Yazan: Candace | 02 March 2007 | 8 Comments
Categories: Canadiana, Culture, Ecofeminism, Environment, Family, Food, Life

A few things I’ve noticed about grocery stores, groceries, and grocery shopping: During the day on a weekday, the grocery store is filled with women with babies and old people. Even in this factory town where a large number of people are shiftworkers there are few men, fewer men with children, and very very few […]

Bucking the System

Yazan: Candace | 14 February 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Divorce, Family, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Happy, Language, Life, Marriage, Masculinity, Relationships, Sexism, Sexuality, Third Wave, Women's Studies

When you decide that things aren’t quite right and that you have the power to make changes in the world, however large or small those changes might be, you leave the path. You can no longer follow the map of your youth, the instruction book your parents gave you, or mimic the decisions made by […]

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