Archive for the 'Bodies' Category

Finding out

Yazan: Candace | 02 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Adultery, Bodies, Culture, Divorce, Family, Feminism, Marriage, Women's Studies

Someone I know is grappling with telling a friend that the friend’s husband is having an affair. She asked me what I would do – she didn’t know that I’d been through this. I was as naive as they come, and busy wrapped up in my miserable life looking after first one high needs child […]

Packaging

Yazan: Candace | 13 December 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Feminism

Finding a bra that fits can be tough if you don’t fit the standard package

December 6 Memorial: Fourteen Not Forgotten

Yazan: Candace | 07 December 2005 | Comments Off on December 6 Memorial: Fourteen Not Forgotten
Categories: Academia, Activism, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, History, Sexism, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Yesterday was December 6. It was the sixteenth anniversary of the Montréal Massacre that took place at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. On this day, 14 women were massacred by a man with a semi automatic because he believed they had taken what should have been his place as a student in the faculty […]

The Myth of Mammy in The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts

Yazan: Candace | 18 November 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Feminism, History, Racism, Women's Studies

The novel The Bondwoman’s Narrative recounts the journey of a fugitive slave woman named Hannah, from enslavement in North Carolina to freedom in New Jersey. She struggles through a life filled with cruel masters, lost-and-found-again friendships, and basic physical survival. Readers will find her positive outlook inspiring, but the amount of coincidental good fortune Hannah […]

SEXuality

Yazan: Candace | 29 October 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Audiocast, Bodies, Feminism, Podcast, Sexuality, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Tara McKee is a sex educator from Toronto, Ontario. In this audiocast she addresses issues surrounding the need for accurate education surrounding sexuality. She makes suggestions regarding negotiating sexual boundaries, and finding woman positive information about sex and also talks about the sexual pressures women face. In the true nature of third wave feminism, she […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aging

Yazan: Candace | 28 July 2005 | Comments Off on Aging
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

When I consider aging I think about it from both sides: what it’s like for a child to think about getting old and for an older person to remember being young. There’s so much hype about sending wisdom back in time to our younger selves but would our self listen? We have a need to […]

Yazan: Candace | 28 July 2005 | Comments Off on
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

strength and passion. I want a body like this.

Altered Bodies: Disability, Illness and Aging

Yazan: Candace | 28 July 2005 | Comments Off on Altered Bodies: Disability, Illness and Aging
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Feminism, Women's Studies

The concept of control greatly affects my body thoughts and practices. I have had experience with illness and aging and being unable to control my body. These experiences continue to shape the way I behave. Because I overbook myself and get involved in too many activities and take on too many responsibilities I place great […]

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