topic:"Women" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.

ISBN: 9780228006268

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 01.1 R14f

Collection: Archives Library

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Feeling feminism : activism, affect, and Canada's second wave

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 C15f

Responsibility: Edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Feminism; Women; Human rights; Activism; Politics

Abstract: Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force in the actions underlying feminist history. They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed women's commitment to building and sustaining a new world. The movement was at its height from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, but this groundbreaking study embraces the perspective of a long second wave, reaching back to the 1950s and forward into the early 1990s. Drawing explicitly on the history of emotions and affect theory to convey the passion, the sense of possibility, and the energizing collective political commitment that has characterized feminism, contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. Insights from gender and women's studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse Feeling Feminism, as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism. More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney -- Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women's Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood -- Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel -- "Feeling My Way": Women's Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett -- Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile -- "Jesus is not part of this collective": Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi -- Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward -- Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminisn, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin -- An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna -- Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funke Aladejebi -- "Briser le mur du silence": Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists' Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet -- Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew Fesnak.

ISBN: 9780774866514

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 C15f

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 C14f

Responsibility: Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 378 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Feminism; Women; Women's Rights; Canada; Equality; Human rights; Sexism; Gender

Abstract: Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.

ISBN: 9780774868037

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 C14f

Collection: Archives Library

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In good relation : history, gender, and kinship in indigenous feminisms

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 07.2 N53i

Responsibility: Edited by Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Traditions; Women; Feminism; Gender; Sexuality

Abstract: Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of "generations," this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: Introduction / Sarah Nickel -- Broadening indigenous feminisms. The uninvited / by Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Us / by Elaine McArthur -- Making matriarchs at Coqualeetza : Sto´:lo¯ women's politics and histories across generations / by Madeline Rose Knickerbocker -- Sa´mi feminist moments : decolonization and Indigenous feminism / by Astri Dankertsen -- "It just piles on, and piles on, and piles on" : young Indigenous women and the colonial imagination / by Tasha Hubbard with Joi T. Arcand, Zoey Roy, Darian Lonechild, and Marie Sanderson -- "Making an honest effort" : Indian homemakers' clubs and complex settler engagements / by Sarah Nickel -- Queer and two-spirit identities, and sexuality. Reclaiming traditional gender roles : a two-spirit critique / by Kai Pyle -- Reading Chrystos for feminisms that honour two-spirit erotics / by Aubrey Jean Hanson -- Naawenangweyaabeg Coming in : intersections of Indigenous sexuality and spirituality / by Chantal Fiola -- Morning star, and moon share the sky : (re)membering two-spirit identity through culture-centred HIV prevention curriculum for Indigenous youth / by Ramona Beltra´n, Antonia R.G. Alvarez, and Miriam M. Puga -- Multi-generational feminisms and kinship. Honouring our great-grandmothers : an ode to Caroline LaFramboise, twentieth-century Me´tis matriach / by Zoe Todd -- on anishinaabe parental kinship with black girl life : twenty-first century ([de]colonial) turtle island / by waaseyaa'sin christine sy with aja sy -- Toward an Indigenous relational aesthetics : making Native love, still / by Lindsay Nixon -- Conversations on Indigenous feminism / by Omeasoo Wa¯hpa¯siw and Louise Halfe -- These are my daughters / by Anina Major.

ISBN: 9780887558511

Accession Number: P2023.09

Call Number: 07.2 N53i

Collection: Archives Library

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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Gentile, Patrizia

Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 G29q

Author: Gentile, Patrizia

Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Feminism; Women; History; Beauty contests; Canada

Abstract: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism -- Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness -- Labour of Beauty -- Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies -- Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety.

ISBN: 9780774864121

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 G29q

Collection: Archives Library

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