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Canadian
Feminism in Action
Summer/Fall 2006
Vol. 25, Nos. 3,4
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Table of Contents
Editorial/Éditorial
by Vijay Agnew, Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Jennifer deGroot, Laurence
Fortin-Pellerin,
Nuzhat Jafri, Lee Lakeman, Diane Matte, Angela Miles, Shree Mulay,
Kathleen O’Grady and Kim Pate 3
The Long March
Creating Trialogue: Women’s
Constitutional Activism in Canada by Marilou McPhedran 6
Changer la vie des femme, changer le
monde: La Marche Mondiale des Femme -
défis et apprentissages par Diane Matte 18
Confronting Power: Aboriginal Women and Justice Reform by
Patricia A. Monture 25
Remaking Waves: The Québec Women’s Movement in
the 1950s and 1960s by Cheryl Gosselin 34
Why Women Still Ain’t Satisified:
Politics and Activism in Canadian Child Care, 2006 by
Martha Friendly 41
La syndicalisation féminine au
Québec par Jeanne Maranda 47
Reflections on Women’s Health and
Gender Equality in Canada by Olena Hankivsky 51
The Pen and the Picket by Penni
Mitchell 57
Challenges
Wa(i)ving Solidarity: Feminist
Activists Confronting Backlash by Victoria Bromley and
Aalya Ahmad 61
Strangers in an Estranged World: Radical
Feminists in the Academy by Geneviéve Pagé and Ève-Marie
Lampron 72
Status of Women Canada Cuts a Loss for
Healthy Democracy by Kathleen O’Grady 79
Advocacy, Activism and Social Change
for Women in Prison by Kim Pate 81
Out of Canada: The Pedagogy of Transnational
Feminist Activism by Debbie Lunny 85
La représentation des femmes au
sein des groupes minoritaires: Le cas des femmes francophones
vivant en milieu minoritaire au Canada par Linda Cardinal
et Rachel Cox 91
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women:
Engaging Muslim Women in Civic and Social Change by Nuzhat
Jafri 97
La publicité sexiste: Mise en
scène de l’inégalité et des stéréotypes
du féminin par Francine Descarries 101
Pedagogical Practice with Girls: Learning
a Way Forward by Rachel Gouin 104
Pionnières et héritières:
Qu’en est-il de l’engagement des jeunes femmes et
des aînées?
par Julie Jacques, Anne Quéniart et Michèle Charpentier 110
Actions
FAFIA’s CEDAW Campaign:
25 Years, Ready or Not? by Nancy Peckford 117
Virtual Activism and the Pro-Choice
Movement in Canada by Liane McTavish 121
Organzing on the “Factory on Wheels”: The Bus Riders’ Union
and Anti-Racist Feminism for the 21st Century by Fiona
Jeffries 127
Arbitration and Family Laws: Muslim Women
Campaign to Eliminate the Use of Religious Laws in Legally-Binding
Abritration by Alia Hogben 133
Saying the F-Word: Feminism Indie-Rock Style by Dana
Ayotte and Jacqueline Gullion 137
The Irreverent Raging Grannies: Humour as Protest by
Carole Roy 141
The Mobilization of Older Feminists: Women Elders in
Action (WE*ACT) Campaign for Pension Reform by Joanne Blake and Jan
Westlund 149
Dueling for Dollars: Feminist Activism
and Minimum Wage Coalition Politics by Joan Grace 154
Looking Out: Prairie Women Use Photovoice
Methods to Fight Poverty by Kay Willson, Kathryn Green,
Margaret Haworth-Brockman and Rachel Rapaport Beck 160
Women Reversing Desertification: Via Campesina Takes on Aracruz
Corporation in Brazil by Nettie Wiebe 167
Femme Fiscale Brings Women’s Voices
to the Legislature by Jennifer deGroot and Lorna A. Turnbull 173
Living Feminism
The Fight for Universal Medicare:
An Interview with Healthcare Activist, Pat Armstrong by
Jan Noel 177
From Riot Grrrl to Radical: Reflections
from a Working-Class Feminist by Gina Whitfield 185
When the Body Protests: New Versions of Activism by
Diane Driedger 188
On Being a Feminist Farmer by Jennifer deGroot 191
The Role of Montréal’s Dykes on Mykes
Radio Show by Marie-Claire MacPhee and Mél Hogan 193
Sherona Hall - April 26, 1948 -December
30, 2006: A Tribute by Makeda Silvera 198
Poetry
You’re Still the One by
Carol A. Adams 17
For Leah’s Tenth Birthday by
Patience Wheatley 39
The morning a child leaves by
Marlene Kadar 46
Friends of Mine by Joanna M. Weston 49
Bloodshed by Elizabeth Wood 71
black hawk by Adebe DeRango-Adem 71
Zephyr by Desi Di Nardo 90
Looking for My Father by Shirley
Adelman 96
untitled by A. Mary Murphy 116
Fade by Madeline Sonik 116
a tilt by Farideh de Bosset 132
this body by Lucy Waters 148
Jabberwocky by Desi Di Nardo 181
Arthritic Dreams II by Renee Norman 183
untitled by A. Mary Murphy 183
What Child Comes Back by Ann Elizabeth
Carson 183
untitled by A. Mary Murphy 187
The Poet is Not Here by Lisa Shatzky 190
A Story by Ann Elizabeth Carson 197
Book Reviews
The Curious Feminist reviewed
by Vanessa Oliver 202
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics,
Memory and the Sacred reviewed by Ilya Parkins 203
Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women,
Immigrants, First Nations, Youth and People with Low Income reviewed
by Jan Kainer 204
Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and
International Cooperation reviewed by Clara Thomas 205
The Muse Strikes Back: Female Narratology
in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui reviewed by Ann
Gagne 207
What Casanova Told Me reviewed
by Ann (Rusty) Shteir 208
The House on Lippincott reviewed
by Mark Federman 209
The Children of Mary reviewed by Cynthia Flood 210
Shadows Light reviewed by Ruth Goldsmith 211
Performing Femininity: Rewriting Gender Identity reviewed
by Salina Abji 211
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives reviewed
by Deborah Heller 212
The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism,
Judaism, and Sexual Ethics reviewed by Johanna Stuckey 213
Between Friends: A Year in Letters reviewed
by Clara Thomas 214
Front Cover
Alice Olsen Williams, “Healthy Land, Healthy
People,” quilt, 14' x 5.66', 2005. Photo: Fred Cattroll,
Courtesy Assembly of First Nations. Please turn to page 201 for
more informtion from the artist about the making of this quilt.
Alice Williams was born in Trout Lake, 150 miles
north of Kenora, in the traditional territory of her mother’s
people from time before memory. In 1980 she discovered quilting,
mastering the techniques which allow her to create the meticulous
hand-quilting in her bed coverings and wall hangings. Gradually
Alice formed the concepts which would be the basis for her distinctive
style and work. Blending her cultural heritage into a unified whole,
she envisions the central motif to depict the symbols and themes
of Anishinaape culture, surrounded by the conventional North American
quilting blocks and patterns which were developed and continue
to be evolved by those women and their descendants who came to
this Land from Europe, the legacy of her father’s people.
Through her understanding of the teachings of the Elders, Alice
has created her own Life symbol. She continues to grow as an artist,
searching for new ways to express the Spirit of Creation in the
images of her designs.
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