Description
Book SynopsisWith
Home/Bodies, Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. The metaphorical geographies of bodies, places, and spaces are the backdrop for such topics as: transgendered identities; young people and sexual health; kinetic art and disability; adolescent girls and consumer society; palliative care for dying loved ones; women and social activism; and aboriginal and multicultural perspectives. Qualitative research methods are referenced throughout, including interviews, case studies, focus groups, and narrative research.
Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new - generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.
Trade ReviewHome/Bodies showcases a wealth of women's lived experiences, challenging readers to consider the contemporary complexity and diversity of gendered identity, embodiment, and belonging in place. Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto Quarterly
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Wendy Schissel
- Part 1: Compound Fractures
- Oppression and Indigenous Women: Past, Present, and Future - An Australian Kimberly Aboriginal Perspective
- J. Maria Pedersen
- Who Am I and Where do I Belong? Sites of Struggle in Crafting and Negotiating Female Muslim Identities in Canada
- Tabassum Ruby
- "Transgendered" Perspectives as a Challenge to Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- Coralee Dreschler
- Part 2: Ruptured Sutures
- Silent, Denigrated, and Rendered Invisible: Mothers Who Lost Their Babies to Adoption in the 1960s and 1970s
- Sandra Jarvie
- tell-me-what-I-want.com: Adolescent Girls, Consumer Society, and Information Technologies
- Ellen Whiteman
- The Impact of Palliation on Familial Space: Home Space from the Perspective of Family Members who are Living (and Caring) for Dying Loved Ones at Home
- Allison M. Williams
- Spinning Yarns of Women's Activism in Support of Industrial Forestry on Canada's West Coast
- Maureen G. Reed
- Part 3: Habitats for/of Humanity
- Crafting Selves: The Impact of Idenity on Intercultural Friendships among Women
- Kim Morrison
- Women's Professional Mentorship in Psychology and the Academy: One Group's Stories of Quilting and Life
- Denise J. Larsen and Jennifer A. Bosivert with Jocelyn Lock, Tikker Percey, Diane Priebe, and Linda Vaudan
- Sexual Health of Young Women: Context and Care Make a Difference
- Mary Rucklos Hampton, Barb McWatters, Bonne Jeffery, and Pamela Smith
- Voices of Dancers with Mobility Impairments
- Donna L. Goodwin, John Krohn, and Arvid Kuhnle
- References
