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Not drowning but waving : women, feminism and the liberal arts
\"Not Drowning But Waving...gestures both at the difficulties faced by feminists in the humanities in Canada and at the possibilities of hope, of new 'waves' of feminism.\" Twenty-two essays explore topics such as feminism in the liberal arts disciplines; the relationship of the liberal arts to the larger university; the costs and rewards for women in administration; the corporatization of university campuses; intergenerational and transcultural tensions within feminist communities; balancing personal life with professional aspirations; the relationship of feminism to cultural studies; women, social justice, and the liberal arts. Not Drowning But Waving is a welcome progress report on the variety of feminisms at work in academe and beyond. It provides crucial insights for university administrators, faculty, and literate non-specialists interested in the Arts and Humanities.\"--pub. desc.
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Antisemitism, Blood Libels and Holocaust Denial: Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada
Dr. Henry Morgentaler was a Holocaust survivor whose civil disobedience, in conjunction with the feminist pro-choice movements, was at the heart of the successful campaign to overturn Canada's abortion law. Throughout decades of struggle, he was the subject of antisemitic invective that commingled Holocaust denial and blood libels against Jewish abortion providers. This article traces the role of antisemitism in opposition to the struggle for abortion rights in Canada and considers how both Morgentaler and his critics invoked the lessons of the Holocaust to justify their advocacy.
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Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of single-owner women farmers
This paper investigates how the business models adopted by single-owner women farmers are impacted by the entrepreneurial ecosystem in which they operate. We explored these interactions from the perspective of entrepreneurial capital to better understand the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs starting their own farms. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 19 single-owner women farmers in Quebec. Our results indicate that single-owner women farmers often start farming at a mid-point in their careers, are motivated by strong social and agroecological values, but must navigate a traditional and gendered entrepreneurial ecosystem that limits opportunities to leverage financial, social and symbolic capital to grow their mostly alternative business models. However, single-owner women farmers also mobilize entrepreneurial capital and innovative business strategies to assert their identity as women farmers and grow their businesses with varying degrees of success. This was often achieved by developing strong partnerships with key stakeholders and by marketing through alternative channels, such as short food supply chains. We derive several research propositions to guide future research on this topic.
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This Small Army of Women
This Small Army of Women restores a forgotten contingent of nursing volunteers to the historical record, showcasing their dedication amid the carnage of war and their sometimes uneasy relationship with nursing professionals.
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Sense of belonging to community and avoidable hospitalization: a population-based cohort study of 456,415 Canadians
A sense of belonging to a community is a dimension of subjective well-being that is of growing population health interest. We evaluated sex-stratified associations between community belonging and risk of avoidable hospitalization. Adult men and women from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2000–2014) were asked to rate their sense of community belonging (N = 456,415) and were also linked to acute inpatient hospitalizations to 31 March 2018. We used Cox proportional hazards models to assess the association between community belonging and time to hospitalization related to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) and adjusted for a range of sociodemographic, health, and behavioural confounders. Compared to those who reported intermediate levels of belonging, both very weak and very strong sense of belonging were associated with greater risk of avoidable hospitalization for women (HR 1.29, 95% CI 1.12, 1.47, very weak; HR 1.15, 95% CI 1.03, 1.27, very strong), but not for men (HR 1.12, 95% CI 0.97, 1.29, very weak; HR 1.08, 95% CI 0.98, 1.19, very strong). This study suggests that community belonging is associated with risk of ACSC hospitalization for women and provides a foundation for further research on community belonging and population health.
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Gender differences in representation, citations, and h-index: An empirical examination of the field of communication across the ten most productive countries
Women researchers have been shown to be underrepresented in science, especially among the most productive scholars. This is especially relevant in the social sciences and humanities fields, where gender parity is closer, but disparities among top scholars are still pronounced. The gender gap in the field of communication has been explored from several approaches, but studies focusing on gender differences in representation, citations, and h-index are rather scarce. Drawing upon data retrieved from SciVal, we conducted a comparative study of the top 500 and top 100 most productive scholars (N = 5000) for each of the ten most productive countries in communication research in the 2019–2022 period: the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, Germany, India, Australia, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands. The results indicate a consistent underrepresentation of women, particularly among the top 500, across countries. Despite women being cited more frequently than men in some countries over shorter time frames, a gender bias persists favoring men, particularly when considering the h-index. All in all, our study shows that, despite hints of gender equality in citation patterns, the gender gap still constitutes a structural part of the field of communication when addressing gender representation in research productivity and long-term dynamics of research impact.
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Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility
This paper estimates the migratory and fertility effects of the federal Relocation Program, which attempted to move Native American individuals to urban areas under the promises of financial assistance and job training. I find the Relocation Program increased the Native American population in the target cities by more than 100,000 people. I also find that second- and third-generation Native American women living in cities have a 50 percent lower fertility rate than those living in areas with historically large Native American populations. These findings indicate that this program meaningfully shifted the spatial distribution of the Native American population.
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Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools
This paper studies the labor market impact of the Rosenwald Schools Initiative, a school construction program in the early twentieth-century South. Using a new sample linking Social Security and census records, we find that exposure to Rosenwald schools raised Black women’s labor force participation and occupational standing in 1940; however, we find little evidence that Black men’s occupational standing significantly improved. Blacks made no discernible gains in jobs where they were underrepresented, while the gains they achieved were concentrated in jobs where they were commonly found. This suggests that the scope for Black occupational advancement was limited around 1940.
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Approaching violence against Indigenous women in the Americas from relational, intersectional and multiscalar perspectives
The epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in the Americas reveals a broad social dynamic that crosses national and regional borders. The violence of colonization and exploitation is reproduced at different scales, from within the home to the international scene, placing Indigenous women in spaces of exclusion, at the margins of state and society, where violence can unfold and reproduce itself in total impunity. This article presents the methodology of an initiative that aimed to shed light on the endemic violence suffered by Indigenous women and on the resistance efforts, initiatives and strategies to address it. Based on a virtual forum, which was conceived of as a space of exchange between multiple voices and actors from a variety of perspectives, we highlight discussions on the politics of defining violence, the impacts of the exclusion of bodies and territories, the multifaceted strategies of resistance, as well as paths for further policy-relevant research.
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Schooling the System
As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.
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