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GLOBAL CURRENTS IN GENDER AND FEMINISMS: CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

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GLOBAL CURRENTS IN GENDER AND FEMINISMS: CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

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GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO

University of Lethbridge, Canada

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Contributor Biographies

Carly Adams is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her research explores sport, recreation and leisure experiences from the intersections of historical and sociological inquiry with a focus on gender and community. Her work has appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies and International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Carly is the Editor-in-Chief of Sport History Review.

Aylin Akpınar teaches at the Department of Sociology at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her recent works have been published in Feminist Formations; Family, Religion, Law, Cultural Tensions in the Family- Examples of Sweden and Turkey (2010); Education in ‘Multicultural’ Societies: Turkish and Swedish Perspectives (2007). She is the member of Turkish Sociological Association as well as the European Sociological Association.

Jill Allison holds a PhD in anthropology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Merging a background in clinical nursing with an interest in global health, social justice, health equity, and health and social values, her work examines the role of health care institutions in shaping identity, gender equity and social equality. Jill is the global health coordinator and a clinical associate professor in Community Health and Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. Her current research interests include women’s’ reproductive health and access to safe birth and contraceptive choice in Nepal and Haiti, the politics of reproduction in Nepal, malnutrition in Haiti, the impact of changing trends in the care of persons living with HIV in Canada, and barriers to access to reproductive technologies. Jill has worked in rural and urban Nepal, Bangladesh, Mexico, Ireland and many communities across Canada. She is the author of Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland: Understanding the Presence of Absence; other works have been published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, and Aporia among others. Jill teaches, facilitates opportunities for medical students to work with underserved populations in inner city services and coordinates the InSIGHT programme in Kathmandu, a global health and social justice elective training programme for medical students.

Orly Benjamin is a feminist sociologist at the Sociology and Anthropology Department and at the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She currently chairs the Poverty Research Unit, studying, among other issues, poverty as shaping occupational development of adolescent girls and young women and mothers’ potential contribution to their daughters’ occupational efficacy. Her book, Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees’ Caring Skills (2016) summarizes her research on poverty among women employed in service and care occupations.

Asanda Benya is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. She is also a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) based at Wits University, Johannesburg. Using participant observation, her PhD looked at the construction of gendered subjectivities of underground women mineworkers. In her research, she explores issues of power, bodies, spaces and gendered identities of women in mining. Her broad research interests are: labour studies, gender, labour and social movements, labour geographies, workplace identities, the extractives industry, human rights, social justice in mining communities and ethnography.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is associate professor in women and gender studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She completed her PhD in political science at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Masters in Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines. Glenda is a research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Her works include a monograph on Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities (UBC Press 2013); editor of Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change (Routledge 2014) and Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements (Springer 2012); co-editor of Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities (Springer 2017), Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), and Gender, Religion and Migration: Pathways of Integration (Lexington Books 2010).

Sonja Boon is associate professor of gender studies at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She has research interests in the areas of identity, citizenship, embodiment, migration, life writing, and feminist theory. Her work appears in Life Writing, Journal of Women’s History, SubStance, International Journal of Communication, and the European Journal of Life Writing, among others. Her second monograph, Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot, was published in 2015.

Catherine Bryan is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her research interests include feminist political economy, transnationalism, Philippine migration, social reproduction, and regional rural development. Her works have been published in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Anthropologica, and the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Other works were included in When Care Work goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work (Ashgate 2014) and Mothering in a Neoliberal Age (Demeter Press 2014). Catherine holds a BA (honours) in women’s studies from the University of Winnipeg, and a Bachelor in Social Work and Masters in Social Work from McGill University.

Panteá Farvid is a senior lecturer in psychology at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). For over a decade her work has examined the intersection of gender, sexuality, power, culture, technology and identity. Most of her research is oriented towards social justice and social change, specifically focused in promoting egalitarianism within heterosexuality. She has worked on projects examining heterosexual casual sex, contemporary heterosexualities, the New Zealand sex industry, men who buy sex, and technologically mediated intimacies via mobile dating, online dating and sugar dating, as well as best practice gender policy for New Zealand. She seeks to promote gender equality as well as gender and sexual fluidity through her ongoing research. She is a frequent media commentator of issues related to psychology, gender, sexuality and other related topics.

Christine Gervais is an associate professor in criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of human rights, child rights, crimes of the powerful, as well as gender discrimination within religious institutions. She has published in Signs, Children & Society, Journal of Youth Studies, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Criminologie, Sociology of Religion, Religions and Review of Religious Research.

Parthiban S. Gopal is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. He teaches courses in urban and sustainable development and poverty. His special interest and expertise is on urban development particularly related to poverty, Indian studies and labour issues. He has published articles on issues of poverty in Malaysia.

Premalatha Karupiah is an associate professor of sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. She teaches research methodology and statistics. Her research interests are in the areas of beauty culture, femininity, educational and occupational choices, and issues related to the Indian diaspora. Her articles have been published in leading journals.

Jason Laurendeau is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. His research explores intersections of gender, risk and embodiment, and his work has been published in journals such as Sociological Perspectives, the Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and Emotion, Space & Society.

Marlise Matos is an associate professor of political science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She received her PhD in sociology from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). Marlise directs NEPEM, the Center for Studies and Research on Women (UFMG). In the last five years, NEPEM has increased its extension activities in the community and is currently working on a project that monitors human rights programmes and public policies for women in Brazil and Latin America. Her main research interests and publications include gender and politics, feminist theory, identity politics, public policy, sexual and reproductive rights, human rights, and citizenship.

Barbara A. Morningstar has a doctorate in education. She has a wealth of experience working as a patient liaison in the area of mental health, and currently works as a spiritual care professional at the McGill University Health Centre. She has over 20 years of experience in community development and has been actively involved in projects related to diversity, feminism, spirituality, women’s learning and advocacy. In 2009, she received the Diversity Scholarship from Argosy University for her contribution to the recognition and development of women leaders in local communities. In 2013, she completed her doctoral studies with a specialization in community and pastoral counselling.

Ebba Olofsson has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Uppsala University, Sweden. She is teaching anthropology and research writing at Champlain Regional College in Saint-Lambert, and she is an affiliate assistant professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She also taught courses in ‘Inuit Peoples’ at the First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University and ‘Indigenous Women of the North’ at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal. Her research interests relate to issues about identity, health, gender, kinship, subsistence and colonialism, among the Indigenous peoples in Scandinavia and Canada.

Sigal Oppenhaim-Shachar completed her PhD in gender studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, in 2012. She is a lecturer and researcher at the Gender Studies Program; the Sociology and Anthropology Department, and the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University, and at Levinsky College of Education. Her work on the topic of adolescent girl’s intersectionality and occupational efficacy, has been published (Hagar Studies in Culture, Policy and Identities, 2014; Woman’s Studies International Forum, 2016), and at Israeli academic journals. Her other interests include feminist pedagogy (gender and education) and pedagogy of intervention processes with some population groups. She initiated the ‘Daphna Center’ in 2010 — a professional development and training centre established by the Bar-Ilan University Gender Studies Program, and managed the programme up to the end of 2014.

Lisa Pasolli is an assistant professor of history and women’s and gender studies at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. Her research explores the contours and dimensions of child care politics in 20th century Canada, and her recent book is Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy (UBC Press). Her work on the history of child care has also been published in The Canadian Historical Review and BC Studies.

Beth Pentney studies postfeminist media culture with particular attention to social media, body modification and female celebrity. She is interested in contemporary feminist activism and the ways it emerges in online spaces and through tactile arts such as knitting, especially when they intertwine. She teaches part-time in the Gender Equality and Social Justice program at Nipissing University, in North Bay, Ontario.

Ornit Ramati Dvir is a PhD candidate at the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University, and holds an MA degree in economics from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Among her areas of interest include women in the workplace and female adolescents, particularly focused on physical education. Her work in the area of gender and physical education has recently been published in a Hebrew volume, the first of its kind dedicated to various aspects of adolescent girls and their bodies. She works as an advisor for various companies trying to identify barriers and inequality facing women, and runs several empowerment programmes for teenage girls.

Solange Simões has a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in political science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After earning tenure at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, went to the United States as a Fulbright scholar to the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research/Center for Political Studies, where she became an adjunct faculty associate from 1995 to 2006. In 2006 she joined Eastern Michigan University with a joint appointment in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and has also continued to teach in Brazil as a visiting professor every summer. Her areas of expertise, research and publications include gender and political participation, gender and globalization, racial identity, class structure, environmental values and attitudes, cross-national survey methodology, and global learning. In the period 2006–2014 she was one of the regional representative for United States/Canada in the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) Research Committee 32 Women in Society. She is one of the delegates for Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council.

Ada L. Sinacore is an associate professor in the Counselling Psychology Program at McGill University and the Chair of Women’s Studies at the McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. She has over 20 years of experience working in the United States, Canada and other countries, and is internationally recognized for her expertise and extensive presentations and publications in social justice, career development, migration and immigration, gender equity, pedagogy and feminist psychology. She is actively involved in research, scholarship and programme development addressing social justice concerns at the individual, institutional and policy levels and has particular expertise on workplace abuse and violence. She is the co-editor of a book regarding the teaching of social justice within a multicultural and feminist perspective and is highly sought after for her consultation and programme evaluation skills. In 2010, she received the Oliva Espin Award for Social Justice Concerns in Feminist Psychology: Immigration and Gender, from the Association for Women in Psychology. As well, she is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. For a list of her publications, awards, and achievements please go to her website at www.mcgill.ca/socialjustice.

Miki Suzuki Him is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Ondokuz Mayis University in Samsun, Turkey. Her research interests are gender inequality, rural sociology and women’s reproductive and productive labour. Miki studied Kurdish women’s struggles for birth control in eastern Turkey for her PhD dissertation. She has also been doing research about female seafood factory workers in rural Black Sea Turkey for the last few years. Her co-authored works on reproductive practices of Kurdish women was published in Women’s Studies International Forum, and the struggle for birth control of Kurdish migrant women in Van, Turkey in Health Care for Women International.

Jocelyn Thorpe is an associate professor in women’s and gender studies, and history at the University of Manitoba. Her research examines the history and legacies of colonialism in Canada, focusing particularly on how ideas about gender, race, nation and nature shape human relationships with one another and with the non-human world. She is the author of Temagami’s Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature (UBC Press 2012) and co-editor, with Stephanie Rutherford and L. Anders Sandberg, of Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research (Routledge, 2017).

Michelle Walks is a queer feminist medical anthropologist and a queer femme Momma. She is a sessional instructor of Anthropology, Sociology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies who mainly teaches at Douglas College and the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the University of Ottawa (Nursing), which had her working on an interdisciplinary community-based CIHR-funded project called ‘Transmasculine Individuals’ Experiences with Pregnancy, Birthing, and Feeding their Newborns: A Qualitative Study’. She guest edited a special issue of Anthropologica focused on Queer Anthropology (May 2014), and co-edited the anthology, An Anthropology of Mothering (Demeter Press, 2011). She has also written and co-written a variety of chapters and articles on the anthropology of mothering, queer anthropology, and queer/transmasculine reproduction and infant feeding.

Lauren Wallace is a medical anthropologist whose current research addresses issues of family planning in Ghana. She is a PhD candidate in anthropology and a Vanier Scholar at McMaster University. Her PhD research examines gender, changing family size, contraceptive use and marriage in northern Ghana. She has also conducted research on women’s nutrition in Cambodia and medical ethics in global health. She has published in Global Health Perspectives, Education for Health, the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Relational Child and Youth Care Practice.

Amanda Watson holds a PhD in feminist and gender studies from the University of Ottawa, and is a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Her research examines intersections of citizenship, paid and unpaid labour, care, maternal affect, and reproduction. She is also a freelance writer with bylines in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and Chronicle Herald.

Acknowledgements

I am deeply grateful for the following in their heartfelt support to make this book project a reality, and making life beautiful as it unfolds:

• Contributors and their collaborators in this collection for the enduring scholarship and commitment;

• Staff at Emerald Press, especially Philippa Grand and Rachel Ward, for their assistance from inception to completion of the book;

• Ike and our five daughters, Charmaine, Czarina, Charelle, Czyna, and Charithe, for their love and patience through the years of bothering how technology works; of course, Niro and Charly, our pet friends, for the genuine expression of happiness whenever I return home;

• My family in the Philippines for understanding the time in between completing the manuscript in the summer of 2017; thank you for the generous hospitality and warmest support, especially to Mana Joy and Mano Yoyoy and family with special mention to Charisse, Mano Butch and Mana Baby, Mana Dayen, Boyen and Lorena, Jack and Chinchin, Athena and Jeffrey, Nanay Babing, Nanay and Tatay, Brandy, Boyboy, Benjie, and Gina;

• Friends and colleagues in Lethbridge and elsewhere for the continued affirmation of shared memories and time of unguarded togetherness; Ate Levy, Gemma, Kristy and Chris, Ivy and Barry, Aileen and Brian, Rufa and Doming, Sonya and Rod, Emlou, Anita, Rebecca; the volunteers of ReadWorld Foundation for the inspiration to make a difference; and

• Students in women and gender studies for inspiring our work to promote a socially just world.

My blessings are yours.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Editor