In this session, presenters report on the empirical results of their diverse analyses of Canadian society using feminist intersectionality. Research topics include: the experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union; discrimination against immigrants, [...]
Increasingly feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines are identifying the importance of an intersectional approach to feminist analysis. This approach, however, has a number of different manifestations, both theoretical and methodological. In this session [...]
The goal of this session is to explore the possibilities for feminist organizing on university campuses and examine what role students, staff and faculty can have in such a movement. Within the context of continued [...]
Using theories, empirical findings and different research approaches, scholars describe diverse case studies of feminist action research and praxis. Presentations include studies of individual girls (using biomythography), a university’s environment (using a bystander initiative), and [...]
The Congress theme, “@ the edge” describes the history of feminist scholarship, its needs and potentialities, (as the call suggests) “to centre the periphery both institutionally and socially, testing the boundaries of disciplines, promoting innovative [...]