Pre-Conference Workshops Thursday May 24, 2007 Vanier Hall Time Event Location 10:15 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Light snack (bagels with beverages) Katzman Lounge 11:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Workshop #1 Feminist Pedagogy Dr. Pat Rogers, Dean of Education, University of Windsor Katzman Lounge 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Lunch University Club 2:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Workshop #2 Feminist Methodology Dr. Julie Fraser, Windsor Essex County Health Unit and Dr. Pamela Milne, History, University of Windsor Katzman Lounge
Paper Presentations Friday May 25, 2007 Toldo Health Education Centre Time Room 100 Room 102 Room 104 Room Opening remarks: 9:00 a.m. 9 :10 a.m. Dr. Christina Simmons, History, University of Windsor 9:10 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Introduction to guest speaker 9:15 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 11:05 a.m. Contemporary Gendered Orientalisms: The veil, the body and the Muslim woman in the West Zahra F. Rasul and Shelina Kassam Sociology and Equity Studies,OISE/University of Toronto Guest speaker: Dr. Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Sociology, cross-appointed with Women s Studies & Education, Queen s University 11:05 a.m. 11:20 a.m. Morning Break in Lounge Area 11:20 a.m. 12:40 p.m. Breaking the Silence Julie Peters Sociology, University of Western Ontario Not Just Another Dead Hooker: Dusty Johnstone Voices through Violence: Feminist Interventions in Militarization, Masculinities and the (De)colonization of Knowledge Production Lori A. Crowe, Mark Busser, Chris Hendershot and Miriam Yosowich Political Science, York University Putting Our Lips Together: Performing Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which Is Not One Heather Love and Laura McGavin English Department, Queen s University Good Girl's Don't Jocelyn Hemrica Women s Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University "Dissolv'd to Inke": Reniassance Women and the Impossibility of Literary Union Allison Forsythe English Literature, University of Ottawa Two-Dimensional Women: Representations of Women in Comics Barbara Postema English, Michigan State University Moral Perception and Pornography Lauri Daitchman Philosophy, University of Windsor Asphalt Cowboys and Chrome Cowgirls: Gender Representation in Motorcycle Print Media Joshua Maynard Sociology, Queen s University 12:40 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Lunch in Lounge Area
Time Room 100 Room 102 Room 104 1:40 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Women in Medicine: A Historiography Krista Montelpare History, University of Windsor Leaks in the Pipeline to Careers in Science and Technology or Why are women opting out of a career path where they are much needed? Rita Haase Education, University of Windsor Room 2:30 p.m. 3:10 p.m. Poster Session East Lobby Romance & Pornography: The Sex Education of Girls and Boys Rebecca Malotke-Meslin Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, Eastern Michigan University REPLACED BY Catherine Dishke Hondzel 2:55 p.m. 3:10 p.m. Afternoon Break in Lounge Area 3:10 p.m. 4:05 p.m. 4:05 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Theory in Practice: Personal Experience in Queering Women's Studies T.J. Naven Women s Studies & Psychology, WLU Rainbow Centre Bisexual Display: Making Bisexual Identity Visible Julie Hartman Sociology, Michigan State University Exploring the impact of weight cycling on women's well-being: Disruptions to body-self relations Erin Ross Adult Education Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto A Hairy Subject: Women's Feminist Identity and Hair Removal Practices Janice Fuller Sociology, University of New Brunswick 5:00 p.m. 5:20 p.m Closing remarks: Dr. Amy Fitzgerald, Sociology & Anthropology, University of Windsor 109 - Mapping Antiracist-Feminist Activist Discourses Through the Personal and Political Sobia Shaheen Shaikh Sociology & Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto Feminism and Multiculturalism: enemies or allies? Redefining prospects for women and culture in terms of a politics of location. Amy Butchart Philosophy, University of Windsor The Lost Voices of Partition: Recovering Female Voices in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India Donya Tag-El-Din English literature and language, University of Windsor 5:20 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Reception in Courtyard.
Poster Presentations Friday May 25, 2007 East Lobby, Toldo Health Education Building 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 THE MOURNING AFTER: Queering postcolonial anxieties around discourses of sexuality and nationalism in Kenya Nael Bhanji Women s Studies, Queen s University Women's Moral Obligation to Protest Jen Rinaldi Philosophy, University of Guelph Revolutionizing the F-word: Contemporary conceptualizations of the feminist movement and feminist identity Tera Beaulieu Women s Studies & Psychology, York University Beauty and Feminism: Exploring the Evolving Implications of Conceptual Rhetoric in Western Media Ashley Waldorf Anthropology & Professional Writing, Michigan State University Where are the Women? The underrepresentation of women in Wester art music. Lauron Kehrer, Margaret Rowley and Amy Wommer School of Music, Michigan State University The "F" Word: System Justification and Negative Perceptions of Feminists Amy Yeung Psychology, University of Waterloo Differences in Emergency Contraceptive Use between Adolescent and Young Women Rachel Lappin Women s Studies, University of Michigan Influence of Gender and Professional Title on Initial Judgements about Mental Health Professionals Amy Camodeca, Megan Vance and Sylvia Voelker Women and the Effects of Immigration: Colonizing or Decolonizing the Self? Martha Viveros Education, OISE/University of Toronto 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Making Necessary (Ex)changes: Militarising Motherhood and Affirming All-American Values Through the Shuffling of Female Bodies in Reality Television Irene Angelopoulos Interdisciplinary Studies, York University Intimate Partner Violence: Contextual Factors that may Increase Health Risks for Canadian Aboriginal Women and their Families Susan L. Prendergast and Kaitlin Chivers-Wilson Nursing, University of Alberta The end of the patriarchal family? Socio-spatial patterns of earnings among heterosexual partners at the intermetropolitan scale Johanne Sanschagrin Geography, University of Toronto Bouffants, Beehives and Breaking Gender Norms: A Feminist Revisionist History of Girl Group Music of the 1950s and 1960s William Stos History, York University Electric Furr Maureen Da Silva Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
Paper Presentations Saturday May 26, 2007 Toldo Health Education Centre Time Room 100 Room 102 Room 104 9:00 a.m. 9 :10 a.m. 9:10 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Room Opening remarks: Dr. Shelagh Towson, Department Head of Introduction to guest speaker 9:15 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 11:05 a.m. Guest speaker: Ms. Nancy Gobatto, Women s Studies, University of Windsor, FRG Alumna 11:05 a.m. 11:20 a.m. Morning Break in Lounge Area 11:20 a.m. 12:40 p.m. Woman Abuse Grown Old: A Qualitative Study of Family Violence Across the Lifecourse Emily Meyer Telecommunication Information Studies, & Media, Michigan State University The Effects of Abuse on Women's Construction of "Home(s)" in "The Cure for Death by Lightning" by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Jill Payne English, University of Windsor Mother and Daughter:Violence and Education Rose Ann Torres Communication and Culture, OISE/University of Toronto Finding the Convergences: Feminist Approaches to the Study of Theatre/Theatrical Approaches to Feminist Theory and Praxis Michelle MacArthur, Courtney Cauthon, Jocelyn Pitsch and Jacquey Taucar Dramatic Art, University of Toronto Part-Time Work, Women, and Disability: Reflections on Critical Feminism and Disability Theory Critical Disability Studies Adam Orfanakos Critical Disability Studies, York University Veiled Soldiers and the Management of Exploitation: Power, Punishment and Patriarchy in Bangladeshi textiles and society Ajay Parasram Political Science, Carleton University Shhhhh you don t want people to think you re a feminist! Ariana Barer and Joelle Prefontaine Sociology Department, University of Alberta I Can't Bear to See Ms. Getting More and More Like a Yuppie, Post-Feminist Rag': The Feminist Movement, Media and Decline Diana Cucuz History, McMaster University "Fourth Wave: Where Do Feminist Theory and Practice Meet?" Stephanie Lanthier, Naomi Dore, Amber Lowe and Rosanna Smyth Education, Queen s University 12:40 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Lunch in Lounge Area
Time Room 100 Room 102 Room 104 1:40 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Creating Dialogue Between the Sexes Jill Gilbert and Andrew Robinson Philosophy, University of Guelph Room 2:30 p.m. 3:10 p.m. Poster Session East Lobby The Perils and Promise of New Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Counselling Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Context of New Assisted Reproductive Technologies Lynne Jenkins Adult Education Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto 2:55 p.m. 3:10 p.m. Afternoon Break in Lounge Area 3:10 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Pursuing a Social Justice Agenda in Feminist and Multicultural-informed Research: Situating the Role of Graduate Students Angele Palmer and Jessica Parish Education & Counselling Psychology, University of Western Ontario Women's Responses to Trauma and Sexual Violence Gaurav Jashnani Political Science, University of Michigan Primigravida Sinara Rozo Film, York University The Medicalization of Female Hormones Sarah Spear Women's Studies, University of Waterloo Going Global: The Case of the U.S. Breast Cancer Movement Lori Baralt Sociology, Michigan State University The discourse of dissatisfaction: Exploring women's body experiences across multiple life domains using pictures and words Erin Ross Adult Education Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto 4:30 p.m. 4:50 p.m. Closing remarks: Dr. Jane Brindley, Intake Coordinator, Psychological Services Centre, University of Windsor
Poster Presentations Saturday May 26, 2007 East Lobby, Toldo Health Education Centre 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Religious identity and Attitudes Toward Women Among South Asian Canadian Muslims Sobia Ali Rosa Luxemburg: First Socialist Feminist Kristina Jung Library Sciences, Wayne State University Local knowledge in gendered natural resource management strategies: an agroforestry case study from rural Ghana Christine Gibb Capacity Development & Extension & International Development, University of Guelph Representations of a Female Experience of War: The (Mis) Construction of History and the Pursuit of a Criminology of War Jennifer Fraser Criminology, University of Ottawa The Stories of Eve Jocelyn Hemrica Women's Studies, Wilfred Laurier University From Metrosexual to Retrosexual: The emergence of the Metrosexual Man and the Current Popular Culture Backlash Katherine Anderson Women s & Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University Transforming the Role of the Academic in Constructing Liberating Theory Kaitlin Schwan Philosophy, University of Guelph "I have a voice? And a say in what I learn? Wow!" Margo Novak Education, York University 09 10 Women who want it all: Understanding perceptions of Career Mothers Rebecca Harriman Psychology, University of Saskatchewan 11 12 13 14 Girls' Reconnection or Disconnection with Their Bodies Through Health and Physical Education Sachi Nagasawa Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto Women Situated in the Borderlands: Feminist translators as a site for resistance Patricia Sithole English & Women s Studies, Maine, Orono The Effect of Networks on Gendered Elderly Immigrants: the Application of Transnational Feminism Lihua Huang and Yeon Soo Kim Social Work, Michigan State University