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Remembering Women Murdered by Men

Author : Cultural Memory Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000116714779

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Remembering Women Murdered by Men by Cultural Memory Group Pdf

Women are murdered by men every day, yet these acts of femicide barely make the news. Across Canada, there are over fifty memorials to women who have been murdered. Each one tells at least two stories: the terrible one of unremitting violence against women and the triumphant one of women claiming public space, naming the violence and insisting that society remember. This book is the first to record thirty of these, and in so doing names the women remembered and the circumstances of their deaths. The authors document the feminist community's response and the initiative taken to build memorials along with the official attempts to keep them out of public view. The memorials documented include those in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, The Pas, Toronto, Montreal, London, Ottawa and Moncton. Remembering Women Murdered by Men features the voices of memorial makers and the struggle of bringing public attention to the issue of femicide. It inspires all of us to speak out. Visit the companion website, The Global Women's Memorial, a dynamic and interative forum dedicated to ending violence against women, www.globalwomensmemorial.org.

Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

Author : Amber Dean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442660854

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Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women by Amber Dean Pdf

Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver’s disappeared women to the attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women traces “what lives on” from the violent loss of so many women from the same neighbourhood. Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women’s research, activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its countless injustices.

Not Drowning But Waving

Author : Susan Brown,Jeanne Perreault,Jo-Ann Wallace,Heather Zwicker
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780888645500

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Not Drowning But Waving by Susan Brown,Jeanne Perreault,Jo-Ann Wallace,Heather Zwicker Pdf

A welcome progress report on the variety of feminisms at work in academe and beyond.

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

Author : Kim Anderson,Maria Campbell,Christi Belcourt
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772123913

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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Kim Anderson,Maria Campbell,Christi Belcourt Pdf

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with “tradition,” and problematic notions involved in “helping.” Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge. It’s in all of our best interests to take on gender violence as a core resurgence project, a core decolonization project, a core of Indigenous nation building, and as the backbone of any Indigenous mobilization. —Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Contributors: Kim Anderson, Stella August, Tracy Bear, Christi Belcourt, Robyn Bourgeois, Rita Bouvier, Maria Campbell, Maya Ode’amik Chacaby, Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group, Susan Gingell, Michelle Good, Laura Harjo, Sarah Hunt, Robert Alexander Innes, Beverly Jacobs, Tanya Kappo, Tara Kappo, Lyla Kinoshameg, Helen Knott, Sandra Lamouche, Jo-Anne Lawless, Debra Leo, Kelsey T. Leonard, Ann-Marie Livingston, Brenda Macdougall, Sylvia Maracle, Jenell Navarro, Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte, Pahan Pte San Win, Ramona Reece, Kimberly Robertson, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Beatrice Starr, Madeleine Kétéskwew Dion Stout, Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, Alex Wilson

Because They Were Women

Author : Josée Boileau
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772601435

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Because They Were Women by Josée Boileau Pdf

Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the “Montreal Massacre” are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny whose roots go far beyond one man and one day. This book examines how December 6 precipitated an entire cultural shift in thinking around gender-based violence.

Invested Indifference

Author : Kara Granzow
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774837460

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Invested Indifference by Kara Granzow Pdf

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as “indifferent” to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference makes a startling counter-argument: that what we see as societal unresponsiveness doesn’t come from an absence of feeling but from an affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Kara Granzow demonstrates that mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space have been used to entrench violence against Indigenous people in the social construction of Canadian nationhood.

Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence [2 volumes]

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780313362392

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Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence [2 volumes] by Laura L. Finley Pdf

This book provides a thorough compilation of the types, specific incidents, relevant agencies, theories, responses, and prevention programs relevant to crime and violence in schools and on campuses. Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence is the most comprehensive reference on this deeply unsettling topic ever undertaken. No other volume integrates as much information about the many types of crime and violence occurring in schools as well as the variety of responses and prevention efforts aimed at curbing it. In a series of alphabetically organized entries, Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence looks at significant cases both at high schools and on college campuses, with coverage that includes professional and community responses, and theories as to why these events happened. Unlike other volumes that focus only on the most sensational events, the encyclopedia spans the full spectrum of school crime—not just the high profile cases like Columbine and Virginia Tech, but the insidious problems of theft, bullying, cybercrime, violence, sexual assault, and more. Coverage includes information on some cases outside the United States, as well as entries on the government agencies and other organizations dedicated to analyzing and eradicating school crime and violence.

Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

Author : Shawna Ferris
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781772120219

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Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities by Shawna Ferris Pdf

“Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and some even lose their lives. Ferris aims to reveal the cultural dimensions of this discrimination through literary and art-critical theory, legal and sociological research, and activist intervention. Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by eliminating crime, which includes “cleaning” urban areas of the street sex industry. Ironically, sex workers also want to live and work in a safe environment. Ferris questions these sanitizing political agendas, reviews exclusionary legislative and police initiatives, and examines media representations of sex workers. This book has much to offer to educators and activists, sex workers and anti-violence organizations, and academics studying women, cultural, gender, or indigenous issues.

Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada

Author : Sarah MacKenzie
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634319

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Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada by Sarah MacKenzie Pdf

Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.

Killing Women

Author : Annette Burfoot,Susan Lord
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889205260

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Killing Women by Annette Burfoot,Susan Lord Pdf

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and violence by discussing nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society.

When Men Murder Women

Author : R. Emerson Dobash,Russell Dobash
Publisher : Interpersonal Violence
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199914784

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When Men Murder Women by R. Emerson Dobash,Russell Dobash Pdf

This study presents research unique in its breadth, depth, and detail and uses both quantitative and qualitative evidence from casefiles and interviews with men convicted of murder. The focus is on three types of murder of women by men - intimate partner murder, sexual murder, and the murder of older women. Each type is examined separately, addressing the knowledge, the murder event, and the lifecourse of the perpetrators. The findings are used to explore the context and circumstances of the murder event and to describe the lifecourse of the perpetrators from childhood to adulthood and into prison.

Performance in the Borderlands

Author : R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230294554

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Performance in the Borderlands by R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young Pdf

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement

Author : Gill Hague
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447356325

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History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement by Gill Hague Pdf

In this captivating book, activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the violence against women movement in the UK and beyond from 1960s onwards, examining the transformatory politics behind this movement through an important historical and international lens.

Interculturalism and Performance Now

Author : Charlotte McIvor,Jason King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030027049

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Interculturalism and Performance Now by Charlotte McIvor,Jason King Pdf

This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.

Reena Virk

Author : Mythili Rajiva,Sheila Batacharya
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780889614802

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Reena Virk by Mythili Rajiva,Sheila Batacharya Pdf

The murder of British Columbia teen Reena Virk shocked Canadians and provoked an outpouring of media commentary, academic explanation, plays, and novels. But while much attention was paid to the problem of violence and "girl bullying," race and related issues hardly figured in mainstream conversation. This collection aims to refocus the conversation about Reena Virk by considering how racism, colonialism, and hierarchies of gender, class, age, and sexuality figure in this crime and our understanding of it. The ten thoughtful chapters by both prominent and emerging scholars force us to grapple with the difficult and at times ugly implications of Reena Virk's murder for Canadian national identity.