Browse by keyword "Feminism"
1. Art/Craft High/Low (1991)
Women's Education Des Femmes, Spring, Vol. 13, No.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Ann MacGillivray
Is it art? The enduring question has been asked since the Renaissance, when high art began to take place in the academies and decorative art was relegated to craft workshops. This article discusses the history of women artists and the reasons for the art/craft division.
The article is presented in English and includes a summary written in French.
Added: 1991-01-01
2. At Odds with Science? (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1991 • vol. 9 no.2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Georgina Feldberg
This article discusses women's representation in medicine, mathematics, science, engineering and the technologic trades and the perception by some that scientific work is not women's work.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
3. Building Communities for Change: Interview with Joan Kuyek (1988)
Woman's Education des femmes, Fall 1988 • vol.6 no.4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan Wismer
This article features an interview with Joan Kuyek, who, at the time of the interview, had been the Economic Justice Coordinator with the United Church for two and a half years and had been involved in community organizing for 23 years.
The interview is presented in English with a summary included in French.
Added: 2004-02-12
4. Can this Marriage Be Saved? Women and the Canadian Labor Market (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1994 • vol.11 no.2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan Wismer
In this article, the author discusses her involvement in a research project on women's education and training policy and its relation to the labor market. Her role in this project was to take a look at the positive contribution that training can make to the lives of women.
The article was written in English and includes a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-12
5. CASP! Do You Really Want One in Your Neighborhood? (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1994 • vol.11 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Dorothy Mackeracher
In this article, the author describes the Community Academic Services Program (CASP), a community-based literacy program in New Brunswick. Also discussed in the article is the author's view on the positive and negative aspects of the program.
The article is presented in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-12
6. A Chance to Talk (1993)
The Birth of the Feminist Literacy Workers' Network
Authors: Hélène Blais, Sally Gellard
This is a report on the activities of the Feminist Literacy Workers Network (FLWN) over a two year period.
Added: 2004-02-05
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7. Concordia Women's Centre: A Place of Resistance (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93, Vol. 10, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Margot Lacroix
The topic of this article is violence against women on university campuses, as well as the value of the Concordia Women's Centre to women on the Concordia University campus.
Added: 2004-03-26
8. Discovering the Strength of Our Voices (1991)
Women and Literacy Programs
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Betty-Ann Lloyd, Brenda Conroy
This report discusses a research project undertaken to:
• examine how gender and the power balance of the male/female relationship affect women's access to, and experience of, literacy programs and how it affects the impact of literacy programs on women
• determine how literacy programs and literacy practice might be changed to better respond to the reality of the lives of adult women learners, and
• share this information with women literacy students and workers, through print materials and in workshops, to foster the development of relevant, appropriate, and accessible literacy learning opportunities for women
• talk with women literacy students and workers who are currently involved in literacy programs
• develop key questions out of the "data" of the women's stories
• develop a research design to investigate these questions further using an action research model.
Added: 2003-10-07
9. Doing the Work: A Feminist Perspective on Training in the Private Sector (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1993 - Vol. 10, No.3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Hannah Hadikein
In the spring of 1989, Canadian Jobs Strategies (CJS), funded a project called TechPrep for Women, offering women preparatory training for advanced technical-based occupations. This article discusses the problems, objectives, methods and outcomes related to planning and implementing programs of this nature through the private sector.
Added: 2004-03-30
10. Educating Across Difference: Sistren Theatre Collective (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Chantal Phillips
In this article, the author tells about a workshop she attended at the Fifth Congress of Feminists From Latin America and the Caribbean. The workshop was organized by Sistren, a women's popular education theatre group and dealt with the topic of difference and culture/race/gender/class barriers.
Added: 2004-03-31
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