Home/Bodies

Geographies of Self, Place, and Space

Edited by Wendy Schissel
Categories: Regional & Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552381847, 216 pages, September 2006
Ebook (PDF) : 9781552383643, 216 pages, September 2006
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Table of contents

 

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Wendy Schissel

Part 1: Compound Fractures

Oppression and Indigenous Women: Past, Present, and Future—An Australian Kimberly Aboriginal Perspective
J. Maria Pedersen

Who Am I and Where do I Belong? Sites of Struggle in Crafting and Negotiating Female Muslim Identities in Canada
Tabassum Ruby

"Transgendered" Perspectives as a Challenge to Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Coralee Dreschler

Part 2: Ruptured Sutures

Silent, Denigrated, and Rendered Invisible: Mothers Who Lost Their Babies to Adoption in the 1960s and 1970s
Sandra Jarvie

tell–me–what–I–want.com: Adolescent Girls, Consumer Society, and Information Technologies
Ellen Whiteman

The Impact of Palliation on Familial Space: Home Space from the Perspective of Family Members who are Living (and Caring) for Dying Loved Ones at Home
Allison M. Williams

Spinning Yarns of Women?s Activism in Support of Industrial Forestry on Canada?s West Coast
Maureen G. Reed

Part 3: Habitats for/of Humanity

Crafting Selves: The Impact of Idenity on Intercultural Friendships among Women
Kim Morrison

Women?s Professional Mentorship in Psychology and the Academy: One Group?s Stories of Quilting and Life
Denise J. Larsen and Jennifer A. Bosivert with Jocelyn Lock, Tikker Percey, Diane Priebe, and Linda Vaudan

Sexual Health of Young Women: Context and Care Make a Difference
Mary Rucklos Hampton, Barb McWatters, Bonne Jeffery, and Pamela Smith

Voices of Dancers with Mobility Impairments
Donna L. Goodwin, John Krohn, and Arvid Kuhnle

References

 

Description

With Home/Bodies, Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. The metaphorical geographies of bodies, places, and spaces are the backdrop for such topics as: transgendered identities; young people and sexual health; kinetic art and disability; adolescent girls and consumer society; palliative care for dying loved ones; women and social activism; and aboriginal and multicultural perspectives. Qualitative research methods are referenced throughout, including interviews, case studies, focus groups, and narrative research.

Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new-generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.

Reviews

 

Home/Bodies showcases a wealth of women?s lived experiences, challenging readers to consider the contemporary complexity and diversity of gendered identity, embodiment, and belonging in place.

—Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto Quarterly