Paper Presentations
Friday May 22, 2009 – Toldo Health Education Centre
Time
Room 100
Room 102
9:00 a.m. – 9 :10 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Anne Forrest
Director of Women’s Studies
University of Windsor
9:10 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Introduction to guest speaker
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Erica Stevens Abbitt
School of Dramatic Arts
University of Windsor
9:15 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
10:10 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Violence, Pain and Monstrosity… A Study of
Representation and Ethics in the Performance
of Suffering
Lauren Binhammer & Elizabeth May
School of Dramatic Arts, University of Windsor
Undress Me: Unveiling and Liberation in a Post
9-11 World
Donya Tag-El-Din
English Literature, York University
Symbols of Survival: Representations of
Women in American Holocaust Text
Shannon D’Arcy
Women’s Studies & Feminist Research, University
of Western Ontario
“I Was a Feminist Before I was an Aboriginal
Woman”: Negotiated Spaces Within the
Academy
Melissa St. Germaine-Small
Psychology, Wilfred Laurier University
11:05 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
11:20 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
12:40 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Room 104
Morning Break in Lounge Area
Marketing Feminism: Race and Representation
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Literary Studies, University of Guelph
Rethinking of “Is Multiculturalism Bad for
Women?”
Xiangzhen Wang
Political Science, McGill University
The Disneyfication of Pocahontas
Samantha Feder
Women’s Studies & Feminist Research, University
of Western Ontario
Reading AIDS, Reading Ads, Reading Lives
Adam J. Greteman
Teacher Education, Michigan State University
News Reflects Views: An Analysis of Media and
the Perpetuation of the Invisibility of Black
Women Victims of Homicide in three Major City
Newspapers
Cheryl Neely
Sociology, Wayne State University
A Critique of a Critique: Defending Feminist
Methodology
Thera Body
Religious Studies & Women’s Studies, University
of Lethbridge
Lunch in Lounge Area
Time
1:40 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Room 100
Room 102
The Effect of Appearance on the Perceived Risk
of Sexual Assault: An Experiment on the
Perception of Women’s Likelihood of Being
Sexually Assaulted Based on her Clothing.
Michelle Mendes
Women’s Studies & Feminist Research, University of
Western Ontario
Engendering the Margins – Understanding Tamil
Militant Women’s Concerns: Political Agency,
Women’s Rights and Nationalism
Zincia Francis
Women’s Studies, Memorial University of
Newfoundland
Agency in Mme Graffigny’s Letters from a
Peruvian
Miao Li
French Studies
Queen’s University
The Vagina Dialogues
Anoushka Ratnarajah & Cody Yorke
Women’s & Gender Studies, University of British
Columbia
2:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Poster Session – East Lobby
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.
5:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.
5:20 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Room 104
Gender Issues in the United States Aviation
Industry,1920-1940: A History of Opportunities
and Disillusionment
Bieke Gils
Kinesiology, University of Windsor
Women at Work in Shawinigan, Québec in the
Fifties: The Influence of Anglophone Culture
Claudine Drolet
History, Université du Québec à Montréal
Decolonizing Whiteness and Re-contextualizing
Marginalized Voices: The Case of Middle
Eastern Graduate Women in Canadian
Academia
Zahra Hojati
Theory & Policy Studies in Education, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education
Mules of the World: The Effect of Apartheid on
Black Women in South Africa
Kathryn Kreps
Central Michigan University
A River of Milk and Honey
Aso Heidari
English, University of Windsor
The Victorian Barmaid – Agent or Victim?
Carol A. Reader
Women’s Studies, University of Windsor
Racialised Ghosts: The Emergence of Fanon’s
Coloured Woman in Black Skin, White Masks
Zeinab McHeimech
English, University of Windsor
An Historical Analysis of Domestic Science
Curriculum Reform
Kathleen Y. Sharman
Education, University of Windsor
Closing remarks
Dr. Kendra Coulter
Department of Sociology
University of Windsor
Reception
Poster Presentations
Friday May 22, 2009 – East Lobby, Toldo Health Education Building
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02
03
04
05
06
07
Analysing the Everyday: Feminist Applications of Discursive Social Psychology
Courtney Williston
Psychology, University of Windsor
Beaver Fever. AutoErotica and Feminism, Theory and Practice
Ursula Wolfe
York University
Experiences of Women Sports Broadcasters in a Male-Dominated Work Environment
Julie Stewart-Binks
School of Kinesiology and Health, Queen’s University
Risking Women: Addiction Treatment and Women’s Attitudes Towards the Risks and Pleasures of
Using
Lynette Schick
Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Trent University
Exploring Gender Differences in the Socio-cultural Influences of Eating Disorders
Sandra Gotovac
Psychology, University of Windsor
“Between the Bayonet and the Hearth”: Working Women in Braddock’s Expedition of 1755
Adam Haeussler
History, University of Windsor
Stretching the Lens: Culture Jamming as (In)Visible Feminist Activism
Jessica Balmer
Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, University of Western Ontario