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Rooted in Patriarchy: Claiming our space in academia

Dec 2 2011 - 12:00pm
Dec 2 2011 - 2:00pm

Location

Oakham Lounge
55 Gould Street Ryerson University
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 28.7604" N, 79° 22' 42.5604" W

Violence Against Women comes in many different forms.
In honour of December 6th - the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, this event is:
- For the women who notice unviersity policies and structures that reinforce patriarchy and sexism in society
- For the women who notice the lack of representation in male-dominated programs
- For the women who feel like her opinion is less valuable than his - For the women who also experience, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and classism
- For the women who are fighting to have her issues, heard, recognized and acknowledged.

Contact name: 
Ryerson Womens Centre

Copyright on campus

| September 2, 2011
Redeye

A slam on feminism in academia

April 28, 2011
| The new anthology Feminism for Real had its Vancouver launch at Rhizome Cafe on April 14. Proma Tagore was there to read the piece her sister Shaunga wrote for the book.

6:25 minutes (5.88 MB)
Redeye

Feminism for Real

April 7, 2011
| Redeye speaks with Jessica Yee, editor of a new book that aims to reclaim feminism from the academy and bring it back to the reality of the lives of young women fighting for equal rights today.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
feminism

Breaking the feminist mould

Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism

by Jessica Yee, ed.
(The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,
2011;
$15)

What is a feminist?

Is a feminist an academic who can quote bell hooks and Betty Friedan with ease? Is a feminist a great orator who steps up to podiums, demanding freedom for all women, using buzzwords such as marginalization, empowerment and exploitation? Is a feminist white, benefitting from class privilege and well-versed in feminist theory, as the representation in last week's highly criticized CBC documentary The F Word might suggest? Or is being a feminist simply antiquated, as columnist Margaret Wente declares "The war for women's rights is over. And we won."

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The F Word

Whiiiiine...ahem...I mean Male Studies

May 10, 2010
| Meghan Murphy explores the new and exciting (and recently invented) discipline of Male Studies. Featuring an interview with The Sexist's Amanda Hess.

37:53 minutes (34.68 MB)
Columnists

Harper's extremism is showing

If, as polls suggest, Stephen Harper is poised to win a majority, it's largely due to the media notion that his past reputation for extremism no longer holds.

In fact, apart from his reluctant embrace of economic stimulus, Harper has shown little of the "moderation" that supposedly now puts his government comfortably within the Canadian mainstream.

Departing from Canadian political tradition, for instance, the Harper government has abandoned Ottawa's long-standing attempt at even-handedness in the Middle East conflict, repositioning Canada as unequivocally on Israel's side.

October 23, 2009 |
On June 11, B’nai Brith Canada published a full page ad in the National Post condemning York University for, among other things, hosting a confe­­rence on peace in Palestine and Israel.
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