Pub Date : 2002-10-01DOI: 10.4324/9780203003930-13
H. Stratford
Micro-strategies of resistance are particular confrontations with and resistances to the local impositions of dominating power. These incremental moves are not assembled from direct confrontations but rather operate as discrete traces within a plurality of resistances. Through a feminist critique this paper explores the implications that such an approach to resistance practices may hold for a feminist project in terms of intersections of power relations and spatial practice.Micro-strategies: space and architectureThe practice of all architects is to some extent an interpretation of the context in which they are located, whether this interpretation takes the form of tacit or explicit representation. This theoretical paper has evolved from research which explores the work of various architects and groups who, in the early 1980s, questioned political and/or professional orthodoxies in architecture around them. The scope of that larger study stretches wide, geographically and politically, including a number of countries in political transition such as South Africa, Russia, Romania and East Germany. The groups studied include the Paper Architects, Utopica, Form-Trans-Inform and Matrix.(2)The enterprises of the kind I have explored tend to be politically motivated since they respond to the social and/or cultural condition within which they are situated, even if the material itself cannot, by definition, be strictly political. As Fredric Jameson writes, "No work of art or culture can set out to be political once and for all...for there can never be any guarantee it will be used in the way it demands."(3) In other words, even though a political reading can be made of the work, the work of art is "in itself inert."(4) In fact, in all the cases I have studied it is less the architecture or the art form which is deemed to be the ongoing location of protest than the actual act of creating them.My search for these hidden practices was governed by a desire to study the response to an obliteration of opportunity either in actual building processes or in wider forms of expression. Such a search can prove arduous. Those practices which do not fit the stereotypes understood by mainstream culture tend never to make it into the media where their message might be disseminated, and can therefore be destined to obscurity. Through this research it became apparent that the nature of resistance is not always "radical" but sometimes needs to be indirect: as said before, composed of subtle slippages and subversions.It is exactly these slippages and subversions that Steve Pile describes in Geographies of Resistance as "tiny micro-movements of resistance" (Pile, p. 29), assembled from the materials and practices of everyday life, that so strongly resonate with the views of Michel Foucault. In Power/Knowledge Foucault comments, "Power is employed and exercised through a netlike organisation. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the posi
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Karen Dubinsky's The Second Greatest Disappointment is feminist history at its most fun. It brings a fresh and yet substantive account of the politics of heterosexuality to bear on one of its most cherished institutions: the honeymoon. Along the way, it questions received accounts of the falls, tourism, the wedding, the politics of race, class and sexual orientation and leaves on stone unturned. Simultaneously cultural studies, popular history and political economy, this book brings something new to each of its areas of concern. Because the method here is interdisplinary and holistic, this book is a satisfying historical romp.Characterizing Niagara Falls as a theme park for heterosexuality, Dubinsky turns her eye on the increasing disciplinary knowledge unleashed on the practices of the honeymoon over the last century. With its roots in the "wedding tour" of the British ruling class of the nineteenth century, the honeymoon was originally a way for the new couple to meet far- flung family members unable to attend the wedding. In this sense, its roots were not explicitly sexual, but rather a way to cement family ties. At the end of the nineteenth century, then, the honeymoon tour was the exclusive preserve of the privileged and the wealthy. However as the century matured, it became do rigueur for middle and working class couples to travel to exotic locations after the wedding. And in the wake of psychoanalysis, with the erotic as the presumed "core" of the emerging modern individual, sexual compatibility became an important ingredient in married life for the first time. The increasing availability of mass transportation as well as these changing social and sexual mores meant that "honeymoon" became a sly reference to the unspeakable: sex, and lots of it.Thus, throughout its transformations, the honeymoon attracted experts whose task it was to distinguish between normalcy and deviancy. Doctors, psychiatrists, counsellors and other marriage experts turned their gaze on the practices of honeymooning in an effort to regulate, discipline and control married sex. As these experts pointed out, many possible dangers lurked inside the presumed ignorance of the newly wed -- such conditions as honeymoon shock, impotence, exhaustion and hysteria -- and these opening night disasters could lead to marital disharmony. Happy honeymoons were more than simply devices to begin married life; the fate of the family, and indeed the nation, was at stake. In this sense then, the case presented in this book shows in fascinating detail the ways that the ideologies of gender and of the presumed "naturalness" of married heterosex are thoroughly worked up through strategies of governance that pinpoint what appears to be the deepest most natural thing in the world. As the story Dubinsky tells unfolds, the point that "sexuality, like gender, is learned, acquired, ritualized and performed" finds a compelling new case study (p. …
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HOW SHOULD I READ THESE? Native Women Writers in Canada Helen Hoy Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 264 pp. How Should I Read These? Native Women Writers in Canada is a book I found refreshingly different from the usual ways that Aboriginal issues and writing get taken up by non-Aboriginal readers. It offers a respectful request to honour the sustaining power of resistance, resilience, and defiance. The analysis Helen Hoy draws on (postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist and First Nations theory) underscores the importance of cultural-specific, insider-knowledge, and the need to reclaim, renew, and restore our voices. It also critiques the markings of Euro-legacies: colonialism, cultural genocide, oppressions, and Eurocentric dominance that are the maps to understanding Native writers. Throughout, Hoy respectfully examines a "variety of prose works by Native women writers in Canada" (p. 11) whose own sense and significance of their works are clearly different from mainstream narratives. Hoy takes a critical look at ways non-Aboriginal readers, reviewers, and teachers, as cultural outsiders, have often inappropriately critiqued literature written by Aboriginal women. She critiques the reviewers for their lack of sensitivities and sensibilities to the differences that separate Aboriginal women writers and non-Aboriginal reviewers. Through her complex critical analysis she is thorough in demonstrating how the Native Women writers' works have been misunderstood and dislocated when using western Eurocentric filters to explore distinctly unique bodies of work. By her own admission, Hoy discusses in details her own intentions and the practice of her stance as cultural outsider and the possible pitfalls of reading Aboriginal Women's literature through colonial, Eurocentric, hegemonic, and western elitist lenses. She offers a clear stance regarding her outsider role: a place where a lot of self-reflective behaviour is needed. She raises thoughtful and provocative questions for non-Native educators and academics to consider when working with this body of works. Drawing from personal examples of her own life of reading non-Aboriginal critiques of Native women's literature, she exposes and critiques the "othering" practices of cultural appropriation and Eurocentrism that abound. She raises many questions and brings to light the need for understanding cultural sensitivity, personal and professional biases, insider-outsider political tensions, and the complicated spaces on the borders of reading about writings that are not culturally understood. For me, Hoy's positioning of herself as an example of how she tried to understand reading with respect, becomes a "teaching" for individuals who engage with Aboriginal Women's writing. They ought to understand and critique their own positionality and find ways to work in a respectful and informed way without "othering" Aboriginal writers. Hoy shows how this delicate balance can be achieved in challenging et
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{"title":"The politics of representation: doing and writing \"interested\" research on midwifery.","authors":"M MacDonald, I L Bourgeault","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82477,"journal":{"name":"Resources for feminist research : RFR = Documentation sur la recherche feministe : DRF","volume":"28 1-2","pages":"151-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26119763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This rich study of sexual meanings and regulation in Canada between 1945 and 1960 provides a fascinating link with an earlier episode of sexual control: Raoul Mercier, the crown attorney who prosecuted Dorothea Palmer in Ottawa in 1936 for distributing birth control, in 1952 prosecuted an Ottawa book distributor for selling "indecent literature," including the novel Women's Barracks, which portrayed a lesbian affair. Women's independence was never part of the sexual "normality" Mary Louise Adams describes. Adams' study exemplifies the research Jonathan Katz called for in his pioneering work, The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995); that is, to examine not only categories culturally marked as problematically sexual -- all women as well as lesbians and gays -- but also the unmarked ones -- men and heterosexuals, thereby de-centring and exposing the normative status of the latter. Thus, Adams scrutinizes the discourses that constituted (hereto)sexual normality rather than those constructing deviance. By describing the legitimated "systems of sexual meaning available" (p. 16) she seeks to understand "the distance people would have had to travel through mainstream discourses to identify themselves as homosexual in the postwar period" (p. 4). To make this analysis Adams employs Foucauldian discourse analysis as her theoretical and methodological approach and does so clearly and comprehensibly. The book's bringing together of both dominant and marginalized sexual categories and its Canadian focus render it an especially valuable addition to teaching resources for the history of sexuality. The opening chapters describe the economic and political context -- the postwar "domestic revival," the growing consumer economy, anti-Communism, and the extraordinary symbolic valence of the nuclear family in dominant political and social thought. She notes the intersection and mutual constitution of the concepts of "youth" and "sex." Discourses were usually aimed at adolescents but were also built upon "youth" as a symbol of the nation's future; such importance justified regulating young people's sexuality. Despite its competence, the focus of this section on a very abstract, national level of discourse tends at times to reproduce the air of unreality of that freighted language. These discourses were produced mostly in Toronto but as "national" discourses; even within English Canada, however, their reception and use would have varied widely by local area. It is the interaction of those national discourses with particular historical developments that enlivens the four chapters at the heart of the book. In these Adams skillfully examines a wide range of sources -- court and government documents, records of civic organizations, and books, periodicals, and educational films -- in order to address Toronto's moral panic about juvenile delinquency; print and film advice to teens on love, dating, and sex; struggles over sex education in the Toronto school system; and politic
{"title":"[The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth & the Making of Heterosexuality]","authors":"M. Adams, C. Simmons","doi":"10.2307/25148955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/25148955","url":null,"abstract":"This rich study of sexual meanings and regulation in Canada between 1945 and 1960 provides a fascinating link with an earlier episode of sexual control: Raoul Mercier, the crown attorney who prosecuted Dorothea Palmer in Ottawa in 1936 for distributing birth control, in 1952 prosecuted an Ottawa book distributor for selling \"indecent literature,\" including the novel Women's Barracks, which portrayed a lesbian affair. Women's independence was never part of the sexual \"normality\" Mary Louise Adams describes. Adams' study exemplifies the research Jonathan Katz called for in his pioneering work, The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995); that is, to examine not only categories culturally marked as problematically sexual -- all women as well as lesbians and gays -- but also the unmarked ones -- men and heterosexuals, thereby de-centring and exposing the normative status of the latter. Thus, Adams scrutinizes the discourses that constituted (hereto)sexual normality rather than those constructing deviance. By describing the legitimated \"systems of sexual meaning available\" (p. 16) she seeks to understand \"the distance people would have had to travel through mainstream discourses to identify themselves as homosexual in the postwar period\" (p. 4). To make this analysis Adams employs Foucauldian discourse analysis as her theoretical and methodological approach and does so clearly and comprehensibly. The book's bringing together of both dominant and marginalized sexual categories and its Canadian focus render it an especially valuable addition to teaching resources for the history of sexuality. The opening chapters describe the economic and political context -- the postwar \"domestic revival,\" the growing consumer economy, anti-Communism, and the extraordinary symbolic valence of the nuclear family in dominant political and social thought. She notes the intersection and mutual constitution of the concepts of \"youth\" and \"sex.\" Discourses were usually aimed at adolescents but were also built upon \"youth\" as a symbol of the nation's future; such importance justified regulating young people's sexuality. Despite its competence, the focus of this section on a very abstract, national level of discourse tends at times to reproduce the air of unreality of that freighted language. These discourses were produced mostly in Toronto but as \"national\" discourses; even within English Canada, however, their reception and use would have varied widely by local area. It is the interaction of those national discourses with particular historical developments that enlivens the four chapters at the heart of the book. In these Adams skillfully examines a wide range of sources -- court and government documents, records of civic organizations, and books, periodicals, and educational films -- in order to address Toronto's moral panic about juvenile delinquency; print and film advice to teens on love, dating, and sex; struggles over sex education in the Toronto school system; and politic","PeriodicalId":82477,"journal":{"name":"Resources for feminist research : RFR = Documentation sur la recherche feministe : DRF","volume":"27 1","pages":"163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/25148955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68817765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit is both scholarly and compassionate. It systematically studies the development of the Ontario Mother's Allowance (OMA) from 1920 -1997, and it is sympathetic to single mothers as it traces the multiple forms of disruptive and destructive moral regulation that underpinned this policy. As a result, the book offers a comprehensive and compelling examination of the changing relationships between various women across different welfare state transitions. Margaret Little examines the origins of the OMA and then outlines and evaluates its administration over seven decades. She concludes by scrutinizing current trends and issues. Although her treatment is chronological and careful, this is by no means a dry academic survey of the dimensions and repercussions of a particular policy. To the contrary, the book is lively, interesting and quite insightful. For instance, it uncovers shocking historical details, contains evocative old photographs, and draws on the wrenching, albeit pithy, commentary of contemporary single mothers. While the book's spatial dimensions are narrow, the parameters being only Ontario, it provides a consequential subnational study. Moreover, the author is mindful of not just reflecting city specific biases. She draws on case files from the city of London as well as three counties (Elgin, Lincoln and Oxford), including both urban and rural examples, in addition to using province-wide sample cases. Through her multi-pronged research techniques, eye-opening and engaging material is unearthed. Little not only poured over case files in dusty archives, but also held unique "workshop" -- like group interviews with OMA recipients in the early 1990s, and questioned current administrators and case workers. This integration of both quantitative and qualitative data is used to admirable effect. The author's various experiences, as a former journalist, now an academic, as well as an anti-poverty feminist activist, inform and enliven her research and her final analyses. The book's main argument is that those who first framed the OMA and then those who later administered it, mostly privileged white women, were plainly involved in "moral regulation": the intrusive and extensive moral scrutiny of the recipients of the program. Recipients were exclusively poor women and while the policy initially favoured white, Protestant, British subjects and naturalized citizens, it eventually included other women. As a result, unlike leading (non-feminist) welfare state theorists, Little highlights women's critical contributions to the welfare state, as initiators, administrators and recipients of policies. Furthermore, by tracing the contours of the moral terrain involved, the author is indebted to approaches like those of Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, and especially Mariana Valverde. But whereas the former priorizes class, and the latter gender, race and sexuality, Little, more akin to Lorna Weir's efforts, brings the interpla
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I welcome this edited volume by Alena Heitlinger, an outcome of a conference on Emigre Feminism, held at the University of Trent in 1996. It is an invaluable effort of a Canadian emigre feminist to make a unique and salutary contribution to the feminist discourses in this country. The volume is particularly valuable because it brings together under one cover feminist views of emigres from many parts of the world, including countries which were part of the former Soviet Union. The volume demonstrates clearly the editor's own feminist sensibility and sophisticated understanding of both the difficulties and the advantages of emigre feminist positions, life experiences and perspectives. This volume illuminates the ambivalent (or should I say multi-valent?) interpretations by emigre feminists of the present national and international hegemonic feminism, of the well-funded, anglophone and liberal tradition, which is oblivious of what it cannot access because of its cultural limitations. The collection consists of an excellent introduction by the editor and 13 chapters written by emigre feminists from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and the Near East. In no way can this brief review do justice to the richness and complexity of the ideas and experiences presented in this volume. The core of notion of "emigre," as defined here, is the exposure to and life experience of contrasting cultures and socio-political environments. Placed on a broad continuum, it starts with those forced to emigrate by oppressive political regimes or voluntary escapes from equally oppressive patriarchal norms, to Canadian feminists working abroad in "aid" agencies, to post-emigres (those who have adopted Canada as their country of residence and action). This includes a number of persons, who as result of juxtaposing and reflecting on the "there" and "here" create a variety of new syntheses, meanings and interpretations of feminism and develop a greater sensitivity to the varied and nuanced meaning of this term. The great majority of the authors in this volume are academic social scientists, studying, teaching and doing research in Canadian Women's Studies programs. They bring to the volume rich feminist insights from the perspectives of their various fields (anthropology, education, history, literature, political science, sociology, fiction writing and activism). The chapters vary in form and content. Many use auto-biographical information to provide a background for their particular perspectives and to situate the specific points of their feminist visions and argumentations. They also describe the adaptations used by women when facing Canadian culture and society. Some entries show the creative ways women's varied backgrounds assisted them in establishing their lives and views of feminism, as well as the coping and transformative strategies employed in their new lives in Canada. Other chapters are written on more abstract, theoretical levels and address is
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