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PUBLICATIONS

Most publications are available on Academia: https://yorku.academia.edu/LindaBriskin

i) Books, Monographs and Special Issues

Promoting Gender Equality through Social Dialogue: Global Trends and Persistent Obstacles. Co-authored with Angelika Muller. Industrial and Employment Relations Department (DIALOGUE), Working Paper #34, International Labour Office, Geneva, December 2011
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---dialogue/documents/publication/wcms_172636.pdf

Equity Bargaining/Bargaining Equity. Toronto: Centre for Research on Work and Society, York University, First edition, March 2006. Updated and revised, July 2006 (112 pages). [PDF]

Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden, co-edited with Mona Eliasson. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. (384 pages)

Gendering Union Democracy: A Swedish-Canadian Comparison. Working Paper Series #13, Centre for Research on Work and Society, York University, 1996/revised 1997. (25 pages).

This paper includes the English version of "Kvinnor och demokratiseringen av fackliga organisationer" (Women and the Democratization of the Unions)." Published originally in Swedish in Delad makt: kvinnor ock facklig demokrati. Stockholm: Utbildningsförlaget Brevskolan, 1995, pp. 30-48.

Women Challenging Unions: Feminism, Democracy and Militancy. Co-edited with Patricia McDermott. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. (346 pages)

Canadian Journal of Education (special issue on feminist pedagogy). Guest editor with Rebecca Coulter. Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 1992.

Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Liberation. Ottawa: Feminist Perspectives Monograph Series of the Canadian Research Institute on the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), 1990. Revised 1994. (46 pages)

Feministisk pedagogik," abbreviated version translated into Swedish by Pia Hellertz, in Sophie, #1, 1994, 6-12.

Reprinted in Sociology of Education in Canada: Critical Perspectives in Theory, Research and Practice, eds. Lorna Erwin and David MacLennan. Copp Clark Longman, 1994, pp. 443-470.

Autonomy, Integration and Legitimacy: a comparative analysis of socialist feminist practice in Canada, the United States and Western Europe. Working Paper, Institute for Social Research, York University, Feb 1990. (72 pages)

Feminist Organizing for Change: the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada. Co-authored with Nancy Adamson and Margaret McPhail. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. (332 pages)

Union Sisters:  Women in the Labour Movement. Co-edited and co-authored introduction with Lynda Yanz. Toronto: Women's Press, 1983; Second Edition, 1985. (421 pages)

Resources for Feminist Research (special issue on women and unions). Guest editor and co-authored introduction with Lynda Yanz. Vol. 10, No. 2, 1981.

ii)  Book Chapters

“RCSW and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing and Collective Agency.” In Shifting Paradigms, Enduring Legacies: Reflections on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women at 50, eds. Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton. Forthcoming.

“Gender Equality Measurement, Collective Agency and Trade Unions.” In Critical Perspectives on Gender Equality Measurement in Canada, eds. Christina Gabriel and Pauline Rankin. University of British Columbia Press. Forthcoming.

“Activist Feminist Pedagogies: Privileging Agency in Troubled Times.” In Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice, eds. Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, Renee Bondy. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015, pp. 57-86.

“Austerity, Gender Equality and Canadian Unions.” With Sue Genge, Margaret McPhail and Marion Pollack. For Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance, eds. Donna Baines and Stephen McBride. Fernwood Press, 2014,  pp. 66-78.

“In the Public Interest: Nurses on Strike.” In Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, eds. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage, Fernwood Press, 2013, pp. 91-102.

“Merit, Individualism and Solidarity: Revisiting the Democratic Deficit in Union Women’s Leadership.”
In Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership. eds. Sue Ledwith and Lisa Lotte Hansen. Routledge Routledge, 2012, pp. 138-161.  [reviewed]

“Trade Unions, Collective Agency and the Struggle for Women’s Equality: Expanding the Political Empowerment Measure.” In Making Globalization Work for Women: Women Workers’ Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership, eds. Valentine Moghadam, Suzanne Franzway, and Mary Margaret Fonow.  State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2011, pp. 214-243. [refereed].

"Sites of Struggle/Vehicles of Resistance: Unions and Women Workers." In Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, eds. C. Lesley Biggs and Susan Gingell. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2011.

A revised version of "Sites of Struggle/Vehicles of Resistance: Unions and Women Workers." In Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, eds. C. Lesley Biggs and Pamela J. Downe. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2005, pp. 210-215.

“Militancy and Resistance in the New Economy.” In Interrogating the ‘New Economy’: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century, eds. Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas. Broadview Press, 2010, pp. 217-234.

“Cross-Constituency Organizing: A Vehicle for Union Renewal.” In Unions, Equity and the Path to Renewal, eds. Patricia Baker and Janice Foley. University of British Columbia Press, 2009, pp. 135-154..

“Socialist Feminist and Activist Educator.” In Minds of Our Own: Inventing Women's Studies/Feminist Studies in Canada, eds. Francine Descarries, Margrit Eichler, Meg Luxton and Wendy Robbins. Halifax: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008, pp. 297-303.

"Public Sector Militancy, Feminization, and Employer Aggression: Trends in Strikes, Lockouts, and Wildcats in Canada from 1960 to 2004.” In Strikes Around the World, eds. Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, Kurt Vandaele and Sjaak van der Velden. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007, pp. 86-113.

“Afterword.” In Equity, Diversity and Canadian Labour, eds. Gerald Hunt and David Rayside. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, pp. 244-255.

“Privileging Agency and Organizing: A New Approach to Women’s Studies.” In Feminisms and Womanisms: Foundations, Theories and Praxis of the Women's Movement, eds. Althea Prince and Susan Silva-Wayne. Toronto: Women's Press, 2004, pp. 343-358.

A revised version of "Women's Organizing: A Gateway to a New Approach for Women's Studies." Atlantis, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2002, pp. 78-91.

"Unions: Resistance and Mobilization." In Blackwell Companion to Gender Studies, eds. Philomena Essed, David Goldberg and Audrey Kobayashi. London: Blackwell Press,  2004, pp. 329-341.

"The Equity Project in Canadian Unions: Confronting the Challenge of Restructuring and Globalization." In Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives, eds. Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 28-47.

"Power in the Classroom." In Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, ed. Janice Newton et al, Garamond Press and Centre for Support of teaching, York University, 2001, pp. 25-39.

"Feminist Organizations and Feminist Process." In Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women's Studies Reader. eds. Barbara Crow and Lise Gotell. Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon, Canada, 2000,  pp. 96-110.

Reprinted from Feminist Organizing for Change: the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada. Co-authored with Nancy Adamson and Margaret McPhail. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988

"Feminisms, Feminization and Democratization in Canadian Unions." In Feminist Success Stories/ Célébrons nos réussites féministes, eds. Karen Blackford, Marie-Luce Garceau and Sandra Kirby.  University of Ottawa Press, 1999, pp. 73-92.

"Unions and Women's Organizing in Canada and Sweden." In Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, pp. 147-183.

"Mapping Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada:    Some Thematic Considerations. " In Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, pp. 3-50.

"Preface: Collaboration and Comparison." Co-authored with Mona Eliasson. In Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, pp. vii-xiv.

"Using Groundrules to Negotiate Power in the Classroom." In Centring on the Margins: The Evaded Curriculum. Proceedings of the Second Bi-annual Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) International Institute, Ottawa, 1998, pp. 25-32, 49, 80.

"A Strategic Approach to Negotiating Power in the Classroom." In Encouraging Gender Equity: Strategies for School Change, ed. Heather MacKinnon. Ottawa: The Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, 1995, pp. 1-9.

Négocier les relations de pouvoir en salle de classe: une approche stratégique." In Favoriser l'égalité des sexes: stratégies permettant d'opérer des changements a l'école. Ottawa: The Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, 1995, pp. 1-9.  [Translated into French by Judith Poirier]

"Kvinnor och demokratiseringen av fackliga organisationer" (Women and the Democratization of the Unions)." In Delad makt: kvinnor ock facklig demokrati. Stockholm: Utbildningsförlaget Brevskolan, 1995, pp. 30-48.  [Translated into Swedish by Gunilla Persson]

"The Feminist Challenge to the Unions" (co-authored with Patricia McDermott). In Women Challenging Unions: Feminism, Democracy and Militancy, 1993, pp. 3-19.

"Union Women and Separate Organizing." In Women Challenging Unions: Feminism, Democracy and Militancy, 1993, pp. 89-108.

"Feminist Practice: A New Approach to Evaluating Feminist Strategy." In Women and Social Change: Feminist Activism in Canada, eds. Jeri Wine and Janice Ristock. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1991,  pp. 24-40. 

"Wir mussen laut sagen, wer wir sind" ("We have to say loudly who we are" ). AuBereuropaische kapitalistische Lander: Frauenbewegungen in der Welt/Band 3. Hamburg: Argument-Sonderband As, 1990, pp. 29-55. [Translated into German by Ursula Wulfekamp]

"How to Effect Change in the Unions." In Strong Women, Strong Unions. Toronto: Participatory Research Group, 1985, pp. 45-56.

"Women and Unions in Canada: a Statistical Overview." In Union Sisters, 1983/85, pp. 28-43.

"Women's Challenge to Organized Labour." In Union Sisters, 1983/5, pp. 259-71.

"Domestic Labour - a Methodological Discussion."  In Hidden in the Household, ed. Bonnie Fox. Toronto:  Women's Press, 1980, pp. 135-172.

iii)  Journal Articles

“Théoriser et négocier le pouvoir et le silence dans les salles de classe universitaires.” 
Recherches féministes, vol. 32, No. 1, 2019, pp. 147-170. Translation of “Theorizing and Negotiating Silence and Power in University Classrooms." Translation by Eve-Marie Lampron
http://www.lindabriskinphotography.com/pdf writing/Silence and Power RF.pdf

“Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada.” Labor Studies Journal, Vol 39, No. 3, 2014, pp. 223-233. [refereed]

“Strategies to Support Equality Bargaining Inside Unions: Representational Democracy and Representational Justice.” In the special Issue on “Rethinking Equality Bargaining: Building New Bargaining Agendas for the Modern Workplace” of the Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 56, No. 2, April 2014, pp. 208-227.  [refereed]

“Austerity, Union Policy and Gender Equality Bargaining.” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2014, pp. 115-133. [refereed]

“Nurse Militancy and Strike Action.”  Workers of the World - International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts, Vol. 1. No. 2, 2013, pp. 105-134. http://workersoftheworldjournal.net/images/WW_2_final.pdf

“Resistance, Mobilisation and Militancy: Nurses on Strike.” Nursing Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2012, pp. 285-296.

“Beyond the Average and the Aggregate: Researching Strikes in Canada.” In Striking Numbers: New Approaches to Strike Research, ed. Sjaak van der Velden. Amsterdam:The International Institute of Social History, Research Paper 50,  2012, pp. 137-163. http://socialhistory.org/en/publications/striking-numbers

“The Militancy of Nurses and Union Renewal.” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research,
Vol. 17, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 485-499. [refereed]

“Union Renewal, Post-Heroic Leadership and Women’s Organizing: Crossing Discourses, Reframing Debates.” Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2011, pp. 508 - 537. [refereed]

“Att kartlägga sjuksköterskornas militans: Politiseringen av vården,det offentliga stödet och strejkerna” (Uncovering Nurse Militancy: The Politicization of  Caring, Public Support and Strike Action). Arbetarhistoria: Journal of the Labour Movement Archives and Library Stockholm, Issue 2-3, nr 138-139, 2011, pp.45-53 Translated by Karin Englund.

“Cross-Constituency Organizing in Canadian Unions.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 46, No. 2, June 2008, pp. 221-247.

“CUPE On Strike.” Just Labour, Vol.10, Spring 2007,  pp. 8-22. Available on line http://www.justlabour.yorku.ca/index.php?page=toc&volume=10.

“From Person-Days Lost to Labour Militancy: A New Look at the Canadian Work Stoppage Data.” Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol 62, No.1, 2007, pp. 31-65.

"Victimization and Agency: The Social Construction of Union Women's Leadership". Special issue on Gender and Industrial Relations. Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, July 2006, pp. 359-378.

“A Caucus of Caucuses: The Next Stage In Union Equity Organizing.” Just Labour, www.justlabour.yorku.ca  Vol 6, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 101-112. 

“Worker Militancies Revealed: Interrogating the Statistical Data.” For the the Union Module of the Gender and Work Database. Posted at http://www.genderwork.ca/cms/displaysection.php?sid=41,  May 2006. (20 pages)

“The Conceptual Guide for the Union Module.” Co-authored with Leah Vosko. For the the Union Module of the Gender and Work Database. Posted at www.genderwork.ca,  May 2006. (30 pages)

“Union Leadership and Equity Representation.” For the Union Module of the Gender and Work Database. Posted at http://www.genderwork.ca/cms/displaysection.php?sid=41, April  2006. (61 pages)

"The Work Stoppage Data from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada: A Research Note". Just Labour, www.justlabour.yorku.ca, Vol. 5, Winter 2005, pp. 80-89.

"Excavating the Labour Dispute data from Statistics Canada: A Research Note"  [with Kristine Klement] Just Labour, www.justlabour.yorku.ca,  Vol 4, Summer 2004, pp. 83-95.

" 'Still the Most Difficult Revolution?' ." Just Labour, www.justlabour.yorku.ca, Summer 2004, pp. 96-101.

"Women's Organizing: A Gateway to a New Approach for Women's Studies." Atlantis, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2002, pp. 78-91. 

"Autonomy, Diversity and Integration: Union Women's Separate Organizing in North America and Western Europe in the Context of Restructuring and Globalization." Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1999, pp. 543-554.

"Making Equity a Priority: Anatomy of the York Strike of 1997" (co-authored with Janice Newson). Feminist Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 105-118.

"Gendering Union Democracy." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme [Issue on Women and Work], Vol. 18, No.1, Spring 1998, pp. 35-38.

"Negotiating Power in the Classroom: The Example of Group Work." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme [Issue on Women and Education], Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 1998, pp. 23-28.

Reprinted in Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader,  eds. Nuzhat Amin et al. Toronto: Inanna Publications, 1999, pp. 359-369.

Reprinted in Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, ed. Janice Newton et al, Garamond Press and Centre for Support of Teaching, York University, 2001, pp. 255-265.

Excerpt reprinted In Gendered Intersections: A Collection of Readings for Women and Gender Studies, eds. C. Lesley Biggs and Pamela J. Downe. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2005, pp. 37-41.

"Equity and Economic Restructuring in the Canadian Labour Movement."  Special issue on `Women's Work and Political-Economic Change', Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 1, Feb 1994, pp. 89-112.

"Feminist Pedagogy: Challenging the Normative" (co-authored with Rebecca Coulter). Canadian Journal of Education, Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 1992, pp. 247-263.

"Identity Politics and the Hierarchy of Oppression: a Comment."  Feminist Review, #35, Summer 1990, pp. 102-8.

"Women, Unions and Leadership." Canadian Dimension, Vol. 24, No.1, Jan-Feb 1990, pp. 38-41.

Reprinted in Work in Canada: Readings in the Sociology of Work and Industry, eds. Graham Lowe and Harvey Krahn. Scarborough: Nelson, 1993, pp. 284-291.

"Socialist Feminism: from the standpoint of practice."  Studies in Political Economy, No. 30, Fall 1989, pp. 87-114.

Reprinted in Feminism in Action, eds. M. Patricia Connelly and Pat Armstrong. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1992, pp. 267-293.

"Toward a Socialist Feminist Movement."  Our Generation,  Vol. 10, No. 3, 1974, pp. 23-34.

iv) Bibliographies

”Women, Social Justice, and Canadian Trade Unions” Collection in the Clara Thomas Archives, York University. Folio #F0494.

http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/submissions/fonds/ON00370-f0000494.htm

"Transgender/Transsexual: Bibliography." Centre for Feminist Research, York University, 2003. Available at www.yorku.ca/cfr/scholar/trans.htm

"Trade Union Resources on Women." In Union Sisters, pp. 396-406.

v) Websites

Fine Art Photography
http://www.lindabriskinphotography.com/

Rise Up: A digital archive of feminist activism in Canada, 1970s to 1990s
http://riseupfeministarchive.ca/

Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada
http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/

vi) Other Publications

“Heartbreaking and Hidden: The Lockout Offensive by Employers.” Our Times, Fall, 2017, pp. 33-42.
https://www.lindabriskinphotography.com/pdf writing/Lockouts Our Times.pdf

“A Luta Dos Enfermeriros É Universal” (“The Struggle of Nurses is Universal”). Translated into Portuguese by Sadik Habib. Rubra #18 (January) 2014, pp. 18-19. Invited contribution.

““How to Revitalize Union Women’s Committees: Six Challenges and Six Strategies for Change.” Co-authored with Sue Genge, Margaret Mcphail and Marion Pollack. Our Times, Vol. 32, No. 3. (June/July) 2013, pp. 26-35. http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OT3.pdf

Available in French: “Comment revitaliser les comités syndicaux de femmes: Six défis et six stratégies pour faire changer les choses.” http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/OT3-F.pdf

“Under the Rainbow: Equality during Times of Austerity.” Co-authored with Sue Genge, Margaret Mcphail and Marion Pollack. Our Times, April/May, Vol. 32, No. 2. 2013, pp 39-44. http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OT2-final.pdf

“Making Time for Equality: Women as Leaders in the Canadian Labour Movement.” Co-authored with Sue Genge, Margaret Mcphail and Marion Pollack. Our Times, Vol. 32, No. 1, Feb-March 2013,  pp. 30-37.
http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OT1-pdf.pdf

“Nurses on Strike.” Nursing Review (Australia). Invited contribution. March 2012.
http://www.nursingreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Features&idArticle=23231

“Equity and Collective Bargaining in Canadian Universities” Invited contribution to blog on equity of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science. http://blog.fedcan.ca/?p=105.

“Building Coalitions within Unions” 1 May 2008 http://unionrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/05/building-coalitions-within-unions.html

"Worker Militancies Revealed: A New Look At The HRSDC Data On Work Stoppages." Centre for Research on Work and Society Newsletter, Issue 27, Fall 2005, pp. 9-10.

"TA Handbook for Social Science 1185." (100 page informational and instructional guide for tutorial leaders), yearly from 2000.

"Agency and Urgency: An Advocacy Project on the Defence of  Provocation." Jurisfemme: Newsletter of the National Association of Women and the Law, Vol. 22, No.2, Summer 2003, pp. 1-4. Co-authored with Louise Hamelin, Christina Hollingshead, michelle elle pettis, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Also in French: "Du sentiment d'urgence a la responsabilisation: contre la 'defense de provocation'.

Posted at http://www.nawl.ca/ns/en/jf_summer03_en.html.

"Report on the 12th Women's Conference of the Canadian Labour Congress." June 2003.  Posted at http://yufa.org/external/CLC_Conference_Report_Briskin.html.

"Transgender/Transsexual: Report on Conference." Research Report: Centre for Feminist Research, York University  Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2003, p.3. Posted at www.yorku.ca/cfr/scholar/trans.htm.

"Crafting an Effective Equity Strategy." CAUT Bulletin, December 2001, p. A12. Posted at http://www.caut.ca/en/bulletin/issues/2001_dec/commentary/equity.asp.

"The Challenge of Silence." Core: Newsletter of the Centre for Support of Teaching, Vol. 10, No.1, October 2000, pp. 6-7. Available at http://www.yorku.ca/cst/ideas/core/vol10no1/linda.html.

"Negotiating Power in the Classroom." York Gazette, 13 September 2000, p. 3.

"'Awesome!’: Increasing Student Agency." In  York University: Forty Years of Teaching, 1959-1999 , p. 28.

Reprinted in School of Women's Studies Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue #1, April 2000, p. 2

"Equity Gains in Senate." Active Voice, 12 Jan 2000, p. 3.

"Behind the Rainbow." Active Voice, 12 Jan 2000, p.4.

"Equity Committee Begins Work." Active Voice, Vol. 9, No. 4, September 1998, pp. 11-12.

"Union Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada." Worklines (Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre), Spring/Summer 1998, pp. 14-17.

"Equity in the 1997 York University Strike." OCUFA Forum, Spring 1998, pp. 18-19, 21.

"Let This Be A Lesson: The 1997 York University Strike" (co-authored with Janice Newson). Our Times, Vol. 16, No.6, November/December 1997, pp. 31-36

"Revisioning York: The Strike of 1997."  Active Voice, Vol. 8, No. 8, June 1997, pp. 1-4.

"Gender, Public Policy and Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada -- an innovative approach to doing comparative research." Faculty of Arts Newsletter, Nov 1994, pp. 5-6.

"Gender in the Classroom." In Not Satisfied Yet: the Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Graduate Students, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, April 1992.

Reprinted from CORE: Bulletin of the Centre for Support of Teaching (York University), Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept 1990, pp. 2-3.

"Struggling with Classroom Power Dynamics," Second Decade: Newsletter of the Status of Women Office, York University, November 1991.

"Designing the Feminist Context for Moving into the 1990s/Definir le contexte feministe a l'aube des annees 90," Highlights of Keynote Address made to the Founding Conference of the Ontario Women's Action Coalition/ Coalition des femmes de l'Ontario, Bulletin No. 1, Jan 1990.

"The pressure to create representative structures within universities is taking a toll on women," Part One (March 1990) and "Under-representation of women, anti-feminism and affirmative action," Part Two (April 1990). OCUFA Forum (The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations). 

Reprinted and expanded from "Under-Representation of Women, Anti-Feminism and Affirmative Action."  Active Voice (YUFA Newsletter), Vol. 2, No. 1, 9 Oct 1989.

Reprinted in the Newsletter (University of Lethbridge Faculty Association), October 1990.

"A Feminist Politic for the University: Beyond Individual Victimization and Toward a Transformed Academy/Une politique féministe pour l'université: au-delá des représailles personnelles et vers une université transformée." CAUT Bulletin, March 1989, p. 10.

"Irish Women Denied the Right to Information," Cayenne, Fall 1987, pp. 23-4.

"The Feminist Challenge to the Union Movement." (Feature interview by Rebecca Coulter). Labour: Special Supplement of Athabasca University Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 1987, pp.11-15.

"Review: Double Day Double Bind: Women Garment Workers (by Charlene Gannage)." Canadian Women's Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1987, pp. 115-116.

"Review: Quel Numero What Number? or the Electronic Sweatshop."  Cayenne, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, 1986, pp. 22-24.

"Interview: Sheila Rowbotham"  Cayenne, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1986, pp. 28-31.

"Review:  What do Women Want (by Louise Eichenbaum & Susie Orbach)."  Cayenne, Vol. 1, No. 5, 1985, pp. 41-43.

"Review:  Ladies Against Women."  Cayenne, Vol. 1, No.4, 1985, pp. 43-44.

"Churches Support Eatons."  Cayenne, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1985), pp. 18-19.

"Eatons Boycott May Extravaganza."  Cayenne, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1985, pp. 19-21.

"Review:  Desperately Seeking Susan."  Cayenne, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1985, pp. 27-28.

Series on Japanese Food Culture, four parts, Globe and Mail, July 4, July 11, July 18 and July 25, 1984.

Technical Reports

1992

Brief to the Employment Equity Commissioner on Educational and Employment Equity, coauthored with Veronica Horn on behalf of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Presented to the Employment Equity Hearings, Feb 1992 Section on Educational Equity reprinted in Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Spring 1992).

   

1991

Designed survey questionnaire on "Gender Dynamics in the Classroom"(sent to all female faculty and random sample of male faculty at Carleton University), for the Status of Women Office, Carleton University, Ottawa

Creative/ Artistic Endeavours

Rising Up Strong: a video documentary on the women's movement in Ontario, written and edited (with Lorna Weir) for Rogers Cable TV [shown at the Berlin Film Festival, Art Culture Resource Centre (Toronto) and the Kitchen (New York City); distributed by Development Education Centre, Toronto] (60 minutes), 1981. Updated 1992 (to 90 minutes); distribution taken over by Green Dragon Press
Rising Up Strong (youtube link)

The Day the Fairies Went on Strike  (for children). Co-authored with Maureen Fitzgerald. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1982. Translated Quand les fées font la grève. Quebec: Les Editions Heritage, 1986. Partial reprint in Au-délà des mots. Laval, Quebec: Editions HRW, 2002..

Women in Revolution, a video documentary on women in history, for educational TV, Montreal (30 mins), 1972

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