Gender Issues

Teaching a Child to Refer to her Genitalia as the C Word (Guest Post)

February 6, 2012




I’ve been a fan of Renee from Womanist Musings’ (@womanistmusings) work for a long time and loved having the opportunity to connect with her recently on Skype as we filmed her segment of my toddler years video. I’ve been begging her to guest post for me for a while and am happy to finally have [...]

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StumbleUpon: Feminism Isn’t About Pretty Pink Paper Dolls

December 6, 2011




I like StumbleUpon. It is a great way to share and discover content on topics that interest me. If you’re not familiar with it, you can check out my guest post about StumbleUpon and how it works on Kids in the Capital. Today when I went on the site, they were promoting the “new” StumbleUpon, [...]

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Learning Sex of Fetus at 7 Weeks: Medical Progress or Ethical Nightmare?

August 11, 2011




A new study was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association about a blood test that can predict the sex of a fetus using a non-invasive procedure (blood test) at 7 weeks pregnancy. My colleague Kristina wrote a post explaining more about the procedure and technology at Care2. I have mixed feelings [...]

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Quotable: Being a ‘traditional’ man can be dangerous

July 24, 2011




The featured topic in the July/August 2011 issue of New Internationalist is “The changing face of masculinity.” In the first article, “Cooking up a Storm”, author Nikki Van Der Gaag shares some interesting statistics: Being a ‘traditional’ man is risky business. A national survey of adolescent males 15 to 19 in the US found that [...]

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Conferences, Conferences…

July 14, 2011




Looks like I’m entering conference season. I think I’ll be at about one conference per month from July through to November. I hope to catch up with some of you at some of the conferences that I’m attending. Women’s Worlds Women’s Worlds is a huge international feminist conference that is held in a different city [...]

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Let’s Dissect the Vasectomy

June 1, 2011




A couple of weeks ago when we were having one of those peaceful family dinners, I asked my partner if I could blog and tweet about his vasectomy, which was scheduled for the next day. My mother, who was staying with us, choked on her wine. My partner, much less phased by this request, said [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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Gender/Sex Secret — For How Long Really?

May 24, 2011




There has been a lot of talk on the Internet and in traditional media about a Toronto couple that has decided not to reveal the sex of their child to anyone other than the midwife and the child’s older brothers.  This is not the first time this has happened — a couple in Sweden got [...]

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Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency

May 12, 2011




Right now I’m in Toronto at the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency Conference organized by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. According to the conference description, this conference: …will examine the subject of maternal empowerment from the perspective of both scholarship and activism, drawing from and building upon Motherhood Studies research and the activism [...]

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Mother’s Day Guest Post: Are you “still the mother”?

May 7, 2011




I had the pleasure of having coffee with recently with Andrea Doucet, a sociology professor at Carleton University who focuses, among other things, on feminism and fathering . This week I’ll be featuring a series of guest posts by Andrea, who has been studying these issues for the last twenty years both academically and in [...]

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