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Posts Tagged ‘gender’


Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace

By Lesley Vaage — April 10th, 2008
How frustrating it is to step out of that suffocating Closet only to find yourself in a hall of two-way mirrors—undoubtedly, a common experience for queer women who “come out” in the workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces …


From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy

By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.


Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality

By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …