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GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES 

ANDREA ALLEN

  • Allan, Andrea. Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships (Palgrave Macmillan) September 2015.

BIPASHA BARUAH

  • Bipasha Baruah testified at the House of Commons on September 20, 2018 before the Standing Committee on National Defence on Women and International Peacekeeping. View transcript: https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/42-1/106/dr-bipasha-baruah-1/only/
  • Najjar, D., Baruah, B. and A. El Garhi. 2018. Women and Land Ownership in Egypt: Continuities, Disruptions, Contradictions. In Yaell Emerich and Laurence Saint-Pierre Harvey (eds.) Access to Land and Social Issues: Precarity, Territoriality, Identity. Montreal: Éditions Thémis. pp. 57-86.
  • Siddika, A. and B. Baruah. 2017. Can Understanding Phenomenology and Human Capabilities Help Us Address Acid Violence? South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
  • Grantham, G. and B. Baruah. 2017. Women’s NGOs as intermediaries in development cooperation: findings from research in Tanzania. Development in Practice 27(7): 927-939.
  • Baruah. B. 2017. Women on Wheels: empowering women through an innovative training and employment programme. Development in Practice 27(2): 181-195.
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2016. Renewable inequity? Women’s employment in clean energy in industrialized, emerging and developing economies. Natural Resources Forum: A United Nations Journal DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.12105
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2015. NGOs as intermediaries in post-disaster rural reconstruction: findings from research in India. Development in Practice 25(7): 1–14.
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2015. NGOs as Intermediaries for Pro-Poor Electrification in India: Urban Development in a Post-Neoliberal Era? Asian Journal of Social Science 43: 178-204.
  • Baruah, B. 2015. Opportunities and Constraints for Women in the Renewable Energy Sector in India. Women and Environments International 94/95: 7-10.
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2015. Creating Opportunities for Women in the Renewable Energy Sector: Findings from India. Feminist Economics.
  • Baruah, Bipasha and Mini Govindan. 2015. Engaging with Gender and Other Social Inequalities in Renewable Energy Projects. In Hostettler, S., Gadgil, A. and E. Hazboun (eds.). Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South: Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches. New York: Springer.
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2015. Electrified Publics and Informal Settlements in Urban India. In McDonald, D.A. (ed.). Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services. New York and London: Zed Books.
  • Baruah, B. 2015. NGOs as Intermediaries for Slum Electrification in Urban India. In Hodson, M. and S. Marvin (eds.). Retrofitting Cities. London, UK: Taylor & Francis.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:

  • Baruah, B. 2019. Sticky floors and glass ceilings: Women’s employment in the transport sector. In Crass, M. et al (eds.) Transport Connectivity: A Gender Perspective. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • Baruah, B. 2017. Renewable inequity? Women’s employment in clean energy in industrialized, emerging and developing economies. In Cohen, M.G. (ed.). Gender and Climate Change in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Baruah, B. 2016. NGOs as Intermediaries for Slum Electrification in Urban India. In Hodson, M. & S. Marvin (eds.). Retrofitting Cities: priorities, governance and experimentations. New York: Routledge. 
  • Baruah, B. 2016. Electrified Publics and Informal Settlements in Urban India. In McDonald, D.A. (ed.). Making Public in a Privatized World. New York and London: Zed Books. 
  • Baruah, B. and M. Govindan. 2015. Engaging with Gender and Other Social Inequalities in Renewable Energy Projects. In Hostettler, S., Gadgil, A. and E. Hazboun (eds.). Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South: Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches. New York: Springer.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • Apsani, R., Baruah, B. and J.M. Shaw. 2019. “Just One of Many Donors:” Canada and Local Civil Society in Afghanistan. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 25(3): 305-324.
  • Baada, J., B. Baruah and I. Luginaah. 2019. ‘What we were running from is what we’re facing again’: examining the paradox of migration as a livelihood improvement strategy among migrant women farmers in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Migration and Development 8(3): 448-471.
  • Najjar, D., Baruah. B. & A. El Garhi. 2019. Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same?’ Water Policy 21 (2): 291-309.
  • Najjar, D., Baruah, B., Aw-Hassan, A., Bentaibi, A. & G. T. Kassie. 2018. Women, work, and wage equity in agricultural labour in Saiss, Morocco. Development in Practice 28(4): 525-540.

Peer-Reviewed Working Paper:

  • Baruah, B. and S. Biskupsi. 2017. Identifying Promising Policies and Practices for Promoting Gender Equity in Global Green Employment. Knowledge Synthesis Report prepared for SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Symposium, Imagining Canada’s Future, November 16, 2017, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.
  • Baruah, Bipasha. 2016. Creating and Optimizing Employment Opportunities for Women in the Clean Energy Sector in Canada. Knowledge Synthesis Report prepared for SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Symposium, Imagining Canada’s Future, June 1, 2016, University of Calgary.

Op-eds and Popular Articles:

Non-refereed Publications:

  • Baruah, B. 2019. Addressing the diversity challenge in energy sector recruitment. Modern Diplomacy. July 5.
  • Najjar, D. and B. Baruah. 2019. Do agricultural innovations help or hurt the poor? ICARDA. March 8.
  • Baruah, Bipasha and Crystal Gaudet. 2016. Confronting the Gender Gap in Canada’s Green Transition. This Changes Everything: The Leap. August 19 (70% contribution) (original op-ed in The Hill Times)
  • Baruah, B. 2016. Development Unplugged (for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation): Reconciling Economic Security, Environmental Protection and Social Justice. Huffington Post. April 1. 
  • Baruah, B. 2016. Development Unplugged (for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation): There's a Gender Gap In The Global Renewable Energy Workforce. Huffington Post. March 8. 
  • Baruah, B. 2015. Development Unplugged (for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation): We Need To Change How We Define Success In Development. Huffington Post. November 26. 
  • Baruah, B. 2015. Opportunities and Constraints for Women in the Renewable Energy Sector in India. Women and Environments International 94/95: 7-10.  

Working Papers and Policy Briefs:

  • Najjar, D., Baruah, B. & A. El Garhi. 2019. Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt. GrOW Policy Brief and Working Paper. Montreal: Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University.
  • Baruah, B. & A. Chaianong. 2019. Status Report on Gender Equality in the Energy Sector. Paris: International Energy Agency (IEA).
  • Baruah, B. 2019. Integrating Gender Equality in Large-Scale and Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Projects. Global Affairs Canada.
  • Baruah, B. 2019. Integrating Gender Equality into Small-Scale and Off-Grid Renewable Energy Projects. Global Affairs Canada.
  • Baruah, B. 2019. Case Study on Social Innovation and Gender Equality: Women on Wheels. Global Affairs Canada.
  • Ferroukhi, R., Renner, M., Nagpal, D., García-Baños, C. and B. Baruah. 2019. Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective. Abu Dhabi: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
  • Najjar, D., Baruah, B., and A. El Garhi. 2019. Making Egyptian women’s agricultural labour visible and improving their access to productive assets. Rabat, Morocco: International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA).
  • Baruah, B. 2018. Barriers and Opportunities for Women’s Employment in Natural Resources Industries in Canada. Ottawa: Natural Resources Canada.
  • Baruah, B and S. Biskupski-Mujanovic. 2018. Identifying Promising Policies and Practices for Promoting Gender Equity in Global Green Employment. Clean Economy Working Paper Series. Ottawa: Smart Prosperity Institute.
  • Baruah, B. and C. Gaudet. 2018. Creating and Optimizing Employment Opportunities for Women in the Clean Energy Sector in Canada. Clean Economy Working Paper Series. Ottawa: Smart Prosperity Institute.
  • Baruah, B. 2018. Women on Wheels in New Delhi, India: Empowering Women Through an Innovative Training and Employment Program. Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) Policy Brief and Working Paper. Ottawa: IDRC.

JULIANNA BEAUDOIN

  • 2015 Beaudoin, Julianna. “Exploring the contemporary relevance of Gypsy stereotypes in the Buffyverse”. The Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 28, no. 2 pp. 313-327.
  • 2015 Rehaag, Sean, Julianna Beaudoin, and Jennifer Danch. “No Refuge: Hungarian Romani Refugee Claims in Canada”. Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Review copy published online April 2: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588058  (Expected hard copy publication date: December 2015)

HELEN FIELDING

  • Helen A. Fielding, “The Habit Body”, in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (eds.), Northwestern University Press. Press. 2019, pp. 155-160.
  • Fielding, Helen and D. Olkowski (eds.) Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, October 2017.
  • Fielding. Helen, “A Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto”, Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, vii-xxii.
  • Fielding, Helen “Open Future, Regaining Possibility”, in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 91-109.    
  • Helen Fielding, "Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters with Artworks”, Signs:  Symposium on "Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art," Anne Keefe (ed). 40.2 (2015):  280-289.
  •  Helen Fielding, “Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax in Sasha Waltz’s ‘S’, Paragraph (Special Issue on ‘Screening Embodiment”) 38.1 (2015): 69-85.
  • Helen Fielding, “The Poetry of Habit”, in Silvia Stoller (ed.) Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter Publishers. 2014, pp. 69-81.

MIRANDA GREEN-BARTEET

  • Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, editors. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
  • Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Jill Coste, " Non-Normative Bodies, Queer Identities: The Marginalization of Queer Girls in YA Dystopian Literature,” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp: 82-97.
  • Miranda A. Green-Barteet, "Beyond the L-Space: Interstitial Spaces in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2019, pp. 160-184.
  • "Charlotte Corday's Gendered Terror: Femininity, Violence, and Domestic Peace in Sarah Pogson's The Female Enthusiast." Beyond 1776, Edited by. Maria O'Malley and Denys Van Renen. New York: University of Virginia Press, 2018.
  • “Non-Normative Bodies, Queer Identities: The Marginalization of Queer Girls in YA
  • Dystopian Literature,” co-authored with Jill Coste. Girlhood Studies, forthcoming 2019.
  • Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond. Under contract with UniversityPress of Mississippi, Co-edited with Anne K. Phillips, forthcoming June 2019.
  • Female Rebellion in Young adult Dystopian Fiction_; my co-editors are Sara K. Day and Amy L. Montz. The book was published by Ashgate.

TRACY ISAACS

  • Isaacs, Tracy and Samantha Brennan (guest co-editors and co-authors of introduction). “See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness.” Special Issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall 2016): 1-11.
  • Isaacs, Tracy. “The Most Good We Can Do: Comments on Peter Singer’s The Most Good You Can Do,” The Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2016): 154-160.

ERICA LAWSON

  • Lawson, Erica S., Florence Wullo Anfaara, Vaiba Kebeh Flomo, Cerue Konah Garlo and Ola Osman, (2020). “The Intensification of Liberian Women's Social Reproductive Labor in the Coronavirus Pandemic: Regenerative Possibilities.” Feminist Studies, 46(3): 674-683.
  • Lawson, E.S. (2020). “Anti-Black Racism on the Sidelines: The Limits of ‘Listening Sessions’ to Address Institutional Racism at Canadian Universities.” Committing Sociology Symposium: Canadian Review of Sociology.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cars.12296
  • Lawson, E. and V. Flomo (2020). “Motherwork and Gender Justice in Peace Huts: A Feminist View from the Liberian Context.” Third World Quarterly, 41(11): 1863-1880 https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1793663
  • Konkor, I., E. Lawson, R. Antabe, M. MacIntosh, W. Husbands, J. Wong, I. Luginaah (2020).  “An Intersectional Approach to HIV Vulnerabilities and Testing Among Heterosexual African Caribbean and Black Men in London, Ontario: Results from the weSpeak Study.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00737-3.
  • Antabe, R., Konkor, I., McIntosh, M. Erica Lawson, et al. “I went in there, had a bit of an issue with those folks”: everyday challenges of heterosexual African, Caribbean and black (ACB) men in accessing HIV/AIDS services in London, Ontario. BMC Public Health 21, 315 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10321-x
  • Stephanie Huff, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Lilian Magalhães, Erica Lawson & Maimuna Kanyamala (2020) Enacting a critical decolonizing ethnographic approach in occupation-based research, Journal of Occupational Science, DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2020.1824803

WENDY GAY PEARSON

  • Wendy Gay Pearson. “Cyberpunk and Queer Theory.” The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture, ed. Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy, and Lars Schmeink. New York: Routledge, 2019. 300-308. Invited contribution.
  • Wendy Gay Pearson. “Cruising Canadian SF’s Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Bridging the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, ed. Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 185-202. Invited contribution.
  • Wendy Gay Pearson. “‘The Folk Will Continue’: Daniel Heath Justice’s The Way of Thorn and Thunder.” Aliens in Pop Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space, ed. Mike Levy and Farah Mendleshohn. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019. 293-95.
  • “Cruising Canadian SF’s Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Bridging the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Ed. Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace. Invited submission. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
  • “‘The Folk Will Continue’: Daniel Heath Justice’s The Way of Thorn and Thunder.” Aliens in Pop Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space. Ed. Mike Levy and Farah Mendleshohn. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming.
  • Wendy Gay Pearson. “Memories of Cultural Dismemberment: Nils Gaup and the Re-Membering of Sámi History.” Companion to Nordic Cinema, ed. Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. 377-95.

JESSICA POLZER

  • Katzman, E., Kinsella, A., and Polzer, J. (2019). ‘Everything is down to the minute’: clock time, crip time and the relational work of self-managing attendant service. Disability and Society. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1649126
  • Haw, J., Polzer, J., Devine, D. (2019). Contextual factors influencing donor recruitment and cord blood collection: Perspectives of frontline staff of the Canadian Blood Services’ Cord Blood Bank. Transfusion, 59(5), 1742-1748.
  • Polzer, Jessica and Power, Elaine. (2016). Neoliberal Governance and Health: Duties, Risks and Vulnerabilities. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press.

CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR

  • Taylor, Christopher Stuart. Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016.