Dawn H Currie
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256193 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dawn H Currie |
| NOMBRES | Dawn H |
| APELLIDO | Currie |
| FIRMA | CURRIE D H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2163-8906 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Critical social literacy
While recognition of the need for teacher education in media literacy is not new, in the context of social media it is growing. What we offer is an approach to critical media literacy for teachers
Beyond stereotype analysis in critical media literacy
In this article we explore the utility but also limitations of gender stereotyping lessons, a common undertaking by teachers introducing media analysis to youth. We document our collaboration with a Canadian high school teacher as she translated her understanding of critical media literacy into practice in a unit addressing questions about the gendered nature of pop music videos. Informed by feminist cultural studies, we explore challenges that a…
Enhancing Capacities to Engender Research for Sustainable Development in Vietnam, 1999–2009
At the turn of the century, Vietnamese universities, research centres, and researchers, especially younger generations of intellectuals, had few capacities to design and undertake social and gender-sensitive analyses as required for development interventions and policies. Within this context, Vietnamese and Canadian researchers collaborated to develop ‘Enhancing Capacity to Engender Research,’ a 10-year project (of three interrelated phases) to e…
Social and Gender Analysis in Development Practice
This article describes a large-scale, long-term initiative by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The mandate of IDRC is to support research that contributes to improved human well-being, particularly in developing countries. The goal of the initiative was to engender development practices in natural resource management (NRM) in Asia. The strategy employed was SA/GA—social and gender analysis. Project activities sought ways …
Listening to girls
Recent decades have seen a proliferation of books that ‘listen in’ on the everyday lives of girls. In their research the authors maintain that ‘listening’ to girls in order to make claims about what they ‘heard’ is a theoretically mediated process, and therefore it is not as straightforward as many authors imply. The purpose of this paper is to explore what they call the ‘symptomatic reading’ of interview transcripts. While attending to the contr…
The power to squash people’
While researchers and concerned adults alike draw attention to relational aggression among girls, how this aggression is associated with girls’ agency remains a matter of debate. In this paper we explore relational aggression among girls designated by their peers as ‘popular’ in order to understand how social power constructs girls’ agency as aggression. We locate this power, hence girls’ agency, in contradictory messages about girlhood that, alt…
The geeks shall inherit the earth’
This paper is located in a larger study of girls’ empowerment within the everyday context of school cultures. While much feminist research has focused on the ‘perils’ of feminine adolescence, we are interested in how girls successfully navigate the transition from girlhood to adult womanhood. Thus the sample for this paper includes girls who consciously positioned themselves against an ‘emphasized femininity’ that made their classmates popular, b…
No Boundaries'? Girls' Interactive, Online Learning About Femininities
This article explores girls' learning about issues of femininity that takes place in the presence of others online, connected through chat rooms, instant messaging, and role-playing games. Informed by critical and poststructuralist feminist theorizing of gendered subjectivity, agency, and power, the article draws from qualitative interviews with 16 girls in Vancouver, Canada. Girls reported that online activities allowed them to rehearse differen…
Skater girlhood and emphasized femininity
This study draws from interviews with 20 girls in British Columbia, Canada who participated to varying degrees in skateboarding culture. We found that skater girls saw themselves as participating in an ‘alternative’ girlhood. Becoming skater girls involved the work and play of producing themselves in relation to alternative images found among peers at school, at skate parks, online and in music videos. The alternative authority of skater girl dis…
Sk8er girls
From Modernization to Globalization
During the past decade, notions of globalization have displaced familiar discourses of modernization. On the political right, globalization is seen to signal the demise of socialist economies, and proponents of market liberalization proclaim new opportunities to further global wealth and prosperity. On the left, critics point to the ways in which the current economic restructuring is accompanied by an increasing gap between the ’haves’ and ’have …
Sociological Theory
Dear Abby
This article explores how textual analysis can help us understand subjectivity as an empirical, rather than purely theoretical, phenomenon. The texts discussed here are advice columns in adolescent magazines; the analysis takes as its starting point girls' accounts of magazine reading. Drawing on focus group discussions and interviews with 48 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 years, I explore how the accomplishment of 'individuality'- as a cult…
Girl Talk
Challenging assumptions about women?s magazines, Currie looks at young readers and how they interpret the message of magazines in their everyday lives. A fascinating, sometimes surprising study of young women and their relationship with print media.
Gender Analysis from the Standpoint of Women
While ‘gender analysis’ is now a required component in most development projects, controversies surround both the meaning and the desirability of tools currently used for ‘gender planning.’ This paper is particularly concerned with the way in which many of the gender tools, popular among western planners, contribute to the de-radicalization of feminism. In order to address this concern, a conceptual framework is sketched out to analyze gender as …
Engendering Development Theory from the Standpoint of Women
The UN Decade for Women has made it impossible for development specialists to ignore the experiences of women. Among development planners and male-centered theorists, however, women are either added into established frameworks or treated as the social ’contexts’ of development projects. The problem is that these approaches treat ’gender’ and ’development’ as inter-related but distinct phenomena. This paper challenges this approach to women and de…
Decoding Femininity
The author explores how the discursive practices of social texts relate to the subjectivities of readers. Employing Dorothy Smith's notion of femininity as textually mediated discourse, the author analyzes how teenage girls read the depictions of femininity in the glossy advertisements of fashion magazines. Through interviews with 48 girls aged 13 to 17 years, she explores both why and how young girls negotiate 'what it means to be a woman.' Most…
From feminism to postfeminism
Critical Reflections on the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Re-Thinking the Administration of Justice
Going Green
In general, sociologists neglect the ways that mass media operate to construct the worldview of adolescents. Although cultural studies tend to celebrate youth culture as expressing resistance to the dominant order, this article draws on textual analysis to explore how the progressive impetus of popular social movements is redefined in adolescent magazines to create mythologies of consumption. Using content and textual analysis of Seventeen magazi…
Men, Masculinity, and the Media
Unhiding the Hidden
Woman abuse in dating relationships
Juki Girls, Good Girls
Skater girlhood and emphasized femininity
This study draws from interviews with 20 girls in British Columbia, Canada who participated to varying degrees in skateboarding culture. We found that skater girls saw themselves as participating in an ‘alternative’ girlhood. Becoming skater girls involved the work and play of producing themselves in relation to alternative images found among peers at school, at skate parks, online and in music videos. The alternative authority of skater girl dis…
Sk8er girls
The power to squash people’
While researchers and concerned adults alike draw attention to relational aggression among girls, how this aggression is associated with girls’ agency remains a matter of debate. In this paper we explore relational aggression among girls designated by their peers as ‘popular’ in order to understand how social power constructs girls’ agency as aggression. We locate this power, hence girls’ agency, in contradictory messages about girlhood that, alt…
Decoding Femininity
The author explores how the discursive practices of social texts relate to the subjectivities of readers. Employing Dorothy Smith's notion of femininity as textually mediated discourse, the author analyzes how teenage girls read the depictions of femininity in the glossy advertisements of fashion magazines. Through interviews with 48 girls aged 13 to 17 years, she explores both why and how young girls negotiate 'what it means to be a woman.' Most…
Men's Work, Women's Work
The geeks shall inherit the earth’
This paper is located in a larger study of girls’ empowerment within the everyday context of school cultures. While much feminist research has focused on the ‘perils’ of feminine adolescence, we are interested in how girls successfully navigate the transition from girlhood to adult womanhood. Thus the sample for this paper includes girls who consciously positioned themselves against an ‘emphasized femininity’ that made their classmates popular, b…
Here Comes the Bride
Against the trend of increasing divorce rates and the acceptability of alternatives to established family formations, Canadians continue to marry and to remarry. Given the apparent success of feminism over the past few decades and a rise in consciousness about gender equality, researchers are perplexed over the persistence of traditional family practices. This paper explores one component of these practices: the traditional white wedding. Through…
The War over the Family
Listening to girls
Recent decades have seen a proliferation of books that ‘listen in’ on the everyday lives of girls. In their research the authors maintain that ‘listening’ to girls in order to make claims about what they ‘heard’ is a theoretically mediated process, and therefore it is not as straightforward as many authors imply. The purpose of this paper is to explore what they call the ‘symptomatic reading’ of interview transcripts. While attending to the contr…
Dear Abby
This article explores how textual analysis can help us understand subjectivity as an empirical, rather than purely theoretical, phenomenon. The texts discussed here are advice columns in adolescent magazines; the analysis takes as its starting point girls' accounts of magazine reading. Drawing on focus group discussions and interviews with 48 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 years, I explore how the accomplishment of 'individuality'- as a cult…
No Boundaries'? Girls' Interactive, Online Learning About Femininities
This article explores girls' learning about issues of femininity that takes place in the presence of others online, connected through chat rooms, instant messaging, and role-playing games. Informed by critical and poststructuralist feminist theorizing of gendered subjectivity, agency, and power, the article draws from qualitative interviews with 16 girls in Vancouver, Canada. Girls reported that online activities allowed them to rehearse differen…
Beyond stereotype analysis in critical media literacy
In this article we explore the utility but also limitations of gender stereotyping lessons, a common undertaking by teachers introducing media analysis to youth. We document our collaboration with a Canadian high school teacher as she translated her understanding of critical media literacy into practice in a unit addressing questions about the gendered nature of pop music videos. Informed by feminist cultural studies, we explore challenges that a…
Battered women and the state
Reconstituting social order and social control
Men, Masculinity, and the Media
Challenging privilege
Re‐thinking what we do and how we do it
La promotion de la méthodologie comme une fin en soi a fourvoyé le féminisme dans une voie sans issue. Ainsi, Stanley et Wise (1983) soutiennent que la conscience féministe est ‘une façon de conduire la recherche féministe,’ qui se doit de rejeter ľorientation masculiniste aux structures. Selon elles, la recherche féministe ne peut ni ne doit ‘dépasser’ le domaine de ľexpérience personnelle. A partir de ma recherche en cours, sur la prise de déci…
Academic Feminism and the Process of De-radicalization
Critical social literacy
While recognition of the need for teacher education in media literacy is not new, in the context of social media it is growing. What we offer is an approach to critical media literacy for teachers
Social and Gender Analysis in Development Practice
This article describes a large-scale, long-term initiative by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The mandate of IDRC is to support research that contributes to improved human well-being, particularly in developing countries. The goal of the initiative was to engender development practices in natural resource management (NRM) in Asia. The strategy employed was SA/GA—social and gender analysis. Project activities sought ways …
Going Green
In general, sociologists neglect the ways that mass media operate to construct the worldview of adolescents. Although cultural studies tend to celebrate youth culture as expressing resistance to the dominant order, this article draws on textual analysis to explore how the progressive impetus of popular social movements is redefined in adolescent magazines to create mythologies of consumption. Using content and textual analysis of Seventeen magazi…
Gender Analysis from the Standpoint of Women
While ‘gender analysis’ is now a required component in most development projects, controversies surround both the meaning and the desirability of tools currently used for ‘gender planning.’ This paper is particularly concerned with the way in which many of the gender tools, popular among western planners, contribute to the de-radicalization of feminism. In order to address this concern, a conceptual framework is sketched out to analyze gender as …
From feminism to postfeminism
Critical Reflections on the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Re-Thinking the Administration of Justice
The War over the Family
Academic Feminism and the Process of De-radicalization
Re‐thinking what we do and how we do it
La promotion de la méthodologie comme une fin en soi a fourvoyé le féminisme dans une voie sans issue. Ainsi, Stanley et Wise (1983) soutiennent que la conscience féministe est ‘une façon de conduire la recherche féministe,’ qui se doit de rejeter ľorientation masculiniste aux structures. Selon elles, la recherche féministe ne peut ni ne doit ‘dépasser’ le domaine de ľexpérience personnelle. A partir de ma recherche en cours, sur la prise de déci…
Battered women and the state
Reconstituting social order and social control
Men's Work, Women's Work
Challenging privilege
The Anatomy of Gender
Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body
Gender Differences in Work Interruptions as Unequal Effects of Marriage and Childrearing
Gender Differences in Work Interruptions as Unequal Effects of Marriage and Childrearing: Findings From A Canadian National Survey Research on work interruption has shown substantial gender differences in the propensity to quit. Although the adverse effects of job interruption have been used to explain why some women have lower earnings, gender difference in job discontinuity has largely been interpreted as results of unequal work environment. Th…
Men, Masculinity, and the Media
Unhiding the Hidden
Woman abuse in dating relationships
Here Comes the Bride
Against the trend of increasing divorce rates and the acceptability of alternatives to established family formations, Canadians continue to marry and to remarry. Given the apparent success of feminism over the past few decades and a rise in consciousness about gender equality, researchers are perplexed over the persistence of traditional family practices. This paper explores one component of these practices: the traditional white wedding. Through…
Re-Thinking the Administration of Justice
Going Green
In general, sociologists neglect the ways that mass media operate to construct the worldview of adolescents. Although cultural studies tend to celebrate youth culture as expressing resistance to the dominant order, this article draws on textual analysis to explore how the progressive impetus of popular social movements is redefined in adolescent magazines to create mythologies of consumption. Using content and textual analysis of Seventeen magazi…
From feminism to postfeminism
Critical Reflections on the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Engendering Development Theory from the Standpoint of Women
The UN Decade for Women has made it impossible for development specialists to ignore the experiences of women. Among development planners and male-centered theorists, however, women are either added into established frameworks or treated as the social ’contexts’ of development projects. The problem is that these approaches treat ’gender’ and ’development’ as inter-related but distinct phenomena. This paper challenges this approach to women and de…
Decoding Femininity
The author explores how the discursive practices of social texts relate to the subjectivities of readers. Employing Dorothy Smith's notion of femininity as textually mediated discourse, the author analyzes how teenage girls read the depictions of femininity in the glossy advertisements of fashion magazines. Through interviews with 48 girls aged 13 to 17 years, she explores both why and how young girls negotiate 'what it means to be a woman.' Most…
Girl Talk
Challenging assumptions about women?s magazines, Currie looks at young readers and how they interpret the message of magazines in their everyday lives. A fascinating, sometimes surprising study of young women and their relationship with print media.
Gender Analysis from the Standpoint of Women
While ‘gender analysis’ is now a required component in most development projects, controversies surround both the meaning and the desirability of tools currently used for ‘gender planning.’ This paper is particularly concerned with the way in which many of the gender tools, popular among western planners, contribute to the de-radicalization of feminism. In order to address this concern, a conceptual framework is sketched out to analyze gender as …
Dear Abby
This article explores how textual analysis can help us understand subjectivity as an empirical, rather than purely theoretical, phenomenon. The texts discussed here are advice columns in adolescent magazines; the analysis takes as its starting point girls' accounts of magazine reading. Drawing on focus group discussions and interviews with 48 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 years, I explore how the accomplishment of 'individuality'- as a cult…
From Modernization to Globalization
During the past decade, notions of globalization have displaced familiar discourses of modernization. On the political right, globalization is seen to signal the demise of socialist economies, and proponents of market liberalization proclaim new opportunities to further global wealth and prosperity. On the left, critics point to the ways in which the current economic restructuring is accompanied by an increasing gap between the ’haves’ and ’have …
Sociological Theory
Sk8er girls
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