Jane Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3752965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, N.S. B3M 2J6, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Role of Sovereignty in Decolonization
In her 1983 How to Suppress Women’s Writing , feminist science fiction author Joanna Russ outlined the many approaches used to ignore, condemn, or otherwise belittle the intellectual productions by members of the “wrong” groups. 1 In addition to discouragement and blocking access to requisite materials and training, other regular tactics include isolating a given author or one of their texts from the tradition to which they or it belong and simpl…
Hannah Arendt's Political Theology of Democratic Life
In this essay, I explore Hannah Arendt's suggestion that we conceptualize human power and freedom polytheistically if our aim is to understand the challenges and requirements of democratic self-governance. Although it is not clear that politics must always be understood through theological grammars, if it is to be, polytheism affirms that there may be multiple sources of value and of right, offering both a metaphysical counterpart to value plural…
Gendering the Vertical Mosaic, Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society
I write this review of a book clearly designed for the university market, be it women's studies, sociology, or political science courses, while I compose at the same time a talk to CEOs of large corporations here in Calgary. An interesting experience, this moving back and forth in my mind between audiences. I think about what people hear, about their expectations, about contexts, about my own motivations in talking in public arenas. Am I right in…
Scholarship—the new dimension to equity issues for academic women
Lifting a Ton of Feathers, a Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
Verbal Deficit
Originally published in 1981. Verbal deficit theories try to account for differential educational attainments in linguistic terms, suggesting that children reach varying levels of success in school as a result of their ability or inability to express themselves, and relate this to social class. This critique considers such theories, especially in the form propounded by Bernstein, primarily from a sociolinguistic viewpoint but with special attenti…
Abdullah Tahrunnessa A. And Zeidenstein Sondra A., Village Women of Bangladesh Prospects for Change , Pergamon Press
"Abdullah Tahrunnessa A. and Zeidenstein Sondra A., VILLAGE WOMEN OF BANGLADESH PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE, Pergamon Press." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 14(3), pp. 410–411
The Mitchell Beazley New Concise Atlas of the Earth
Scholarship—the new dimension to equity issues for academic women
Hannah Arendt's Political Theology of Democratic Life
In this essay, I explore Hannah Arendt's suggestion that we conceptualize human power and freedom polytheistically if our aim is to understand the challenges and requirements of democratic self-governance. Although it is not clear that politics must always be understood through theological grammars, if it is to be, polytheism affirms that there may be multiple sources of value and of right, offering both a metaphysical counterpart to value plural…
The Mitchell Beazley New Concise Atlas of the Earth
Verbal Deficit
Originally published in 1981. Verbal deficit theories try to account for differential educational attainments in linguistic terms, suggesting that children reach varying levels of success in school as a result of their ability or inability to express themselves, and relate this to social class. This critique considers such theories, especially in the form propounded by Bernstein, primarily from a sociolinguistic viewpoint but with special attenti…
Abdullah Tahrunnessa A. And Zeidenstein Sondra A., Village Women of Bangladesh Prospects for Change , Pergamon Press
"Abdullah Tahrunnessa A. and Zeidenstein Sondra A., VILLAGE WOMEN OF BANGLADESH PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE, Pergamon Press." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 14(3), pp. 410–411
Lifting a Ton of Feathers, a Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
Gendering the Vertical Mosaic, Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society
I write this review of a book clearly designed for the university market, be it women's studies, sociology, or political science courses, while I compose at the same time a talk to CEOs of large corporations here in Calgary. An interesting experience, this moving back and forth in my mind between audiences. I think about what people hear, about their expectations, about contexts, about my own motivations in talking in public arenas. Am I right in…
Scholarship—the new dimension to equity issues for academic women
Hannah Arendt's Political Theology of Democratic Life
In this essay, I explore Hannah Arendt's suggestion that we conceptualize human power and freedom polytheistically if our aim is to understand the challenges and requirements of democratic self-governance. Although it is not clear that politics must always be understood through theological grammars, if it is to be, polytheism affirms that there may be multiple sources of value and of right, offering both a metaphysical counterpart to value plural…
The Role of Sovereignty in Decolonization
In her 1983 How to Suppress Women’s Writing , feminist science fiction author Joanna Russ outlined the many approaches used to ignore, condemn, or otherwise belittle the intellectual productions by members of the “wrong” groups. 1 In addition to discouragement and blocking access to requisite materials and training, other regular tactics include isolating a given author or one of their texts from the tradition to which they or it belong and simpl…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works)