Pamela Wakewich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4240750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Wakewich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakewich |
| SIGNATURE | WAKEWICH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asserting citizenship
Colonial legacy and the experience of First Nations women in cervical cancer screening
Regular Papanicolaou (Pap) screening has dramatically reduced cervical cancer incidence in Canada since the 1950s. However, Indigenous women's rates of cervical cancer remain disproportionately high, a factor which is not acknowledged in national media or in educational materials reporting Canada's new cervical cancer screening guidelines. Here, we present findings from a cervical cancer screening initiative in Northwestern Ontario. Based on part…
Strategies for Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Amongst First Nations Communities in Northwest Ontario, Canada
The high burden of cervical cancer in Indigenous populations worldwide is due to underscreening and inadequate follow-up. Using qualitative, participatory action research, we interviewed health care staff to identify ways to increase screening recruitment in First Nations communities in Northwest Ontario, Canada. Our findings suggest the value of a multilevel social-ecological model to promote behavioral changes at the community, health care serv…
Regulating Body Boundaries and Health during the Second World War
This article examines the intersections of gender, wartime nationalist rhetoric and the production of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ bodies in both the Canadian workplace and the home during the Second World War. Analysing government, industry and media discourses in relation to oral history interviews with thirty‐eight women aircraft workers, we discuss women's distinctive role in shaping the health and morale of the social body during wartime, to en…
Beauty and the Helldivers
In this article, we discuss representations of women's identities as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challe…
Beauty and the Helldivers
In this article, we discuss representations of women's identities as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challe…
Regulating Body Boundaries and Health during the Second World War
This article examines the intersections of gender, wartime nationalist rhetoric and the production of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ bodies in both the Canadian workplace and the home during the Second World War. Analysing government, industry and media discourses in relation to oral history interviews with thirty‐eight women aircraft workers, we discuss women's distinctive role in shaping the health and morale of the social body during wartime, to en…
Strategies for Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Amongst First Nations Communities in Northwest Ontario, Canada
The high burden of cervical cancer in Indigenous populations worldwide is due to underscreening and inadequate follow-up. Using qualitative, participatory action research, we interviewed health care staff to identify ways to increase screening recruitment in First Nations communities in Northwest Ontario, Canada. Our findings suggest the value of a multilevel social-ecological model to promote behavioral changes at the community, health care serv…
Colonial legacy and the experience of First Nations women in cervical cancer screening
Regular Papanicolaou (Pap) screening has dramatically reduced cervical cancer incidence in Canada since the 1950s. However, Indigenous women's rates of cervical cancer remain disproportionately high, a factor which is not acknowledged in national media or in educational materials reporting Canada's new cervical cancer screening guidelines. Here, we present findings from a cervical cancer screening initiative in Northwestern Ontario. Based on part…
Asserting citizenship
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Cancer (2 works) · Cervical cancer (2 works) · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)