Table of Contents
Editorial/Éditorial
by Rosina Agyepong, Margaret Brigham, Sabra Desai, Patsy Sutherland, Anne Wagner and Njoki Nathani Wane
In Memoriam Shelagh Wilkinson by Luciana Ricciutelli
Exploring Notions of Spirituality
Alternative Altars: Beyond Patriarchy and Priesthood and Towards Inclusive Spirituality, Governance and Activism Among Catholic Women Religious in Ontario
by Christine Gervais
Second Nature: Contemporary Pagan Ritual Borrowing in Progressive Christian Communities by Laurel Zwissler
Spiritual Beginnings of Indigenous Women’s Activism: The Life and Work of the Honourable Thelma Chalifoux, White Standing Buffalo
by Judy Iseke and Leisa Desmoulins
Beyond Questionable Certainties
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Connecting the Mind, Body and Spirit Through Movement(s)
Traditional Healing and Spirituality Among Grenadian Women: A Source of Resistance
and Empowerment
by Patsy Sutherland
Ecospiritual Action and the Gift Imaginary: A Union of Spirituality and Politics
by Kaarina Kailo
“Born from Silence”: Theory and Strategy for Resistance and Justice-Making from the
Birth of Creative Power
by Deborah Prokipchuk Ackley
Classical Martial Arts Training: A Zen Approach to Health, Wellness and Empowerment
for Women
by M. Ann Philips
Dance for Peace and Healing: Spirituality in Action
by Ronnie Joy Leah
In Memory of Shelagh Wilkinson, 1928-2011
Shelagh Brenda Wilkinson, September 18, 1928-November 16, 2011: Such a Long Journey tribute by Marion Lynn
Women’s Studies — One Experience
by Shelagh Wilkinson
With Thanks
by Lesley Wilkinson
Marion Lynn and Shelagh Wilkinson: An Interview with the cws/cf Founders
interview by Luciana Ricciutelli
Quite a Journey: A History of the Bridging Programme
by Shelagh Wilkinson
Shelagh with family and friends photoessay
by Luciana Ricciutelli
Dr. Shelagh Wilkinson, York University Convocation, October 18, 2009
convocation address by Shelagh Wilkinson
Those Less Often Heard: Honouring Distant Voices
Black Women’s Experiences of Spirituality as a Form of Resistance and Activism
by Nadesha Gaytle
Sankofa: Reclaiming My Voice Through Canadian Black Feminist Theorizing
by Nadia Prendergast
Breaking the Silence: Reclaiming Qur’anic Interpretations as a Tool for Empowerment and Liberatory Praxis for Dealing with Domestic Violence in Canadian Muslim Communities
by Sabra Desai and Zehra Haffajee
Indigenous Spirituality, Activism and Feminism in the Life of My Mother
by Rose Ann Torres
The Psycho-Spirituality of African Canadian Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario
by Edna Aryee
Honouring Spirituality and Activism: Children and Young People’s Awareness and Response to the Needs of Others
by Lynn DeCaro
(Re)Embodying Academia: Bringing Spirituality into the Ivory Tower
Reclaiming Our Spirituality: A Pedagogical Tool for Feminism and Activism
by Njoki Nathani Wane
Spirituality, Religion, Secularism and the Academy: Reflections on “The Muslim Woman’s Question
by Tassabaum Fahim Ruby
Spirituality and Empowerment of Black Women in the Academy
by Rosina Agyepong
Creating Space for Spiritual Praxis in Academia: A Dialogue
by Jabeen Aslam and Krista Riley
Poetry
Rosary by M. E. Csamer
Margit Bridge by Ilona Martonfi
Universe of Now by M. E. Csamer
Ants by Farideh de Bosset
(S)Mothering by Carolyne Van Der Meer
A Date by Farideh de Bosset
With a Simple Pink Rose by Ilona Martonfi
Stir by Carole Glasser Langille
Motherlode by Carolyne Van Der Meer
Incest by Farideh de Bosset
Alzheimer’s: A Square Dance in two movements by Evelyn Violini
Simone by Adrick Brock
Under the Bed by Joan Bond
The Stepfather’s Photos by Ilona Martonfi
A Gentle Impression by Joanna M. Weston
when i’m alone and senior by Joan Bond
Anything by Kay R. Eginton
Aimer par Angela Galipeau
wor(l)ds about we(e) women by Adele Graf
Judith by Adrick Brock
Planting by Sandra Woolfrey
On the Street (Pantoum) by Joanna M. Weston
Mudstones by Ilona Martonfi
Running at the “Y” by Carolyne Van Der Meer
Book Reviews
Mennonite Women in Canada: A History
reviewed by Deborah McPhail
This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto
reviewed by Johanna H. Stuckey
Sex, Gender and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000-1122
reviewed by Becky R. Lee
Women’s Lives in Biblical Times
reviewed by Patricia Keeney
Native American Women’s Studies: A Primer
reviewed by Donna Schatz
Les Dramaturges Antillaises: Cruauté, Créolité, Conscience Féminine
révisé par Mylène F. Dorcé
Angelic Scintillations
reviewed by Heather Spears
A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women’s Poetry in Francophone Africa reviewed by Philippa Jabouin
Private Spear to World Stage from Austen to Eliot reviewed by Anne Gagné
Reading Women’s and Gender Studies in Canada
reviewed by Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice
Daughters and Mothers in Alice Munro’s Later Stories
reviewed by Gisela Argyle
Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood
reviewed by Jennifer Fraser
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
reviewed by John Lennox
L’Art Naïf dans la Modernité
révisé par Jeanne Maranda
Paris Times Eight: Finding Myself in the City of Dreams
reviewed by Tanya Pikula
The Risks of Remembrance
reviewed by Norma Lundberg
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation
reviewed by Natalie Neill
About the Artwork
Front Cover
Janet Stahle-Fraser, “The Harvest,” 1999, 28″ x 48″, acrylic on canvas.
Back Cover
Janet Stahle-Fraser, “Garden Door,” 1998, 22″ x 30″, acrylic on canvas.
Janet Stahle-Fraser is a painter/printmaker with a m.a. in philosophy from the University of Guelph. Her love for exploring media is apparent in the diversity of media and techniques she employs such as colour and monochrome woodcuts, etchings, monotypes, mixed media, pastel and acrylic paintings. Recently, she has begun to incorporate digital techniques into her work. Janet’s art has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Gallery and internationally. It has been featured in Canadian books, magazines and newspapers. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a faculty member in fine art at Nipissing University. Janet opens her Tapawingo Studio to the public for the summer and has been a long time member of the Muskoka Autumn Studio Tour. Her studio is located one km east of Baysville on Hwy 117 at #2781 with a sign posted on the north side near The Landscapes Resort’s flags and entrance. Call her at 705-767-3594 for hours. Email: [email protected] Web: www.tapawingostudio.on.ca.
Artist Statement: My main media are painting and printmaking but my background in philosophy shapes my artistic vision. My work gives form to the products of my questioning mind. Often, these questions concern myth, culture, religion, life and mortality. I am constantly seeking a vantage point that gives me the necessary distance for questions to enter. Then I play in my sandbox with the medialessons of the power of women and importance of women’s roles in her own family.
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