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Vittoria Colonna. Poems of Widowhood: A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 Rime. Translation and introduction by Ramie Targoff. Edited by Ramie Targoff and Troy Tower
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Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace, edited by Gunilla Widen, Jose Teixeira
No full textRevisiting the Troubling Case of Olive Dickason: Insights from Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives
No full textOn 24 September 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Olive Patricia Dickason’s appeal, challenging her mandatory retirement at age sixty-five from the University of Alberta as age-based discrimination. After reading the facts of the case, we learn only that she was hired in 1975 and forced to retire in 1985, that she was an esteemed colleague who became an emeritus professor, and that her competence was never questioned. The case is discussed in terms of the legal debate regarding the reasonableness and justifications for mandatory retirement. What is entirely missing from the case, however, is the full story of Dickason’s life—a life that was remarkable and one that was deeply affected by complex and overlapping discrimination related to gender, social condition, Indigenous inequalities, as well as age. Indeed, the discrimination she faced at the time of her mandatory retirement was simply one instance of exclusion, linked to a life filled with challenges. Rebecca J. Cook’s Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives provides numerous insights that assist us in critiquing the troubling case of Dickason. Transnational and cosmopolitan in its approach to feminist legal theory, it provides important insights relevant to Canadian equality law. While legal cases often decontextualize the issues in dispute, particularly as the appellate processes proceed, feminist theorists insist on the need to infuse legal doctrine with an appreciation of intersectional discrimination and the effects of structural inequality. In this commentary, therefore, I draw on insights from Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives to revisit serious omissions in the factual discussion of the discrimination Dickason faced and the resulting limitations in the legal analysis
Nuanced Archival Triangulation (NAT): An Interdisciplinary Approach for Studying Quotidian Photography
No full textThis article presents an innovative method for researching quotidian photography, particularly Real Photo Postcards (RPPC), by combining performance studies and archival sciences with oral narrative. The Nuanced Archival Triangulation (NAT) method culminates evidence from public records, newspapers, and local and non-traditional archival repositories with living family stories, resulting in a more nuanced approach to understanding people featured in visual archives. The NAT method extends and adapts Hulme’s methodology for researching textual archives of queer defendants in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century while also including Pennavaria’s genealogical methods that involve the family in historical research. The NAT methodology is comprised of four steps. Step one begins with examining traditional genealogical records of the person studied from the RPPC via Ancestry.com. Next, newspaper archives are accessed to uncover information about the individual’s social life to contextualize the biographical information found in step one. Then, guerilla research is used to locate non-traditional, undigitized evidence related to the studied person. And finally, that person’s family is contacted to solicit personal artifacts and family stories that illuminate the person’s lived story to share agency with the living relatives of the primary RPPC subject. This paper employs the NAT method in a case study centering on an RPPC of Dale Smith and Alvin Ruddick, two Navy sailors who served in WWII. By locating relevant biographical evidence, speculation about the subjects\u27 sexual identities is investigated in the RPPC. This paper concludes by discussing how the NAT methodology can amplify marginalized communities\u27 visual archives
