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Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Depression on the frontline: an examination of the impact of working conditions and life stressors on sex workers, stylists and servers
No full textChanges to the global economy over the past few decades along with growing support for neo-liberal policies in Canada have led to an increase in precarious, low-wage frontline service work. These kinds of occupations often involve sustained interaction with clients and have high job demands, low job control and insufficient monetary reward. Further, many of these jobs also tend to be gendered (i.e., they involve a large degree of ‘emotional’ labour or care work that is predominantly carried out by female workers). Working conditions such as these can have a negative impact on the mental health of frontline service workers leading to psychological distress and depression. Chronic stress or cumulative stressful life events can also increase vulnerability to depression. While these stressors can be exacerbated by poor working conditions, they can also exist independently of them.
Comparative research across two or more frontline service occupations, similar in broad strokes but differing in workplace characteristics, is especially needed to understand how structural and contextual factors in the workplace and over the life course interact to produce depression. This thesis presents data from my supervisor (Dr. Cecilia Benoit) and colleagues’ 4-wave longitudinal study entitled “Interactive service workers’ occupational health and safety and access to health services” (Benoit, Jansson, Leadbeater & McCarthy, 2005). This is a study of three types of frontline service jobs – two in the formal economy (hairstyling and food and beverage service) and one in the shadow/informal economy (sex industry). Results of this secondary analysis demonstrate that not only do working conditions have a significant impact on the mental health of frontline service workers but that stressful life events also have very strong explanatory power in understanding why certain workers experience depression more than others. The findings indicate that sex workers have the highest levels of depression, in comparison to stylists and servers. Yet sex workers report protective factors in their jobs, including higher comparative decision latitude, that contradict much of the current literature on sex work. The thesis concludes with policy recommendations and gives direction for further research in the area of frontline service work and depression
Life choices and life chances: pregnant and early parenting women who use substances.
No full textThis thesis is a subset of a larger “parent” project under the direction of my supervisor, Dr. Cecilia Benoit. The purpose of the larger project is to seize an unique research opportunity that has emerged with the development and implementation of the HerWay Home (HWH) program, a community-based initiative for pregnant and early parenting women who face substance use and other challenges in the Greater Victoria Area. My research has capitalized on the pre-implementation phase of the HWH program between 2010-2011. Thirteen in-person semi-structured interviews were conducted with women who would likely be clients for the HWH program, based on their pregnancy experiences,
substance use concerns and other life challenges. The goal of this research has been to explore these women’s pregnancy and postpartum narratives and investigate what, in their view, should be crucial components of the HWH intervention in the short and longterm.
My findings indicate that, consistent with the literature on pregnant and early parenting women facing substance use and other life challenges, a range of complex, intertwined disadvantages exist in their lives that translate into multiple barriers to accessing continuous health and social care during their pregnancy and after the birth of their child. An adapted model of the Health Lifestyle Theory is used to frame the analysis of the data collected from this research. The results from this research support the argument that the life choices of the participants are constrained by structural life chances and socially determined inequities that systematically disadvantage and disempower them. The findings also reveal an implicit sense of agency in the women’s narratives, as well as key specifics about what they view as the main gaps in care and their desired program services. The findings will be relayed to HWH organizers, and used to inform the development and implementation of the program’s services.Graduat
In search of dignified maternity care: an exploration of childbearing women's experiences of midwifery care in Victoria, B.C.
No full textThis thesis is based on follow-up research from a project undertaken by my supervisor, Cecilia Benoit and colleagues (2007) entitled Social Determinants of Postpartum Depression: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Study (henceforth referred to as the “postpartum and health project study” -- PPHS). The PPHS examined the prevalence of postpartum depression amongst a diverse sample of mothers in Victoria, British Columbia. The main findings illustrate that the greater a woman’s satisfaction with maternity care, the lesser her likelihood of postpartum depression. The group of participants with the least satisfaction was those who were transferred from midwifery care to obstetrical care. This group also had a lower mean income than other care provider groups, such as those who retained their midwives, pointing to the connection between socio-economic status and quality of care.
In search of dignified maternity care for all women, that is care that is respectful and autonomous, my research foregrounds the narratives of women who were transferred from a midwife to an obstetrician during their labour or birth (n=11). I examine the formal and informal support they receive, and interactions between health care practitioners and reasons for satisfaction or dissatisfaction with care. I also compare the experiences of women who were transferred from a midwife to an obstetrician with those who retained their midwife in the PPHS.
My findings indicate that both sample groups’ satisfaction of care and well-being was due to feeling they had autonomy over the birthing process, adequate information from health care providers about medical and technological procedures, and support. The participants’ who were transferred, however, were less likely than the group who retained their midwife to experience the above elements of care. Participants who were transferred said they felt invaded by unnecessary procedures and technology, which contributed to a decreased level of autonomy. However, both sub-samples were affected by a lack of multi-disciplinary teamwork in the hospital setting. This had more of a negative impact on participants who were transferred from a midwife to an obstetrician
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
No full textAbstract Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to the inequities among women that are caused by racism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, and able-bodism, is confronting feminist health researchers and activists. Researchers are seeking new conceptual frameworks that can transform the design of research to produce knowledge that captures how systems of discrimination or subordination overlap and "articulate" with one another. An emerging paradigm for women's health research is intersectionality. Intersectionality places an explicit focus on differences among groups and seeks to illuminate various interacting social factors that affect human lives, including social locations, health status, and quality of life. This paper will draw on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of the processes involved in applying an intersectionality paradigm. We begin with a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. We then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity. In the analysis of these examples, we focus on a largely uninvestigated aspect of intersectionality research - the challenges involved in the process of initiating and developing such projects and, in particular, the meaning and significance of social locations for researchers and participants who utilize an intersectionality approach. The examples highlighted in the paper represent important shifts in the health field, demonstrating the potential of intersectionality for examining the social context of women's lives, as well as developing methods which elucidate power, create new knowledge, and have the potential to inform appropriate action to bring about positive social change.</p
Letter from Cecilia Shepperd, National Training School, to Caleb Foote, March 23, 1942
No full textLetter from Cecilia Shepperd from the National Training School in Kansas City, Missouri to Caleb Foote, writing that the school could "take care of 3 young Japanese women," and asking Foote to follow up with school president Cloyd V. Gustafson, "a strong F.O.R. man from California."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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Santa Cecilia Acatitlán: Estado de México
No full textLa información de esta miniguía se basa en los trabajos de Felipe Solís.Durante el periodo Postclásico Tardío (12OO a 1521 d.C.) se llevaron a cabo en la Cuenca de México grandes movimientos culturales y migratorios que originaron uno de los más importantes desarrollos del México antiguo: el de los mexicas. El estudio de los materiales arqueológicos recuperados en las primeras exploraciones -escultura y cerámica- , así como de las características arquitectónicas del edificio que Brasero ceremonial, parte superior del basamento se conserva, no han permitido conocer la extensión del sitio, el número de edificios que conformaban el centro, ni cuáles eran las zonas de habitación. Sin embargo, se sabe que su economía estuvo ligada a los depósitos lacustres de agua dulce o salada y a la agricultura. Se explotaron la fauna, la flora, la sal y el tequesquite, este último se utilizaba en el proceso de cocción del maíz. Se ha descubierto que Acatitlan está cultural y políticamente ligado a los mexicas, aunque no se le menciona en los textos indígenas de la época ni en las fuentes históricas de la conquista o de la Colonia, por lo cual se supone que fue abandonado antes del arribo de los españoles.</p
Cecilia Vicuña, 27th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textCecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet, visual and performance artist and filmmaker, and the author of fourteen poetry books published in Europe, Latin America and the US. She performs and exhibits her work widely at national and international venues. She has an MFA from the University of Chile in Santiago, and she did her postgraduate work at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London. The recipient of many honors, she received The Pennies from Heaven Award, 2002, The Anonymous Was a Woman Award, l999, The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Arts International Award in l992, The Fund for Poetry Award in l995-96 and The Human Rights Award from the Fund for Free Expression in New York in l985. Her poetry has been widely anthologized, most recently in: The Book of the Book, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Steve Clay, Granary Books, 2000 and Poems for the Millennium, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, University of California, l997. Her most recent books include Instan, Kelsey St. Press, 2002; El Templo, translated by Rosa Alcalá, Situations, New York, 2001; Cloud-Net, trans. by Rosa Alcalá, and QUIPOem/ The Precarious, The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña, edited by M. Catherine de Zegher and translated by Esther Allen, Wesleyan University Press, l997.
Recent solo performances include: University of Cambridge Contemporary Poetry Conference, England, 2002, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001, The Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2001, IVAM, Valencia, 2001, Tucher Literary Salon, Berlin, 2001,Temple University, 2000, Art in General, New York, l999, Kunst museum, Berne, l998, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, l997, St Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, l999, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, l996, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, l996, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, l996.
Her films and videos have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Art in General, New York, The Museum of PreColumbian Art, Chile, Museo Etnográfico de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and at the Cinarchea International Film Festival, Kiel, Germany, Museo Reina Sofia en Madrid, y Museo de Are Contemporáneo de Barcelona
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