Vocabulary of a gender studies major
Carleton students are finally learning the “F word.”
But confronted with the word “feminist,” some students appear to have certain engrained misconceptions.
When Carleton women and literature professor, Esther Post, asks her first-year students who they think feminists are she says she gets responses such as, “head-shaved, male-bashing, bra-burning lesbians.” But she says these are misguided stereotypes.
Who’s Still Using the ‘F’ Word?
Forty years ago the historical study of women became an academic discipline. But today international changes to women’s studies programs are seeing a gender and sexuality studies amalgamation, Carleton included.
Five minutes with Jayna Hefford
The Charlatan (TC): With the Olympics being on home soil, do you feel any additional pressure going in to the tournament?
Jayna Hefford (JH): We’re always expected to win gold. That just goes without saying when you play hockey for Canada. Everybody’s talking about the pressure but to be honest for me, I don’t see it any different as most events we go to, other than the fact that it’s going to be on a bigger stage. We know everybody cares about how we do and how we perform but I feel fully confident the preparation has got us ready.
More with Jade Edwards . . .
The Charlatan (TC): You joined the lawsuit to include women’s ski jumping in the Olympics in March of last year. Why did you feel that was important?
Jade Edwards (JE): Mainly because we needed more Canadians to join. When I was eight, another Canadian ski jumper, Zoya [Lynch], and I went to Salt Lake City and protested, so I was always into that kind of stuff. So when I heard that they needed more Canadians, I thought, ‘heck yes, I’d join.”
Jumping for recognition
Jade Edwards will be at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. But much to her chagrin, she’ll be there as a spectator rather than a participant.
Edwards, 19, said participating in the 2010 Olympics as a ski jumper was a realistic goal for her. But with the recent International Olympics Committee (IOC) ruling that women’s ski jumping will not be included in the Games, Edwards is left wondering what could have been.
