Glenda Tibe Bonifacio - Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms: Canadian and International Perspectives

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Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Sonja Boon and Beth Pentney

Marlise Matos and Solange Simes

Christine Gervais and Amanda Watson

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Jill Allison

Ebba Olofsson

Aylin Akpnar

Pante Farvid

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Lisa Pasolli

Catherine Bryan

Ada L. Sinacore and Barbara A. Morningstar

Asanda Benya

Michelle Walks

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Lauren Wallace

Miki Suzuki Him

Premalatha Karupiah and Parthiban S. Gopal

Sigal Oppenhaim-Shachar

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Carly Adams and Jason Laurendeau

Ornit Ramati Dvir and Orly Benjamin

Jocelyn Thorpe

Carly Adams is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her research explores sport, recreation and leisure experiences from the intersections of historical and sociological inquiry with a focus on gender and community. Her work has appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies and International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Carly is the Editor-in-Chief of Sport History Review.

Aylin Akpnar teaches at the Department of Sociology at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her recent works have been published in Feminist Formations; Family, Religion, Law, Cultural Tensions in the Family- Examples of Sweden and Turkey (2010); Education in Multicultural Societies: Turkish and Swedish Perspectives (2007). She is the member of Turkish Sociological Association as well as the European Sociological Association.

Jill Allison holds a PhD in anthropology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Merging a background in clinical nursing with an interest in global health, social justice, health equity, and health and social values, her work examines the role of health care institutions in shaping identity, gender equity and social equality. Jill is the global health coordinator and a clinical associate professor in Community Health and Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. Johns, Canada. Her current research interests include womens reproductive health and access to safe birth and contraceptive choice in Nepal and Haiti, the politics of reproduction in Nepal, malnutrition in Haiti, the impact of changing trends in the care of persons living with HIV in Canada, and barriers to access to reproductive technologies. Jill has worked in rural and urban Nepal, Bangladesh, Mexico, Ireland and many communities across Canada. She is the author of Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland: Understanding the Presence of Absence; other works have been published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, and Aporia among others. Jill teaches, facilitates opportunities for medical students to work with underserved populations in inner city services and coordinates the InSIGHT programme in Kathmandu, a global health and social justice elective training programme for medical students.

Orly Benjamin is a feminist sociologist at the Sociology and Anthropology Department and at the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She currently chairs the Poverty Research Unit, studying, among other issues, poverty as shaping occupational development of adolescent girls and young women and mothers potential contribution to their daughters occupational efficacy. Her book, Gendering Israels Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees Caring Skills (2016) summarizes her research on poverty among women employed in service and care occupations.

Asanda Benya is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. She is also a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) based at Wits University, Johannesburg. Using participant observation, her PhD looked at the construction of gendered subjectivities of underground women mineworkers. In her research, she explores issues of power, bodies, spaces and gendered identities of women in mining. Her broad research interests are: labour studies, gender, labour and social movements, labour geographies, workplace identities, the extractives industry, human rights, social justice in mining communities and ethnography.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is associate professor in women and gender studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She completed her PhD in political science at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Masters in Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines. Glenda is a research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Her works include a monograph on Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities (UBC Press 2013); editor of Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change (Routledge 2014) and Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements (Springer 2012); co-editor of Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities (Springer 2017), Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives