R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of  the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.FULL STORY

 

 

Many solitudes

March 11th, 2016

A professor emerita of anthropology at UBC, Elvi Whittaker has edited a collection of essays about isolating experiences of women employed in Canadian universities, Solitudes of the Workplace (McGill-Queen’s $37.95). It examines marginalization, uncertainty and segregation arising from the hierarchies in universities and gendered identities as it affects faculty and students, as well as support staff, senior administrators, researchers, non-academic administrators and contract teachers. “Frequently, official policy conflicts with everyday knowledge, especially when tenure and other status changes create troubling new realities.” 978-0-7735-4633-2

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