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Canadian Woman Studies, Jun 1, 2002

T he SHE Toolkit is a structured risk/safety assessment process to identify and eliminate harms f... more T he SHE Toolkit is a structured risk/safety assessment process to identify and eliminate harms for women experiencing abuse and to implement proven or promising safety and health enhancement measures. The SHE Toolkit has been developed as a step-by-step guide for a team of health care providers, planners and policymakers and their community partners to identify compounding harms within their

We want to describe the "Duluth Model" of criminal justice intervention in domestic violence case... more We want to describe the "Duluth Model" of criminal justice intervention in domestic violence cases. The Duluth Project (DAIP) is a pioneer in coordinated community responses to woman assault. But it is often misrepresented as a "batterers treatment model", a "mandatory arrest project", or a "no drop prosecution program". Instead, the Duluth project should be seen as a system of networks, agreements, processes and applied principles created by the local shelter movement, criminal justice agencies, and human service programs that were developed in a small northern Minnesota city over a fifteen year period. It is still a project in the making: "If I were to say what is at the heart of our efforts here it would be our willingness to try to improve the community's intervention strategy. We try out things. If it works to protect women or to keep men from using violence again we keep it. If it doesn't or it backfires and makes things worse, we jettison it." (Police Sergeant, Duluth, 1996) Here's how the Duluth project started. In 1978 Cindy Landfried, who had been brutally abused by her husband for 3 years, shot and killed him. A locally convened grand jury decided not to indict the nineteen year old woman for murder. Cindy's case led to intense public debate on the responsibility of community services to intervene and stop domestic violence. At the time of the shooting, shelter activists from across the United States were meeting to find a city that would introduce a proactive domestic assault intervention plan. Duluth's shelter workers convinced the group that Duluth would be the best site for an experimental project. The experimental project would introduce multiple interagency agreements which linked all the intervening agencies in a community to a common philosophical approach. At the same time, it would also introduce ways for the different agencies to cooperate and so improve the community's ability to hold offenders accountable for their violence. The guiding goal was safety: the safety of women who were beaten by their partners. The first step was to get funds for and organize an autonomous, non-profit agency and small coordinating staff dedicated exclusively to the work of coordinating the project. Staff were to be selected with the approval of the shelter but would not work for the shelter nor any other participating agency.

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13545700500301494, Nov 13, 2008

These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist econ... more These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns.

Capitalism Nature Socialism

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realizati... more This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between the food system and diseases such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes. For others it means subsuming food-safety governance within food security governance. For yet others, safe food implies food sovereignty governance and the primacy of a climate change resilient food system. Conventional approaches to food-safety governance are typically framed within a liability model of responsibility that has limited usefulness for addressing institutional, structural or systemic sources of harm such as those critics increasingly attribute to the dominant food system and which are not amenable to remedy by food-safety governance as it is widely understood. One cannot identify critical hazard points where risk is to be managed. These are food-system safety challenges. Because food-safety governance is so deeply political there needs to be greater attention to issues of governance rather than the more usual focus on the technologies of food-safety. Feminist political theorists have much to contribute to rethinking food-safety governance in the context of diversity and the complexities of power. One could usefully start with the simple questions, " what food is to be kept-safe, for whom and who is the subject of food-safety governance in a post-Westphalian political economic order? " These questions can help unpack both the narrow parochialism and the misleading universalism of food-safety talk. This paper answers that neither the citizens of a particular state (or network of states) nor the falsely universalizing identity of 'the consumer' are adequate answers to these questions about 'who' and 'what'. Answering these questions about who and what with respect to food-safety governance brings issues OPEN ACCESS

Resources For Feminist Research, 2000

Symbolic Interaction, 1994

... Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, and Martha Copp. 1993. Emotions and Fieldwork. New... more ... Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, and Martha Copp. 1993. Emotions and Fieldwork. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, Martha Copp, and Karla Henderson. 1992. “Qualitatively Different: Teaching Fieldwork to Graduate Students.” Unpublished manuscript. ...

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1996

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

... Rock-a-by baby: Feminism, self help, and postpartum depression. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS:... more ... Rock-a-by baby: Feminism, self help, and postpartum depression. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... SUBJECT(S): Women; Mothers; Postpartum depression; Self-help groups; Feminism; Social networks; Mental health; United States. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, JARM Vol 1, No 1 (19... more Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, JARM Vol 1, No 1 (1999). ...

Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women, 1995

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, 2008

Violence Against Women, 2003

Feminist Economics, 2005

These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist econ... more These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns.

Speaking from the margins, ecofeminist analysis exposes many of the assumptions of neoclassical e... more Speaking from the margins, ecofeminist analysis exposes many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics as gender biased and as anti-ecological. It identifies the abstract individual of neoclassical economics as a privileged male individual whose apparent 'autonomy' is predicated on the oppression of women, marginal people and nature. Thus ecofeminists tell a different story about economic man --from the grounds of others' experience up. Ecofeminism points to the limits of models of sustainability built on extending market rationality to non-market spheres of life. Ecofeminist economics contains a creative tension between a commitment to social justice and a determination not to colonize the wild.

A quick internet search shows that images of women farmers are increasingly used in major reports... more A quick internet search shows that images of women farmers are increasingly used in major reports on global food security. This development may not be as promising as it first appears.

Women and Environments International 88, 2012

Canadian Woman Studies, Jun 1, 2002

T he SHE Toolkit is a structured risk/safety assessment process to identify and eliminate harms f... more T he SHE Toolkit is a structured risk/safety assessment process to identify and eliminate harms for women experiencing abuse and to implement proven or promising safety and health enhancement measures. The SHE Toolkit has been developed as a step-by-step guide for a team of health care providers, planners and policymakers and their community partners to identify compounding harms within their

We want to describe the "Duluth Model" of criminal justice intervention in domestic violence case... more We want to describe the "Duluth Model" of criminal justice intervention in domestic violence cases. The Duluth Project (DAIP) is a pioneer in coordinated community responses to woman assault. But it is often misrepresented as a "batterers treatment model", a "mandatory arrest project", or a "no drop prosecution program". Instead, the Duluth project should be seen as a system of networks, agreements, processes and applied principles created by the local shelter movement, criminal justice agencies, and human service programs that were developed in a small northern Minnesota city over a fifteen year period. It is still a project in the making: "If I were to say what is at the heart of our efforts here it would be our willingness to try to improve the community's intervention strategy. We try out things. If it works to protect women or to keep men from using violence again we keep it. If it doesn't or it backfires and makes things worse, we jettison it." (Police Sergeant, Duluth, 1996) Here's how the Duluth project started. In 1978 Cindy Landfried, who had been brutally abused by her husband for 3 years, shot and killed him. A locally convened grand jury decided not to indict the nineteen year old woman for murder. Cindy's case led to intense public debate on the responsibility of community services to intervene and stop domestic violence. At the time of the shooting, shelter activists from across the United States were meeting to find a city that would introduce a proactive domestic assault intervention plan. Duluth's shelter workers convinced the group that Duluth would be the best site for an experimental project. The experimental project would introduce multiple interagency agreements which linked all the intervening agencies in a community to a common philosophical approach. At the same time, it would also introduce ways for the different agencies to cooperate and so improve the community's ability to hold offenders accountable for their violence. The guiding goal was safety: the safety of women who were beaten by their partners. The first step was to get funds for and organize an autonomous, non-profit agency and small coordinating staff dedicated exclusively to the work of coordinating the project. Staff were to be selected with the approval of the shelter but would not work for the shelter nor any other participating agency.

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13545700500301494, Nov 13, 2008

These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist econ... more These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns.

Capitalism Nature Socialism

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realizati... more This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between the food system and diseases such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes. For others it means subsuming food-safety governance within food security governance. For yet others, safe food implies food sovereignty governance and the primacy of a climate change resilient food system. Conventional approaches to food-safety governance are typically framed within a liability model of responsibility that has limited usefulness for addressing institutional, structural or systemic sources of harm such as those critics increasingly attribute to the dominant food system and which are not amenable to remedy by food-safety governance as it is widely understood. One cannot identify critical hazard points where risk is to be managed. These are food-system safety challenges. Because food-safety governance is so deeply political there needs to be greater attention to issues of governance rather than the more usual focus on the technologies of food-safety. Feminist political theorists have much to contribute to rethinking food-safety governance in the context of diversity and the complexities of power. One could usefully start with the simple questions, " what food is to be kept-safe, for whom and who is the subject of food-safety governance in a post-Westphalian political economic order? " These questions can help unpack both the narrow parochialism and the misleading universalism of food-safety talk. This paper answers that neither the citizens of a particular state (or network of states) nor the falsely universalizing identity of 'the consumer' are adequate answers to these questions about 'who' and 'what'. Answering these questions about who and what with respect to food-safety governance brings issues OPEN ACCESS

Resources For Feminist Research, 2000

Symbolic Interaction, 1994

... Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, and Martha Copp. 1993. Emotions and Fieldwork. New... more ... Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, and Martha Copp. 1993. Emotions and Fieldwork. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Kleinman, Sherryl, Martha Copp, and Karla Henderson. 1992. “Qualitatively Different: Teaching Fieldwork to Graduate Students.” Unpublished manuscript. ...

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1996

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

... Rock-a-by baby: Feminism, self help, and postpartum depression. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS:... more ... Rock-a-by baby: Feminism, self help, and postpartum depression. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... SUBJECT(S): Women; Mothers; Postpartum depression; Self-help groups; Feminism; Social networks; Mental health; United States. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, JARM Vol 1, No 1 (19... more Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, JARM Vol 1, No 1 (1999). ...

Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women, 1995

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, 2008

Violence Against Women, 2003

Feminist Economics, 2005

These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist econ... more These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns.

Speaking from the margins, ecofeminist analysis exposes many of the assumptions of neoclassical e... more Speaking from the margins, ecofeminist analysis exposes many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics as gender biased and as anti-ecological. It identifies the abstract individual of neoclassical economics as a privileged male individual whose apparent 'autonomy' is predicated on the oppression of women, marginal people and nature. Thus ecofeminists tell a different story about economic man --from the grounds of others' experience up. Ecofeminism points to the limits of models of sustainability built on extending market rationality to non-market spheres of life. Ecofeminist economics contains a creative tension between a commitment to social justice and a determination not to colonize the wild.

A quick internet search shows that images of women farmers are increasingly used in major reports... more A quick internet search shows that images of women farmers are increasingly used in major reports on global food security. This development may not be as promising as it first appears.

Women and Environments International 88, 2012