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Collaborator
Faculty of Education
Concordia University
Montreal, QC
Email: candis.steenbergen@sympatico.ca
Candis Steenbergen is a doctoral candidate in the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in Montréal. Her dissertation investigates the interplay between generational rhetoric, nostalgia, and feminisms in Canada. Her current research interests include: generational debates in recent feminist theorizing, especially about the state and future of feminisms both inside and outside the academy; the role of nostalgia in the construction of histories and of pedagogical practice; third wave feminisms, postfeminisms, and the politics of individualism and civic engagement; feminist critiques of popular culture; bodies, identities and the social/cultural construction of sexualities; grrrls, grrls, girls & girlhoods, moral panics and social history. She is currently part-time faculty at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Women Studies at Concordia, where she teaches courses on Feminist Generations, Controversies in Feminism, Deviant Bodies, & Masculinities. She is also an instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario in the department of Interdisciplinary Studies where she teaches Sexual R/Evolutions. She has served as guest editor for the Canadian Woman Studies special issue on young feminisms (“Young Women: Feminists, Activists, Grrrls” Winter/Spring 2001) and for two special issues of the GR: Journal for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (2003 and 2004). A former editor of good girl magazine, she has contributed to numerous publications, including: thirdspace, Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Identity and the Body (Peter Lang, 2004), Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms (Sumach, 2001), and The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (ME Sharpe, 2004). Her first book, Girlhood: Redefining the Limits, co-edited with Yasmin Jiwani and Claudia Mitchell, will be published by Black Rose Books in the fall of 2005.
Selected publications
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