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Turbo Chicks Made in Canada TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION Her-001 00 Covers.Qxd 9/4/02 8:55 PM Page 2 her-001 00 Covers.qxd 9/4/02 8:55 PM Page 1 WOMEN’S NEWS & FEMINIST VIEWS • Fall 2002 • Vol. 16 No.2 • US $5.75/Canada $5.75 Turbo Chicks Made in Canada TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION her-001 00 Covers.qxd 9/4/02 8:55 PM Page 2 table of contents FALL 2002 / VOLUME 16 NO. 2 THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM WOMEN’S LIBERATION Features 27 IS COMING Third-wave women are expressing their sexuality like never before. Find out why books like Jane Sexes it up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire are so hot. by Jennifer O’Connor CREATING 30COMMUNITY What does the future of community activism hold in a post-globalized world? In Vancouver it’s a future where First Nations’ rights, the rights of immigrants and refugees and human rights come together. by Sook C. Kong CONCEIVABLE 34OPTIONS What will technologies like genetic testing and in- vitro fertilization mean for women in the future? An Page 24: Members of Speak Out Against Fundamentalism encourage debate interview with reproductive technology-watcher and on the role of fundamentalism in citizens’ forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. McGill University professor Abby Lippman on Canada’s latest reproductive technology bill. TURBO CHICKS: by Leigh Felesky 16 TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION This interview with the three co-editors of Turbo Chicks: Young Feminisms, addresses the question, “What does it mean to have grown up in Canada after the women’s movement influences of the 1970s?” by Krista Scott-Dixon WHAT DO 20WOMEN THINK? A cross-generational look at the views of first-wave, second-wave and third-wave women. How has the women’s movement shaped their thinking about the past and future? by Brenda O’Neill Photo by Monique Oyagi/Masthead. 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Plus, when Spike told Buffy, “I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it,” it was in regards HEY! WHAT ABOUT US? to his despair over his ex-vampire girlfriend, Drusilla. It was both interesting and depressing to read Penni Spike didn’t have feelings for Buffy until late in Mitchell’s report, “Women’s Policy Units Wiped Out” (Herizons, Summer 2002). There is no doubt that the women’s movement is under attack, and it is useful to have her province-by-province account. But how could she miss out Newfoundland and Labrador? Women here have suffered from the federal cuts like their sisters in other provinces, but the losses have been offset to some extent by provincial increases in support to women’s centres and transi- tion houses, which have been growing in number. This is no accident. Women in this province have stood together regardless of political differences, as women across the country once did at NAC. 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Within Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 FALL 2002 HERIZONS her-001 01-15.qxd 9/4/02 8:58 PM Page 3 we maintain a strong infrastructure for gender inclu- ritorial and federal jurisdictions and the need for a sive policy and program analysis. Some of the key ele- national Advisory Council on the Status of Women to ments include: a Women’s Policy Office attached to be reinstated. our executive council with six staff and an assistant I invite your readers to check out our newly deputy minister reporting directly to the minister enhanced web site: http://www.mwac.mb.ca, which responsible for the status of women; a fully-funded, has links to the web sites of other coalition members arm’s length provincial advisory council on the status and women’s organizations. of women with three staff and broad representation; Kim Clare, Chairperson, and eight status of women councils operating Manitoba Women’s Advisory Council women’s centres throughout the province. 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Your readers may be interested Unfortunately, one more to know that the Coalition of easily writes if one disagrees, Provincial and Territorial so this is in response to Judy Advisory Councils on the Rebick’s article, “How to Stop Status of Women confers via Militarized Capitalism,” in teleconference calls through- Herizons’ Summer issue. out the year and meets annual- Ms Rebick listed the extreme ly to share strategies and to right in three different ways: collaborate on issues that are of national importance 1) “social conservatives in North America,” 2) and under federal jurisdiction.
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