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In Memoriam Barbara Godard (1941-2010) In Memoriam Barbara Godard (1941-2010) The loss of Barbara Godard, on May 17, 2010, resonates feminist writing, and even acted as interpreter for Luce beyond the York University community, where she Irigaray during her visit in Toronto. taught English, French, Social and Political Thought, Barbara is internationally celebrated for her pioneer- and Women’s Studies, and extends to other academic ing work in feminist translation studies. Her concept circles in Canada and abroad. She has influenced of feminist translation as “rewriting in the feminine” several generations of students and colleagues through has become a classic. She tested her translation theory her innovative scholarship situated at the intersec- and practice on the pages of Tessera, a bilingual feminist tion of literary, cultural, and arts criticism, semiotics, journal that she co-founded in 1982. It published experi- translation studies, memorializing and archives, as well mental writing and established critical dialogue between as social and institutional analysis. The significance women from Quebec and English Canada. She was also and impact of her work is only beginning to be fully involved in editorial work for other feminist journals, acknowledged, through an outpouring of honours, including Fireweed and Resources for Feminist Research. awards, and symposia organized in her name, including Known for her collaborative spirit, she fostered truly a recent posthumous induction in the Royal Society of egalitarian and collegial relationships among women, Canada, a forthcoming special issue of Open Letter, and making no distinction of status, age, or tenure. a festschrift of essays dedicated to her. Throughout the 1980s, she was involved in develop- Reading her sixty-page long academic résumé (avail- ing both undergraduate and graduate women’s studies able at <http://www.yorku.ca/yorkspace> in the Barbara programs at York. Until 2009, she offered seminars on Godard Collection), one is struck with a realization that French feminism, the role of humanities in WS, and during her almost forty years at York she averaged five issues of feminist theory, pedagogy, and methodology published articles per year, in addition to eight books for graduate WS students. Concerned about the dif- and numerous edited collections, special issues, book ference in male and female graduate experience, in translations, reviews, reports, and catalogues. All this is 1992 she prepared a report on the status of women eloquent testimony to her stature as a scholar, her intel- graduate students, commenting on the phenomenon lectual passion and curiosity, and her formidable work of the glass ceiling and employment difficulties. Her ethic. Although she has been acclaimed as a pioneer in dedication to mentoring was recognized by prestigious comparative studies of Canadian and Quebec literatures teaching awards. and the interdisciplinary field of Canadian Cultural Barbara was interested in investigating the impact of Studies, and one of the first mainstream academics to stress linked to systemic sexism and racism on women study First Nations writing in the early 1980s, I want in academic settings. Thinking about her two late col- to highlight here the aspect of her career that pertains to leagues, Lorraine Gauthier and Kathleen Martindale, her contributions to Canadian feminism and women’s who both died of cancer, she noted a high level of ill- studies. The majority of her published texts deal with nesses related to the immune system among women at women’s writing, feminist literary theory, feminist York. She believed that the institutional chilly climate translation studies, and feminist cultural production. and the constant burden to prove themselves compro- As early as her undergraduate years at the University mised their health. One must inevitably think about the of Toronto, Barbara fought for inclusion of Canadian breathtaking pace of Barbara’s own work, in response to women writers in the curriculum. Beginning in the her own institutional struggles for long-denied tenure 1970s, she started to make available in English the and promotion to the rank of full professor. works of Nicole Brossard, Antonine Maillet, France Barbara agreed to be on our Editorial Board and Théoret, Louky Bersianik, and other Quebec authors. used her superb research skills so as to stay on the cut- Since 1979 she taught courses on women for English ting edge of knowledge about nutrition, mindfulness, and Women’s Studies at Glendon. She helped to estab- genetic testing, new drugs, and cancer research. As a lish the field of feminist literary theory and criticism in companion on her cancer journey, I was privileged to Canada, organizing Writers in Dialogue Conference in witness her courage and determination that helped her Toronto (1981) and participating in Women and Words to defeat ovarian cancer and remain productive until Conference in Vancouver (1983), which inspired her the end. We dedicate this issue to her. groundbreaking collection Gynocritics/Gynocritiques (1987). She tirelessly promoted French and Quebec —Eva C. Karpinski VOLUME 28, NUMBERS 2,3 7 In Memoriam Patricia (Trish) Monture (1958-2010) Trish Monture: Haudenosaunee woman, Mohawk Trish was also a steadfast ally of other women and woman, mother, sister, auntie, cousin and kinswoman, members of minority groups seeking tenure and pro- friend, ally, thinker, scholar, writer, advocate, orator, motion, a commitment recognized in 2007, with the lawyer, mentor, adviser, athlete, woman of integrity and Sarah Shorten Award from the Canadian Association courage, and, of course, schemer par excellence, passed of University Teachers. away on November 17, 2010, taken by the cancer that When she was a little girl, Trish wanted to be writer she had battled for over three years. She was only 52 when she grew up. Writing, she tells us in Thunder in years old. My Soul, has always been “soul comfort” to her. But Into those 52 years, she packed more experience and with the complexity of vision that characterizes her accomplishments than might be considered humanly work, Trish also tells us that her impressive body of possible. Despite being discouraged from university academic writing was both a source of pride, and also a studies by a so-called “guidance” counsellor, Trish ex- source of bittersweet feelings: “as I have always written celled in her undergraduate degree in sociology at the for my people, it seems ironic that they have the least University of Western Ontario, and earned her first access to what I have published.” Thunder in My Soul law degree at Queen’s. There, she began her work with and its successor, Journeying Forward, changed that. She women and men in prison which continued through- would recount with satisfaction hearing from students, out her life. Her next degree from Queen’s would be incarcerated women, activists, or friends, how her work an honourary doctorate, one of two she received from inspired them to make and take their place in the world. Canadian universities. The influence of her ideas was felt worldwide, not only Trish was called to the bar of Ontario in 1994, after in the domain of policy-making, but more important to the Law Society made optional the requirement that Trish, in the lives of ordinary people seeking to reclaim candidates for the bar swear allegiance to the Crown. their voice, their dignity and assert their equality. As a member of a sovereign nation, she had contended This is not to say that Trish avoided the world of that she should not have to swear allegiance to a foreign policy-making. To the contrary. A key member of the monarch. She was quoted at the time as saying that if Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women in the early she lost that battle, she would not practise law. Though 1990s, she ensured that the voices of Indigenous women she won the battle, she chose not to practise anyway. were central to the process. Her guidance strongly in- After earning her Master’s in law at Osgoode Hall on full fluenced the Task Force final report and the subsequent scholarship, Trish became a law professor at Dalhousie establishment of the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge for and then Ottawa University. Aboriginal women. Trish was a vital expert witness at the Trish described her decision to leave law teaching to Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison join the Native Studies Department at the University of for Women in Kingston (the Arbour Commission), Saskatchewan as a conscious choice and a personal act which investigated the unlawful stripping and shackling of resistance that followed her realization that the law of women, imposition on women of lengthy segregation, contains no answers but is in fact a very large and very and their involuntary movement to a men’s prison. Nor real part of the problem Aboriginal people continue to did her contribution end with the completion of the face. Law is one of the instruments, she wrote, through Task Force and Commission. Trish did not hesitate to which colonization continues to flow. Trish later became bring attention to government shortcomings in realizing a full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the the vision of the Task Force and the Arbour inquiry. She University of Saskatchewan. Though she had turned was one of the staunchest critics of Correctional Services’ her back on teaching and practising law, Trish never divergence from the original inspiration for the Healing stopped her quest for justice. Reflecting her view of Lodge. She worked with the Canadian Association of justice, she was one of the founders of the newsletter, Elizabeth Fry Societies and was a trusted advisor and Justice as Healing, published through the Native Law friend to Kim Pate, when they launched a complaint to Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the Trish is remembered as a beloved colleague and an Government of Canada on behalf of all women serv- inspiring teacher.
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