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Nous analysons ici la recherche, assez mince jusqu'a maintenant, sur la conscience de sexe, selon les perspectives liberale, radicale et socialiste feministe. Nous esquissons une approche qui reconnait que les identites de sexe ainsi que des formes sociales plus large de consience de sexe sont construites socialement par les hommes et les femmes, dans des pratiques specifiques a leur classe et a leur race, au travail, a la maison et dans leurs communautes. Nous appliquons ensuite cette approche a une etude de couples de Hamilton, principalement des travailleurs de l'acier et leurs conjoints. Notre attention se porte en particulier sur une dimension centrale de l'identite de sexe, la norme de l'homme comme 'soutien de famille,' telle qu'exprimee chez les travailleurs de l'acier dans la culture ouvriere et dans les attitudes des deux conjoints dans leurs familles. Nous tentons de montrer comment le stereotype de 'l'homme comme soutien de famille' est presentement a la fois reproduit et modifie, en reponse a la participation croissante des femmes au marche du travail, et en particulier a l'arrivee de travailleuses de l'acier dans ce qu'on croyait etre un bastion de la masculinite ouvriere. This paper reviews the limited research to date on gender consciousness from liberal, radical and socialist feminist perspectives. An emergent approach that recognizes both gender identities and broader social forms of gender consciousness as continually constructed by men and women in class and race-specific practices within paid workplace, household and community spheres is outlined. This approach is applied to a study of Hamilton couples, especially steelworkers and their spouses. We focus on assessing expressions of one central aspect of gender identity - the male breadwinner norm - through steelworkers' shop floor culture and the attitudes of both spouses in steelworker households. We attempt to show how the male breadwinner stereotype is currently being both reproduced and modified in response to women's growing participation in paid employment and particularly the recent presence of women steelworkers within a presumed bastion of traditional working class masculinity., Gender consciousness at work: modification of the male breadwinner norm among steelworkers and their [...]

This contribution explores some of the issues that led to the development of Women's Studies in Canada in the 1970s. It offers a report of a workshop on this topic [...]

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This article provides information regarding the life and works of Doris Anderson, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW), and the scholarship which was honoured to her. In the celebration of Anderson's 80th birthday in 2001, some women who know her have decided to honour her by continuing her traditions, both of encouraging research on women's issues and of supporting women so they could look after themselves, and help others to do as well. They named the scholarship as the Graduate Women's Studies Programme.