Women's & Gender Studies

Dr. Fiona Green

Academic Biography

Dr. Green has been teaching in Women's & Gender Studies at The University of Winnipeg for two decades. Her research interests include: feminist mothering, gender performance, media representation of mothers, mommy blogging, and female genital cutting. Fiona’s latest area of research explores parenting practices that supports the gender fluidity of their children.

Education:

PhD - Interdisciplinary (Education, Sociology, Women's Studies) - University of Manitoba.

Dissertation: "Living Feminism: Pedagogy and Praxis in Mothering"

MA - Women's Studies - University of York, England

Thesis: "The Development of a Mother-Centred Model of Childbirth"

BA - Sociology and Anthropology - University of Winnipeg (Distinction)

Areas of Scholarly Interest:

Feminism and Mothering; Feminist Pedagogy; Gender and Science; Gender and Sexuality; Gender Performance; Gender Relations; Gender Socialization; Gendered Space(s); Media representation of mothers/mothering; Women's Health

Courses Taught:

1232/6 Introduction to WGS

2301/3 Gender & Science: Philosophical & Historical Perspectives

2300/3 Gender & Science: Contemporary Issues

3004/3 Women, Health & the Environment

3200/6 Seminar in Feminist Research Methods

4000/6 Practicum

4400/6 Special Topics: Mothering

4500/6 Honours Thesis and Colloquium

Selected Publications:

Books:

Green, Fiona J. (2011) Practicing Feminist Mothering. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press.

Byrd, Deborah and Fiona Green (Eds.) (2011). Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom. Toronto: Demeter Press.

Green, Fiona J. (2009). Feminist Mothering in Theory and Practice, 1985-1995: A Study in Transformative Politics. Edwin Mellen Press, NY.

Articles:

Green, Fiona J. (2012) "Real(ity) TV Practices of surveillance: Evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash Test Mommy” in Elizabeth Podnieks (Ed.) Mediating Moms: Mothering in Popular Culture, McGill-Queen's press, pp. 86-109.

Green, Fiona J. (2011) ‘Empowering First-Time Mothers: The Feminist Coping with Change Maternal Health Promotion Program’ in Andrea O’Reilly (Ed.) The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Toronto: Demeter Press, pp.336-345.

Green, Fiona J. (2009). “Coping with Change: Integrating feminist praxis with maternal health promotion and education” Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering, Maternal Health and Well-Being. Volume 11 (1):11-25.

Green, Fiona J. (2008) “Feminist Motherline: Embodied knowledge/s of feminist mothering” in Andrea O'Reilly (Ed). Feminist Mothering. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 161-176.

Green, Fiona J. (2008). "Matroreform: Feminist Mothers and Their Daughters Creating Feminist Motherlines" Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering, 10(2):11-21.

Green, Fiona J. (2007). "Supernanny: Disciplining Mothers through a Narrative of Domesticity", Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative. 6(2):99-107.

Green, Fiona J. (2006). "Developing a Feminist Motherline: Reflections on a decade of feminist parenting," Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering. 8 (1/2):7-20.

Green, Fiona J. (2005). "From Clitoridectomies to `designer vaginas': The medical construction of heteronormative female bodies and sexuality through female genital cutting" Sexualities, Evolution and Gender. 7 (2):153-187.

Green, Fiona J. (2005). "Feminist Mothering: Challenging Gender Inequality by Resisting the Institution of Motherhood and Raising Children to be Critical Agents of Social Change" Socialist Studies 1 (1):83-99.

Green, Fiona J. (2004). "Feminist Mothers: Successfully negotiating the tension between motherhood as `institution' and `experience'" in Andrea O'Reilly (Ed). Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering. Toronto: Women's Press, pp. 31-42. AND in Andrea O'Reilly (Ed). Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's 'Of Woman Born'. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 125-136.

Green, Fiona J. (2003). "What's Love Got To Do With It?: A personal reflection on the role of maternal love in feminist teaching". Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering, 5 (2): 47-56.

Green, Fiona J. (2003). "Juggling on a High Wire" in Deborah Schnitzer & Deborah Keahey (Eds.), Madwoman in the Academy: Songs from the Ivory Tower. (pg. 90). Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Green, Fiona J. (1999). "Living Feminism Through Mothering". Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering. 1 (1):99-104.

Poetry:

Green, Fiona J. (1992). "bath time," Contemporary Verse 2, 14 (4):34 Spring.

Green, Fiona J. (1992). "skin colour," Contemporary Verse 2, 14 (3):61 Winter

Forthcoming Publications:

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