S u m a c h a u t h o r s
Andrea Martinez and Meryn Stuart
Andrea Martinez is an Associate Professor cross-appointed at the Institute of Women's Studies (IWS) and the Program of International Development and Globalization at the University of Ottawa. Former director of the IWS (2000-2006) and coordinator (2001-2004) of the Inter-American Training Network on Women and Development, a consortium of 10 universities across the Americas, she holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Université de Montréal. Co-editor of Out of the Ivory Tower (with Meryn Stuart, 2003) and La tension tradition-modernité. Construits socioculturels de femmes francophones, autochtones et migrantes (with Michèle Ollivier, 2001), she has written a number of articles on gender and development, violence, pornography, trafficking and globalization, cross-cultural health practices and, more recently, on the social regulation of adolescents' sexualities in Canada and Chile. Principal investigator of an ongoing research on this last topic, her international work has benefited from grants by SSHRC and CIHR, and research contracts from CIDA, IDRC and UNESCO.
Meryn Stuart is the Director of the Nursing History Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. She is a former public health nurse who worked in southwestern Ontario and in Ottawa-Carleton. Since 1993, she has been Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. During this time, she has also been Assistant Director of the School with responsibility for graduate students (1995-98) as well as Associate Director of the Institute of Women's Studies (2001-03). Dr Stuart is a feminist social historian whose primary research areas are in public health nursing in Ontario, nursing education and First World War military nursing. She is currently co-authoring a manuscript on military nurses and nursing during the First World War.
Meryn, as principal investigator, and seven co-applicants from departments of nursing and history across the country, were awarded a SSHRC grant of in April of 2006 for a three-year project entitled "Canadian Nursing History in the Cultures of Colonialism and Nationalism". This multi-disciplinary project aims to explore and better understand how nurses and their work influenced and were influenced by changing notions of health, citizenship and national belonging in Canada. The production of a thematic history text
of particular use to nursing students is the end goal of this research.
Website: http://www.health.uottawa.ca/nursinghistory/
Out of the Ivory Tower
Categories
· Women's Studies
· Social Issues
Notes
Bibliography
312 pages
6" x 9"
$26.95 paper
ISBN 978-1-894549-24-0
