Women's Caucus Essay Awards
2012 Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Undergraduate
Ashley Boyes for her essay A Congolese Woman’s Hell: War Rape and its attack on the Body Politic.

Graduate
Hoda Malakouti-Nejad for her essay Tobacco use and women’s health: an opportunity in international health promotion and a case study of tobacco policy in Canada.

Previous Essay Award Winners

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2000

Erin Tolley  -  The Influence of Political Culture on the Political Participation of Women in Two Provinces: A Case Study of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan

Murrielle Gaetane Michaud  -  Washerwomen and Whoremongers: The Personal Journal of Xanthippe

2001

Zena Sharman  -  Madness, Violence, and the Myth of the "Good" Mother: Media Representations of Dr. Suzanne Killinger-Johnson

2002

Danielle Picard  -  The Man Who Played Well for a Woman: Billy Tipton’s Life as a Passing Woman

2003

Jenna Flannigan  -  Artful Hunger: Exploring Cultural Influences and the Lives of Women Coping with Self-Harm

Lilianne Dang  -  Heaven and Earth: An Exploration of Race, Representation and Spectatorship

2004

Lauren Starr  -  Not Just Daddy's Little Girl: An Examination of the Barriers to Women's Political Participation and of the Women Who Overcame Them

Angela Turner  -  “Most People Need Constant Reminders Not To Presume Heterosexuality:” Institutionalized Heterosexuality, Lesbianism and the Oppression of Women In The Workforce

2005

Colleen Daniher   -  From Green Gables to Shangri-L.A.: Uncovering the Path of Feminism in Adolescent Literature

Zahra Kara  -  HiPhOP FeMiNiSm

Tammy Johnston  -  Listen to Their Stories: Foreign Exotic Dancers in Canada

2006

Sarah Gabhrial  -  Negotiating Feminist Identities in Islam: Questions and Conversations for an International Feminisms Project

2007

Elan Paulson  -  Digital Editing As Feminist Experimental Literary Adaptation 

Carolyn Hill  -  A Feminist Invitation: A Painted Response to Feminist Invitations

2009

Undergraduate
Jennifer Birse - Erasing Difference: The Implications in White Cross-Racial Casting in Nolan's Anna Mae's Movement and Sears' Harlem Due

Honourable mention - Kate Schliecher

Graduate
Hilary Fair & Stefanie Spooner - Addressing Erasure: Trans Discrimination and Employment Policy in Canada

2010

Kate Hoad-Reddick- First Words: Silence and Speech in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

2011

Undergraduate
Mona Murdoch for her essay Crossroads of Consumerism: The Intersection of Reality and Dream in “The Tiredness of Rosabel”

Graduate
Sara Rodriguesfor her essay From Vaginal Exception to Exceptional Vagina: The Biopolitics of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery