March 8 is International Women’s Day and Carleton experts are available to discuss related subjects.
If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to contact them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.
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Rebecca Bromwich
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: Rebecca.Bromwich@carleton.ca
Bromwich is available to speak on topics related to women under the law, and specifically women as mothers. She has a new anthology on the subject of mothers and law coming out soon.
She has also discussed intersectionally approaching the inclusion of women in the work world as well as women in the private sphere of the home.
Bromwich is the former program director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution. Her current role is manager, Diversity and Inclusion, for the law firm Gowling WLG. Bromwich has been a columnist for Lawyers Weekly and has authored and co-authored several books for students and legal system practitioners, including a new publication on corporate social responsibility.
For more on Bromwich, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/rebecca-jaremko-bromwich
Amina Mire
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University
Email: Amina.Mire@carleton.ca
Mire’s areas of research interest include women and health, racialization and bio-medicalization of women’s bodies and skin, anti-aging, women and the STEM fields, sociology of gender, gender and the cinema, as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial research.
Mire’s research projects include examining the social, ethical, political and pedagogical implications of anti-aging discourse and practice; investigating the extent to which the female body continues to be a contested site of social investment and regulation; and a project examining changing skin-whitening technologies by tracing their emergence from colonial encounters, in which white skin was accorded social and cultural capital, toward the contemporary global marketing of biotechnology products that promise smooth, brightened and youthful-looking skin to affluent women.
For more on Mire, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/amina-mire
Alexis Shotwell
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University
Email: alexis.shotwell@carleton.ca
Shotwell works in social and political theory, with a current focus on complicity and complexity as a ground for ethical and political action. She is available to speak on women’s role in early AIDS activist organizing in Canada, or on current feminist issues in contemporary politics..
For more on Shotwell visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/alexis-shotwell
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in Experts Available
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