Nora Loreto
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Spin DoctorsHow Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic |
As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that … | Nora Loreto | 417 | 2021 | View |
Take Back the FightOrganizing Feminism for the Digital Age |
Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that … | Nora Loreto | 256 | 2020 | View |
From IntroductionFrom: Spin Doctors |
In the introduction to her book, Loreto describes where she was when the Covid-19 pandemic had hit Canada. Loreto briefly describes roles journalists and politicians played in feeding a specific … | Nora Loreto | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From IntroductionIf Mainstream Feminism Says Everything Can Be Feminist, Is Everything Feminist? From: Take Back the Fight |
In the Introduction, the author first discusses abortion, both its personal and political aspects. The limitations of feminism to make lives better for racialized, Indigenous, disabled and queer … | Nora Loreto | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
From March 2020: The Pandemic EmergesFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto discusses the first Covid-19 cases in Canada and examines the way Covid-19 was portrayed by politicians and the media during this time. | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From White Supremacy and the First Feminist Waves in CanadaFrom: Take Back the Fight |
In the first chapter, the author narrates the history of the first feminist movement in Canada until the collapse of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She focuses on the … | Nora Loreto | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
From April 2020: Disaster in Residential CareFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter examines how Covid-19 impacted aged care facilities and residential homes. Loreto explores how politicians contributed to the rising death tolls of Canada’s elderly population, … | Nora Loreto | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
From Neoliberalism and Decentralized ActivismFrom: Take Back the Fight |
The second chapter, Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism, provides background on neoliberal economic policy and considers the role of it in the destruction of social movements via the ways it … | Nora Loreto | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
From Feminism in the Digital EraFrom: Take Back the Fight |
The third chapter, Feminism in the Digital Era, looks at how digital technologies have shaped feminism, via having new ways to organize. It also considers the weaknesses of such platforms in the … | Nora Loreto | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as … | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From June 2020: Systemic Racism and COVID-19 SpreadFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter explores Covid-19 during June 2020 as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. The response of Canadian politicians and journalists is examined. Loreto discusses how Covid-19 … | Nora Loreto | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
From Social Movement Organizations as a Vehicle for ChangeFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Chapter four, Social Movement Organizations as a Vehicle for Change, first unpacks what movement organizations are, looking at the campaign for maternity leave as a case study, and then … | Nora Loreto | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
From Debating and Re-Debating What Is FeminismFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Debating and Re-Debating What is Feminism, chapter five, articulates the importance of holding debates, and the need for a location for hosting debates. She asserts that debate skills are … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
From July 2020: The Lie of Personal ResponsibilityFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto examines the neoliberal politics employed by politicians and the media to encourage a sense of individual responsibility to prevent further spread of the virus. Loreto … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From August 2020: The End of CERBFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter discuss Covid-19 during August 2020. Loreto examines the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (cerb); discussing who was eligible and when, how it impacted Canadians, and what the … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From Disseminating Feminist Knowledge in the Digital EraFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Disseminating Feminist Knowledge in the Digital Era, chapter six, argues for the importance of and need for locations for sharing feminist knowledge and debate, and for developing activist … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |