Publications and Presentations
Publications:
Potvin, Jacqueline. (2024). Medicalisation, depoliticisation and reproductive stratification: lessons from Canada’s Muskoka Initiative. Feminist Theory 25(3).
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14647001241238622
Potvin, Jacqueline and Laura Cayen. (2023). “Unlocking Digital Futures for Girls: Postfeminism, Healthism and the ‘Girl Effect’ in Plan International’s Digital Empowerment Campaign”. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16(2).
Link: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/16/2/ghs160206.xml
Potvin, Jacqueline and Kimberly Dority (2022). “Feminist Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: Exploring the Limits of Precarious Labour”. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 43(1).
Link: https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5567
Potvin, Jacqueline. (2020). Neoliberal Governance, Healthism and Maternal Responsibility under Canada’s Muskoka Initiative. In Levasseur, Paterson and Turnbull (Eds.) Thriving Mothers/Depriving Mothers: Mothering and Welfare. Toronto: Demeter Press.
Link: https://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-and-welfare-depriving-surviving-thriving/
Potvin, Jacqueline (2019). Governing Adolescent Reproduction in the ‘Developing World’: Biopower and Governmentality in Plan’s ‘Because I’m a Girl’ Campaign. Feminist Review, 122.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0141778919849072
Potvin, Dominique A., Emily Burdfield-Steel, Jacqueline Potvin, and Stephen Heap. (2018).Diversity Begets Diversity: a Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership. PLoS ONE 13(5)
Potvin, Jacqueline. (2016). Pernicious Pregnancy and Redemptive Motherhood: Narratives of Reproductive Choice in Joss Whedon’s Angel. Slayage: the Journal of Joss Whedon Studies 14(1).
Link: http://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/potvin_slayage_14.1.pdf
Potvin, Jacqueline. (2015) Mobilizing Motherhood: the Use of Maternal Myths in Popular Development Discourse. Journal of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 8(1).
Link: http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/article/view/57
Potvin, Jacqueline M. (2010). Bodies in the Interregnum: Performances of Gender and Race in July’s People and Nelson Mandela: a Very Short Introduction. Footnotes: The University of Guelph’s Undergraduate Feminist Journal 3: 85-95.
Book Reviews
Potvin, Jacqueline (2021). The Gender Effect: Capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development, by Kathryn Moeller. Feminist Review, 129.
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01417789211031439
Potvin, Jacqueline. (2015). Birth in the Age of AIDS: women, reproduction and HIV/AIDS in India, by Cecilia Van Hollen. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 36(3), 418-419.
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.2015.1063990?journalCode=rcjd20
Conference Presentations
June 2021 “Reproductive Health and Right in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Reproductive Justice”. Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) annual conference at the University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta.
June 2021 “Enacting Feminist Pedagogy During the Age of Precarity”. Presented at the Association of Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes annual conference at the University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta.
May 2019 “The Biopolitics of Family Planning: Critical Perspectives on Discourses of Reproductive Empowerment in Canadian Development Policy”. Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
May 2019 “Unlocking Digital Futures for Girls: Healthism, Postfeminism and Futurity in Plan International’s Digital Empowerment Campaign”. Presented at the Association of Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
April 2019 “Practicing Feminist Pedagogy in the Age of Precarity”. Presented at the "Labour of Love?: Precarious Work and the Future of Academic Workers” conference, hosted by CUPE 3902 at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
May 2018 “Reproductive Justice, Neoliberalism and Maternal Health: the Muskoka Initiative and Beyond”. Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
May 2018 “Maternal Responsibility and Neoliberal Healthism in Canadian Development Policy under the Muskoka Initiative”. Presented at association of Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan.
April 2016 “Risk and Responsibility: Adolescent Sexuality and Young Motherhood in Plan UK's 'Because I'm Girl Campaign”. Presented at the Women’s Studies and Feminist Research Annual Conference, University of Western Ontario
August 2015 “Female Sexuality and Maternal Health: the Biopolitics of Canada’s Maternal Health Programming”. Presented at the Conference of Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past, Present and Future at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta.
June 2015 “Risk and Regulations: the Rhetorics of Young Motherhood in International Development Discourse”. Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
May 2015 “Precarious Conceptions: Theoretical frameworks for Ethical Research on International Surrogacy”. Presented at association of Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
June 2014 “Empathy or Orientalism? The Construction of Motherhood as Universal Identity in International Development Advertising”. Presented at the Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, Brescia University College at Western University, London, Ontario.
June 2014 “Pernicious Pregnancy and Redemptive Motherhood: Narratives of Reproductive Choice in Joss Whedon’s Angel.” Presented at the Biannual Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses at California State University, Sacramento, California.
May 2014 “‘The Girl Effect’: The Gendered Politics of Maternal Altruism and Female Empowerment in International Development Advertising”. Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario
April 2014 “Managing Teenage Mothers: Representations of Adolescent Motherhood in Popular International Development Campaigns. Presented at the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
September 2013 “The Strategic Idealization of Motherhood in the Rhetorics of Imperial Feminism and Contemporary International Development Literature”. Presented at the Annual Feminism and Rhetorics Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
June, 2013 “the Mythic Mothers of Development: discourses of maternal altruism and female empowerment in International Development advertising”. Presented at the Annual Postgraduate Development Studies Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.