Anne-Marie Kinahan

My research examines how women have organized, mobilized, and participated in public life through various communicative resources. My current research project investigates three Canadian national women’s magazines circulating in Canada in the early decades of the twentieth century, and examines the possibilities and problems inherent in commercialized media forms.

Previously, I have written about the rise of “postfeminism,” the development of cultural studies in Canada, and the very public trial of the art works of a Canadian artist, Eli Langer.

My additional research interests include the history of past and current feminist movements, feminist media history, Canadian communication history, media and television studies, and feminism and popular culture.

• SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010.

I welcome the opportunity to supervise students interested in communication and gender representation; media and feminism; communication and advertising; Canadian communication history; communication and popular culture; communication and media industries; and communication policy.

• Kinahan, Anne-Marie. (2013). “‘The Colored Lady Knows Better’: Marketing the “New Century Washer” in Canadian Home Journal, 1910-1912.” Canadian Journal of Communication 38 (2): 187-205.  
• Kinahan, Anne-Marie. (2012). “Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian Citizen/Consumer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” In J. Finn, ed. Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action. Oxford University Press.
• Kinahan, Anne-Marie. (2008). “Transcendent Citizenship: Suffrage, the National Council of Women of Canada, and the Politics of Organized Womanhood.” Journal of Canadian Studies 42 (3): 5-27.
• Kinahan, Anne-Marie. (2007). “Cultivating the Taste of the Nation: The National Council of Women of Canada and the Campaign against “Pernicious” Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Canadian Journal of Communication 32 (2): 161-179.
• Kinahan, Anne-Marie. (2006). “From British Invasions to American Influences: Cultural Studies in Canada.” In P. Attallah and L.R. Shade, eds. Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 2nd edition. Thomson Nelson.