Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada

Edited by Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas, and Caitríona Ní Chasaide
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging and to ...

Making Feminist Media

By Elizabeth Groeneveld
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including ...

Celebrity Cultures in Canada

Edited by Katja Lee & Lorraine York
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Cultural Studies

Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address ...

Music in Range

By Brian Fauteux
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners ...

Material Cultures in Canada

Edited by Thomas Allen & Jennifer Blair
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature, Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, field ...

Sustaining the West

Edited by Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Art, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most r ...

Creating Together

Edited by Diane Conrad & Anita Sinner
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. ...

Reclaiming Canadian Bodies

Edited by Lynda Mannik & Karen McGarry
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Cultural Studies

The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations ...