Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

Edited by Becky R. Lee & Terry Tak-ling Woo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Religion, Spirituality
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, ...

Subversive Action

Edited by Deena mandell & Nilan Yu
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Sociology

Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. ...

Working Memory

Edited by Jeanne Perreault & Marlene Kadar
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education

Edited by Jane Nicholas, Renée Bondy, and Tracy Penny Light
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Education

In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical ...

Beyond Bylines

By Barbara M. Freeman
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Political Science, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of ...

Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls

By Doris M. Kieser
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature
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, ...

Engendering Transnational Voices

Edited by Guida Man & Rina Cohen
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as ...

Unravelling Encounters

Edited by Caitlin Janzen, Donna Jeffery, and Kristin Smith
Subjects: Political Science, Social Science, Sociology

This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political ...

Canada and Africa in the New Millennium

By David R. Black
Subjects: Social Science, Development Studies, Political Science, African Politics

Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is concerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie ...