Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Cathy Vine & Ramona Alaggia
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Gender Studies, Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

Devotion

Edited by Jarrett Earnest
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Art

Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo & CM
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Biography & Autobiography

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ...

Feminist Praxis Revisited

Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Susanne Luhmann
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Education, Gender Studies

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning ...

Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities

Edited by Andrea Quinlan, Curtis Fogel, Elizabeth Quinlan, and Gail Taylor
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Gender Studies, Social Work, Education

At least one in four women attending college or university will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. Beyond this staggering statistic, recent media coverage of “rape chants” at Saint Mary’s ...

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, ...

Reclaiming Canadian Bodies

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

Map Worlds

By Will C. van den Hoonaard
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Geography

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil.
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