Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Child Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...

From Sugar to Revolution

By Myriam J.A. Chancy
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary ...

Making It Like a Man

Edited by Christine Ramsay
Subjects: Performing Arts, Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

He Was Some Kind of a Man

By Roderick McGillis
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained ...

Erect Men/Undulating Women

By Melanie G. Wiber
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Anthropology

Based on intensive study of human origin illustrations, responses from students and colleagues and research into reconstructive illustration and feminist criticism of Western art, this ground-breaking ...

Breaking Anonymity

Edited by The Chilly Collective
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Sociology, Education, Women’s Studies

Across North America a growing body of “chilly climate” research documents the role played by environmental factors in reproducing gender inequality: practices that stereotype, exclude and devalue ...

Gender Bias in Scholarship

Edited by Gordon Hamilton & Winnie Tomm
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies

This multi-disciplinary anthology is about hermeneutical issues pertaining to gender ideology in university scholarship. The authors provide, from their own discipline, an extensive examination of the ...

Book of Gomorrah

By Peter Damian
Translated by Pierre J. Payer
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Religion

Some of the roots of a negative attitude to homosexuality are found in Peter Damian’s appeal to Pope Leo IX. Written 900 years ago by an Italian monk, The Book of Gomorrah asks the Pope to take steps ...

Controversial Kierkegaard

By Gregor Malantschuk
Translated by Edna Hong & Howard Hong
Subjects: Philosophy, Social Science, Gender Studies

A widespread misapprehension of Søren Kierkegaard is that his concern for the individual and the individual's relation to the divine excluded any significant attention to social and political problems. ...