Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

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

Working Memory

Edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies, History, Military History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Canadian History
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 Tracy Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, and Renée Bondy
Subjects: Education, Social Science, Women’s Studies

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: Political Science, Film & Media, Social Science, Women’s Studies
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 their p ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Brief History of Women in Quebec

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and ...

Map Worlds

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

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.

Author Will ...

Not the Whole Story

Edited by Lea Caragata & Judit Alcalde
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Sociology, Women’s Studies
Series: Life Writing

Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Abuse, ...

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 s ...