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 ...

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: 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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Not the Whole Story

Edited by Judit Alcalde & Lea Caragata
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Biography & Autobiography, 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 ...

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental ...

This Spot of Ground

By Carol B. Duncan
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Emigration & Immigration, Religion

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas ...

Borrowed Tongues

By Eva C. Karpinski
Subjects: Life Writing, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation
Series: Life Writing

Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, ...