Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing

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

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the ...

Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School

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

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ...

A Duffle Bag, Close Friends and Lots of Memories

Edited by Michelle Fowler
Subjects: History, Battlefield Guides, Military History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Canadian History, Biography & Autobiography

The foundation of this photo diary was a scrapbook created by Marion Swinton, from Hamilton, Ontario. Although Marion passed away several years ago, a caring neighbour kept her well-preserved scrapbook ...

Bearing Witness

Edited by Kathryn Carter & Laurie Elit
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Di Brandt & Barbara Godard
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Babies for the Nation

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

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among ...

The One Best Way?

By Tasnim Nathoo & Aleck Ostry
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Philosophy, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J. S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. ...

Committed to the Sane Asylum

By Susan Schellenberg & Rosemary Barnes
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Psychology

In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, ...

Minds of Our Own

Edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Education

This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document ...