Making Do

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

Life in the Great Depression — long lines of unemployed, soup kitchens, men riding the rails, public works projects — these are the graphic images of the Great Depression of the 1930s, popularized ...

The Life and Letters of Annie Leake Tuttle

Edited by Marilyn Färdig Whiteley
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Annie Leake Tuttle was born in Nova Scotia in 1839 and died there in 1934, yet her search for education and self-support took her far afield. During her life she filled important positions from Newfoundland ...

Obedience, Suspicion and the Gospel of Mark

By Lydia Neufeld Harder
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

How do our social, political and religious commitments influence our interpretation of biblical texts? Are obedience and suspicion necessarily opposite ways to respond to the authority of the Bible? Can ...

Dear Editor and Friends

Edited by Norah L. Lewis
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

How did women in the early twentieth century, newly arrived in North-West Canada, cope with their strange new lives — so very different from the lives they used to lead? How did they see themselves ...

Erect Men/Undulating Women

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

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 ...

The Moral Parameters of Good Talk

By Maryann Neely Ayim
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Should we not apply the same moral standards to language as we do to behaviour? Should we not demand fair treatment in how others speak to us or include us in conversations?

In The Moral Parameters of ...

The Work of Their Hands

By Gloria L. Neufeld Redekop
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. ...

Gender, Genre and Religion

Edited by Morny Joy & Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception.

Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome ...

Breaking Anonymity

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

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