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Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Barbara Godard & Di Brandt
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 ...

Working Memory

Edited by Jeanne Perreault & Marlene Kadar
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
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 ...

What the Oceans Remember

By Sonja Boon
Subjects: Life Writing, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Multiculturalism
Series: Life Writing

Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous ...

Where I Come From

By Vijay Agnew
Subjects: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Life Writing, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Multiculturalism
Series: Life Writing

“Where do you come from?”
When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer ...

Women in God’s Army

By Andrew Mark Eason
Subjects: Religion, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the ...

Working in Women’s Archives

By Marlene Kadar
Edited by Helen M. Buss
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author’s archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very ...

Voices and Echoes

Edited by Jo-Anne Elder & Colin O’Connell
Subjects: Religion, Spirituality, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword
Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape ...

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 ...