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Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

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

The Female Crucifix

By Ilse E. Friesen
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Featuring more than twenty illustrations, including several works of art rediscovered by the author, The Female Crucifix provides a new perspective on a very old phenomenon.

 

The legendary bearded female ...

Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution

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

Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale’s work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ...

Florence Nightingale’s European Travels

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

This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale’s many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when ...

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North.
A short biography is followed by essays describing ...

Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925

By Marilyn Färdig Whiteley
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Canadian Methodist women, like women of all religious traditions, have expressed their faith in accordance with their denominational heritage. Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers ...

Devotion

Edited by Jarrett Earnest
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Art

Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive ...