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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 ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

Digital Diversity

Edited by E. Dianne Looker & Ted D. Naylor
Subjects: Education, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly ...

Making It Like a Man

Edited by Christine Ramsay
Subjects: Performing Arts, Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in ...

NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Child Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...

EcCentric Visions

By Gaile McGregor
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

What this book represents is, quite literally, a “slice” of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, ...

He Was Some Kind of a Man

By Roderick McGillis
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained ...

Limelight

By Katja Lee
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee ...