English & Literature Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Any Other Way How Toronto Got Queer Coach House Books	Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how …	Jane Farrow; John Lorinc; Stephanie Chambers; Tatum Taylor	369	2017	View
Crip Kinship The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid Arsenal Pulp Press	The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to …	Shayda Kafai	201	2021	View
Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion Arsenal Pulp Press	How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious …	Tony McAleer	235	2019	View
Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Coach House Books	A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what …	Amanda Leduc	257	2020	View
Double Pregnant Two Lesbians Make a Family Fernwood Publishing	Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story about starting a family with her wife Viviën. Because Viviën is a woman of colour …	Natalie Meisner	192	2014	View
Finding Our Niche Toward a Restorative Human Ecology Fernwood Publishing	Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios—people and nature thriving together—are possible. No doubt contemporary …	Philip A. Loring	168	2020	View
NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions Arsenal Pulp Press	As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and …	Alex Wood	292	2021	View
Gang Life 10 of the toughest tell their stories James Lorimer and Company	For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members …	Mark Totten	216	2014	View
Holocaust to Resistance My Journey Fernwood Publishing	Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis …	Suzanne Berliner Weiss	320	2019	View
How We Go Home Voices from Indigenous North America Fernwood Publishing	In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take …	Sara Sinclair	344	2020	View
In a Queer Country Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context Arsenal Pulp Press	In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing …	Terry Goldie	320	2001	View
In Pursuit of Justice Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op and the Fair Trade Movement Fernwood Publishing	This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people …	Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	144	2014	View
Mad Hope stories by Heather Birrell Coach House Books	In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming. A science teacher and former …	Heather Birrell	224	2012	View
Special Topics in Being a Human A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself Arsenal Pulp Press	S. Bear Bergman’s illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his …	S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson	272	2021	View
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature University of Ottawa Press	Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work …	Nitsa Ben-Ari	423	2006	View
The Big Book of Nature Activities A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning New Society Publishers	The average child can identify over 300 corporate logos, but only 10 native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high …	Drew Monkman; Jacob Rodenburg	387	2016	View