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Mississauga Meetup: Queer Organizing in the 905

Mississauga Meetup: Queer Organizing in the 905

From: Any Other Way

Anu Radha Verma discusses Queer organizing in Mississauga 3 $0.30 Add
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Modernism's Red Stage: Theatre and the Left in the 1930s

Modernism’s Red Stage: Theatre and the Left in the 1930s

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

On the one hand, the Depression era produced a theatrical encounter between modernism and socialism on stages organized by the Canadian left. On the other hand, this convergence catalyzed … 24 $2.16 Add
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Mon pays noir sur blanc
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Mon pays noir sur blanc

From: Bit Player on Big Stages

In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences returning home to Manitoba after twelve years abroad. 6 $0.60 Add
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Monsters and Marvels

Monsters and Marvels

From: Disfigured

Chapter 8 focuses on the fine line between what is considered monstrous and the marvellous in fairy tales and real life,  exploring topics such as superheros, circus and spectacle, … 18 $1.80 Add
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Moonlight and Morning: Women's Early Contribution to Canadian Modernism

Moonlight and Morning: Women’s Early Contribution to Canadian Modernism

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

During the early years of the century, Canadian women poets, including Sophia Hensley, Susan Frances Harrison, and Annie Charlotte Dalton, were expanding their thematic horizons but still writing … 21 $1.89 Add
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Moral Enforcement in Israel

Moral Enforcement in Israel

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

The purpose of the following chapter is to examine whether it was formal censorship or rather self-inflicted subordination to normative pressure that was responsible for the repression of the … 29 $3.19 Add
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(M)other
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(M)other

From: Staying Power

In this chapter, Sharman discusses the complex relationship between a queer parent, known as ZeeZee, and the cultural script of motherhood. 22 $2.20 Add
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"Mother Soubert's Pig" 1944

"Mother Soubert’s Pig" 1944

From: The Quebec Anthology

A study of primitivism, violence, and eroticism, in which characters struggle, often in vain, against basic and sometimes brutal human passions, it is a startling and disturbing work by a writer … 9 $0.54 Add
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"Mrs. Filly" 1942

"Mrs. Filly" 1942

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Madame Pouliche," here translated by David Homel as "Mrs. Filly," first appeared in La Fin du voyage, and in 1962 it was included in Gerard Bessette’s Anthologie Albert … 13 $0.78 Add
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My Body Is a Spaceship

My Body Is a Spaceship

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon traces their evolving relationship with their body, from a Pentecostal childhood marked by bodily restriction to a late-2000s reckoning with gender politics and eating disorders. 8 $0.80 Add
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My Champion

My Champion

From: Hope Is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her father, Abouee’s, fierce defence of his daughter Basma’s right to attend teachers’ college in Beer a-Saba during the late 1940s. 3 $0.30 Add
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My Colleague the Murderer
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My Colleague the Murderer

From: Bit Player on Big Stages

In this chapter, Turene examines how Jeff Blackstock’s father, Canadian diplomat George Blackstock, poisoned his wife Carol in 1958, exploiting diplomatic immunity to evade prosecution. 5 $0.50 Add
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My shoulder was a bit sore from that rocket thing

My shoulder was a bit sore from that rocket thing

From: Gang Life

Gilbert, a Métis man aged thirty-four years, and Maureen, thirty-five years, live on a small reserve. Their lives are described in Chapter Seven. Both are hard-core addicts and have two boys … 15 $1.50 Add
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"New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and ER. Scott

"New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and ER. Scott

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

In view of the central role that architecture has always played as an embodiment and signal of change in Western culture, it is scarcely, if at all, surprising that Canada’s modern poets … 42 $3.78 Add