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Bent out of Shape

Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work

 Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she … 276 View

Labour in Canada Cracking Labour’s Glass Ceiling

Transforming Lives Through Women's Unison Education

 Although the health of the trade union movement may rest on its ability to include women in membership and leadership, little attention has been paid to women-only labour education. This original … ; ; 144 View

Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism

A Plea for Parental Equality

 Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin … 180 View

Patriarchy of the Wage

Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

 At a time when socialism is entering a historic crisis and we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In … 144 View

Rock Paper Sex

The Oldest Profession in Canada’s Oldest City

 St. John’s is known as a flourishing port city, a cultural gem, and popular tourist destination: a picturesque city of pubs and restaurants, music and colourful houses. But a thriving sex … 232 View

The Point is To Change the World

Selected Writings of Andaiye

 Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. … ; 320 View

Through the Mill

Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951

 Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women … 324 View
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Foreword and a Letter

From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism

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From: The Point is To Change the World

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 This reading consists of the following forewords: Andaiye’s Radical Imagination—with Special Reference to Her Engagement with the Working People’s Alliance (Clem Seecharan) … ; 32 $3.20 Add
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From: Rock Paper Sex

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 The author outlines the incident that began her interest in the voices of sex workers in St. John’s, ands describes the evolution of the project and her interactions with the individuals … 4 $0.40 Add
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From: Bent out of Shape

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