Women & Gender Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() “I Hate Feminists”December 6, 1989, And Its Aftermath |
On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school École Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring “I hate feminists,” killed fourteen young women. “I … | Melissa Blais | 140 | 2014 | View |
![]() About Canada: Queer Rights |
Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada … | Peter Knegt | 144 | 2011 | View |
![]() Anti-Racist FeminismCritical Race and Gender Studies |
This collection adds to our understanding and critical engagement of how gendered and racially minoritized bodies can and do negotiate their identities and politics across several historical … | Agnes Calliste; George J. Sefa Dei | 190 | 2000 | View |
![]() Any Other WayHow Toronto Got Queer |
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 |
![]() Being HeardThe Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution |
Being Heard examines, from their own perspectives and experiences, the lives of young women sexually exploited through prostitution. Putting their voices in the centre of its analysis, the book … | Jane Runner; Kelly Gorkoff | 135 | 2003 | View |
![]() Beyond the FragmentsFeminism and the Making of Socialism |
Inspired by the activism of the 1970s that surrounded the triumph of the right under Margaret Thatcher in U.K., Beyond the Fragments was written to create stronger bonds of solidarity in a new … | Hilary Wainwright; Lynne Segal; Sheila Rowbotham | 324 | 2013 | View |
![]() Beyond the Periphery of the SkinRethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism |
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements–all look at the body in its manifold … | Silvia Federici | 161 | 2020 | View |
![]() Care WorkDreaming of Disability Justice |
In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 266 | 2018 | View |
![]() Caring and CuringHistorical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada |
This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained … | Deborah Gorham; Dianne Dodd | 231 | 1994 | View |
![]() Changing TidesGender, Fisheries and Globalization |
Fisheries are among the most globalized economic sectors in the world. Relying largely on wild resources and employing millions of people and feeding many millions more, fisheries provide a … | Barbara Neis; Maria Cristina Maneschy; Marian Binkley | 319 | 2005 | View |
![]() CloserNotes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality |
We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated –- if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over … | Sarah Barmak | 169 | 2016 | View |
![]() Conflict Is Not AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … | Sarah Schulman | 304 | 2016 | View |
![]() F-BombDispatches from the War on Feminism |
From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head … | Laura McKeon | 280 | 2017 | View |
![]() Feminist CityA Field Guide |
Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think … | Leslie Kern | 216 | 2019 | View |
![]() From Suffragette to HomesteaderExploring British and Canadian Colonial Histories and Women's Politics Through Memoir |
From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, … | Emily van der Meulen | 203 | View | |
![]() Gay MarriageThe Story of a Canadian Social Revolution |
A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada. Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage. As a political correspondent for The … | Louisa Blair; Sylvain Larocque | 312 | 2006 | View |