Women & Gender Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“I Hate Feminists” December 6, 1989, And Its Aftermath Fernwood Publishing	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 Fernwood Publishing	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 Feminism Critical Race and Gender Studies Fernwood Publishing	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 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
Being Heard The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution Fernwood Publishing	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
NEW! Bent out of Shape Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work Between The Lines	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 …	Karen Messing	276	2021	View
NEW! Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Arsenal Pulp Press	Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This …	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	368	2021	View
Beyond the Fragments Feminism and the Making of Socialism Fernwood Publishing	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
NEW! Beyond the Periphery of the Skin Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism Between The Lines	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 Work Dreaming of Disability Justice Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada University of Ottawa Press	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 Tides Gender, Fisheries and Globalization Fernwood Publishing	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
Closer Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality Coach House Books	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 Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Arsenal Pulp Press	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
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
F-Bomb Dispatches from the War on Feminism Goose Lane Editions	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 …	Lauren McKeon	280	2017	View