Gender & Sexuality

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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 … 140 View

Closer

Notes 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 … 169 View

Gender & Sexuality

Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists

 The freedoms and liberties that every community, workplace and individual in Canada enjoys are due to the many struggles and social movements in our country’s history. Yet the stories, … 217 View

Revolution at Point Zero

Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

 Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this … 265 View
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Rooms

Women, Writing, Woolf

 From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind … 176 View

The Dictionary of Homophobia

A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

 Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various … 496 View

The Teen Sex Trade

My Story

 Jade Brooks grew up like any other kid — she played with friends, lovingly teased and was teased by her siblings, and excelled at school. It wasn’t until she was removed from her … 200 View

Working for the Common Good

Canadian Women Politicians

 In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments. 182 View
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Fear of Pleasure

In a sex-obsessed culture, not all of us feel at home.

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 The author begins by visiting a workshop of women who have never had an orgasm. Then she expands the view to the recent discussions and interest in female sexuality, particularly the evidence … 15 $1.50 Add
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 The introduction includes the prefaces to the 2012 and 2020 editions as well as the author providing background on herself and her work. 14 $1.40 Add
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 The author, a young black Nova Scotian, outlines her methodology for writing this book and the decision to publish under her real name but maintain pseudonyms for any other individual connected … 7 $0.70 Add
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Prologue

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The Dictionary of Homophobia: A

Publisher's note, Preface to the Original Edition, Editor's Preface To the English-Language Edition, Introduction, The Anti-Anthology, Table of Entries, Contributors

From: The Dictionary of Homophobia

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 Abnormal (Catherine Deschamps); Adoption (Daniel Borrillo and Thomas Formond), Africa. See Africa, Central & Eastern; Africa, Southern; Africa, Western; Africa, Central & Eastern (Pierre … 66 $3.96 Add