Women & Gender Studies

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Part 1: Baby Stripper

From: This is My Real Name

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Chapter 2 recounts Brunet’s early experiences and the process of learning the unspoken rules of the strip club and strippers. Topics discussed include competition, body image and aesthetics, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Preface

From: Brotherhood to Nationhood

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The Preface by the co-author Doreen Manuel, George Manuel’s daughter, shares her perspectives on her father and the purpose and updates of the new edition. 7 $0.70 Add
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Queer Alchemy

Perverting the Health System, Fighting to Win

From: The Care We Dream Of

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The author describes queer activism and asks if a system is wrong, is it wrong to pervert it? She pledges to leave no one behind and explores what that means for disability justice, with personal … 21 $2.10 Add
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Section Two Legal Challenge/Reform and Resistance Flight

Woman Abuse and the Hague Convention

From: Victim No More

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Selfless Service

Women and Volunteering in Wartime

From: Material Traces of War

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In both world wars, volunteering was arguably the most socially acceptable manner for women to support the war effort. This chapter includes a number of stories of individuals whose contributions … ; ; 54 $5.40 Add
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Setting the Stage: What Does it Mean to be a Woman or a Man?

From: Gendered Intersections

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Settler Colonialism and Intimate Terrorism

From: Insurgent Love

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In this chapter, Whynacht explores the link between systems of colonialism and domestic homicide. She proceeds to argue that the first formations of coercive control relations in the Americas … 25 $2.50 Add
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Shame and silence in health care

From: Bent out of Shape

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Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925

From: Caring and Curing

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Conflict and contradictions were inevitable as public health nurses and physicians attempted to work together. 21 $2.31 Add
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Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

From: Crip Kinship

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Topics discussed include crip beauty and sexuality, ableism, historical eugenics, assumptions about disabled folks, intersectionality, medicalization, disability justice, activism through … 14 $1.40 Add
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Surviving My Cousin

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this essay, the author writes about his childhood relationship with his close cousin Dee, who was also gay, and Dee’s death of AIDS-related penumonia in 1998. He posits that Dee’s … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Aboriginal Women’s Movement

From: The Fourth World

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The Birth of Love, and Liberty

From: Hard to Do

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Korducki examines the shift in marriage from one of practical, pragmatic partnership to one that prioritized personal happiness. 31 $3.10 Add
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The Dictionary of Homophobia: C

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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Camps. See Deportation; Gulag; Caricature (Patrick Cardon); Catholic Church, the (Thierry Revol); Censorship (Hervé Chevaux); Central Europe. See Europe, Eastern & Central; China … 64 $3.84 Add
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The Labour Lens

From: Women and Work

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The chapter considers the question – "What is work?" – then explores the historical intersections between capitalism, work, women, and feminist theory. 15 $1.50 Add
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The Rising of the Women

From: Still Hopeful

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In Chapter Two Barlow reflects on the three interrelated but distinct stages of her own social justice journey from first working within the women’s movement with Canada, the international … 33 $3.30 Add