Women & Gender Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
Crip KinshipThe Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid |
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to … | Shayda Kafai | 201 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Decolonize Drag |
Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as … | Kareem Khubchandani | 220 | 2023 | View |
NEW! Decolonize Self-Care |
Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 284 | 2023 | View |
Double PregnantTwo Lesbians Make a Family |
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-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 … | Lauren 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 |
NEW! Fertility40 Years of Change |
In Fertility: 40 Years of Change, lawyer and author Maureen McTeer explores key medical, research, and legal developments in assisted human reproduction since the birth of the first IVF baby in … | Maureen McTeer | 276 | 2022 | 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 |
Gender & SexualityCanadian 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, … | Scott Neigh | 217 | 2012 | View |
Gendered IntersectionsAn Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies |
Following the structure of the successful first edition of Gendered Intersections, this second edition examines the intersections across and between gender, race, culture, class, ability, … | C. Lesley Biggs; Pamela J. Downe; Susan Gingell | 512 | 2011 | View |
Get That FreakHomophobia and Transphobia in High Schools |
Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools. Get … | Brian Burtch; Rebecca Haskell | 126 | 2010 | View |
Going PublicA Survivor's Journey From Grief to Action |
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud—the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she … | Julie Macfarlane | 228 | 2020 | View |
Hard to DoThe Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up |
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do breaks down the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the underlying motives – love, money, or mere masochism … | Kelli Maria Korducki | 146 | 2018 | View |
Immodest and Sensational150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports |
With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that … | M. Ann Hall | 96 | 2008 | View |