Women & Gender Studies
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From  NEW! Backing the AttackWomen Workers at War From: Material Traces of War |
Women pushed against many barriers during the world wars, breaking through some and weakening others, and the labour force was one of them. The women in this chapter came from a variety of … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 66 | 2021 | $6.60 Add |
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From  Bad Girls Like Good ContractsOntario Erotic Dancers' Collective Resistance From: Victim No More |
- | Suzanne Bouclin | 15 | 2009 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Because We’re Worth It!From: Not Just a Pretty Face |
Breast cancer activists ask the world’s largest cosmetics companies to stop using chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive harm. | Stacy Malkan | 18 | 2007 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Beginnings in Butternut RidgeFrom: Len & Cub |
This chapter sets the scene for Len & Cub’s story. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Caught in a Web of SurveillanceLife under the Watchful Eye of Ontario Works From: Ineligble |
This chapter centres the voices of welfare recipients. Their narratives emphasize the dehumanizing experiences of OW’s constant surveillance, inadequate benefits, and workfare demands as … | Krys Maki | 33 | 2021 | $3.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Challenging Corporate RuleFrom: Still Hopeful |
In Chapter Three Barlow discusses the importance of challenging authority– all authority. The chapter discusses topics including institutional power, networks and political structures, … | Maude Barlow | 50 | 2022 | $5.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 2: Interdependence Is Not Some Giant Living in the Hillside Coming Down to Visit the Townspeople: The Church of Show the Fuck Up, in Real LifePART I: DISABILITY JUSTICE IN THE END TIME From: The Future is Disabled |
The author reflects on the dangers of complacency in the battle for disability rights and the fight to ensure that care work is common and valued. The chapter discusses the "care … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Chapter 3Fighting Back From: Going Public |
- | Julie Macfarlane | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Chapter 3Witch Hunts, Enclosures, and the Demise of Communal Property Relations |
The readings in Part One of this title explore the history of witch hunts and place them in the context of contemporary violence against women. This reading argues that the English enclosures, … | Silvia Federici | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Chapter 3: Would It Kill You to Smile?How racism and sexism fuelled a new toxic masculinity — and galvanized a whole generation of women From: No More Nice Girls |
- | Lauren McKeon | 38 | 2020 | $4.56 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter ThreeFrom: Rooms |
The author continues to speak on their life, writing, experiences in school, career, gender and queerness, influences, thoughts on Woolf, and health issues. | Sina Queyras | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Chapters 61-79From: Double Pregnant |
- | Natalie Meisner | 40 | 2014 | $4.00 Add |
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From  City of FriendsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. | Leslie Kern | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Class of ’88 |
This chapter explores the author’s feelings about AIDS as a young man; he believed that if he did not admit he was gay, he would not contract the disease. He also believed that, since the … | Roberto Gonzalez | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Colonial ReduxThe Calgary Stampede's "Imaginary Indians" From: Stampede |
This chapter examines the depictions of Indigenous peoples in the Calgary Stampede, and the "First Nations content" that has been included in the event. | Kimberley A. Williams | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Counterplanning from the Kitchen1975 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 1 of the book explore the theoretical foundations of the politicization of housework. These essays explore the wages against housework movement, the transactional nature of … | Silvia Federici | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
