Women & Gender Studies

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Open Up and Bleed

the mental dimensions of pain

From: Bleed

Lindeman explores the correlation between psychological distress and physical pain, and how this manifests for people who suffer from endometriosis, PCOS, and other pelvic disorders. She … 17 $1.70 Add
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Outcomes and Origins of HTP

From: Get That Freak

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Play

Girls just wanna have fun. They're doing just that, and it's blurring the lines between therapy, porn, health care, mysticism and prostitution. Welcome to today's wild and shameless female sexual underground.

From: Closer

In this chapter, the author takes a broad tour of the wide variety of ways women are exploring and learning about their sexuality, covering orgasmic meditation, experiential sex therapists, the … 62 $6.20 Add
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Pleasure as the Baseline

Interview with Dawn Serra

From: The Care We Dream Of

The interviewee discusses pleasure as a right that extends to the provision of health care, asking what would health care be like if providers asked "What is a win for you, to help you feel … 11 $1.10 Add
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Portapique

From: Insurgent Love

This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020. 10 $1.00 Add
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Power Protects Itself

Part 1. Who Gets to Lead?

From: Women Winning Office

In Power Protects Itself Nash explores some of the many barriers women face when entering politics. A few of the barriers examined in the chapter include systemic biases, Westminster … 6 $0.60 Add
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Reinscribing Whiteness

Rituals of Unity and Exclusion

From: White Femininity

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Science and Technique: Nurses’ Work in a Canadian Hospital, 1920-1939

From: Caring and Curing

For the most part, feminist scholars have concluded that until at least the post-World War II years nursing work fell outside the modern paradigm of science. This chapter challenges that … 30 $3.30 Add
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Section Two Regional Case Studies

Public Hearing

From: Changing Tides

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Thérése Cosgrain (!896-1981)

From: Working for the Common Good

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The Child at the Heart of Surrogacy

From: Stolen Motherhood

This chapter focuses on the children at the "heart" of surrogacy, highlighting these children’s wellbeing, future, and all other considerations, which the author argues are … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Commemorations (1999-2005)

From: “I Hate Feminists”

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The Dictionary of Homophobia: D

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

Damien, Peter (Adam Weiss); Dance (Hervé Chevaux and Louis-Georges Tin); Debauchery (Gilles Siouffi); Decadence (Flora Leroy-Forgeot); Decriminalization (France) (Daniel Borrillo and Thomas … 41 $1.64 Add
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The education of a female leader

PART 1: DEVELOPING THE NERVE TO LEAD

From: Nerve

The authors discuss educational opportunities for women and their own early memories of learning and education. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Federal Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

Part One — IVF: The Beginning of a Modern Human Reproduction Revolution

From: Fertility

In The Federal Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies McTeer examines Canada’s study and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies and practices beginning in 1988. The … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Gang Mother

From: Gang Life

Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … 19 $1.90 Add