Women & Gender Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada A Mechanism of Decolonization Fernwood Publishing	Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving …	Sarah Mackenzie	192	2020	View
Ineligble Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance Fernwood Publishing	While the poor have always been monitored and surveilled by the state when seeking financial support, the methods, techniques, and capacity for surveillance within and across government …	Krys Maki	224	2021	View
Insurgent Love Abolition and Domestic Homicide Fernwood Publishing	Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through …	Ardath Whynacht	161	2021	View
Jeannie’s Demise Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto Between The Lines	August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that …	Ian Radforth	198	2020	View
NEW! Len & Cub A Queer History Goose Lane Editions	Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly …	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	192	2022	View
Making Space For Indigenous Feminism Fernwood Publishing	The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Aboriginal women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet, there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist …	Joyce Green	254	2007	View
NEW! Material Traces of War Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 University of Ottawa Press	Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945, looks at how Canadian women experienced the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book puts …	Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker	338	2021	View
Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism A Plea for Parental Equality Baraka Books	Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin …	Marilyse Hamelin	180	2018	View
Nerve Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First ECW Press	Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions. Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera had vastly different career paths on …	Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper	320	2021	View
No Choice The 30-Year Fight for Abortion on Prince Edward Island Fernwood Publishing	In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed a law legalizing abortion in Canada. But making abortion legal did not guarantee women access to these services. In many communities around the …	Kate McKenna	124	2018	View
No More Nice Girls Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules House of Anansi Press	A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching …	Lauren McKeon	384	2020	View
Not Just a Pretty Face The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry New Society Publishers	Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they’ve kept themselves unregulated for …	Stacy Malkan	193	2007	View
Power Shift The Longest Revolution House of Anansi Press	Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls. The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit …	Sally Armstrong	330	2019	View
Revolution at Point Zero Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle Between The Lines	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 …	Silvia Federici	265	2020	View
Rock Paper Sex, Volume II Trigger Warning Breakwater Books	From working through the pandemic to Black Lives Matter, Rock Paper Sex, Volume II: Trigger Warning is timely, controversial, and provocative. This sequel offers a wide range of stories from the …	Kerri Cull	240	2021	View
NEW! Rooms Women, Writing, Woolf Coach House Books	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 …	Sina Queyras	176	2022	View