Women & Gender Studies

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Prologue
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Prologue

anger can be power

From: Bleed

In the prologue, Lindeman describes what endometriosis is, how it is regarded within the health care system, and the gender politics that surround the disease. She briefly describes her own … 13 $1.30 Add
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Prologue and Introduction
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Prologue and Introduction

The Davie Street Blues

From: Vancouver Vice

In the prologue and introduction, Chapman frames his narrative around two events in West End Vancouver: the discovery of a body in in 1984, and the unveiling of a memorial to sex workers in 2016. 10 $1.00 Add
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Protect Your Heart

Protect Your Heart

Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability

From: Care Work

The author reassures the reader that it’s okay to protect your heart: to build boundaries, to say no, to not reply to emails immediately, etc. 12 $1.20 Add
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Proud to be a Fishworker

Proud to be a Fishworker

From: Changing Tides

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Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond
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Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond

Part Two — Provincial Legislation: Assisted Human Reproduction and the Changing Definitions of Family

From: Fertility

In Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond McTeer examines the responses from across Canada about the use of IVF technology in human reproduction. The chapter explores issues relating to a … 10 $1.00 Add
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Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power
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Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power

Part 4. Getting Your Story Out

From: Women Winning Office

In Public Narrative-Your Story Is Your Power Nash explores the ways women can use their own stories and experiences to frame their own public narrative and find support through relatability. The … 5 $0.50 Add
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Public personae: living in the public eye

Public personae: living in the public eye

PART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE

From: Nerve

This chapter discusses being a female leader in the public eye. The authors talk about their experience with building a public persona, communicating, and dealing with public scrutiny. ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead
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Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead

Part Four — Looking to the Future

From: Fertility

In Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead McTeer examines the current federal legislation that governs assisted human reproduction (AHR) and how many types of embryo research will inevitably … 12 $1.20 Add
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Public Speaking and Speech Writing
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Public Speaking and Speech Writing

Part 4. Getting Your Story Out

From: Women Winning Office

In Public Speaking and Speech Writing Nash explores the challenges and benefits of public speaking and speech writing. In the chapter Nash discusses her own experiences with public speaking, and … 9 $0.90 Add
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Pushing the Boundaries

Pushing the Boundaries

From: Immodest and Sensational

Looks at an analysis of women’s sports columnists in the 1930s and the women writers who defeneded women’s sports and female athletes 10 $1.00 Add
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Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with Flowers

Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with Flowers

Queering Death

From: The Care We Dream Of

In this account of her mother’s death, the author elaborated on the do-it-yourself attitude she brought to queering her grief, and also the the healing relationship she developed with death … 20 $2.00 Add
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Putting Feminism Back on its Feet

Putting Feminism Back on its Feet

1984

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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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Putting Yourself on the Line

Putting Yourself on the Line

Interview with Ronica Mukerjee

From: The Care We Dream Of

This interview with Ronica Mukerjee, who specializes in care for LGBTQ+ communities, people using injection and other drugs, and people who are HIV positive, underscores how international borders … 11 $1.10 Add
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Piss in a Bag

Piss in a Bag

From: Any Other Way

Gerald Hannon describes a homophobic prank he witnessed as a closeted young man in Toronto in the 1960s 1 $0.10 Add
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Queer Alchemy

Queer Alchemy

Perverting the Health System, Fighting to Win

From: The Care We Dream Of

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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Queer and Cripple in the 6ix

Queer and Cripple in the 6ix

From: Any Other Way

Andrew Gurza decribes how queer spaces are often inaccessible to those with limited mobility. 2 $0.20 Add