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Making Feminist Media

Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including ...

Redesigning Work

By (author) Graham Lowe & Frank Graves
Categories: Sociology

Redesigning Work is a data-rich analysis of the state of Canada’s workers and their job market… This is an important book for employers, workers and policy-makers alike. ”Honourable John ...

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By (author) Bev Sellars
Categories: History of the Americas

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices that North America’s Indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation ...

Living on the Land

An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of
knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the
most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western
epistemological ...

Articulating Dinosaurs

By (author) Brian Noble
Categories: History of science

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: ...

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We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated – if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. ...

Rethinking Canadian Aid

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada’s changing role in the world.

This title is available as a free PDF download as part of UOP’s open access (OA) collection.

As the government ...

Horse-and-Buggy Genius

In both North and South America, many ultra-traditional Mennonites rejected the modern world, especially its icon the automobile. They became known as “horse-and-buggy” people. Historian Royden Loewen, ...

Liverpool Lad

By (author) Peter Haase
Categories: Social classes

Spirited tales of the famous Liverpool slums; car-less cobblestone streets, jiggers, brutal teachers, and close-knit communities.

A lively memoir in an authentic and engaging voice of growing up street ...

Separate Beds

By (author) Maureen K. Lux
Categories: History of science

“Canada has a painful history of racially segregated hospitals that were intended to isolate and institutionalize Aboriginal people seen as a menace and danger to the nation. Separate Beds is a sophisticated, ...