Society and culture: general
Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)
During the Sixties Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands, and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders, and overseas to be raised ...
Hard To Do
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do is a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, ...
All Together Healthy
Never before have individuals faced so much conflicting information about how to be healthy: a constant rotation of fad diets, extreme workout regimens and celebrity-endorsed supplements are regularly ...
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
In Keetsahnak, the tension between personal, political, and public action is clear as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. They create a model for anti-violence ...
Policing Indigenous Movements
A comprehensive examination of the security state’s extensive surveillance of Indigenous struggles for land and autonomy. This book raises critical questions regarding the expansion of the security ...
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as “The Monkey Girl” at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as ‘freaks’ in twentieth-century ...
Just Watch Us
From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service ? prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion ? monitored and infiltrated ...
Elements of Indigenous Style
Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. ...
Metis Pioneers
In Metis Pioneers, MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s ...
La fonctionnaire et le hijab
Quels sont les liens existants entre la laïcité et la liberté de religion au Québec ? Que signifie la laïcité pour une fonctionnaire portant le hijab ? En documentant de manière descriptive et ...