Études sur les femmes
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being takes a closer look at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. Following the ...
Two Firsts
Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar ...
As I Remember It
Elsie Paul of the Tla’amin Nation spent most of her childhood surrounded by the ways, teachings, and stories of her people. In As I Remember It, she shares this traditional knowledge with a new generation. ...
Climate Chaos
This book describes the field of material ecofeminism, provides an overview of the land question, and explores how reigning discourses of “sustainable development” have led to a commodification of ...
Power Shift
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, ...
A Name for Herself
Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While ...
Personal and Political
Women’s Health expert Lorraine Greaves details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed ...
Amma’s Daughters
As a young woman, Amma joined forces with revolutionary freedom fighters that worked in the Mahatma Gandhi–led Civil Disobedience movement. She was connected with a vast network of women whose courage ...
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, ...
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 ...