Gender studies: women and girls Books
University of British Columbia Press Bar Codes
Book SynopsisThis book examines women lawyers' attempts to reconcile their professional obligations with other aspects of their lives.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Recognizing the Codes 2 “The Portia of Our Chambers”: Voice, Robes, andReputation 3 Educating Women in the Law: Becoming Gentlemen? 4 Caught in the Time Crunch 5 Choreographing Daily Life: Clocks, Calendars, and Cycles 6 Careers and Curricula Vitae 7 Cracking the Codes Appendix: Where Are They Now? Notes Bibliography Index
£73.95
MN - University of British Columbia Press Resisting Manchukuo
Book SynopsisReveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45). This book examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation. It is suitable for those who study the history of East Asia, imperialism, and women.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Chinese Women and Cultural Production in a Japanese Colonial Context2 Foundations of Colonial Rule in Manchukuo and the “Woman Question”3 Manchukuo’s Chinese-Language Literary World4 Forging Careers in Manchukuo5 Disrupting the Patriarchal Foundations of Manchukuo6 Contesting Colonial Society7 The Collapse of Empire and Careers8 Resisting ManchukuoNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Working Girls in the West
Book SynopsisExamining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.Trade ReviewUsing an innovative mixture of literary and historical technique, McMaster's book successfully straddles the genres of literature, history, and gender studies to present an engaging look at young women in western Canada during the turbulent years of its explosive population growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Merle Massie, University of Saskatchewan * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Working Women in the West at the Turn of the Century2 The Urban Working Girl in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature3 White Slaves, Prostitutes, and Delinquents4 Girls on Strike5 White Working Girls and the Mixed-Race WorkplaceConclusion: Just GirlsNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Working Girls in the West
Book SynopsisExamining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.Trade ReviewUsing an innovative mixture of literary and historical technique, McMaster's book successfully straddles the genres of literature, history, and gender studies to present an engaging look at young women in western Canada during the turbulent years of its explosive population growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Merle Massie, University of Saskatchewan * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Working Women in the West at the Turn of the Century2 The Urban Working Girl in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature3 White Slaves, Prostitutes, and Delinquents4 Girls on Strike5 White Working Girls and the Mixed-Race WorkplaceConclusion: Just GirlsNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Gendering the NationState
Book SynopsisGendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science – the nation-state.Trade ReviewThe 14 essayists in this book have brilliantly analyzed gender and nation, gender and state processes and gender and citizenship. This is a scholarly book showing the way to justice, equality and understanding for the role of women in the state. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * Lower Island News, Vol. 25, 2008 *…political scientists and other social scientists will benefit from reading Gendering the Nation-State. It contributes to the breaking down of boundaries in political science and clearly connects theories to both empirical knowledge and the political outcomes that affect women directly. -- Sara Mitchell, University of Ottawa * Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, vol xxxvii, no 3 *This is an excellent collection. While its main focus is clearly on gender and the state, the book makes important contributions to our understanding of nationalism, comparative politics, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, risk society and the role of transnational actors and NGOs. The collection clearly establishes that analyzing gender is not just a matter of “adding” insights to existing analyses but that gendered perspectives often fundamentally challenge the way in which traditional categories and analyses are constructed. As Yasmeen Abu-Laban makes clear in her introduction, the collection “is a response to a disciplinary incompleteness in political science. -- Carol Johnson * Canadian Journal of Political Science (2011), 44: 458-459 *Table of ContentsContributorsAcknowledgmentsGendering the Nation State: An Introduction / Yasmeen Abu-LabanPart 1: Gender and Nation1 Gendering the Hyphen: Gender Dimensions of Modern Nation-State Formation in Euro-American and Anti- and Post-Colonial Contexts / Jill Vickers2 Gender and Nation in the Soviet/Russian Transformation / Maya Eichler3 Projecting Gender and Nation: Literature for Immigrants in Canada and Sweden / Shauna WiltonPart 2: Gender and State Processes4 Assembling Women, Gendering Assemblies / Linda Trimble5 Feminist Ideals versus Bureaucratic Norms: The Case of Feminist Researchers and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies / Francesca Scala6 Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada / Marian Sawer7 Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: the Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court / Louise ChappellPart 3: Gender and Citizenship8 Putting Gender Back In: Women and Social Policy Reform in Canada / Janine Brodie9 Citizenship in the Era of New Social Risks. What Happened to Gender Inequalities? / Jane Jenson10 Carefair: Gendering Citizenship “Neoliberal” Style / Paul Kershaw11 Republican Liberty, Naming Laws, and the Role of Patronymy in Constituting Women’s Citizenship in Canada and Quebec / Jackie F. Steele12 Gendering Nation States and/or Gendering City-States: Debates about the Nature of Citizenship / Caroline AndrewAfterword: The Future of Feminism / Judy RebickNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Electing a Diverse Canada
Book SynopsisCovering eleven cities as well as Canada’s Parliament, this book presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada.Trade ReviewElecting a Diverse Canada all fit together seamlessly, and the editors do a tidy job of summing up the key findings of the contributing authors, as well as supplying a theoretical framework for the project in their introductory review of theories of representation. As a result, anybody studying issues of representation will find the collection useful. The volume would also be useful as supplementary reading in most courses related to Canadian elections, women and politics, and municipal politics, as well as acting as a foundational resource for individuals researching issues related to representation, the election of marginalized groups into government, or even those looking for profiles and background information about major Canadian cities. As the editors note, this volume is the first of its kind, and the authors ought to be applauded for their efforts. -- Amanda Bittner, Memorial University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsTables and MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki, and Erin Tolley1 Reputation and Representation: Reaching for Political Inclusion in Toronto / Myer Siemiatycki2 Diversity and Elected Officials in the City of Vancouver / Irene Bloemraad3 Political Representation of Minorities in the City of Montréal: Dream or Reality? / Carolle Simard4 More than Just Cowboys with White Hats: A Demographic Profile of Edmonton and Calgary / Shannon Sampert5 Our Unrepresentative but Somewhat Successful Capital: Electoral Representation in Ottawa / John Biles and Erin Tolley6 Many Faces, Few Places: The Political Under-Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Women in the City of Hamilton / Karen Bird7 Representation Deficits in Regina and Saskatoon / Joseph Garcea8 The Patterning of Political Representation in Halifax / Karen Bridget Murray, with the assistance of Michael Caverhill9 Diversity and Political Representation in Winnipeg / Brenda O’Neill and Jared J. Wesley10 Ethnoracial Minorities in the 38th Parliament: Patterns of Change and Continuity / Jerome H. BlackConclusionContributorsIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Opening Doors Wider
Book SynopsisThis book asks whether the doors to women’s participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.Table of ContentsFigures and TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Introduction / Sylvia BashevkinPart 1: Community and Women’s Group Participation2 Women and Community Leadership: Changing Politics or Changed by Politics? / Caroline Andrew3 Rebuilding the House of Canadian Feminism: NAC and the Racial Politics of Participation / Mary-Jo NadeauPart 2: Winning Legislative Seats4 Women in the Quebec National Assembly: Why So Many? / Manon Tremblay, with Stephanie Mullen5 Are Cities More Congenial? Tracking the Rural Deficit in the House of Commons / Louise CarbertPart 3: Cabinet and Party Leadership Experiences6 Making a Difference When the Doors Are Open? Women in the Ontario NDP Cabinet, 1990-95 / Lesley Byrne7 “Stage” versus “Actor” Barriers to Women’s Federal Party Leadership / Sylvia Bashevkin8 One Is Not Like the Others: Allison Brewer’s Leadership of the New Brunswick NDP / Joanna Everitt and Michael CampPart 4: Media and Public Images9 Crafting a Public Image: Women MPs and the Dynamics of Media Coverage / Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant10 Do Voters Stereotype Female Party Leaders? Evidence from Canada and New Zealand / Elisabeth Gidengil, Joanna Everitt, and Susan BanducciPart 5: Remedies and Prescriptions11 Opening Doors to Women’s Participation / Sylvia BashevkinContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
Book SynopsisThis book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec’s National Assembly and in Canada’s House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present.Trade ReviewQuebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling ... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars ... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question.' Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion. -- Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant * Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2), June 2012 *"Quebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling.... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars.... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question' (1). Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion." -- Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant * Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword / Sylvia Bashevkin Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Rights to Vote and to Eligibility: Full Access to Citizenship forQuebec Women? 2 Why Does Women’s Representation in the Legislative Spaces ofQuebec Not Match Their Demographic Weight? 3 Quebec Women in Legislatures: What Identity and What Ideas? 4 Increasing the Numbers of Women in Quebec's LegislativeSpaces? Conclusion Appendices Notes References Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
Book SynopsisThis book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec’s National Assembly and in Canada’s House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present.Trade ReviewQuebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling ... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars ... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question.' Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion. -- Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant * Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2), June 2012 *"Quebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling.... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars.... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question' (1). Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion." -- Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant * Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword / Sylvia Bashevkin Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Rights to Vote and to Eligibility: Full Access to Citizenship forQuebec Women? 2 Why Does Women’s Representation in the Legislative Spaces ofQuebec Not Match Their Demographic Weight? 3 Quebec Women in Legislatures: What Identity and What Ideas? 4 Increasing the Numbers of Women in Quebec's LegislativeSpaces? Conclusion Appendices Notes References Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Solidarities Beyond Borders Transnationalizing
Book SynopsisCase studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women's groups.Table of ContentsPreface / Diane MatteIntroduction / Pascale Dufour, Dominique Masson, and Dominique CaouettePart 1: Understanding Complex Transnationalization1 Transnationalizing Feminist and Women’s Movements: Toward a Scalar Approach / Dominique Masson2 Theorizing Feminist and Social Movement Practice in Space / Elsa BeaulieuPart 2: Deepening Solidarities among Women and Women’s Issues3 Framing Transnational Feminism: Examining Migrant Worker Organizing in Singapore / Lenore Lyons4 The International Women and Health Meetings: Deploying Multiple Identities for Political Sustainability / Sylvia Estrada-Claudio5 Transnational Activism and the Argentine Women’s Movement: Challenging the Gender Regime? / Débora LopreitePart 3: Stretching the Scope of Solidarities6 Troubling Transnational Feminism(s) at the World Social Forum / Janet Conway7 Bringing Feminist Perspectives to Transnational Collective Action in Southeast Asia / Dominique Caouette8 Building Transnational Feminist Solidarity in the Americas: The Experience of the Latin American Network of Women Transforming the Economy / Carmen L. Díaz AlbaConclusion / Dominique Masson and Pascale DufourIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Women and Feminism Politics Activism
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an emerging Indigenous feminist project.Trade ReviewA pioneering text…Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is a comprehensive, inclusive, heterogeneous, and valuable collection for anyone studying Indigenous issues or histories, feminisms, cultural studies and criticism, decolonization, or literary studies. -- Patricia Miranda Barkaskas, The Goose, Issue 10, 2012Table of ContentsIndigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl SuzackPart 1: Politics1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. LeePart 2: Activism5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist / Kim Anderson6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact / Jean Barman7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / Teresa Zackodnik8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise lewallenPart 3: Culture10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman / Julia Emberley13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia DemersIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press The Business of Women
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of women entrepreneurs in early twentieth-century British Columbia.Trade Review…Buddle offers rich insights into the characteristics of female self-employment during this period, and lays the groundwork for future explorations of gender and business in Canada…this important book is thus recommended reading for those interested in the history of gender, labour, business, and British Columbia. -- Tina Block * BC Studies, Winter 2011 *Table of Contents1 Businesswomen in British Columbia2 The Marriage of Business and Women: Family Status and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia3 Careers for Women: Sex Segregation in Self-Employment4 “They are quick, alert, clear-eyed business girls”: The Business and Professional Women’s Clubs of British Columbia5 “You have to think like a man and act like a lady”: Gender, Class, and BusinesswomenConclusion: “Darkened by family obligations”: Reflections on the Business of WomenAppendicesNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
UBC Press Being Again of One Mind Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization Women and Indigenous Studies
Book SynopsisLina Sunseri, whose Longhouse name is Yeliwi:saks (Gathering Stories/Knowledge), from the Oneida Nation of the Thames, Turtle Clan, is an assistant professor of sociology at Brescia University College, an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario. She is also co-editor of Colonialism and Racism in Canada: Historical Traces and Contemporary Issues and Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada.Trade ReviewSunseri’s multi-layered critique of the Eurocentric secondary literature on nationalism is skillful, respectful and highly readable … a thoughtful study of Oneida nationalism from the perspective of Oneida women, Being Again of One Mind is relevant to a broad audience and will be of special value to those interested in nationalism, decolonization, Indigenous research methodologies, women and gender and Indigenous people. -- Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 13, 2 Fall 2012 *Being Again of One Mind...delivers a viable and inspiring alterNative view on indigenous history, as well as gender and postcolonial studies. It is a welcome addition to anyone interested in understanding the complicated course of European and North American encounters from a First Nation/Oneida perspective. -- Kathryn Magee Labelle * Left History Journal, Issue 16.2 *Table of ContentsForeword / Patricia A. MontureIntroduction1 Theorizing Nations and Nationalisms: From Modernist to IndigenousPerspectives2 A History of the Oneida Nation: From Creation Story to thePresent3 Struggles of Independence: From a Colonial Existence towarda Decolonized Nation4 Women, Nation, and National Identity: Oneida Women StandingUp and Speaking about Matters of the Nation5 Dreaming of a Free, Peaceful, Balanced Decolonized Nation:Being Again of One Mind6 Concluding RemarksNotesReferencesIndex
£34.90
University of British Columbia Press Wife to Widow
Book SynopsisThe diversity of women’s lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Marriage, Identity, and the Law1 Marriage Metropole: Mobility and Marriage in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal2 Companionate Patriarchies: Money Matters and Marriage3 Marriage Trajectories: Class, Choices, and Chance4 “Dower This Barbarous Law”: Debating Marriage and Widows’ Rights5 Imagining Widowhood and Death: Marriage Contracts, Wills, and Funeral ProvisionsPart 2: Individual Itineraries of Widowhood6 Diverse Demographies: Death, Widowhood, and Remarriage7 In the Shadow of Their Husbands: The First Days of Widowhood8 “Within a Year and a Day”: The First Year of Widowhood9 Widows’ Votes: Marguerite Paris, Émilie Tavernier, Sarah Harrison, and the Montreal By-Elections of 183210 Widow to Mother Superior: Émilie Tavernier Gamelin and Catholic Institution Building11 Patchworks of the Possible: Widows’ Wealth, Work, and Children12 Final Years, Final Wishes: Care, Connections, Old Age and DeathConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Age Gender and Work
Book SynopsisA unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Key Concepts and Methods1 Gender, Age, and Work in the New Economy / Julie McMullin and Heather Dryburgh2 Methods / Emily Jovic, Julie McMullin, and Tammy Duerden ComeauPart 2: Gender Projects and Regimes3 Firms as “Gender Regimes”: The Experiences of Women in IT Workplaces / Gillian Ranson and Heather Dryburgh4 Variants of Masculinity within Masculinist IT Workplace Regimes / Tammy Duerden Comeau and Candace L. Kemp5 Negotiating Work and Family in the IT Industry / Ingrid Arnet Connidis and Candace L. KempPart 3: Age Regimes and Projects6 Generational and Age Discourse in IT Firms / Julie McMullin, Emily Jovic, and Tammy Duerden Comeau7 Aging and Age Discrimination in IT Firms / Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau8 Conclusion: Inequality Regimes and New Economy Work / Emily Jovic and Julie McMullinContributorsIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Age Gender and Work
Book SynopsisA unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Key Concepts and Methods1 Gender, Age, and Work in the New Economy / Julie McMullin and Heather Dryburgh2 Methods / Emily Jovic, Julie McMullin, and Tammy Duerden ComeauPart 2: Gender Projects and Regimes3 Firms as “Gender Regimes”: The Experiences of Women in IT Workplaces / Gillian Ranson and Heather Dryburgh4 Variants of Masculinity within Masculinist IT Workplace Regimes / Tammy Duerden Comeau and Candace L. Kemp5 Negotiating Work and Family in the IT Industry / Ingrid Arnet Connidis and Candace L. KempPart 3: Age Regimes and Projects6 Generational and Age Discourse in IT Firms / Julie McMullin, Emily Jovic, and Tammy Duerden Comeau7 Aging and Age Discrimination in IT Firms / Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau8 Conclusion: Inequality Regimes and New Economy Work / Emily Jovic and Julie McMullinContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection fills a gap in First World War scholarship, revealing the diversity and richness of women’s and girls’ wartime experiences in Canada and Newfoundland.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transformation in a Time of War? / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawPart 1: Mobilizing Women1 “In Defense of the Empire”: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War / Alison Norman2 The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: From Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation / Margot I. Duley3 Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War / Terry WildePart 2: Women’s Work4 Gendering Patriotism: Canadian Volunteer Nurses as the Female “Soldiers” of the Great War / Linda J. Quiney5 “Such Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas Nursing in the First World War / Terry Bishop Stirling6 Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s Making Bombs and Being Bankers / Kori StreetPart 3: Family Matters7 An Honour and a Burden: Canadian Girls and the Great War / Kristine Alexander8 Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed? / Desmond Morton9 Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags / Suzanne EvansPart 4: Creative Responses10 Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War / Vicki S. Hallett11 “’Twas You, Mother, Made Me a Man”: The Motherhood Motif in the Poetry of the First World War / Lynn Kennedy12 “Mother, Lover, Nurse”: The Reassertion of Conventional Gender Norms in Fictional Representations of Disability in Canadian Novels of the First World War / Amy TectorConclusion: “Sisterhood of Suffering and Service” / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawSelected Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Selling Sex
Book SynopsisA diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.Trade ReviewA unique collection of sex workers and their allies describing and defending a timely subject. A very insightful read. -- Maria Nengeh Mensah, professor, School of Social Work, Université du Québec à MontréalAs a Canadian sex worker, I know too well how hard it can be to find a balanced, nuanced analysis of the lived experiences of people in my profession and the complex legal and social realities we encounter. Selling Sex proved to be a notable exception ... this book is invaluable as a resource to help people understand the complexities of the sex trade and to see the people who work within it as competent and capable of making their own decisions, rather than victims in need of rescue or deviants in need of punishment and control. -- Kamala Mara * Canadian Dimension *Selling Sex is an impressive testament to the agency, activism, and theorizing of sex workers, drawing from a multiplicity of viewpoints, including trans, male, youth, and Indigenous experiences. It importantly shines light on histories of sex work, the politics of regulation, and organizing for change in Canada and is a critical intervention into debates on feminism, anti-racism, and decolonization. A deeply insightful collection and a vital new contribution to the field of sex work studies. -- Kamala Kempadoo, professor of Social Science at York University and co-editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and RedefinitionIntellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging and beautifully written, Selling sex: Experience, advocacy and research on sex work in Canada weaves together the diverse voices and perspectives of sex workers, academics, and activists to present a multilayered, complex, and rich understanding of sex work practice, research, policy, and political organizing. This collection of chapters centers the lived experiences of sex workers who are experts in their own lives and who are critical to the knowledge production about sex work.I highly recommend this refreshing and inspiring book that positions itself as a form of activism and resistance against sensationalistic and mainstream narratives of sex work. It challenges unidimentional notions of sex work by highlighting often silenced communities, including male, trans, youth, and indigenous sex trade workers. This collection of voices is an essential read for anyone working in a practice setting with sex workers, for students engaging in a critical analysis of sex work, for researchers committed to privileging the lived experiences of marginalized communities, and for those interested advancing their human rights and engaging in activism for social change. -- Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, California State University Northridge * Affilia *The breadth of ethnographic data and theoretical insights explored in Selling Sex makes it an excellent resource for most courses in sociology, law, gender and sexuality studies, criminology, and anthropology interested in deconstructing the contingent nature of sexuality, labor, and gender identity, and its intersection with various state agencies and other mechanisms of regulation. Similarly, the timely nature of this publication in relation to the Bedford decision situates this text, and the contributing authors, as influential authorities on sex work research in the post-Bedford era. -- Marcus A. Sibley, Carleton University * Canadian Review of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria LovePart 1: Realities, Experiences, and Perspectives1 Work, Sex, or Theatre? A Brief History of Toronto Strippers and Sex Work Identity / Deborah Clipperton2 Myths and Realities of Male Sex Work: A Personal Perspective / River Redwood3 Champagne, Strawberries, and Truck-Stop Motels: On Subjectivity and Sex Work / Victoria Love4 Trans Sex Workers: Negotiating Sex, Gender, and Non-Normative Desire / Tor Fletcher5 We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade / JJ6 Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach / Sarah Hunt7 Transitioning Out of Sex Work: Exploring Sex Workers’ Experiences and Perspectives / Tuulia LawPart 2: Organizing and Social Change8 Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle / Jenn Clamen, Kara Gillies, and Trish Salah9 Overcoming Challenges: Vancouver’s Sex Worker Movement / Joyce Arthur, Susan Davis, and Esther Shannon10 Né dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers’ Movement in Montreal / Anna-Louise Crago and Jenn Clamen11 Stepping All Over the Stones: Negotiating Feminism and Harm Reduction in Halifax / Gayle MacDonald, Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Karolyn Martin, and Rene Ross12 Are Feminists Leaving Women Behind? The Casting of Sexually Assaulted and Sex-Working Women / Jane Doe13 Going ’round Again: The Persistence of Prostitution-Related Stigma / Jacqueline Lewis, Frances M. Shaver, and Eleanor Maticka-TyndalePart 3: The Politics of Regulation14 Regulating Women’s Sexuality: Social Movements and Internal Exclusion / Michael Goodyear and Cheryl Auger15 Crown Expert-Witness Testimony in Bedford v. Canada: Evidence-Based Argument or Victim-Paradigm Hyperbole? / John Lowman16 Repeat Performance? Human Trafficking and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games / Annalee Lepp17 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Canadian Anti-Pimping Law and How It Harms Sex Workers / Kara Gillies18 Still Punishing to “Protect”: Youth Prostitution Law and Policy Reform / Steven Bittle19 To Serve and Protect? Structural Stigma, Social Profiling, and the Abuse of Police Power in Ottawa / Chris Bruckert and Stacey Hannem20 Beyond the Criminal Code: Municipal Licensing and Zoning Bylaws / Emily van der Meulen and Mariana ValverdeAfterword / Alan YoungIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Selling Sex
Book SynopsisA diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.Trade ReviewA unique collection of sex workers and their allies describing and defending a timely subject. A very insightful read. -- Maria Nengeh Mensah, professor, School of Social Work, Université du Québec à MontréalAs a Canadian sex worker, I know too well how hard it can be to find a balanced, nuanced analysis of the lived experiences of people in my profession and the complex legal and social realities we encounter. Selling Sex proved to be a notable exception ... this book is invaluable as a resource to help people understand the complexities of the sex trade and to see the people who work within it as competent and capable of making their own decisions, rather than victims in need of rescue or deviants in need of punishment and control. -- Kamala Mara * Canadian Dimension *Selling Sex is an impressive testament to the agency, activism, and theorizing of sex workers, drawing from a multiplicity of viewpoints, including trans, male, youth, and Indigenous experiences. It importantly shines light on histories of sex work, the politics of regulation, and organizing for change in Canada and is a critical intervention into debates on feminism, anti-racism, and decolonization. A deeply insightful collection and a vital new contribution to the field of sex work studies. -- Kamala Kempadoo, professor of Social Science at York University and co-editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and RedefinitionIntellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging and beautifully written, Selling sex: Experience, advocacy and research on sex work in Canada weaves together the diverse voices and perspectives of sex workers, academics, and activists to present a multilayered, complex, and rich understanding of sex work practice, research, policy, and political organizing. This collection of chapters centers the lived experiences of sex workers who are experts in their own lives and who are critical to the knowledge production about sex work.I highly recommend this refreshing and inspiring book that positions itself as a form of activism and resistance against sensationalistic and mainstream narratives of sex work. It challenges unidimentional notions of sex work by highlighting often silenced communities, including male, trans, youth, and indigenous sex trade workers. This collection of voices is an essential read for anyone working in a practice setting with sex workers, for students engaging in a critical analysis of sex work, for researchers committed to privileging the lived experiences of marginalized communities, and for those interested advancing their human rights and engaging in activism for social change. -- Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, California State University Northridge * Affilia *The breadth of ethnographic data and theoretical insights explored in Selling Sex makes it an excellent resource for most courses in sociology, law, gender and sexuality studies, criminology, and anthropology interested in deconstructing the contingent nature of sexuality, labor, and gender identity, and its intersection with various state agencies and other mechanisms of regulation. Similarly, the timely nature of this publication in relation to the Bedford decision situates this text, and the contributing authors, as influential authorities on sex work research in the post-Bedford era. -- Marcus A. Sibley, Carleton University * Canadian Review of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria LovePart 1: Realities, Experiences, and Perspectives1 Work, Sex, or Theatre? A Brief History of Toronto Strippers and Sex Work Identity / Deborah Clipperton2 Myths and Realities of Male Sex Work: A Personal Perspective / River Redwood3 Champagne, Strawberries, and Truck-Stop Motels: On Subjectivity and Sex Work / Victoria Love4 Trans Sex Workers: Negotiating Sex, Gender, and Non-Normative Desire / Tor Fletcher5 We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade / JJ6 Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach / Sarah Hunt7 Transitioning Out of Sex Work: Exploring Sex Workers’ Experiences and Perspectives / Tuulia LawPart 2: Organizing and Social Change8 Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle / Jenn Clamen, Kara Gillies, and Trish Salah9 Overcoming Challenges: Vancouver’s Sex Worker Movement / Joyce Arthur, Susan Davis, and Esther Shannon10 Né dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers’ Movement in Montreal / Anna-Louise Crago and Jenn Clamen11 Stepping All Over the Stones: Negotiating Feminism and Harm Reduction in Halifax / Gayle MacDonald, Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Karolyn Martin, and Rene Ross12 Are Feminists Leaving Women Behind? The Casting of Sexually Assaulted and Sex-Working Women / Jane Doe13 Going ’round Again: The Persistence of Prostitution-Related Stigma / Jacqueline Lewis, Frances M. Shaver, and Eleanor Maticka-TyndalePart 3: The Politics of Regulation14 Regulating Women’s Sexuality: Social Movements and Internal Exclusion / Michael Goodyear and Cheryl Auger15 Crown Expert-Witness Testimony in Bedford v. Canada: Evidence-Based Argument or Victim-Paradigm Hyperbole? / John Lowman16 Repeat Performance? Human Trafficking and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games / Annalee Lepp17 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Canadian Anti-Pimping Law and How It Harms Sex Workers / Kara Gillies18 Still Punishing to “Protect”: Youth Prostitution Law and Policy Reform / Steven Bittle19 To Serve and Protect? Structural Stigma, Social Profiling, and the Abuse of Police Power in Ottawa / Chris Bruckert and Stacey Hannem20 Beyond the Criminal Code: Municipal Licensing and Zoning Bylaws / Emily van der Meulen and Mariana ValverdeAfterword / Alan YoungIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Sporting Gender
Book SynopsisSporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women's emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Zhang Huilan (1898-1996): The “Mother of Women’s Modern Physical Education”2 Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Healthy Beauty)3 The Basketball Team of the Private Liangjiang Women’s Tiyu Normal School4 The Evanescent Glory of the Track Queens5 “Miss China,” Yang Xiuqiong (1918-82): A Female Olympic Swimmer6 Sportswomen on Screen: The “Athletic Movie Star,” Li Lili (1915-2005)ConclusionNotes; Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Sporting Gender
Book SynopsisSporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women's emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Zhang Huilan (1898-1996): The “Mother of Women’s Modern Physical Education”2 Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Healthy Beauty)3 The Basketball Team of the Private Liangjiang Women’s Tiyu Normal School4 The Evanescent Glory of the Track Queens5 “Miss China,” Yang Xiuqiong (1918-82): A Female Olympic Swimmer6 Sportswomen on Screen: The “Athletic Movie Star,” Li Lili (1915-2005)ConclusionNotes; Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names; Bibliography; Index
£36.06
University of British Columbia Press Stalled
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the representation of women in elected and appointed office in Canada to explain why gender parity remains elusive.Trade ReviewThis book is a must-read for people interested in Canadian history, gender, and electoral politics in Canada. I cannot say enough about Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Govenrments, which includes chapters written by well-known scholars, features a strong cross-section of expertise in Canadian political science, covers virtually every province and territory, and contains the different constituent groups within a Canadian context ... Well written and appropriate for lay and academic audiences, Stalled is the perfect addition to classes in gender and politics, to upperdivision courses in comparative politics focused on the status of 'women and politics, and to Canadian history courses. -- Janni Aragon * BC Studies, Spring 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword – Women, Power, Politics: Surveying the Canadian Landscape / Sylvia BashevkinIntroduction: The Road to Gender Parity / Manon Tremblay, Jane Arscott, and Linda Trimble1 Truly More Accessible to Women than the Legislature? Women in Municipal Politics / Manon Tremblay and Anne Mévellec2 The Alberta Advantage? Women in Alberta Politics / Brenda O’Neill3 When Numerical Gains Are Not Enough: Women in British Columbia Politics / Jocelyne Praud4 Complacency and Gender Silence: Women in Manitoba Politics / Shannon Sampert5 A Province at the Back of the Pack: Women in New Brunswick Politics / Joanna Everitt6 A Laggard No More? Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Amanda Bittner and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant7 Electoral Breakthrough: Women in Nova Scotia Politics / Louise Carbert and Naomi Black8 Breaking the Holding Pattern? Women in Ontario Politics / Tracey Raney9 Getting Women’s Names on the Ballot: Women in Prince Edward Island Politics / John Crossley10 Hitting a Glass Ceiling? Women in Quebec Politics / Manon Tremblay11 A Prairie Plateau: Women in Saskatchewan Politics / Loleen Berdahl12 In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women? Women in Territorial Politics / Graham White13 Slow to Change: Women in the House of Commons / Lisa Young14 “Way Past That Era Now?” Women in the Canadian Senate / Stephanie Mullen, with the collaboration of Manon Tremblay and Linda TrimbleConclusion: A Few More Women / Linda Trimble, Manon Tremblay, and Jane ArscottIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Pinay on the Prairies
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the experiences of Filipino women in Canada’s Prairie provinces, which reveals much about their understanding of transnational identities, feminism, migration, diaspora, and the rubric of multiculturalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Gender, Migration, and Feminism2 Pinay Migration3 Welcoming Prairies4 Making Meanings: Identities and Integration5 Building Bridges: Activism and Community Engagement6 Vested TransnationalismConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£61.50
University of British Columbia Press Pinay on the Prairies
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the experiences of Filipino women in Canada’s Prairie provinces, which reveals much about their understanding of transnational identities, feminism, migration, diaspora, and the rubric of multiculturalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Gender, Migration, and Feminism2 Pinay Migration3 Welcoming Prairies4 Making Meanings: Identities and Integration5 Building Bridges: Activism and Community Engagement6 Vested TransnationalismConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press I Was the Only Woman
Book SynopsisA compelling new perspective on Canada's planning history that offers a counter-narrative to the official story of the profession, one that has generally overlooked the contributions of women and the Community Planning Association of Canada.Table of ContentsForeword / Julia MarkovichPreface1 Introduction: An Argument about History, Planning, and Women2 Women, Professions, and Planning3 Creating and Advocating for a Profession: A Tale of Two Planning Organizations4 Recovering the Women of the CPAC and TPIC/CIP5 Women in Planning: Making a Difference6 Conclusion: Imagine ...AppendicesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Private Women and the Public Good Charity and
Book SynopsisAn engaging history of the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum and a broad consideration of the ability of women’s charitable work to bridge the nineteenth-century boundaries of public and private spheres.Trade ReviewA very readable, persuasive, and important contribution to the literature on gender and social policy in nineteenth-century Canada written in a way that engagingly connects history with theory. -- James E. Struthers, professor in the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University...Nielson’s well-crafted study provides a unique lens through which to examine gender, the public-private spheres, and politics in nineteenth-century Canada. -- Claire L. Halstead, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and the Public Sphere1 Hamilton, Upper Canada, to 18462 A “sufficiently extensive and efficient instrumentality”3 A Mixed Social Economy4 The City and the Ladies5 Public Acts and Private Lives6 Institutionalization, Adoption, and Apprenticeship7 Continuity and Change, 1870-93Conclusion: A Career in Christian CharityNotesBibliographyIndex
£66.30
University of British Columbia Press Private Women and the Public Good Charity and
Book SynopsisAn engaging history of the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum and a broad consideration of the ability of women’s charitable work to bridge the nineteenth-century boundaries of public and private spheres.Trade ReviewA very readable, persuasive, and important contribution to the literature on gender and social policy in nineteenth-century Canada written in a way that engagingly connects history with theory. -- James E. Struthers, professor in the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University...Nielson’s well-crafted study provides a unique lens through which to examine gender, the public-private spheres, and politics in nineteenth-century Canada. -- Claire L. Halstead, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and the Public Sphere1 Hamilton, Upper Canada, to 18462 A “sufficiently extensive and efficient instrumentality”3 A Mixed Social Economy4 The City and the Ladies5 Public Acts and Private Lives6 Institutionalization, Adoption, and Apprenticeship7 Continuity and Change, 1870-93Conclusion: A Career in Christian CharityNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
University of British Columbia Press Mixed Race Amnesia
Book SynopsisMixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race StudiesReferencesIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Mixed Race Amnesia
Book SynopsisMixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race StudiesReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press French Canadians Furs and Indigenous Women in the
Book SynopsisThis book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest.Trade ReviewBarman’s feast of historical and genealogical data on French Canadians in British Columbia forces the reader to ponder their absence in previous BC histories, and reinforces the position of French Canadians as one of the founding peoples of that province. -- Maurice Guibord, Société historique francophone de la Colombie-BritanniqueThe history of French Canadian fur trappers in the northwest, often mentioned in local state histories, here crosses national and cultural borders to include their interactions with indigenous peoples and stories of travels from eastern Canada to Oregon and British Columbia. This book is an essential forensic history for all people who trace their ancestry to the fur trade era of the Pacific Northwest. -- David G. Lewis, PhD, Tribal Historian, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of OregonIn Barman’s adroit hands, the lives and experiences, hopes and dreams of the French Indian families who had a significant yet generally unremarked impact on the Pacific Northwest come to life. Rather than peripheral figures in the larger course of historical events, they were often at the center of the action - in exploring and fur-trapping expeditions, during periods of relatively peaceful negotiation and exchange, and at times of armed conflict. -- Melinda Marie Jetté * Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2015 *Barman concludes this extensive, well-researched, and analytical work by stressing the need to view the history of the Pacific Northwest more inclusively. -- Jacky Moore, Herne Bay * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *This is a massive undertaking by a historian at the height of her powers. Barman has availed herself of an eclectic assemblage of sources: biographies, fur trade journals and exploration narratives, church records, and recent Canadian and American historiography on the fur trade, among others. She has seamlessly integrated this material to tell the stories of individuals and families, while at the same time providing a contextual framework for understanding the social, economic, and political trajectories of these people … French Canadian, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest is yet another fine contribution to BC history by one of its leading practitioners. -- Heather Devine, University of Calgary * BC Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: French Canadians and the Fur Economy1 To Be French Canadian2 Facilitating the Overland Crossings3 Driving the Fur Economy4 Deciding Whether to Go or to StayPart 2: French Canadians, Indigenous Women, and Family Life in the Fur Economy5 Taking Indigenous Women Seriously6 Innovating Family Life7 Initiating Permanent Settlement8 Saving British Columbia for CanadaPart 3: Beyond the Fur Economy9 Negotiating Changing Times10 Enabling Sons and Daughters11 To Be French Canadian and Indigenous12 Reclaiming the PastAppendixNotesWorks CitedIndex
£31.50
University of British Columbia Press Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma A
Book SynopsisAs a deeply researched history, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma reveals how, for over 100 years, a persistent political uneasiness with the role of mothers in the workforce has contributed to the lack of affordable, quality child care services in British Columbia.Trade ReviewReading Pasolli’s extensively documented book is a sobering exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century policies guided by familiar rhetoric about why mothers partnered with male breadwinners should not work and why mothers without breadwinners should work (in low-wage jobs) to redeem themselves … In the end, Pasolli’s history of childcare policy in British Columbia tells us that out-of-home childcare is a radical claim that requires a paradigmatic shift in thinking about working mothers and the ‘‘contested nature of social citizenship.’’ -- Rachel Langford, Ryerson University * Pacific Historical Review *Much more than connecting the chronological dots (which is itself an important achievement), Pasolli provides an analytical explanation for the rather discouraging continuities that shaped decades of public debate and marginalized the childcare and employment needs of women and families … A smart book on an issue we continue to wrestle with, and the sole monograph on the topic from a historian’s perspective, it will find its way on to many bookshelves. -- Esyllt W. Jones, University of Manitoba * BC Studies *To assemble this impeccable book, Lisa Pasolli has formulated impressive questions … Readers … will be interested to discover how contemporary debates over the importance of early education, and over the educational disadvantages of parents and workers who bore the consequences of the deficiencies of child care, became part and parcel of The Child Care Dilemma. -- Dominique Marshall, Carleton University * Historical Studies in Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “A proper independent spirit”: The Vancouver City Crèche, 1909–202 “Self help is to be encouraged to the fullest extent”: Working Mothers and the State in the Interwar Years3 “It takes real mothers and real homes to make real children”: Child Care Debates during and after the Second World War4 “The working mother is here to stay”: The Making of Provincial Child Care Policy in the 1960s5 “Talkin’ Day Care Blues”: Feminist Child Care Battles in the 1960s and 1970s6 “The feeling lingers that day care just isn’t nice”: Provincial and National Child Care Politics since the Mid-1970sConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press From Slave Girls to Salvation
Book SynopsisA fascinating and critical study of the Chinese Rescue Home, an iconic institution in Victoria, BC, where members of the Women’s Missionary Society taught domestic skills to Chinese and Japanese women believed to be prostitutes, slave girls, or to be at risk of falling into these roles.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Breaking Ground1 Foundations of Stone: Victoria and the Chinese Rescue Home2 Pillars of Domesticity and the “Chinese Problem”3 Crossing the Threshold: Interrogating the Space and Place of Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home4 Outside the Walls of the Home: Men, Marriage, and Morals in the Public Arena5 Roofs, Rafters, and Refuge: The State, Race, and Child CustodyConclusion: Race, Gender, and National ImaginingsNotes; Appendix: Sources and Methodology; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press From Left to Right Maternalism and Womens
Book SynopsisThis fresh look at Canadian women’s political engagement during the Cold War reveals that whether they were on the “left” or “right” end of the political spectrum, women were motivated by similar concerns and the desire to forge a new vision for their nation.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Women No Longer Need Fear Want or Illness: Women on the Left2 Ladies, Let Us Hold High the Banner of Social Credit! Women on the Right3 Peace Is the Concern of Every Mother: Communist and Social Democratic Women’s Anti-War Activism4 Traveling Bags for Their Trip to Russia: Social Credit Women Campaign for Peace5 The Well-Being of the Home Depends on the Well-Being of the Union: Women-Only Organizations6 Healthy Activity and Worthwhile Ideas: Confronting Juvenile DelinquencyConclusionAppendix: Brief BiographiesNotes; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Shelter in a Storm
Book SynopsisDrawing on the experiences of three YWCA women’s shelters in Ontario, this book exposes the dangers for women that are embedded in government neoliberal policies and reveals how feminism can counteract this pervasive ideology.Table of ContentsPreface1 Neoliberalism: The Project That Has No Name2 An Uneasy Alliance: Feminism and Neoliberalism3 Feminist Agendas: YWCAs4 Harris: The Face of Neoliberalism5 McGuinty: Neoliberalism Lingers On6 From Frayed Rope to Tight Strings: NGO Relationship with the State7 Red Heels: A Desperate Need to Fundraise8 Still Speaking Out9 Feminist Resistance in Neoliberal TimesAppendicesWorks CitedIndex
£69.70
MN - University of British Columbia Press Shelter in a Storm
Book SynopsisDrawing on the experiences of three YWCA women’s shelters in Ontario, this book exposes the dangers for women that are embedded in government neoliberal policies and reveals how feminism can counteract this pervasive ideology.Table of ContentsPreface1 Neoliberalism: The Project That Has No Name2 An Uneasy Alliance: Feminism and Neoliberalism3 Feminist Agendas: YWCAs4 Harris: The Face of Neoliberalism5 McGuinty: Neoliberalism Lingers On6 From Frayed Rope to Tight Strings: NGO Relationship with the State7 Red Heels: A Desperate Need to Fundraise8 Still Speaking Out9 Feminist Resistance in Neoliberal TimesAppendicesWorks CitedIndex
£33.52
University of British Columbia Press Science of the Seance
Book SynopsisIn this enthralling study of the ethereal, the scientific, and the strange, Beth A. Robertson investigates the gendered world of the seance, a place where self-proclaimed “psychic researchers” laid claim to objectivity and where spiritual mediums and the spirits they channeled resisted their methods.Trade ReviewWhile there has been a considerable academic interest in Victorian Spiritualism and séance room phenomena, the 1918–1939 period has been less well served. Beth Robertson’s Science of the Seance helps to redress that imbalance ... [S]he provides a useful introduction to some of the work exploring the boundary between this world and the next in the period. -- Tom Ruffles * Fortean Times *It’s a rare treat when I get to indulge my interest in the paranormal through such a well-researched and argued work as Beth A. Robertson’s Science of the Seance … it will appeal not only to those studying the paranormal, but also to scholars of technology, gender, and sexuality, and those who are interested in the origins of new sciences and the construction of knowledge ... It takes its subject matter seriously (which shouldn’t be underestimated), and makes far-reaching conclusions that cross disciplinary boundaries. It draws together a number of seemingly disparate threads into a concise framework that, for me, transformed how I thought about paranormal research. I look forward to more work like this. -- Matthew Hayes, The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Trent University * American Review of Canadian Studies *In this provocative book, Robertson contends that the study of mediumship impacted both empirical methods and gender studies … A major contribution of this work is its description of how women, both as participants and researchers, debunked the stereotype that had linked femininity with “intellectual ineptitude.” Robertson’s work can serve as a model for further inquiries on the contributions psychical research can make to scholarship, methodology, and philosophy. -- S. Krippner, Saybrook University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGroping in the Dark: An Introduction1 The “Scientific Self ”: Performative Masculinity in the Psychical Laboratory2 Otherworldly Subjects: Mediums and Spirits3 A Touch of the Uncanny: Sensing a Material Otherworld4 The Qualities of Quartz: Technology, Inscriptions, and Mechanizing Vision5 Fragments of a Spectral Self: Psychology, Medicine, and Aberrant Souls6 Teleplasmic Mechanics: Spirit Scientists and Vital TechnologiesThe Knot Unravelled: An EpilogueNotes; Bibliography
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press One Hundred Years of Struggle
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the federal vote with a look at the real struggles women faced, depending on their race, class, and location in the nation, in their fight for equality.Trade ReviewJoan Sangster's One Hundred Years of Struggle jolts us back into women's often grim historical reality, reminding us that the political rights that we often take for granted today were keenly opposed in years past. -- Susan Whitney, associate professor of history, Carleton University * Literary Review of Canada *Joan Sangster’s clear, concise, and lively treatment of the women’s suffrage movement in Canada provides a broad historical survey…One Hundred Years of Struggle succeeds remarkably well in presenting ideas in an accessible way without oversimplifying them. -- Barbara Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * The Ormsby Review *Sangster’s honest analysis of the role that imperial and racist attitudes played (and continue to play) in the fight for women’s equal political participation offers a challenge to those who believe that struggles associated with women’s suffrage are entirely historical. -- Stephanie Milliken * THIS Magazine, March 2018 *Now this is one of those books you need to read and you need to buy for others, especially now as women are facing watershed moments on many fronts. In this fantastic book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the vote not with rah, rah speeches and pleasantries, but with looks at the real warriors and the real struggles women faced … this comprehensive book truly reminds the reader of what determination and dedication can do. -- Dana Gee * Vancouver Sun *Under one cover, One Hundred Years brings together aspects of the story that have hitherto been scattered throughout the historiography and reflects the growing maturity of the field of women’s/gender history. -- Dianne Dodd, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88, *Table of ContentsPreface1 The Privilege of Property2 Race and the Idea of Rights for Women3 Suffrage as a Socialist Issue4 Making Suffragists5 The Anti-suffragists6 Feminist Countercultures7 Debating War and Peace8 Old and New Agendas in Peacetime9 Votes for All WomenAfterwordSources and Further Reading; Photo Credits; Index
£24.69
University of British Columbia Press One Hundred Years of Struggle
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the federal vote with a look at the real struggles women faced, depending on their race, class, and location in the nation, in their fight for equality.Trade ReviewJoan Sangster's One Hundred Years of Struggle jolts us back into women's often grim historical reality, reminding us that the political rights that we often take for granted today were keenly opposed in years past. -- Susan Whitney, associate professor of history, Carleton University * Literary Review of Canada *Joan Sangster’s clear, concise, and lively treatment of the women’s suffrage movement in Canada provides a broad historical survey…One Hundred Years of Struggle succeeds remarkably well in presenting ideas in an accessible way without oversimplifying them. -- Barbara Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * The Ormsby Review *Sangster’s honest analysis of the role that imperial and racist attitudes played (and continue to play) in the fight for women’s equal political participation offers a challenge to those who believe that struggles associated with women’s suffrage are entirely historical. -- Stephanie Milliken * THIS Magazine, March 2018 *Now this is one of those books you need to read and you need to buy for others, especially now as women are facing watershed moments on many fronts. In this fantastic book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the vote not with rah, rah speeches and pleasantries, but with looks at the real warriors and the real struggles women faced … this comprehensive book truly reminds the reader of what determination and dedication can do. -- Dana Gee * Vancouver Sun *Under one cover, One Hundred Years brings together aspects of the story that have hitherto been scattered throughout the historiography and reflects the growing maturity of the field of women’s/gender history. -- Dianne Dodd, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88, *Table of ContentsPreface1 The Privilege of Property2 Race and the Idea of Rights for Women3 Suffrage as a Socialist Issue4 Making Suffragists5 The Anti-suffragists6 Feminist Countercultures7 Debating War and Peace8 Old and New Agendas in Peacetime9 Votes for All WomenAfterwordSources and Further Reading; Photo Credits; Index
£18.99
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Guiding Modern Girls
Book SynopsisBy analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world’s largest voluntary organization for girls.Trade ReviewGuiding Modern Girls unveils how the early Girl Guide movement carved out spaces of intergenerational female homosociality that were neither fully empowering nor exclusively oppressive. On a larger scale, it gestures at the untapped potential buried in the history of youth organizations for charting the stony and serpentine trails that led to the emergence of a global modernity. -- Mischa Honeck, Historisches Institut, Universitat Duisburg-Essen * H-SOZ-KULT *Kristine Alexander makes a significant contribution to the intertwined histories of girlhood, imperialism, and the international Girl Guide movement. -- Kristine Moruzi * Canadian Historical Review *Alexander paints a complex image of the organization, which was the epitome of the simultaneously dynamic and traditional nature of British society in the interwar period, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Girl Guides through this thought-provoking transnational study. -- Sian Edwards, University of Winchester * Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 31, No. 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Guiding’s Beginnings: Victorian Antecedents and Early Twentieth-Century Growth2 Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere: Training for Homekeeping, Mothercraft, and Matrimony3 “We Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenship”: Preparing Girls for Political and Social Service4 Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors: Religion, Gender, and Racial-National Narratives at Girl Guide Camps5 “The Mass Ornament”: Rallies, Pageantry, Exercise, and Drill6 Imperial and International Sisterhood: Possibilities and LimitsConclusionNote; Bibliography; Index
£59.50
University of British Columbia Press Guiding Modern Girls
Book SynopsisBy analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world's largest voluntary organization for girls.Trade ReviewGuiding Modern Girls unveils how the early Girl Guide movement carved out spaces of intergenerational female homosociality that were neither fully empowering nor exclusively oppressive. On a larger scale, it gestures at the untapped potential buried in the history of youth organizations for charting the stony and serpentine trails that led to the emergence of a global modernity. -- Mischa Honeck, Historisches Institut, Universitat Duisburg-Essen * H-SOZ-KULT *Kristine Alexander makes a significant contribution to the intertwined histories of girlhood, imperialism, and the international Girl Guide movement. -- Kristine Moruzi * Canadian Historical Review *Alexander paints a complex image of the organization, which was the epitome of the simultaneously dynamic and traditional nature of British society in the interwar period, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Girl Guides through this thought-provoking transnational study. -- Sian Edwards, University of Winchester * Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 31, No. 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Guiding’s Beginnings: Victorian Antecedents and Early Twentieth-Century Growth2 Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere: Training for Homekeeping, Mothercraft, and Matrimony3 “We Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenship”: Preparing Girls for Political and Social Service4 Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors: Religion, Gender, and Racial-National Narratives at Girl Guide Camps5 “The Mass Ornament”: Rallies, Pageantry, Exercise, and Drill6 Imperial and International Sisterhood: Possibilities and LimitsConclusionNote; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press To Be Equals in Our Own Country
Book SynopsisTo Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.
£17.09
University of British Columbia Press Four Unruly Women Stories of Incarceration and
Book SynopsisFilled with stories of pain, regret, and resistance, this chilling account of how four women survived their time at Kingston Penitentiary stands as an indictment of the idea that prisons and punishment are society’s answer to crime.Trade ReviewAlthough Ted McCoy’s Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text—and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!—it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838–1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History *This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeking Unruly Women 1 Bridget’s Life Sentence2 Charlotte’s Moral Insanity3 Alias Kate4 Emily’s Maternal IdealAfterword: Seeing Unruly Women NotesBibliographyIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Four Unruly Women Stories of Incarceration and
Book SynopsisFilled with stories of pain, regret, and resistance, this chilling account of how four women survived their time at Kingston Penitentiary stands as an indictment of the idea that prisons and punishment are society’s answer to crime.Trade ReviewAlthough Ted McCoy’s Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text—and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!—it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838–1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History *This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeking Unruly Women 1 Bridget’s Life Sentence2 Charlotte’s Moral Insanity3 Alias Kate4 Emily’s Maternal IdealAfterword: Seeing Unruly Women NotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
University of British Columbia Press Our Voices Must Be Heard
Book SynopsisOur Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontarioâs suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.Table of ContentsPreface1 Women’s Rights in Indigenous and Colonial Ontario2 Origins of Feminist Thought and Action3 Early Legislative Victories and Defeats4 Waking Up to the Power5 Resisting a Revolution6 Victory amid Discord and WarEpilogueSources and Further Reading; Index
£20.89
University of British Columbia Press Doing Politics Differently
Book SynopsisDo women do politics differently? By assessing the legacies of eleven women premiers, this groundbreaking volume answers a question that has been debated around the world since women first demanded the right to vote and hold public office.Trade ReviewThis volume opens up new scholarly terrain, and it ought to lead academics to engage the many questions it raises and test some of the answers it provides. -- Cristine de Clercy, Western University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Overall, Bashevkin’s collection explores an important issue from a new perspective, challenging readers to consider our progress on equality in the political sphere as well as what merits further research and in some cases censure -- Lori Williams * Alberta Views *Table of Contents1 Exploring Women’s Leadership / Sylvia BashevkinPart 1: The Territories2 “Never in My Life Did I Do Anything Alone”: Nellie Cournoyea as Premier of the Northwest Territories / Graham White3 Pat Duncan, Yukon’s Accidental Premier / Maura Forrest4 Eva Aariak: Strong Nunavut Leader, Reluctant Politician / Sheena Kennedy DalsegPart 2: Atlantic Canada5 Striking a Balance: Catherine Callbeck as Premier of Prince Edward Island / Don Desserud and Robin Sutherland6 In the Wake of Male Charisma: Kathy Dunderdale and the Status of Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Drew Brown, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, and Amanda BittnerPart 3: Central Canada7 Pauline Marois’s Paradoxical Record as Quebec Premier / Philippe Bernier Arcand8 Activist Outsider Becomes Partisan Insider: Kathleen Wynne as Ontario Premier / Sylvia BashevkinPart 4: Western Canada9 Rita Johnston and Christy Clark as British Columbia Premiers / Tracy Summerville10 Women and Politics in Alberta under Alison Redford / Clark Banack11 Governing as if Women Mattered: Rachel Notley as Alberta Premier / Melanee ThomasPart 5: Drawing Conclusions12 Doing Politics Differently? / Sylvia BashevkinContributors; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press A Better Justice
Book SynopsisWomen are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment, they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.This book brings these criminological strands together in a concise and carefully reasoned analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Drawing on interviews with staff and documents from alternative justice agencies, Amanda Nelund finds that alternative programs neither reproduce dominant justice system norms nor provide complete alternatives. Instead, formal and informal practices reflect the tension between neoliberal and social justice approaches. A Better Justice? calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to criminal justice norms. It is in the potenti
£55.80
