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Defending Battered Women on Trial
Lessons from the Transcripts
Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don’t “just leave” and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal.
2015, Winner - David Walter Mundell Medal, Office of the Attorney General
2015, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2013
A National Force
The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950-2000
A groundbreaking reassessment of when, and why, Canada’s army broke away from its British imperial roots to become a truly national force.
2013, Shortlisted - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History
- Copyright year: 2013
A Small Price to Pay
Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45
A long-overdue challenge to the commonplace assumption that the Second World War was a period of consumer austerity in Canada.
2013, Shortlisted - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History
- Copyright year: 2013
Indian Ernie
Perspectives on Policing and Leadership by Ernie Louttit
Retired police sergeant Ernie Louttit shares stories from the streets of Saskatoon, struggling to bring justice to communities where the lines between criminal and victim often blurred.
2015, Shortlisted - Saskatoon Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2015, Shortlisted - The Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2015, Shortlisted - Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2015, Shortlisted - Book of the Year Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2015, Shortlisted - First Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2013
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves
This is the first English-language book to record the experiences and testimonies of Chinese women abducted and detained as sex slaves in Japanese military “comfort stations” during Japan’s 1931-45 invasion of China.
2014, Winner - Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Best Book Award for Non-fiction, Chinese American Librarians Association
- Copyright year: 2013
Gendered News
Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada
An examination of the gender differences in media coverage of politicians in Canada, and the barriers this poses to gender equality in political representation.
2014, Shortlisted - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
2016, Winner - Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies
- Copyright year: 2013