Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
By Cameron Duder
31-Mar-2010

Reforming Japan
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
By Elizabeth Dorn Lublin
09-Apr-2010

Recently Published Women's Studies Titles

Sex and the Revitalized City
Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
By Leslie Kern

When a recent wave of condominium development overtook Toronto, women emerged as powerful consumers, and reports claimed that home ownership was offering young, single women freedom, financial independence, and personal security. Sex and the Revitalized City examines the truth of these claims by exploring the phenomenon from the perspective of women condo owners and planners and developers. This fresh perspective on urban revitalization reveals that condo ownership is not freeing women from constraints -- neoliberal ideologies are remaking women’s relationship with the city in the image of fast capital and consumer citizenship.

2010, 256 pages, 6 x 9"

Sapphistries
A Global History of Love between Women
By Leila J. Rupp

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.

2009, 320 pages, 6 x 9”

Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship.

2008, 320 pages, 6 x 9"

Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
By Norman Smith

Norman Smith reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the period. Smith shows how a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the Japanese cultural agenda while working in close association with colonial institutions.

2007, 216 pages, 6 x 9"

Beyond Mothering Earth
Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
By Sherilyn Macgregor

Beyond Mothering Earth provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism and an analysis of citizenship that makes an important contribution to contemporary discussions of green politics, globalization, neoliberalism, and democratic justice.

2006, 296 pages, 6 x 9”

This Elusive Land
Women and the Canadian Environment
Edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands

This Elusive Land introduces readers to women’s perceptions and experiences of the Canadian natural environment. This multidisciplinary anthology discusses the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, featuring a range of contexts and issues in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land.

2004, 408 pages, 6 x 9"