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Ingredients for Revolution

A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses

Concordia University Press

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ingredients for Revolution is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present.

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Cripping Intersex

UBC Press

Cripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.

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What Nudism Exposes

An Unconventional History of Postwar Canada

UBC Press

What Nudism Exposes offers a convincing new perspective on postwar Canada by revealing how nudist clubs navigated the social and cultural changes of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

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Beyond Pronouns

The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Solidarity Encounter

Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations

UBC Press

This compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenous–non-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.

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House Rules

Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of the Law

UBC Press

House Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.

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Rare Merit

Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940

UBC Press

Rare Merit illuminates the impact of women as portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and printers in the early years of photography in Canada.

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Feeling Feminism

Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave

UBC Press

Feeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.

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Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

A Legal and Policy Analysis

UBC Press

Banning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.

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Nursing Shifts in Sichuan

Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951

UBC Press

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.

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Making the Case

2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools

UBC Press, Purich Books

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ students in Canadian schools.

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A Liberal-Labour Lady

The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith

UBC Press

This authoritative biography of Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) – British Columbia’s first female MLA, the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister, and a BC suffragist – recovers from obscurity an audacious but imperfect champion in the struggle for greater democracy in early twentieth-century Canada.

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No Legal Way Out

R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress

UBC Press

No Legal Way Out tells the story of one woman who felt trapped in an abusive relationship – and in a system that gave her no way to escape.

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ABC of Gender Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An A-Z of gender identities for kids age 5+ to help educate young readers on gender diversity.

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Transitions

Our Stories of Being Trans

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Trans Survival Workbook

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Companion workbook and journal to the popular Trans Teen Survival Guide to help teens document their transition.

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Demanding Equality

One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

UBC Press

In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.

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Trans Pride

A Coloring Book

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Best of Assigned Male

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Internationally-acclaimed cartoonist Sophie Labelle offers a witty insight into the realities of being trans.

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The Anxiety Book for Trans People

How to Conquer Your Dysphoria, Worry Less and Find Joy

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Personal advice and anecdotes on managing and coping with anxiety as a trans and/or non-binary person.

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Fat and Queer

An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A radical, first of its kind anthology exploring the intersection of fat and queer identities.

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Top To Bottom

A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A witty, practical and insightful memoir and guide to the emotional and physical journey of having phalloplasty.

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Frontiers of Feminism

Movements and Influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–80

UBC Press

Frontiers of Feminism shines new light on the recent history of feminist movements, using the examples of Italy and Québec to bring an international perspective to major themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.

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Women, Film, and Law

Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration

UBC Press

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

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The Trans Self-Care Workbook

A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A colouring book and journal for the trans and non-binary community, with practical advice and creative exercises to promote wellbeing.

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In Their Shoes

Navigating Non-Binary Life

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A fun and feisty guide to living your best non-binary life, written by a rising star in the trans community.

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Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

UBC Press

Queen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.

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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

UBC Press

This long-overdue account of the suffrage campaigns in the first region to grant women the vote in Canada shatters cherished myths about how the West was won.

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Talking Consent

16 Workshops on Relationship and Sexual Education for Schools and Other Youth Settings

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Activities and workshops to facilitate discussion with young people around consent, sex and related topics.

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How to Be Ace

A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A humorous and honest graphic memoir of growing up and navigating life as asexual.

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