Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Sex workers in three Maritime cities discuss violence and safety, health, politics, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives.
Beyond Mothering Earth
Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
Provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism.
Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
Sexing the Teacher
School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies
A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals, this book employs queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram.
No Place to Go
Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement
The first history of the battered women’s shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies.”
Working Girls in the West
Representations of Wage-Earning Women
Examining 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.
Domestic Reforms
Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science – the nation-state.
Electing a Diverse Canada
The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities, and Women
Covering 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.
Opening Doors Wider
Women's Political Engagement in Canada
This 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.
Feminized Justice
The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34
Drawing on case files and newspapers accounts of women’s confrontations with the law in the Toronto Women’s Police Court, Feminized Justice offers a multifaceted portrait of women, crime, and courts in early twentieth-century Toronto.
Justice Bertha Wilson
One Woman’s Difference
This timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson’s contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career.
Sapphistries
A Global History of Love between Women
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, Sapphistries tells the stories of women throughout history who have desired, loved, and had sex with other women, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.
The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
The Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.