This book explores the casting of China’s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan.

Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.

This book analyzes the representation of women in elected and appointed office in Canada to explain why gender parity remains elusive.

A cross-comparison of gender and indigeneity in the neoliberal contexts of Canada and Mexico.

The twelve “lays” of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet/translator David R. Slavitt.

A diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.

A stirring portrait of a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and the efforts of her descendants to reconcile a difficult history in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations.

An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.

This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

This 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.