Offering fresh insights and raising important questions, this historical exploration of appropriation traces the ways in which gender and race were negotiated through the popular culture of the Civil Rights Era.
Out of Milk reveals the experiences of mothers struggling to feed their children and the policy gaps that put babies at risk of going hungry in a high-income nation.
Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the Second World War.
The first book on the woman’s suffrage movement in British Columbia, A Great Revolutionary Wave traces the history of the fight for the vote from the 1870s to the 1940s against a backdrop of social reform, international social movements, labour politics, and settler colonialism.
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.
To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women’s suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.
No Place for the State is an incisive study that offers complex and often contrasting perspectives on the Trudeau government’s 1969 Omnibus Bill and its impact on sexual and moral politics in Canada.
Queering Representation explores what happens when LGBTQ people move out of the closet and into the political arena.
Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.
Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter – or not – depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.
Assembling Unity traces the history of pan-Indigenous unity in British Columbia through political negotiations, gendered activism, and the balance and exercise of power.
Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act reverses conventional thinking to argue that the sexism directed at women within the act in fact undermines the well-being of all Indigenous people, proposing that Indigenous nationhood cannot be realized or reinvigorated until this broader injustice is understood.
Beyond the Rebel Girl
Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924
The Female Precariat
Gender and Contingency in the Professional Work Force
By Margie Burns, Tamara Ionkova Hammond and Rachelann Lopp Copland
Queering Visual Cultures
Re-Presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen
Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag
Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition
Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Duchess Harris Foreword by Janell Hobson Afterword by Tammy Owens
Troubling Masculinities
Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11
By Glen Donnar
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
Edited by Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott-Johnson and Philip Smith Foreword by Ryan North
Presumed Incompetent II
Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia
Edited by Yolanda Flores Niemann, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Carmen G. González Foreword by Angela P. Harris
Treacherous Texts
An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
Edited by Mary Chapman and Angela Mills
