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Not Just a Man’s War

Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

UBC Press

Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the horrific fourteen-year War of Resistance against Japan, from 1931 to 1945.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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One Second at a Time

My Story of Pain and Reclamation

UBC Press, Purich Books

A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy

UBC Press

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers amasses vital, data-driven research that both corroborates enduring accounts of inequality for women academics and offers pathways toward substantive policy change.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Counting Matters

Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada

UBC Press

Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Suing for Silence

Sexual Violence and Defamation Law

UBC Press

Suing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Regulation of Desire, Third Edition

Queer Histories, Queer Struggles

By Gary Kinsman; Afterword by Tom Hooper; Foreword by OmiSoore Dryden
Concordia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sex in Canada

The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North

UBC Press

Sex in Canada offers a unique, definitive, and surprising exploration of sex and sexuality among Canadians.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here

The Paradox of Protection in Canada

UBC Press

Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The YWCA in China

The Making of a Chinese Christian Women's Institution, 1899–1957

UBC Press

The YWCA in China traces the history of this Christian organization – and the social philosophies of the Chinese women who led it – through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

UBC Press

Is sexual assault tolerated in Canadian sport? After reaching the provocative conclusion that sexual assaults are not only accepted but normalized and even promoted, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport offers constructive strategies to make sport safer.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Too Few to Matter

Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning of Women in Québec and Canada

Les Presses de l'Université Laval, University of Laval Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Gender is Really Strange

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Fighting Feelings

Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life

UBC Press

Fighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Your Gender Book

Helping You To Be You!

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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My Culture, My Gender, Me

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Gender Confirmation Surgery

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Feminism’s Fight

Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970

UBC Press

Feminism’s Fight shows how fifty years of feminist struggle over public policy can inform today’s fight for gender justice and against continued discrimination.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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It's Totally Normal!

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An LGBTQIA inclusive relationship and sex education guide written specifically for queer teens.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution

Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan

UBC Press

Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution persuasively demonstrates the need to entrench protections for individual sexual autonomy within constitutional law.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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