Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.

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.

What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent?

This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, opening a permanent rupture in the gender system, destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category.

The Mountain Is Moving describes postwar Japanese society and the roles that women are expected to play within it.

From an examination of photographer Andre Kertesz to a visit to a Hungarian-American church in Cleveland, Richard Teleky reconciles contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.