Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.

In Feminists and Party Politics, the author examines the effort to bring feminism into the formal political arena through established political parties in Canada and the United States.

In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. Few women’s diaries have survived from that time, and Barrett Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white settlement.

An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.

A thoughtful analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere.

This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.

Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.