Detachable Penis

By Sam Elkin
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography

In Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 Australian marriage equality postal survey, which resulted in an ...

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance

By Cecily Devereux
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Performing Arts

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of ...

Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Ramona Alaggia & Cathy Vine
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Social Science, Gender Studies, Child Abuse, Social Work

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

Devotion

Edited by Jarrett Earnest
Subjects: Art, Social Science, Gender Studies

Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo & CM
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, e ...

Feminist Praxis Revisited

Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Susanne Luhmann
Subjects: Education, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning i ...

Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities

Edited by Elizabeth Quinlan, Andrea Quinlan, Curtis Fogel, and Gail Taylor
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Education, Social Work, Sociology

At least one in four women attending college or university will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. Beyond this staggering statistic, recent media coverage of “rape chants” at Saint Mary’s Uni ...

Reclaiming Canadian Bodies

Edited by Lynda Mannik & Karen McGarry
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Cultural Studies

The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations ...