Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

Edited by Becky R. Lee & Terry Tak-ling Woo
Subjects: Religion, Spirituality, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, i ...

Working Memory

Edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies, History, Military History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Canadian History
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Engendering Transnational Voices

Edited by Guida Man & Rina Cohen
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as ...

Map Worlds

By Will C. van den Hoonaard
Subjects: Geography, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil.
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From Sugar to Revolution

By Myriam J.A. Chancy
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary s ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale’s life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform c ...

Desire for Development

By Barbara Heron
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Development Studies, Sociology, Political Science, African Politics

In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial ...

Pursuing Giraffe

By Anne Innis Dagg
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles ...

The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies

Edited by Winnie Tomm
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Women’s Studies

The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies is about feminist approaches to research in twelve disciplines. The authors look at whether there is something called feminist methodology, ...