In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments. Throughout their political careers,...
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Auteur:Sommaire:This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their...
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Auteur:Sommaire:We Still Demand! recovers vibrant and unsung histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Departing from conventional accounts, this book demonstrates the varied nature of resistance and the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:"An anthology of writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community in Canada. The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the...
- Auteur:Tolokonnikova, NadezhdaSommaire:
Nadya was arrested in 2012 for performing an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church. After eighteen months in a Russian prison, she emerged as an international symbol of radical resistance. Now the face of modern protest is wearing...
- Auteur:Tremblay, ManonSommaire:
Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering...
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Auteur:Sommaire:"Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how artistic and radical efforts are reshaping disability activism in Canada and, in the process, challenging dominant perceptions of disability. Recent changes to Canadian disability policy have seen...
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Auteur:Krull, KathleenSommaire:Kathleen Krull turns the spotlight on the women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers,...
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From all four parts of Kurdistan and across the diaspora, Kurdish women from different geographical, political, and educational backgrounds pick up a pen, reflect, and remember. Going beyond exoticising stereotypes and patriarchal...
- Auteur:Belliveau, JoelSommaire:
The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets, demanding further...
- Auteur:Besco, RandySommaire:
Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that self-...
- Auteur:Rich, KaeLynSommaire:
Take on the world and make some serious change with this handbook to everything activism, social justice, and resistance. This book is an in-depth guide to everything from picking a cause, planning a protest, and raising money to...
- Auteur:Wagner, Angelia, Everitt, JoannaSommaire:
Despite decades of women's participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and evaluated. Gendered Mediation takes an...
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Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada's food systems? Why is this...
- Auteur:Hong Fincher, LetaSommaire:
On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on...
- Auteur:Mishra, PankajSommaire:
The author of From the Ruins of Empire (DB 76629) and The Romantics (DB 52514) explores the origins of the great waves of paranoid hatred that persist throughout the world in the early twenty-first century. Also discusses historical...
