A collection of journalist Michele Landsberg's Toronto Star columns, where she was a regular columnist for more than twenty-five years between 1978 and 2005. Michele has chosen her favourite and most relevant columns, using them as a...
Feminism
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Author:Landsberg, MicheleSummary: -
Author:Astin, Helen S.Summary:A dry look at late-20th-century feminist leaders in academia, by a psychologist and professor of higher education at UCLA (Astin) and a senior program associate at the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego (Leland). Inspired by...
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Author:Miles, AngelaSummary:An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that provide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international...
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Author:Angela, MilesSummary:Canadian and international authors offer ground-breaking work in this collection that brings together almost seventy articles by formative feminist writers, researchers, activists and visionaries to illuminate the profound globalizing...
- Author:Dhaliwal, AminderSummary:
THE HILARIOUS AND WILDLY POPULAR INSTAGRAM COMIC ABOUT A WORLD WITH NO MEN. With her startling humor, it's no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal's web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of over 120,000 readers, updated biweekly with...
- Author:Serano, JuliaSummary:
In the updated second edition of Whipping Girl, Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful...
- Author:Barnhill, Kelly ReganSummary:
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are...
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Author:Macy, Sue.Summary:Discusses how the invention of the bicycle allowed women to take charge of personal transportation and set the stage for women's future battles for rights equal to men. Discusses how the bicycle has evolved throughout the ages and...
- Author:Camfield, DavidSummary:
This book will provide readers with a short and accessible introduction to a Marxist theory for our times. More specifically, it will present and argue for an anti-racist queer feminist historical materialism (ARQFHM). This is a...
- Author:Toupin, Louise, Roth, KätheSummary:
In this first-ever international history of the influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement’s founders and activists from Italy, England, Germany...
- Author:Hargreaves, AllisonSummary:
Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the...
- Author:Mucina, Devi DeeSummary:
Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu...
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Author:von Flotow, LuiseSummary:Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination...
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Author:Massaquoi, Notisha, Wane, Njoki NathaniSummary:Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to...
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Author:West, LindySummary:Lindy West provides an incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered politics and culture in America.
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Author:Lovelace, AmandaSummary:2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and...
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Author:Franklin, UrsulaSummary:Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada's foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is a comprehensive collection of...
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Author:Young, Phyllis BrettSummary:The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of...
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Author:Kaufman, MichaelSummary:From founding the White Ribbon Campaign, the world’s largest organized effort of men working to end violence against women, in the early 1990s, to his appointment as the only male member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council,...
- Author:Mander, JaneSummary:
Alice Roland, together with her children, boxes, mattresses and piano, is punted up river to the 'appalling isolation' of their new home, 'a small house against a splendid wall of bush' in the kauri forest at...
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