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Gendering the Nation

Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God’s Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, ...

Painting the Maple

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Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race
and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health
care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,
and ...

Patchworks of Purpose

To examine patterns of social assistance provision specific to particular provinces, Boychuk develops a five-fold typology consisting of “residual,” “market/family enforcement,” “market performance,” ...

Publicité de masse et masse publicitaire

Bien que le phénomène de la publicité soit au coeur de maints débats dans plusieurs disciplines, aucune étude historique d’envergure, au Canada comme au Québec, ne lui avait encore été consacrée. ...

Spuzzum

By (author) Annie York
Categories: Ethnic studies

Living on the banks of the turbulent Fraser River, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-aboriginal peoples. They watched as Hudson’s Bay Company employees hacked ...

Capturing Women

Consisting of a Series of stories, events, and episodes, the book highlights shifting patterns, attitudes, and perspectives toward women in the Prairies. One of Carter’s overarching themes is that women ...

Nellie McClung

By (author) Carol L. Hancock
Categories: Biography: general

Nellie McClung. Her story was her faith. Her work, as politician, author and feminist reformer of the first half of this century, makes Nellie McClung: No Small Legacy a compelling and inspiring biography. ...

Doing Things the Right Way

By (author) Joan Ryan
Categories: Indigenous peoples

Joan Ryan and her research team have carefully documented Dogrib traditional justice as it has been practised over the past century. Relying upon information received from the elders of Lac La Martre, ...