Gender studies: women and girls

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Permanent Revolution

By (author) Gail Scott
Foreword by Zoe Whittall
Afterword by Margaret Christakos
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal

"A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates."

From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection ...

Fuse

By (author) Hollay Ghadery
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Memoir and Biography

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the biracial female body and identity, especially ...

We, Jane

By (author) Aimee Wall
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins a friendship with an older woman, also from Newfoundland, who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. It’s back home, and ...

Bent out of Shape

Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s ...

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

Finalist for the 2021 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced ...

Jeannie’s Demise

By (author) Ian Radforth
Categories: Social and cultural history

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out ...

A White Lie

The Women’s Voices from Gaza collection honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. In “A White Lie,” the first ...

Alone: A Love Story

By (author) Michelle Parise
Categories: Biography: general

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she’s suddenly alone. Michelle documents falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything ...

Alice Munro Everlasting

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in British Columbia, Hiding in Plain Sight examines the barriers ...