Gender studies: women and girls

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Matterhorn

By (author) Virginia May
Categories: Biography: general

Memories of day-to-day life in an exquisitely beautiful but isolated mountain community, working sixteen hours a day.

The author, Virginia May, grew up in post-WWII England, raised by a single mother. ...

An Act of Genocide

By (author) Karen Stote
Categories: Indigenous peoples

During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group ...

Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by eliminating crime, which includes “cleaning” urban areas of the street sex industry. Ironically, sex workers also want to live and work in a ...

Min Fami

Edited by Ghadeer Malek & Ghaida Moussa
Categories: Cultural studies

“Min Fami continues a powerful tradition of Arab women’s writings that draw inspiration from feminist, critical race, and anti-colonial theories and practices. ” –Dana M. Olwan, Syracuse University ...

Women's Work, Women's Art

Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional ...

Finding a Way to the Heart

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of ...

Nilling

"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous ...

Life Stages and Native Women

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful ...

White Femininity

A thought-provoking contribution to the emerging field of white studies, this book argues that whiteness is an influential racial category, not a form of invisibility. Looking at white femininity in ...

Engendering Genre

Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s ...