Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year winner at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Memory Serves gathers the oratories that award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a 20-year period. ...

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. ...

This volume brings together articles on themes and topics at the forefront of feminist inquiry and research and offers a unique and historical perspective of feminism as well as provides an excellent ...

During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...