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 ...

Resilience is Futile is a page-turning true story of being stalked by an ex-partner. Award-winning feminist advocate Julie Lalonde, “Mixes humour and horror, irony and moments of acute, brutally honest ...

Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, ...

From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life. Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and ...

In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without ...

Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores ...

The powerful stories of five survivors from Canada, Australia, and Ireland whose lives where shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order ...

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being takes a closer look at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. Following the ...

Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar ...

Elsie Paul of the Tla’amin Nation spent most of her childhood surrounded by the ways, teachings, and stories of her people. In As I Remember It, she shares this traditional knowledge with a new generation. ...