This book describes the field of material ecofeminism, provides an overview of the land question, and explores how reigning discourses of “sustainable development” have led to a commodification of ...

Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, ...

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While ...

Women’s Health expert Lorraine Greaves details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed ...

As a young woman, Amma joined forces with revolutionary freedom fighters that worked in the Mahatma Gandhi–led Civil Disobedience movement. She was connected with a vast network of women whose courage ...

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do is a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, ...

In Keetsahnak, the tension between personal, political, and public action is clear as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. They create a model for anti-violence ...

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as “The Monkey Girl” at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as ‘freaks’ in twentieth-century ...

From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service ? prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion ? monitored and infiltrated ...

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices ...