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Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin challenges that restrictive view. But she adds that although progress has been made compared to other...
Editeur : Baraka Books
Parution : 2018-09-13
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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This is a compilation of short stories collected from police women across the world in celebration of 100 years of women in policing. These stories are inspirational and highlight the passion, dedication, persistence and pride that women police officers bring to job....
Editeur : Éditions des Plaines
Parution : 2015-08-31
Format(s) : ePub
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In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom. This book...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-07-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Following the metaphysical and epistemological threads that have led to our modern conception of the body as a machine, the book explores views of the body in the history of philosophy. Its central thesis is that the Cartesian paradigm, which has dominated the modern...
Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2013-06-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-02-05
Format(s) : ePub
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China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as “enemy aliens” of Japan from 1941 to 1945. Over three hundred...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2012-08-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2012-08-01
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
Format(s) : ePub
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The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection :
Cultural Studies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape of their spiritual lives. Experienced writers such as Lorna Crozier, Di...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection :
Studies in Women and Religion
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged — that of the Anabaptist movement. Profiles of Anabaptist Women provides lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose to risk...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection :
Studies in Women and Religion
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-06-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they? Women in God’s Army is the first study of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection :
Studies in Women and Religion
Format(s) : ePub
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Revolution, abolition of slavery, public health care, welfare, violence against women, war and militarism — such issues have been debated for centuries. But much work done by women theorists on these traditional social and political topics is little known or difficult...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
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This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies is about feminist approaches to research in twelve disciplines.The authors look at whether there is something called feminist methodology, whether there are several feminist methodologies, or whether feminists...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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