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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
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The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada’s oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsden and her family were such victims, along with over ten thousand...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2013-04-15
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2014 Finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award for Creative Non-Fiction
2014 Finalist for the MARTY People’s Choice Award for Literary Arts
2013 IPPY Bronze Medal Winner for Psychology/Mental Health
The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2013-04-15
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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
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This important and ground-breaking collection brings
together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both
physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the
societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2012-11-01
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2007-05-15
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Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change
in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the
planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2007-05-15
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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
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Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2002-12-17
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