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In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’ve compiled a reading list from our Spring 2018 catalogue. These titles—all written or edited by women—traverse the female experience across a range of fields including law, philosophy, art, and media.
By Elaine Craig
In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlawfully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants.
By Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt
Combining gender analysis and critical approaches to state surveillance, Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt consider the machinations of the RCMP, including its bureaucratic evolution, intelligence-gathering operations, and impact, as well as the evolution of the women’s liberation movement from its broad transnational influences to its elusive quest for unity among women across lines of ideology and identity.
Edited by Fran Klodawsky, Janet Siltanen, and Caroline Andrew
Building on feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist arguments to offer action-oriented solutions to inequalities and exclusions, this volumes tackle themes such as LGBTQ inclusion, health disparities, diversity initiatives, and urban planning dilemmas.
By Elaine Stavro
Applying Simone de Beauvoir’s existential insights and understanding of embodied and situated subjectivity to recent debates within gender, literary, sociological, cultural, and political studies, Emancipatory Thinking provides a lens to explore the current political and theoretical landscape. Forthcoming May 2018.
By Kristina Huneault
Bringing together settler and indigenous forms of cultural expression and foregrounding the importance of colonialism within the development of art in Canada, I’m Not Myself at All observes and reactivates historical art by women and prompts readers to consider what a less restrictive conceptualization of selfhood might bring to current patterns of cultural analysis. Forthcoming July 2018.
By Mary Lynn Stewart
Documenting the persistence of gender discrimination in the hiring, assigning, and assessment of women reporters in the French daily press, Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940 demonstrates that, through the support of their female colleagues, women managed to succeed despite a variety of challenges. Forthcoming June 2018.
Edited by Dawn Wallin and Janice Wallace
Transforming Conversations considers the complex effects feminism has had and continues to have on Canadian education, acknowledges voices that have been marginalized, and invites readers to continue a transformative feminist dialogue. Forthcoming June 2018.
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