Celebrating International Women’s Day

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we have compiled a list highlighting some new and forthcoming titles by a few of MQUP’s outstanding women authors.

Exploring important topics ranging from the nineteenth-century study of female hysteria; to the #MeToo movement and the myths of rape culture; to the important contributions of black women teachers to anti-racist education in Canada; these challenging, inspiring, and empowering books shed light on some of the great advances made and the important work that remains ahead.

Daughters of Aataentsic
Life Stories from Seven Generations

By Kathryn Magee Labelle

A groundbreaking project recounting the life stories of seven significant Wendat/Wandat women across North America.

Schooling the System
A History of Black Women Teachers

By Funké Aladejebi

A powerful examination of black women teachers and their contributions to anti-racist education in Canada.

In a New Light
Histories of Women and Energy

By Abigail Harrison Moore and R.W. Sandwell

Shining a light on women’s work to power the home in a way rarely seen in histories of energy.

Forthcoming July 2021

Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

By Meredith Ralston

Eliminating rape culture and the pleasure gap by ending good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma.

Forthcoming June 2021

False Summit
Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction

By Julie Rak

Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram.

Forthcoming April 2021

Hysteria in Performance

By Jenn Cole

A performance history of hysteria examining the turbulent ethics of witnessing.

Forthcoming July 2021

Women, Peace, and Security
Feminist Perspectives on International Security

Edited by Caroline Leprince and Cassandra Steer

Inspired thinking and fresh perspectives on feminist international relations and international security issues.

Forthcoming August 2021

Blowing up the Skirt of History
Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920

Edited by Kym Bird

Reviving a dramatic past in which women playwrights used theatre to empower their culture and themselves.

Cautiously Hopeful
Metafeminist Practices in Canada

By Marie Carriere

Exploring writing by women and feminism’s complicated genealogies and future-oriented commitments.

For more great MQUP titles, see our full list of books on Women’s History and Women’s and Gender Studies.