Book Search
- Topic: Women & Feminism
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Insurgent Love
Abolition and Domestic Homicide
When loved ones transgress into violence, how do we seek justice and safety outside of policing and prisons?
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Ineligible
Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance
A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.
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Rebellion’s Daughter
In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a rebellion against the elite-ruled government.
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Stampede
Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism
This book offers the first-ever intersectional feminist analysis of the gendered and racialized dynamics of the contemporary Calgary Stampede.
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Take Back The Fight
Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age
In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure its power.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence
Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in BC, Hiding in Plain Sight examines the barriers encountered by abused immigrant women across Canada as they seek services and support, and identifies the key challenges for abused immigrant women accessing services as well as the struggles service organizations experience in meeting their needs.
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Dis/Consent
Perspectives on Sexual Consent and Sexual Violence
Refusing to reduce intersectionality to a hasty footnote, this volume examines the construction of sexual violence and consent at diverse intersections of identity and includes a diversity of perspectives and positionalities rarely found in conversations about sexual violence and sexual consent.
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IKWE
Honouring Women, Life Givers, and Water Protectors
“I had the privilege of going to Standing Rock twice. The strength and power that came from the women there inspired this book. To be a woman is to be a life giver and water protector. Even if you never have children, you have that sense, and the duty to honour and protect the water is within you,” writes Traverse.
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Coming Back to Jail
Women, Trauma, and Criminalization
Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women’s lives.
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No Choice
The 30-Year Fight for Abortion on Prince Edward Island
In No Choice, Kate McKenna offers a firsthand account of Prince Edward Island’s refusal to bring abortion services to the Island, and introduces us to the courageous women who struggled for over thirty years to change this.
