Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Sex workers in three Maritime cities discuss violence and safety, health, politics, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives.
Carefair
Rethinking the Responsibilities and Rights of Citizenship
In Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.
Tales of Two Cities
Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto
In this thought-provoking book, Sylvia Bashevkin examines the consequences of divergent restructuring experiences in London and Toronto.
If I Had a Hammer
Retraining That Really Works
This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
A cogent analysis of legal mobilization as a strategy for social and activist movements.
Taking Stands
Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
Goes beyond the dichotomies of “pro” and “anti” environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy, and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.
Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.
Gendering Government
Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada
This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.