From Slave Girls to Salvation
Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923
A fascinating and critical study of the Chinese Rescue Home, an iconic institution in Victoria, BC, where members of the Women’s Missionary Society taught domestic skills to Chinese and Japanese women believed to be prostitutes, slave girls, or to be at risk of falling into these roles.
Our Chemical Selves
Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health
This collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.
Religion and Sexuality
Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance
A volume of cutting-edge scholarship that argues against the traditional assumption that religion and sexuality will always collide, instead exploring sites of intersection where various forms of both co-exist.
Remembering the Samsui Women
Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China
A study of the Samsui women who migrated from China to Singapore, where they have been commemorated as nation-builders.
Mixed Race Amnesia
Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.
French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest.
The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money’s writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist’s work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.
Cultivating Connections
The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada
The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life.
Food Will Win the War
The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front
A wide-ranging account of how millions of Canadians enlisted to fight on the kitchen front in order to win the war for food.
Equality Deferred
Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
A history of human rights law in Canada, with a focus on sex discrimination in British Columbia.