The Co-Workplace
Teleworking in the Neighbourhood
Borrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
Women and the White Man's God
Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women’s roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
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.
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
Modern Women Modernizing Men
The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.
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.
Gender in the Legal Profession
Fitting or Breaking the Mould
A thoughtful analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere.
Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women
Governmental Politics and NGO Participation
An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.
Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. Few women’s diaries have survived from that time, and Barrett Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white settlement.
Wired to the World, Chained to the Home
Telework in Daily Life
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.
Driven Apart
Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
Families, Labour and Love
Family Diversity in a Changing World
A sociological analysis of family life in three “settler” societies: Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Feminists and Party Politics
In Feminists and Party Politics, the author examines the effort to bring feminism into the formal political arena through established political parties in Canada and the United States.
Telling Tales
Essays in Western Women's History
Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.