Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.

A thoughtful analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere.

An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.

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.

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.

A sociological analysis of family life in three “settler” societies: Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

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 both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.