Pentecostal Preacher Woman
The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard
Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.
Not Just a Man’s War
Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45
Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the horrific fourteen-year War of Resistance against Japan, from 1931 to 1945.
One Second at a Time
My Story of Pain and Reclamation
A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.
Counting Matters
Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.
Suing for Silence
Sexual Violence and Defamation Law
Suing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.
The YWCA in China
The Making of a Chinese Christian Women's Institution, 1899–1957
The YWCA in China traces the history of this Christian organization – and the social philosophies of the Chinese women who led it – through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
Family Law in Action
Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France
Family Law in Action examines the inequalities produced by divorce and separation in France and Quebec.
Clara at the Door with a Revolver
The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto
Gender, race, and politics in late-nineteenth-century Toronto swirl around this riveting true story of the murder of Frank Westwood and the controversial acquittal of the main suspect, Clara Ford – a cross-dressing Black single mother.
The Solidarity Encounter
Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations
This compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenous–non-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.
Rare Merit
Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940
Rare Merit illuminates the impact of women as portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and printers in the early years of photography in Canada.