This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.

A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

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.

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.

The Mountain Is Moving describes postwar Japanese society and the roles that women are expected to play within it.

Gathering insights from numerous fields about the construction of Canada, this provocative volume illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future.

Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.

This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.