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  • On All Frontiers

    Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing

    Edited by Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, Nicole Rousseau ...
    Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life.On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Our 100 Years

    The Canadian Federation of University Women

    by Dianne Dodd ...
    Series series A Feminist History Society Book
    This engaging study of a still active women's organization is more than a centennial history to make its members proud. It also provides a lively exploration of a unique organization founded by early women leaders in higher education who offered friendship, community engagement, and lifelong learning. With a leadership of exceptional women, the organization played a largely overlooked role in the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Caring and Curing

    Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

    Edited by Dianne Dodd, Deborah Gorham ...
    Series series Sciences sociales | Social Sciences
    This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Without Apology

    Writings on Abortion in Canada

    Edited by Shannon Stettner ...
    Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    Edited by Alison Li, Shelley McKellar, Elsbeth A. Heaman ...
    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Facing Eugenics

    Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice

    by Erika Dyck ...
    Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Abortion

    History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

    by Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...
    When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people are experiencing on the ground and what people believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2

    Edited by Aideen Quility, Catherine Conlon, Sinéad Kennedy ...
    The Abortion Papers is a unique edited collection that provides key reflections and scholarship on the Irish abortion regime generated in the period between the 1992 X case, the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012 and the subsequent introduction in 2013 of limited abortion legislation. The ideas generated in the volume come from the different but complementary perspectives of activism and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Watch Me

    The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

    by John English ...
    This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sorry, I Don't Speak French

    Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

    by Graham Fraser ...
    As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unwell Women

    Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

    by Elinor Cleghorn ...
    A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a ... Read more

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  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.09 USD