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  • Feminism’s Fight

    Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970

    Edited by Barbara Cameron, Meg Luxton ...
    Feminism’s Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice for women through Canadian federal policy over the past fifty years, from the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the present.The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1990s and 2000s, revealing the negative impact on most women’s lives and the challenges for ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Unpacking Globalization

    Markets, Gender, and Work

    by Linda E. Lucas, Fatoumata Badini-Kinda, Angela Beigaruraho Bazaare, Marta Chiappe, Patricia Daniel, Manisha Desai, Elsje Dijkgraaff, Signe Ekenberg, Aurelia Kamuzora, Faustin Kamuzora, Ronit Kark, Margaret Kigozi, Julius Kikooma, Harriet Muwanika Kiwemba, Meg Luxton, Emma Zapata Martelo, Mahua Mukerjee, Juliet Nazziwa Musoke, Ngila Mwase, Vannie Naidoo, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Esperanza Tunon Pablos, Noor Rahamah, Claudia Roth, Saskia Sassen, Lena Sawyer, Margaret Snyder, R C. Swarankar, Catherine Komugisha Tindiwensi, Kristen Timothy, Akello Zerupa ...
    Unpacking Globalization examines the experiences of people living with the forces that are transforming economic systems, culture, gender relationships and governance. The book offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as they cope with the changes of globalization. Through theory, case studies, and data, several themes emerge indicating that from the household to the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Precarious Worlds

    Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction

    by Kate Bezanson, Jessie Clark, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Oona Morrow, Kelly Dombroski, Susan Braedley, Meg Luxton, Jamie Winders, Brenda Parker, Katharyne Mitchell, Cindi Katz, Rosalind Fredericks, Brian Marks, Sallie Marston, Barbara Smith ...
    Series Book 25 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Minds of Our Own

    Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76

    Edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, Francine Descarries ...
    This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about “second wave” feminist academics.The contributors explain how ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

    by Susan Braedley, Meg Luxton ...
    Illuminating the ways in which neoliberal policies - such as the deregulation of economies and the transfer of governmental responsibilities to the private sector - have been implemented on a global scale, the contributors show how neoliberalism has seeped into our social and political fabric and affected our daily lives. Drawing attention to the most visible elements of neoliberalism in business, ... Read more

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    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
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    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

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  • Liberating Economics

    Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

    by Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner ...
    Series series Advances In Heterodox Economics
    Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Family Matter

    Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

    by Megan Gaucher ...
    How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada

    Edited by Janine Brodie ...
    Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada. Approaching questions of social justice from the perspectives of race, youth, precarious workers, Indigenous peoples, and the LGBTQ community, the contributors emphasize different ways of thinking about and addressing contemporary social inequalities and ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, Second Edition

    by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince ...
    A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical analysis of how these policies first arose and the implications they pose for future policy ... Read more

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  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Read more

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