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  • Plundering the North

    A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity

    by Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...
    Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inventing the Thrifty Gene

    The Science of Settler Colonialism

    by Travis Hay, Teri Redsky Fiddler ...
    Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of “Aboriginal diabetes” and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding Atrocities

    Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

    by Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Stephen Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Christopher Powell, Raffi Sarkissian ...
    Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
    Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • Transcending Borders

    Abortion in the Past and Present

    Edited by Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • An Act of Genocide

    Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women

    by Karen Stote ...
    During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Conquest

    Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

    by Andrea Smith ...
    In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Eugenics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Moral Case for Abortion

    A Defence of Reproductive Choice

    by Ann Furedi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in personal, private decision-making about reproductive intentions. Further, it argues that to prevent a woman making this decision ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

    The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

    by Carole Joffe ...
    Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples

    The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge

    by Laurelyn Whitt ...
    At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the survival of indigenous nations. Numerous historians of science have documented the vital role of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science as a part of statecraft, a means of extending empire. This book follows imperialism into the present, demonstrating ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Abortion to Abolition

    Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada

    by Martha Paynter ...
    The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive country in the world with respect to abortion care. But while abortion access is poorly understood, so too are the persistent threats to reproductive justice in this country: sexual violence, gun violence, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD