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Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church.

Distracted by differing demands from without and within, the twenty-first-century university needs to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered deliberation about knowledge and the education of its students as whole human beings.

An overview of the two subjects that distinguish Quebec from the rest of Canada: its deep concern about preserving its culture and its progressive approach to economic and social policy.

Why do some governments try to limit immigrants' access to social benefits and entitlements? This book reveals that such efforts have little to do with economic pressures but rather result from a political climate that rewards a punitive approach to immigration and multiculturalism.

This book is a call to action for all those engaged in the study of history to direct more attention to the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning.

Building on an original study with almost two hundred older incarcerated individuals, this book explores systemic problems that infiltrate the body of the Canadian federal correctional system and other institutions that engage with prisoners.

Valentina Capurri addresses a topic that has been largely ignored, posing new questions on how immigration and disability in Canada have been constructed.

Words Have a Past traces settler colonial narratives represented in newspapers produced in late nineteenth-century Indian boarding schools.

This is the first cultural history of M A C Cosmetics and charts the originally Canadian company's philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness and fundraising during the revitalization of the Toronto fashion industry, the rise of the AIDS epidemic in North America, and the commodification of social causes during the 1980s and 1990s.

Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal, social, and political landscape.

The Sleeping Giant Awakens considers how residential school Survivors and other Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada approached the question of genocide in the Indian Residential Schools system. It assesses prospects for conciliation in the aftermath of genocide.

This book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

North America's market for religious books and periodicals shaped the lives of Canadian Methodists in profound and enduring ways, even helping to prepare the way for the widespread use of American books among Upper Canadians more generally.

This book introduces students to the complex policy dilemmas related to solving global environmental problems today.

With heightened sensitivity to issues surrounding diversity, this text is inclusive, using gender neutral pronouns throughout, and covers a wide range of provocative topics that will engage students.

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Canada from a peacekeeping to a war-making nation during the Conservative Party's recent decade in power, promoting an anti-war perspective that is indispensable for humanity.

Work Your Career shows PhD students how to use the unique opportunities of doctoral programs to build successful career outcomes.

Mark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.

Ms. Prime Minister analyzes media portrayals of the four female prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, arguing that these women's legitimacy as political actors was sometimes affirmed, but as often questioned, by the news coverage they received.

Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative texts, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory on Narrative, Fourth Edition, is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyze narratives of any language, period, and region with clear, systematic, and reliable concepts.

Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence offers various perspectives on our understanding of trauma and resilience.

Getting Past 'the Pimp' makes a compelling case for rethinking Canada's response to sex work by highlighting the limits of criminal justice solutions and drawing our attention to the experiences and perspectives of those targeted.

In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta.

Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS, by Amy Carney, is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers. These families contributed to the transformation of the SS into a racially-elite family community that was poised to serve as the new aristocracy of the Third Reich.

By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.

Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.

Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues within working-class life, including politics and culture, gender, wage-earning and union organization.

Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indigenous peoples are resisting displacement and marginalization.

Private Sector Entrepreneurship in Global Health seeks solutions to serve those most in need, exploring new marketing and finance models, digital health innovations, and novel organizational processes emerging from the private sector.

Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia's health financing, physical infrastructure, and service provision.