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| Title: â I Hate Feminists!â |
| Sub-title: December 6, 1989 and its Aftermath |
| By (author): Melissa Blais Translated by: Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott Foreword by: Carmen Gill |
| ISBN10-13: 1552666808 : 9781552666807 |
| On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school à cole Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring â I hate feminists,â killed fourteen young women. â I Hate Feministsâ , originally published in French in 2009, examines the collective memory that emerged in the immediate aftermath and years following the massacre as Canadians struggled to make sense of this tragic event and understand the motivations of the killer. Exploring stories and editorials in Montreal and Toronto newspapers, texts distributed within anti-feminist â masculinistâ networks, discourses about memorials in major Canadian cities and the film Polytechnique, which was released on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, Mélissa Blais argues that feminist analyses and the killerâ s own statements have been set aside in favour of interpretations that absolve the killer of responsibility or even shift that blame onto women and feminists. In the end, Blais contends, the collective memory that has been constructed through various media has functioned not as a testament to violence against women but as a catalyst for anti-feminist discourse. |
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Pages: 136
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - November 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 15.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 1 of: 405 |
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| Title: â Indians Wear Redâ |
| Sub-title: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs |
| By (author): Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, Jim Silver |
| ISBN10-13: 1552665828 : 9781552665824 |
| With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the â gang capital of Canada.â Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have produced them. â Indians Wear Redâ locates Aboriginal street gangs in the context of the racialized poverty that has become entrenched in the colonized space of Winnipegâ s North End. Drawing upon extensive interviews with Aboriginal street gang members as well as with Aboriginal women and elders, the authors develop an understanding from â insideâ the inner city and through the voices of Aboriginal people â especially street gang members themselves. While economic restructuring and neo-liberal state responses can account for the global proliferation of street gangs, the authors argue that colonialism is a crucial factor in the Canadian context, particularly in western Canadian urban centres. Young Aboriginal people have resisted their social and economic exclusion by acting collectively as â Indians.â But just as colonialism is destructive, so too are street gang activities, including the illegal trade in drugs. Solutions lie not in â quick fixesâ or â getting tough on crimeâ but in decolonization: re-connecting Aboriginal people with their cultures and building communities in which they can safely live and work. |
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Pages: 176
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - August 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 18.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 2 of: 405 |
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| Title: A Peopleâ s Senate for Canada |
| Sub-title: Not A Pipe Dream! |
| By (author): Helen Forsey |
| ISBN10-13: 1552667243 : 9781552667248 |
| This little book is written for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet. The Senate, surprisingly, could make major contributions to both. A Peopleâ s Senate for Canada explains how we can make that happen. What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics, truly committed to â sober second thoughtâ and dedicated to the common good? What if Senate appointments focused on experience, integrity and creativity, and flowed from a non-partisan participatory process based on merit and reflective of our countryâ s diversity? What if senators were able to fully devote themselves to their proper legislative and investigative work, cooperating wherever possible, free of party control and electoral worries, and financially accountable to the Auditor General? As Helen Forsey demonstrates, such a Peopleâ s Senate would not require risky and questionable constitutional amendments: the needed changes could be made within the present framework. In fact, some hopeful initiatives are already under way. A Peopleâ s Senate for Canada combines grassroots experience, thorough research and critical commentary to create a peopleâ s resource for positive change. This book offers a rationale, an analysis and a feasible proposal for an upper house that would restore citizen participation and help check government power. It is an antidote to cynicism and a prescription for a truly honourable Senate, one that would make us proud. |
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Pages: 128
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - April 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 17.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 3 of: 405 |
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| Title: A Place to Call Home |
| Sub-title: Long Term Care in Canada |
| Edited by: Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Barbara Clow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, Morgan Seeley, Jane Springer |
| ISBN10-13: 1552662934 : 9781552662939 |
| Long-term residential care operates in the shadows; too often viewed as a necessary evil best left invisible. This book is takes a different approach. It is about daring to dream about developing alternative forms of long-term, residential care based on an understanding of what exists today and of what is possible in the future. Taking into account the fact that the overwhelming majority of residents and providers are women, the book makes gender a central concern in planning for care that treats both workers and residents with dignity and respect. The chapters do not set out the perfect blueprint for such care. Rather they are thought-provoking essays, based on the research and experiences with care today, intended to stimulate a start in designing long-term care that we would be willing to call home. |
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Pages: 128
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - March 2009 |
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| List Price: 21.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 4 of: 405 |
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| Title: Abolitionist Intimacies |
| By (author): El Jones |
| ISBN10-13: 1773635522 : 9781773635521 |
| In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside. Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love. |
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Pages: 220
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - November 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 21.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 5 of: 405 |
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| Title: Aboriginal Knowledge for Economic Development |
| By (author): David Newhouse, Jeff Orr |
| ISBN10-13: 1552665887 : 9781552665886 |
| This book analyzes the benefits, practices and challenges of Miâ kmaw and Maliseet Language Immersion programs, illustrating how these programs provide a solid foundation of worldview, ethics, values and identities that are essential for improved academic success, and examines the Honouring Traditional Knowledge Project, a two-year project to seek Eldersâ views on how to include them and traditional knowledge in all aspects of community economic research and development. Compiled by Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program |
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Pages: 224
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - February 2014 |
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| List Price: 21.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 6 of: 405 |
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| Title: Aboriginal Measures for Economic Development |
| By (author): Jeff Orr, Warren Weir |
| ISBN10-13: 1552665917 : 9781552665916 |
| This volume explores Indigenous measures of economic development in First Nations Atlantic Canadian communities that are of relevance for First Nations peoples. Many of the challenges faced by these communities and their local, regional and national leaders in advancing economic development relate to experiences of diverse and complex issues â most of which clash with federal policies that increasingly call for centralization, standardization and uniformity. This volume illustrates the key challenges in establishing and maintaining socially responsible economic development that is beneficial for Aboriginal communities. Compiled by The Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program (AAEDIRP) |
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Pages: 224
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - October 2013 |
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| List Price: 21.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 7 of: 405 |
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| Title: Aboriginal Oral Traditions |
| Sub-title: Theory, Practice, Ethics |
| Edited by: Renate Eigenbrod, Renée Hulan |
| ISBN10-13: 1552662675 : 9781552662670 |
| Oral traditions are a distinct way of knowing and the means by which knowledge is reproduced, preserved and transferred from generation to generation. The conference from which these essays were selected created an opportunity for people to come together and exchange information and experiences over three days. The scholarship may be grouped into three broad areas: oral traditions and knowledge of the environment, economy, education and/or health of communities; oral traditions and continuance of language and culture; and the effects of intellectual property rights, electronic media and public discourse on oral traditions. |
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Pages: 176
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - April 2008 |
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| List Price: 23.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 8 of: 405 |
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| Title: Abortion to Abolition |
| Sub-title: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada |
| By (author): Martha Paynter Illustrated by: Julia Hutt |
| ISBN10-13: 177363514X : 9781773635149 |
| 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, homophobia and transphobia, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous women and girls, privatization of fertility health services, and the racism and colonialism of policing and the prison system. This beautifully illustrated book tells the empowering true stories behind the struggles for reproductive justice in Canada, celebrating past wins and revealing how prison abolitionism is key to the path forward. |
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Pages: 190
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - May 2022 |
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| List Price: 23.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 9 of: 405 |
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| Title: About Canada: Animal Rights |
| By (author): John Sorenson |
| ISBN10-13: 1552663566 : 9781552663561 |
| Adopting Mahatma Gandhiâ s idea that â the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,â this book considers the status of animals in Canada. Casting a critical gaze over how dominant ideologies, such as capitalism and patriarchy, have negatively impacted our relationships with the natural world, Sorenson examines the institutional exploitation of animals in agriculture, fashion and entertainment. Addressing the fur trade, seal hunt, Calgary Stampede, puppy mills, horse slaughter and Canadaâ s virtually unregulated vivisection industry, the book analyzes discourses used by animal-exploitation industries to defend their practices and suggests that a society that claims to protect animals while maintaining antiquated laws is suffering from â moral schizophrenia.â This book advocates an abolitionist agenda, promotes veganism as a personal and political commitment, shows the economic, environmental and health costs of animal exploitation and presents animal rights as a social justice issue. |
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Pages: 192
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| Published: Fernwood Publishing - March 2010 |
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| List Price: 16.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 10 of: 405 |
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