Recent interest in the wives of American Presidents has led to the rediscovery of many First Ladies whose public service and accomplishments had be...

Lou Labrant - A Woman's Life, A Teacher's Life

Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They ...

Can a prostitute be raped? Are pregnancy and STIs an Occupational Health and Safety issue? What sort of society buys and sells women and children f...

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia. Harriet Rowell (age 23) a...

Will children learn good values when they are raised by a series of caretakers, particularly when many schools are afraid to teach morals and ethic...

"To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve."- Nannie Helen Burroughs. A...

Masculinity and Femininity: Past, Present and Future first focuses on the way in which the #MeToo movement has challenged men to respond to the wid...

A timely addition to the generally conservative field of scholarship on gender in Southeast Asia, Maskulinitas demonstrates that gender studies nee...

"Memory is Our Home" is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of ...

"Memory is Our Home" is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of ...

This book gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for public...

This catalogue introduces the work of Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964), pioneer woman journalist of Western Canada. Never one to follow a typical pat...

In 1978, modern life has yet to reach Nepal, where Cecily Havenshack lives a palatial life with her US diplomat husband. From years of wandering th...

The object of the author in writing this volume is to offer to nurses, and especially to those women who desire to make monthly nursing a vocation,...

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose from Sybylla Feminist Press, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for m...

The public perception of the First Lady has evolved through the years and the press and scholars are beginning to take note of the essential role p...

The public perception of the First Lady has evolved through the years and the press and scholars are beginning to take note of the essential role p...

Dale Spender is a whole-hearted convert to computing and cyberspace, but she has her concerns. How much will the Internet live up to its potential ...

This compilation opens by exploring how the physical and psychological elements of breastfeeding are intrinsically linked to a child's development ...

The woman who first brought the issue of spousal abuse to the forefront in Canada presents her memoirs in this interesting, informative, entertaini...

Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her drea...

On 3 September 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, mi...

In a sequel to the celebrated collection of stories Nobody's Mother comes an honest and poignant collection of essays from men who have forgone fat...

Finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, 2007 BC Book Prizes Statistics say that one in 10 women has no intention of taking the plun...

As prostitution and pornography increasingly saturate our lives and our communities, they are also becoming normalised and accepted as harmless ent...

In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to c...

The essays in this book document how the impressive body of literary works and films created by women writers and filmmakers has greatly enriched t...

To date, little has been published about the place of spirituality in working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Overcoming Conflicting L...

A novel in two voices, 'Parachute Silk' consists of letters between two women friends who discuss in depth their feelings and share their lives by ...

Annie Garland Foster was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1875. She was an educator, nurse, politician, social reformer, journalist and biographer of Pa...

The term "pay equity" originates from the fact that women as a group are paid less than men. In recent years, for example, women with a strong comm...

I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live ...

The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-p...

This is an intimate account of three years lived on the island of Crete, documents a turbulent, stressful time of economic and political crisis in ...

Poppy Sinclair is approaching fifty and -- mostly -- loves her life, teaching young children, living in her Auckland house, intimately involved wit...

Winner, 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book AwardA National BestsellerBy the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 200...

In 2015, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Young v. United Parcel Service. In the case, a United Parcel Service (UPS) worker named Peggy Young...

The biblical Book of Ruth is a love story, apparently personal and simple -- of love between women and between man and woman -- told in poetic imag...

Gender differences are of interest in a wide range of disciplines. This diversity is reflected within this book, which provides a contemporary acco...