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...