LibGuides: Virtual Displays: March Displays

March Virtual Displays

The virtual displays for March are Bees, Mois de la Francophonie, Saint Patrick's Day, and Women's History Month.

The following sections have a variety of topics regarding both displays. Physical displays can also be found by the main circulation desk in the John E. Robbins Library.

Bees

Bees are wonderful. They’re fuzzy and cute. They pollinate our flowers and make honey. They even make for great puns. This library display focuses mainly on beekeeping, bee preservation against extinction, and bees in general.

Mois de la Francophonie | Month of the Francophonie

Mars est le Mois de la Francophonie au Canada et le 20 mars est la Journée internationale de la Francophonie. Ces journées commémorent la langue française, la culture francophone et la diaspora française dans son ensemble.

March is the Month of the Francophonie in Canada and March 20th is International Day of La Francophonie. They commemorate the French language, Francophone culture, and the overall French diaspora.

Saint Patrick's Day

Despite being seen as a holiday to drink copious amounts of Irish-themed alcohol (please drink responsibly and know your limits), it originally commemorated Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century. Christian religious celebrations are still part of this holiday, as is celebrating the Irish diaspora.

Women's History Month

Women’s History Month commemorates the contributions and reflect on moving together towards gender equity and equality. This display will highlight a few influential women in Canadian history, groups of women in Canada, and a collection about women’s rights in the past few decades.

Bees

Beekeeping : New Challenges by Ramón Eduardo Rebolledo Ranz (author)
ISBN: 9781838804671
Publication Date: 2020
This book comes to fill a void in beekeeping research worldwide since it addresses a series of issues of great contingency such as the problem and control of varroa, the management of the American foulbrood, management of hives to perform an adequate transhumance, and the way of handling Brazilian beekeeping.It is a text that is aimed at scientists, producers, undergraduate and graduate students, companies, and the general public who handle hives at a professional or amateur level that have from one to many hives.The book corresponds to the authors' experience of many years who with their contributions will improve the productive activity of beekeeping in the world concert.
Buzz by Lisa Jean Moore; Mary Kosut
ISBN: 9780814763063
Publication Date: 2013-09-27
This book argues that the power of bees goes beyond the food cycle, bees are our mascots, our models, and, unlike any other insect, are both feared and revered. Moore and Kosut also interview professional beekeepers and many others who tend to their bees for their all-important production of a food staple: honey.
Healthy Bee, Sick Bee by Phil Lester
ISBN: 9781776564057
Publication Date: 2021-05-06
This book explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in New Zealand and around the globe. With intelligence, insight and entomologist jokes, it tells the story of this much-loved little insect and offers new ways of thinking about how to ensure they will stick around in the future.
Honey Bee Colony Health by Diana Sammataro (Editor); Jay A. Yoder (Editor)
ISBN: 9781439879405
Publication Date: 2011-11-17
This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. The text also presents methods for diagnosing diseases and includes color illustrations and tables.
Hooray for Beekeeping! by Bobbie Kalman
Call Number: SF523.5. K35
ISBN: 0865056544
Publication Date: 1997-10-31
What's the latest buzz about bees? Hooray for Beekeeping! looks at "apiculture," bee hierarchies and honey production. Young readers will be amazed by the habits of busy pollinators and their keepers.
Modern Beekeeping: Bases for Sustainable Production by Ramón Eduardo Rebolledo Ranz (author)
ISBN: 9781838801557
Publication Date: 2020
Beekeeping worldwide has seen remarkable development in the face of the growing demand for products from bees by consumers who demand increasingly innocuous products that do not harm the environment. However, it should be noted that, recently, problems have arisen in beekeeping production that could become restrictive factors for the worldwide development of beekeeping. This book includes, in simple and accessible terms, very relevant topics such as the effect of pesticides, the impact of diseases and their management, production and analysis of pollen present in honey, DNA analysis, and sustainable management, among others.
A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Call Number: PS8551. N3574R42
ISBN: 0676972411
Publication Date: 1998
Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, headstrong Augusta marries shy, deferential Karl, twelve years her senior, and goes to live with him on his father's remote farm. Terrified that she will literally die from loneliness and isolation, she finds work in town, and for a short time, fulfillment with another man in a romance that will reverberate throughout her life. Not until many years later does she find her salvation in beekeeping, the practice she first learned from her mother. It is beekeeping that reconnects her to the world and at long last brings fire to her steadfast marriage.

Africanized Honeybees by Scott Pearson
Call Number: QL568. A6P355 2017
ISBN: 9781680722765
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Explores the invasion of Africanized honeybees, including where they came from and their impact, through dynamic text and powerful infographics.
Animal Science, Issues and Professions by Richard M. Florio
ISBN: 1613249039
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
For students of animal behavior, honey bees are an intriguing organism, interacting in a complex eusocial colony setting as well as with the environment as they forage over wide areas. Much of that behavior is moderated by odors, which honey bees can detect at extremely low concentrations. This book presents current research from across the globe in the study of bees, including the importance of odor in learning and behavior of the honeybee; the role of honeybees in pollination ecology; threats to the stingless bee in the Brazilian Amazon; honeybee viruses and age-related associative and non-associative learning performance in honeybees.
Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
ISBN: 9780199553068
Publication Date: 2009-12-13
Bees are a focus for conservationists due to mounting evidence of range contractions and catastrophic extinctions. Only by improving our understanding of their ecology can we devise sensible plans to conserve them. The role of bumblebees as invasive species has also become topical with the growing trade in commercial bumblebee nests for tomato pollination leading to establishment of non-native bumblebees in a number of countries.
Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen
Call Number: SF538.3. U6J33 2008
ISBN: 9781596915374
Publication Date: 2008-09-16
This book uses the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder to tell the bigger story of bees and their essential connection to our daily lives. With their disappearance, we won't just be losing honey. Industrial agriculture depends on the honeybee to pollinate most fruits, nuts, and vegetables--one third of American crops.
Honey Bee Colony Health by Diana Sammataro (Editor); Jay A. Yoder (Editor)
ISBN: 9781439879405
Publication Date: 2011-11-17
This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. It also presents methods for diagnosing diseases and includes color illustrations and tables.
Keeping the Bees by Laurence Packer
Call Number: QL568. A6P33 2010
ISBN: 9781554681099
Publication Date: 2010-05-18
Packer often finds himself in exotic and even dangerous locales, risking snake bites, sunstroke, and even the ire of other scientists. Everywhere he travels, he discovers the same unsettling trend: bees are disappearing. And since bees are responsible for up to one-third of our food supply, the consequences are frightening.
A Spring Without Bees by Michael Schacker; Bill McKibben (Foreword by)
Call Number: SF538.5. C65S33 2008
ISBN: 9781599214320
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
In a detective story that melds science and politics, investigative journalist Michael Schacker tries to find out what has happened to America's bees. He looks at many theories for the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, including mobile phones, mites, new pathogens, bee management, and the insecticide IMD.
What Works in Conservation by William J. Et Al Sutherland
ISBN: 9781783741588
Publication Date: 2015-07-01
This book provides practitioners with answers to questions about practical conservation. It provides an assessment of the effectiveness of over 200 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence relevant to the practical global conservation of amphibians.
Wild Honey Bees by Ingo Arndt; Jürgen Tautz; Thomas D. Seeley (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780691235097
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
This book explores the fascinating secret world of wild honey bees, including the adaptations and behaviors they have acquired to survive and the new challenges they face today.

Bees and Beelines by Judy Hawes; Aliki (Illustrator)
Call Number: QL568.A6H38
ISBN: 9780690127393
Publication Date: 1964-01-01
This book describes the "training" of bees when they leave the hive, the use they make of the sun as a guide, the signal systems and dances they use to let the other bees know where the flowers are. Pictures by Aliki complement the book for young readers to understand.
The Bees in Your Backyard by Joseph S. Wilson; Olivia Messinger Carril
Call Number: QL567.1. U6W55 2016
ISBN: 9780691160771
Publication Date: 2015-11-24
This book provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field.
The Bee Tree by Stephen Buchmann; Diana Cohn; Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7. B877325B44 2007
ISBN: 9780938317982
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
In the rain forests of Malaysia, Nazam waits anxiously to climb the bee tree, proving that he is capable of succeeding his grandfather as leader of the traditional honey-hunting clan.
Big City Bees by Maggie de Vries; Renne Benoit (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS8557. E895B54 2012
ISBN: 9781553659068
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
Matthe and Sophie want to grow pumpkins in their community garden, but they wonder if there are bees in the city to pollinate the flowers.
Honeybee by Candace Fleming; Eric Rohmann (Illustrator)
Call Number: QL568. A6F533 2020
ISBN: 9780823442850
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life! Eric Rohmann's exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language.
Honeybees by Joyce Milton
Call Number: QL568. A6M565
ISBN: 9780448428468
Publication Date: 2003-03-24
Bzzz! Learn all about the life cycle of honeybees, how they make honey, and more. With fun bee facts and bright, realistic artwork, this Station Stop 2 easy reader will fly off bookshelves!
The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci
Call Number: QL568. A6M558 1994
ISBN: 9780395861394
Publication Date: 1997-08-25
Why do beekeepers use smoke machines when collecting honey? Can a bee really sting only once? Why do bees "dance"? In concise, detailed text and abundant illustrations that range from the humorous to the scientific, Charles Micucci offers a wide-ranging and spirited introduction to the life cycle, social organization, and history of one of the world's most useful insects. He includes information on how bees make honey, what a beekeeper does, and products that contain beeswax--everything from lipstick to waxes for buffing surfboards. Micucci's rare gift for making science enjoyable and accessible is again revealed in this remarkably witty, rich salute to the honeybee.
The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive by Joanna Cole; Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
Call Number: QL568. A6C565 1996
ISBN: 9780590257213
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
When the Magic School Bus turns into a beehive, Ms. Frizzle's class learns firsthand about how workers, drones, and the queen bees live together. Readers will be abuzz with knowledge as they discover how honeybees find food; make a comb, honey, and beeswax; and care for their young, all from the bee's perspective.
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners by Thomas D. Seeley
Call Number: QL569.4. S44P57 2024
ISBN: 9780691237695
Publication Date: 2024-04-09
This book provides a rare look at how a singularly passionate scientist and his colleagues deciphered the pipings, shakings, and puzzling tremble dances of honey bees, and how this journey of scientific discovery continues to shape our understanding of these remarkably intelligent and vitally important insects.
What a Bee Knows by Stephen L. Buchmann
Call Number: QL568. A6B83 2023
ISBN: 9781642831245
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
This book invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their alien world. Although their brains are incredibly small, bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. This lively journey into a bee's mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us.

Mois de la Francophonie | Month of the Francophonie

Intimate Enemies by Kathryn Batchelor (Editor); Claire Bisdorff (Editor)
ISBN: 1781389292
Publication Date: 2013-06-15
This book draws together reflections by translators, authors and academics working across 3 broad geographical areas where the linguistic legacies of French colonial operations are long-lasting and complex, namely Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean. In addition, translation is shown to be a most valuable tool in revealing the dynamics and pressures that are relevant to the political and economic contexts in which books are written, read and sold.
La Virginité en Question ou les Jeunes Filles Sans Âge by Eftihia Mihelakis
Call Number: GN484.47. M54V57 2017
ISBN: 2760637875
Publication Date: 2017
The author addresses the familiar faces of the angelic victim, the sacred virgin, the viral sisters, and dwells on the still unexplored image of the young suicide bomber, asking the ultimate question: can literature save virgins from a morbid and sacrificial destiny?
Quebec by Janice Hamilton
Call Number: FC2911.2. H36 2002
ISBN: 1550417649
Publication Date: 2002-10-31
Quebec is an insightful and entertaining introduction to its people, culture, geography, history, and economy. The easy-to-read text is complimented with beautiful colour photography, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the province.
Women and Narrative Identity by Mary J. Green
ISBN: 0773568875
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Using the tools of contemporary feminist criticism and building on a tradition of work on Quebec women's writing, Mary Jean Green considers issues of national and cultural self-definition, situating the literary texts of Quebec women within a unique political and historical context while also relating them to the work of women writing in other cultural situations, from nineteenth-century Europe to the postcolonial francophone world.

Comparative Literature for the New Century by Giulia De Gasperi (Editor); Joseph Pivato (Editor)
ISBN: 0773554491
Publication Date: 2018-09-26
This book discusses problems with translation, identity and belonging, the modern epic, the role of tradition, minority writing, Francophone and Anglophone novels in Africa, and politics in literature. It includes chapters on theory, history, media studies, psychology, translation studies, post-colonial studies, and gender studies. Contributors include professor Dominique Hétu from Brandon University.
Hold Your Tongue by Matthew Tétreault (author)
Call Number: PS8639. E896H65 2023
ISBN: 9781774390719
Publication Date: 2023
Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family's complex history, Hold Your Tongue asks what it means to be Métis and francophone. Recalling the work of Katherena Vermette and Joshua Whitehead, Matthew Tétreault's debut novel shines with a poignant, but playful character-driven meditation on the struggles of holding onto "la langue," and marks the emergence of an important new voice
L'Adolescent dans la Foule : Aragon, Nizan, Sartre by Claudia Bouliane (author)
Call Number: PQ673. B685A36 2018
ISBN: 2760639746
Publication Date: 2018
Since May 1968, the image of young people joining a crowd has been common, but this was not always the case. In the 1920s and 1930s, major political movements saw the emergence of adolescents among urban crowds. This book explores narratives from this period, seeking to understand why the association of the adolescent and the crowd appears so frequently in early 20th-century literature through readings of socio-critical works to reveal the tensions in the social imaginary.
La Francophonie Ou L'èLoge de la Diversitè by Michaël Abecassis; Gudrun Ledegen; Karen Zouaoui
ISBN: 9781443829342
Publication Date: 2011-06-01
The first part of this book is devoted to Francophone cinema, between Bollywood and Hollywood. The second part deals with the promotion of diversity in Francophone countries, taking into consideration the cultural aspects of Francophonie in the 21st century, the linguistic description of systems in contact, tracing the historical stages which have led to the creation of this locus of cultural diversity, and focusing finally on university cooperation and Franco-British scientific research.
The Quebec Connection by Julie-Françoise Tolliver
ISBN: 0813944880
Publication Date: 2020-12-03
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. This book examines the links and parallels that writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa imagined to unite that world, illuminating the tropes they used to articulate solidarities across the race and class differences that marked their experience.
Regards croisés sur les Français d'ici by Laurence Arrighi (author)
ISBN: 9782763736204
Publication Date: 2018
Today, as in the past, French in North America is the subject of debate regarding its forms, norms, and significance for identity. The eleven contributions gathered in this volume draw on a variety of terrains, from Manitoba to the West Indies, including Quebec and Acadia. The French here are considered from a variety of perspectives (description of regional practices, competing community affiliations, language standardization) and explored at different periods in their history on the continent. This work thus offers multiple perspectives on the North American Francophonie, which testify to the richness of its uses, the complexity of its social dynamics, and the magnitude of its current challenges.
Screening Youth by Romain Chareyron (Editor); Gilles Viennot (Editor)
ISBN: 1474449425
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Deals with contemporary issues such as LGBTQ identities, terrorism or social tensions and inequities in French and Francophone societies. Presents significant filmmakers whose work has rarely been discussed in an academic setting. Introduces the works of emerging directors and/or prominent directors from Francophone countries. Gathers academics from different fields, offering a multi-faceted approach to the topic of youth in film.
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces by Mohit Chandna
ISBN: 9789462702738
Publication Date: 2021-04-15
This book engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. It also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders.
What Is Québécois Literature? by Rosemary Chapman
ISBN: 9781781385760
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
The question 'What is Québécois literature?' may seem innocent and answerable, yet Rosemary Chapman's compelling study shows that to answer it is to chart the cultural history of French Canada, to put francophone writing in Canada in postcolonial context and to ask whether literary history, with its focus on the nation, is in fact obsolete.

Gabriel Dumont : Memoirs by Gabriel Dumont (author 1837-1906), Denis Paul Combet (author 1955-)
Call Number: FC3217.1. D84A3 2006
ISBN: 9782921347914
Publication Date: 2006
The Memoirs as dictated by Gabriel Dumont and Gabriel Dumont’s Story, conserved in the Société historique de Saint-Boniface archives are published here for the first time in a bilingual French-English volume. These two manuscripts from the Société Historique Métisse collection are emotionally charged documents. In the best tradition of memoirs, Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel’s General, speaks in order to correct the official version of events, which was often exaggerated or untrue. Beyond the epic events of the 1885 North-West Métis Resistance, it is the role of Dumont and his superior heroism that stand out. This edition was annotated by professor Denis Combet of Brandon University.
Gabriel Dumont : Souvenirs de Résistance d'un Immortel de l'Ouest by Gabriel Dumont (author), Denis Paul Combet (author), Ismène Toussaint (author)
Call Number: FC3217.1. D84A3 2009
ISBN: 9782895291381
Publication Date: 2009
In 1888, three years after the defeat at Batoche and the assassination of Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906), the hero of the Métis armies, decided to step out of the shadows to reestablish the truth about the origins of the revolt, the government's theft of Indigenous lands, the course of hostilities, the controversial personality of his friend Louis Riel, and his own role in organizing the uprising. To do this, he first dictated a thrilling three-part text comprising his Memoirs, a Narrative, and his Souvenirs de résistance. Completed with notes and an exhaustive bibliography, this work appears both as a little gem of popular literature and as a reference work.
Histoires et identités métisses : hommage à Gabriel Dumont by Denis Paul Combet (author), Lise Gaboury-Diallo (author), Denis Gagnon (author)
Call Number: E78. 97H48 2009, E90. D83H57 2009, & FC109. H48 2009
ISBN: 1895407397
Publication Date: 2009
Divided into three parts: "Revisiting Gabriel Dumont", "Cultural Recognition and Government Policies" and "Literature, Music and Visual Arts", this bilingual and multidisciplinary work brings together sixteen contributions to offer a better appreciation and understanding of realities too often neglected by official History.
La Francophonie Canadienne by Michael D. Behiels; François Gauthier (Translator); François Gauthier (Translator)
ISBN: 2760316211
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
This book is a comprehensive account of the struggle for minority-language education rights. It describes how French-speaking minorities, supported by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and with the assistance of the Supreme Court and the Canadian government, obtained full recognition of their rights over school governance. This book is published in French.
La Nouvelle France by Peter N. Moogk
ISBN: 0870135287
Publication Date: 2000-04-30
This book explores the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. It also covers the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. It draws on a rich body of evidence including literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America that lead to new discoveries.
Le Ministère des Affaires Extérieures du Canada, Volume I by John Hilliker
ISBN: 9782760326118
Publication Date: 2017-06-07
A glimpse into the efforts that went into the identity and political construct of the Ontarian Francophonie throughout the 20th century. This book is published in French.
Lost in the Crowd by Gregory M. W. Kennedy
Call Number: D547. C2K46 2024
ISBN: 9780228020127
Publication Date: 2024-02-13
This book draws on military archives, census records, newspapers, and soldiers' letters to present a new kind of military history focusing on the experiences of Acadian soldiers and their families before, during, and after WW1. It shows that Acadians were just as likely to enlist as their English-speaking counterparts across the Maritimes, though the backgrounds of the volunteers were quite different.

Saint Patrick's Day

Children of Ireland by Michael Elsohn Ross; Felix Rigau (Photographer)
Call Number: DA906. R67 2002
ISBN: 9781575055213
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Meet the children of Ireland, a nation with a rich and fascinating culture. In Cork, Cormac and Eoghan play the ancient sport of hurling, while Katrina plays rounders. In Donegal, Cait swims in chilly northern waters. John sorts mussels in the seaside village of Cromane. Discover this land of lush hills, busy cities, and ancient stone monuments through the eyes of its children.
Countries of the World: Ireland by Anna McQuinn; National Geographic Kids
Call Number: DA906. M37 2008
ISBN: 9781426302992
Publication Date: 2008-09-09
It's said that Ireland, once visited, is never forgotten, and for once the blarney rings true. This book geography, people and culture, history, government and economy, and nature within Ireland.
Handbook of the Irish Revival by Declan Kiberd (Editor); P. J. Mathews (Editor)
ISBN: 9780268101305
Publication Date: 2016-08-30
The Irish Revival of 1891 - 1922 was an extraordinary era that generated not only a remarkable crop of poets and writers, but also a range of innovative political thinkers and activists. The contributors to this period exchanged ideas and opinions about what Ireland was and could become. This book collects many of the essays, articles, and letters involved in and on the periphery of the Revivalist movement.
Ireland by Rob Alcraft; Rachael Bell
Call Number: DA906. A43 2008
ISBN: 9781432912697
Publication Date: 2008-06-09
What is Dublin coddle? What sports are popular in Ireland? What is a bodrán? Learn answers to these questions and more when you read this newly revised and updated book. See the famous sites. Travel over the land. Join in the celebrations. Find out what Irish children learn in school and what they might do when they are older. See if they play the same sports as you or wear the same kinds of clothes. Learn some words in Gaelic Irish!
Ireland by Justine Fontes; Ron Fontes
Call Number: DA906. F66
ISBN: 9780516245614
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Presents alphabetically arranged categories and applies them to Ireland, including animals, dress, food, religion, and unusual places.
Ireland by Patrick Daley
Call Number: DA906. D35
ISBN: 0739847112
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Describes the country of Ireland, including information on its history, geography, government, economy, social life and customs, and some popular tourist sites.
Ireland's Cultural Empire: Contacts, Comparisons, Translations by Bendelli, Giuliana
ISBN: 1527509249
Publication Date: 2018
Highlighting Ireland's cultural and linguistic influence in the world, this title comes from research carried out on the relationship between Ireland and England, and pays special attention to the concept of 'colony'.
Ireland and Empire by Stephen Howe
ISBN: 0199249903
Publication Date: 2002-03-14
This book evaluates and analyses analyze Ireland's past and present in colonial terms, ranging from debates over the ancient and medieval past to those in current literary and postcolonial theory. Scholarly, at times polemical, it is the most comprehensive study of these themes ever to appear, and will undoubtedly stimulate discussion for years to come.
Irish Alphabet by Rickey E. Pittman; Connie McLennan (Artist)
Call Number: DA906. P48 2011
ISBN: 9781589807457
Publication Date: 2011-01-18
A is for the Aran Islands, E is for Erin, and T is for the three colors in this charming illustrated ABC book for young readers. Irish terms and history are covered in the rhyming stanzas, and a glossary provides pronunciations and additional information.
Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800-2000 by David Lloyd
ISBN: 1316614859
Publication Date: 2017-02-02
This book explains why Irish culture has been both so creative and so resistant to modernization. It brings together manifestations of oral culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, showing how the survival of orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture.
The Irish Language in Ireland by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
ISBN: 9780415320467
Publication Date: 2005-04-11
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the book also situates the language issue in the context of current debates on the geography, history and politics of the nature of Irish identity.
Irish Music Abroad by Angela Moran
ISBN: 1443840378
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010. Initially establishing geographical and chronological parameters, the book cites Birmingham’s location at the hub of a road and communications network as key to the development of Irish music across a series of increasingly visible, public sites.
Language, Resistance And Revival by Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh
ISBN: 0745332269
Publication Date: 2013-04-11
This book covers linguistic and educational developments that took place among Republican prisoners in Long Kesh prison from 1972-2000. During a period of bitter struggle between Republican prisoners and the British state, the Irish language was taught and spoken as a form of resistance during incarceration.
The Leprechaun's Gold by Pamela Duncan Edwards (author), Henry Cole (illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7. E26365L47 2005
ISBN: 0439754526
Publication Date: 2005
A leprechaun intervenes with gold and magic when a greedy, boastful young harpist gains an unfair advantage for a royal harping contest.
Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales by Anne Markey
ISBN: 9780716532798
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
This book offers a more nuanced understanding of the importance of Ireland to Wilde's art. The detailed readings of the fairy tales show that, despite the stories' continuing appeal to children, Wilde intended his fairy tales for a predominantly adult audience. It also demonstrates the ways in which, despite their eerie and disturbing content, these fairy tales reaffirmed conservative values.
A Shared Legacy by Fintan Cullen (Editor); John Morrison (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138256514
Publication Date: 2017-03-06
Covering a span of 3 centuries, this book takes the discussion of Irish and Scottish art beyond the often isolationist approach adopted in the past, dealing directly with issues of nationality in a wider context. The authors identify national concerns through a range of themes: race, class, union and assimilation or nationalism and internationalism and while many of the essays focus on paintings, sculpture, prints and watercolours, others consider a wider notion of visual culture by investigating photography, magic lantern slides and the home arts of embroidery and textiles.
Women and the Irish Diaspora by Breda Gray
Call Number: HQ1600.3. G73
ISBN: 0415260027
Publication Date: 2003-12-10
This book looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. Based on original research with Irish women both in Ireland and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines.

Consuming St. Patrick's Day by Jonathan Skinner; Dominic Bryan
ISBN: 9781443876315
Publication Date: 2015-06-15
This book explores how St. Patrick's Day has been consumed from the symbolic to the literal, the religious and the political. This volume will thus appeal especially to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Irish diaspora studies, and Irish historians and scholars, as well as to anthropology, sociology and cultural studies students invested in exploring St. Patrick's Day as a case study of globalization, migration and commoditization.
Saint Patrick's Day by Molly Aloian
Call Number: GT4995. P3A46 2010
ISBN: 9780778747765
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
On March 17th of each year, millions of people all over the world celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Taste the foods, hear the music, and dance the dances that make up his celebration. The history of this celebration will captivate children and teach them about Irish culture and traditions.
The Wearing of the Green by Mike Cronin; Daryl Adair
ISBN: 9780415180047
Publication Date: 2001-12-28
The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in this book. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's elite to one of the world's most public festivals.
The Wearing of the Green by Mike Cronin; Daryl Adair
ISBN: 1134242301
Publication Date: 2004-11-23
The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in this book. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's elite to one of the world's most public festivals

The Drunken Monkey by Robert Dudley
ISBN: 9780520958173
Publication Date: 2014-05-01
This book presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. It traces the link between the fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates and the evolution of the sensory skills required to identify ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by Edward P. Riley (Editor); Sterling Clarren (Editor); Joanne Weinberg (Editor); Egon Jonsson (Editor)
Call Number: RG629. F45F39 2011
ISBN: 9783527328390
Publication Date: 2010-12-06
Reflecting the recent increased public awareness of the topic, this is the first and most comprehensive resource for over a decade on the molecular basis, prevalence, treatment options, socioeconomic impact and prevention strategies of FADS. It includes the latest research results to provide new insights and realistic estimations of FADS frequencies in Western communities.
Firewater by Harold R. Johnson
Call Number: E78. C2J625 2016
ISBN: 9780889774377
Publication Date: 2016-09-23
A passionate call to action, this book examines alcohol, its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. It challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about alcohol. Firewater calls for people to make decisions about their communities and their lives on their own terms.
A Little Book of Alcohol by Vanessa Rogers
ISBN: 9780857006288
Publication Date: 2012-04-15
This hands-on resource will help young people understand all the facts about alcohol, encourage them to think about and discuss the issues, and help them make positive choices. It is packed with engaging and imaginative activities that explore issues such as safe drinking, peer pressure, risks, the effects of alcohol, and alcohol and the media.
The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited by George E. Vaillant
ISBN: 0674044568
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
In this updated version of his classic book, Vaillant returns to the same subjects with the perspective gained from 15 years of further follow-up. It reassesses what we know about alcoholism in light of both their experiences and the many new studies of the disease by other researchers.
Parties, Dorms and Social Norms by Lisa M. Meeks (et al.)
ISBN: 9781849057462
Publication Date: 2016-03-21
This handbook is filled with the information that young people with ASD say they want (and need) to know about alcohol and drugs, social media and online safety, relationship types and boundaries, safe sex, stress and emotional health, and independent living.

Women's History Month

The Famous Five: Canada's Crusaders for Women's Rights by Barbara Smith
ISBN: 9781772032338
Publication Date: 2019
A concise history of the 5 women who changed the course of history and brought Canadians one step closer to equality in 1920's Alberta when women were barely recognized as relevant.
Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century by Cora Voyageur
ISBN: 9780773575103
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Beginning with Elsie Knott, the first female chief in Canada, Cora Voyageur presents the lives of sixty-four of the ninety women chiefs who have assumed the traditionally male role of elected First Nations leadership. This book presents the colonial histories behind the issues that contemporary Aboriginal communities struggle with and delineates the resulting leadership dilemmas for chiefs, while also articulating a story that is unique to First Nations women.
From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage by Jo Vellacott
ISBN: 0773509585
Publication Date: 1993-05-19
By 1913, Marshall was uniquely placed as a lobbyist with inside information and sympathetic listeners in every party. Through her, the dynamically re-organized NUWSS brought the women's suffrage issue to the fore of public awareness. It pushed the Labour Party to adopt a strong stand on women's suffrage and raised working-class consciousness, re-awakening a long-dormant demand for full adult enfranchisement. Had the general election due in 1915 taken place, NUWSS financial and organizational support for the Labour Party might well have been substantial enough to influence the final results.
Heroines and History by Colin M. Coates; Cecilia Morgan
ISBN: 0802083307
Publication Date: 2002-03-09
This book is a comparative study of the images of Laura Secord and Madeleine de Verchères, symbols respectively of the nationalism of English-Canadian and French-Canadian loyalism and national identity. It explore the relations of gender, race/ethnicity, and imperialism in defining national identity and shaping the past.
Metis Pioneers by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
ISBN: 9781772123616
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade--one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition--who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women's acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.
Rose Henderson by Peter Campbell
ISBN: 9780773581166
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
The political movements and social causes of the turbulent 1920s and 30s are brought to life in this study of the work and times of feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871-1937). Her commitment to social justice led to frequent monitoring and repression by the authorities but her contributions to activist thought continue to pose challenges for interpretations of the history of Canada, leftism, labour, and women.

Beyond Bylines by Barbara M. Freeman
ISBN: 9781554583133
Publication Date: 2011-12-14
Explores the ways in which several of Canada's women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal by-lines to advocate for the controversial women's rights of their eras.
Blowing up the Skirt of History by Kym Bird (Editor)
ISBN: 0228003318
Publication Date: 2021-01-06
This book revives 10 theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change, empowered a counterpublic of politically vocal and socially powerful women's voices, and put women's artistic work and lives in the spotlight. It also recounts each play's production history and historicize the ways in which it intervenes in the ideologies of the age.
Breadwinning Daughters by Katrina Srigley
ISBN: 9781442685253
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, this book examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls. It argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.
Cartographies of Violence by Mona Oikawa
ISBN: 1442664304
Publication Date: 2018-11-19
Disturbing and provocative, this book explores Japanese-Canadian women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.
Compelled to Act by Sarah Carter (Editor); Nanci Langford (Editor)
ISBN: 9780887558733
Publication Date: 2020-10-02
Compelled to Act showcases fresh historical perspectives on the diversity of women's contributions to social and political change in prairie Canada in the 20th century, including but looking beyond the era of suffrage activism.
Extraordinary Women, Extraordinary Times: Canadian Women of WWII by Sherry J. Pringle
Call Number: UB419. C2P75 2014
ISBN: 9780888876089
Publication Date: 2014
This book reveals personal accounts, many being told to us for the first time, of courage, survival and endurance. Sixty Canadian women will mesmerize and beguile you with their heroism, contributions and suffering as they share firsthand accounts of ferrying planes, decoding top secret messages, fighting with the Polish Resistance, or surviving the hell of Auschwitz. They will invite us into the world of military life, take us on a tour of a bomb factory, describe crossing the Atlantic in a convoy, tell us what it was like to drive an ambulance, play professional baseball or leave home as a war bride.
Feminist Acts by Tessa Jordan
Call Number: PN4914. W6J67 2019
ISBN: 9781772124842
Publication Date: 2019-09-26
The history of Branching Out, Canada's first national second-wave feminist magazine, is the story of an upstart publication from the prairies that was read from coast to coast. It is also a story of political activism and community building. When it ceased publication in 1980, Branching Out had reached more readers than any similar periodical. This book draws on first-hand accounts from women who were there.
Feminist History in Canada by Catherine Carstairs (Editor); Nancy Janovicek (Editor)
ISBN: 9780774826198
Publication Date: 2013-11-18
In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the center of historical analysis. 40 years later, feminism continues to inform history writing and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective.
Finding a Way to the Heart by Valerie J. Korinek (Editor); Jarvis Brownlie (Editor)
Call Number: E76.8. F56 2012
ISBN: 9780887557323
Publication Date: 2012-04-15
When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women's, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender, identity, and colonization from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and illustrates Van Kirk's extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.
Gender Conflicts by Franca Iacovetta (Editor); Mariana Valverde (Editor)
ISBN: 9780802067739
Publication Date: 1992-06-20
In the early 1970s, when women's history began to claim attention as an emerging discipline in North American universities, it was dominated by a middle-class Anglo-Saxon bias. Today the field is much more diverse, a development reflected in the scope of this volume. Rather than documenting the experiences of women solely in a framework of gender analysis, its authors recognize the interaction of race, class, and gender as central in shaping women's lives, and men's.
The Gendered Screen by Brenda Austin-Smith (Editor); George Melnyk (Editor); Brenda Austin-Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9781554582716
Publication Date: 2010-05-20
This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). This book updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers and introduces critical studies of newer filmmakers.
Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage (Editor); Kass Banning (Editor); Brenda Longfellow (Editor); Janine Marchessault (Editor)
ISBN: 1442675225
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
The editors have produced a definitive collection of essays that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. This book seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture.
Great Dames by Elspeth Cameron (Editor); Janice Dickin (Editor)
ISBN: 9781442675506
Publication Date: 2017-05-22
This book elucidates the lives and achievements of several Canadian women from different walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavor to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of public men.
A History of Women in the Canadian Military by Barbara Dundas
Call Number: UB419. C2D86
ISBN: 9782920718791
Publication Date: 2004-04-12
Recounts more than a century of women's service in the Canadian military, from the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to today's professional female soldiers.
Mennonite Women in Canada by Marlene Epp
ISBN: 9780887551826
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
This book traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. It explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events.
Passage to Promise Land by Vivienne Poy
ISBN: 9780773541498
Publication Date: 2013-03-15
Spanning more than 60 years, this book is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the WW2 to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, it captures the social, political, and ethnic tensions of the period.
Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History by Nancy Janovicek (Editor); Carmen Nielson (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1453. R425 2019
ISBN: 9781442629714
Publication Date: 2019-05-04
This book represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It includes original essays on Quebecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women's histories and tackles such diverse topics as colonialism, religion, labour, warfare, sexuality, and reproductive labour and justice.
Recollecting by Sarah Carter (Editor); Patricia A. McCormack (Editor)
ISBN: 9781897425831
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
A rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. By exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered, the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender, race, and identity.
Restoring the Balance by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis (Editor); Eric Guimond (Editor); Madeleine Dion Stout (Editor)
ISBN: 9780887551864
Publication Date: 2009-03-01
This book brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being.
Rethinking Canada : the Promise of Wormen's History by Adele Perry (editor), Tamara Myers (editor), Lara Campbell (editor), Don Mills
Call Number: HQ1453. R48 2016
ISBN: 9780199011087
Publication Date: 2016
Rethinking Canada presents a collection of compelling essays on the fascinating lives, struggles, and contributions of women in Canadian history. Reflecting an interdisciplinary approach, this comprehensive and engaging resource stresses the diversity of women's history and demonstrates the analytic richness of ongoing research in the field. Featuring insightful chapter introductions that provide scholarly and historical context for each reading, Rethinking Canada helps students gain a more nuanced understanding of women's experiences across Canada's history.
Schooling the System by Funké Aladejebi
Call Number: LB1775.4. C2A33 2021
ISBN: 9780228005391
Publication Date: 2021-03-05
This book provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women's distinct experiences within the profession. By valuing women's voices and lived experiences, it illustrates that black women, as a diverse group, made vital contributions to the creation and development of anti-racist education in Canada.
The Sweet Sixteen by Linda Kay
ISBN: 9780773587168
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
In 1904, sixteen women travelled together by train to cover the St Louis World's Fair. This book traces the fateful ten-day trip that resulted in the formation of a professional club for the advancement of Canadian newspaper women. Their legacy -the Canadian Women's Press Club - is a testament to their daring.
Through Feminist Eyes by Joan Sangster
Call Number: HQ1453. S26T47 2011
ISBN: 9781926836188
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada.
Transforming Labour by Joan Sangster
Call Number: HD6099. S26 2010
ISBN: 9780802097118
Publication Date: 2010-05-17
This book offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'. Using case studies from across Canada, it explores a range of themes, including women's experiences within unions, Aboriginal women's changing patterns of work, and the challenges faced by immigrant women.
University Women by Sara Z. MacDonald
ISBN: 9780228008637
Publication Date: 2021-11-15
For the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education.
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up by Peggy Bristow (Editor)
ISBN: 1442683279
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
This long overdue history will prove welcome reading for anyone interested in Black history and race relations. It provides a much-needed text for senior high school and university courses in Canadian history, women's history, and women's studies.
Women in Radio by Geneviève A. Bonin-Labelle (et al.)
ISBN: 9780776629094
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
This book looks at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person's or a group's legacy to the radio industry.
Women of Canad by National Council Of Women Of Canada
Call Number: HQ1453. N38W66 2008
ISBN: 9781437366204
Publication Date: 2008-12-01
The book provides a comprehensive account of the lives and work of Canadian women during the late 19th century. It covers a wide range of topics, including the role of women in the family, education, employment, politics, and social activism. It also features biographical sketches of notable Canadian women, including suffragists, educators, and social reformers.

Beyond the Vote by Linda Kealey (Editor); Joan Sangster (Editor)
ISBN: 9781442671386
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Contributors to this volume explore women's involvement in organizations from the political left to right, and women's efforts to shape Canada's political priorities and activities.
Caring and Curing by Dianne Dodd (Editor); Deborah Gorham (Editor)
ISBN: 9780776615592
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.
Feeling Feminism by Lara Campbell (Editor); Michael Dawson (Editor); Catherine Gidney (Editor)
ISBN: 9780774866507
Publication Date: 2022-05-11
Feeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the center of the story.
Feminism's Fight by Barbara Cameron (Editor); Meg Luxton (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1236.5. C2F46 2023
ISBN: 9780774868037
Publication Date: 2023-07-20
Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice for women through Canadian federal policy over the past 50 years, from the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the present.
From Left to Right by Brian T. Thorn
Call Number: HQ1453. T46F76 2016
ISBN: 9780774832090
Publication Date: 2017-01-15
This book explores what motivated Canadian women to become politically engaged in the 1940s and '50s. It argues that while women on the left and right had different goals, their activism continued to be informed by maternalism to influence their parties' positions on war and unions, to break down barriers between the private and public spheres, and to push for a new world order. Along the way, they laid the foundations for the 1960s feminist movement.
Keeping the Campfires Going by Susan Applegate Krouse (Editor); Heather A. Howard-Bobiwash (Editor)
ISBN: 9780803220508
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
This book highlights the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since WW2, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America.
No Place to Go by Nancy Janovicek
Call Number: HV1448. C3J36 2007
ISBN: 0774814217
Publication Date: 2007-10-09
This book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. It focuses on women's groups in small cities and rural communities while also paying close attention to Aboriginal women in northwestern Ontario.
One Hundred Years of Struggle by Joan Sangster
Call Number: JL192. S36O54 2018
ISBN: 9780774835336
Publication Date: 2018-03-08
This book looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and Heritage Minutes to show that the struggle for equality included gains and losses, inclusions and exclusions, depending on a woman's race, class, and location in the nation. The history of the vote offers vital insights into our political life, exposing not only the fissures of inequality that cut deep into our country's past but also their weaknesses in the face of resistance, optimism, and protest - an inspiring legacy that still resonates to this day.
Regulating Girls and Women by Joan Sangster
ISBN: 9781442623507
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sangster focuses on key issues that drew women into the courts, as plaintiffs and defendants: incest and sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, female delinquency, and the unique 'colonization of the soul' that Aboriginal women had to endure before the law.
Sexual Assault in Canada by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (Editor)
ISBN: 9780776630441
Publication Date: 2012-09-29
This book is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence.
Ten Thousand Roses : The Making of a Feminist Revolution by Judy Rebick
Call Number: HQ1453. R43 2005
ISBN: 9780143015444
Publication Date: 2005
This book is a rich tapestry of stories told by over a hundred feminists from across Canada who organized, discussed, protested and struggled for change.
Legalized abortion, resistance to male violence, pay equity and employment equity, legal equality through the Charter, pornography, anti-racism, action against poverty, rights for Aboriginal women and child care: these are the issues that rallied Canadian women to activism from the 1960s through the 1990s, the second wave of feminism.
We Need to Do This : A History of the Women's Shelter Movement in Alberta and the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters by Alexandra Zabjek
ISBN: 1773854941
Publication Date: 2023
In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence through education and training, connect people and communities, and support the complex needs of survivors through a multitude of services. This book is the story of women's shelters in Alberta from their founding to the present day
Women Challenging Unions by Linda Briskin (Editor); Patricia McDermott (Editor)
ISBN: 9781442683563
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
All of the authors share a commitment to workplace militancy and a more democratic union movement, to women's resistance to the devaluation of their work, to their agency in the change-making process.