LibGuides: Virtual Displays: February Displays

February Virtual Displays

The virtual displays for February are Black History Month, Louis Riel Day, and Valentine's Day

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.

Black History Month

Canada commemorates the important peoples and events in the African Diaspora (a worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa). Canada's theme for this year's Black History Month is "Black Legacy and Leadership: Celebrating Canadian History and Uplifting Future Generations."

Louis Riel Day

Louis Riel was a Canadian politician, a found of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. His dream of a province that embraces all cultures is still shared by Manitobans today. This holiday is held in Manitoba on the 3rd Monday of February to commemorate Métis culture and Riel's vision.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is held on February 14th each year and was originally a Christian religious feast day. Now it commemorates love and companionship. Exchanging cute Valentine's cards, chocolates, or flowers are all common practices in Canada.

Black History Month

The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom J. Tettey (et al.)
ISBN: 9781552382769
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian." In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first-generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent. It also explores the circumstances of their children, as they try to define their identities vis-à-vis their parents and the larger Canadian society.
Blackening Canada by Paul Barrett
ISBN: 9781442615762
Publication Date: 2015-04-22
Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, particularly Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, and Tessa McWatt, Blackening Canadainvestigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Through a consideration of literary representation, public discourse, and the language of political protest, Paul Barrett argues that Canadian multiculturalism uniquely enables black diasporic writers to transform national literature and identity. These writers seize upon the ambiguities and tensions within Canadian discourses of nation to rewrite the nation from a black, diasporic perspective, converting exclusion from the national discourse into the impetus for their creative endeavours. Within this context, Barrett suggests, debates over who counts as Canadian, the limits of tolerance, and the breaking points of Canadian multiculturalism serve not as signs of multiculturalism's failure but as proof of both its vitality and of the unique challenges that black writing in Canada poses to multicultural politics and the nation itself.
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora by Aubrey W. Bonnett (et al.)
ISBN: 9780761846628
Publication Date: 2009-07-16
This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia. Researchers sought to determine how many of these diasporic populations have fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas. Prescriptions for the continued viability of these diasporic populations are provided.
Extending the Diaspora by Dawne Y. Curry (et al.)
Call Number: DT16.5. E95 2009
ISBN: 9780252076527
Publication Date: 2009-07-21
Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of localities to engage many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity. It offers insightful and thought provoking studies, highlight new areas of inquiry in the African diaspora, and in many cases transcend geographical and national boundaries. The probing and meticulously woven narratives of this collection combine to show the vibrant histories of peoples of African descent.
Multiple Lenses by David Divine (Editor)
ISBN: 9781847181107
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. This book is an essential introduction to an understanding of the experience of Black people in Canada over a 400 year period.
We Be Lovin' Black Children by Gloria Swindler Boutte (Editor); Joyce E. King (Editor); George L. Johnson (Editor); LaGarret J. King (Editor)
ISBN: 9781975504632
Publication Date: 2021-03-01
This book is about what we must do to ensure that Black children across the world are loved, safe, and that their souls and spirits are healed from the ongoing damage of living in a world where white supremacy flourishes. It offers strategies and activities that families, communities, social organizations, and others can use to unapologetically love Black children. This book will facilitate Black children's cultural and academic excellence.

All Aboard! by Monica Kulling; Bill Slavin (Illustrator)
Call Number: T40. M33K84 2010
ISBN: 9780887769450
Publication Date: 2010-08-10
In the second of Tundra's Great Idea series, biographies for children who are just starting to read, Monica Kulling presents the life of an extraordinary man. There were few opportunities for the son of slaves, but Elijah McCoy's dreams led him to study mechanical engineering in Scotland. He learned everything there was to know about engines - how to design them and how to build them. But when he returned to the United States to look for work at the Michigan Central Railroad, the only job Elijah could get was shoveling coal into a train's firebox. Undaunted, he went on to invent a means of oiling the engine while the train was running, changing the face of travel around the world. With playful text and lively illustrations, All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine may be the first biography a child discovers, and it will whet the appetite for many more.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil by Charmaine A. Nelson
ISBN: 9781443825641
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. Drawing from postcolonial, critical race and black feminist theory, this innovative anthology brings together an extraordinary set of well-recognized and new scholars engaging in the critical debates about the cultural politics of identity and issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception.
The Hanging of Angélique : The Untold Story of Old MontréalCanadian Slavery and the Burning of Old by Afua Cooper
Call Number: HV6248. A53C66
ISBN: 0002005530
Publication Date: 2006
Tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. In a powerful retelling of Angélique’s story―now supported by archival illustrations―Cooper builds on 15 years of research to shed new light on a rebellious Portuguese-born black woman who refused to accept her indentured servitude. At the same time, Cooper completely demolishes the myth of a benign, slave-free Canada, revealing a damning 200- year-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
Unyielding Spirits by Maureen G. Elgersman
Call Number: FC106. B6E44 2016
ISBN: 9781138986565
Publication Date: 2016-01-20
This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of women's productive and reproductive labor caused slavery to falter in Canada and excel in the Caribbean. This study is unique in its desire and ability to place Black Canadian slave women at the center of research, and then contextualize it with a Caribbean model.
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up by Peggy Bristow (Editor)
ISBN: 9780802068811
Publication Date: 1994-08-18
The six essays collected here explore 300 years of Black women in Canada, from the 17th century to the immediate post-WW2 period. 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. Winner of the Ontario Historical Society's 1996 Joesph Brant award.

Blues and Bliss by Jon Paul Fiorentino (Editor); George Elliott Clarke
ISBN: 9781554582341
Publication Date: 2008-11-17
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work from his early poetry to his most recent, this book offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. It alsosketches Clarke's primary interest in the negotiation of cultural space through adherence to and revision of tradition and on the finding of a vernacular that begins in exile, especially exile in relation to African-Canadian communities.
Harriet's Legacies by Ronald Cummings (Editor); Natalee Caple (Editor)
ISBN: 9780228010654
Publication Date: 2022-05-15
Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada. Considering questions of culture, community, and futures, this book explores what happened in the wake of Tubman's legacy and situates Canada as a key part of that dialogue.
The Kids Book of Black Canadian History by Rosemary Sadlier; Qijun Wang (Illustrator)
Call Number: FC106. B6S23 2003
ISBN: 9781550748925
Publication Date: 2003-08-01
From the first Black person who came to Canada about 400 years ago to the most recent wave of African immigrants, Black Canadians have played an important role in our country's history. In this informative overview, kids will discover the inspiring stories and events of a people who fought oppression as they searched for a place to call their own. Featuring fact boxes, mini-profiles, a timeline and more, this book in the acclaimed Kids Book of series offers a glimpse into an often-overlooked part of Canadian history.
Make the World New by Lillian Allen; Ronald Cummings
ISBN: 9781771124959
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, detailed documenting of everyday life as political praxis. This book brings together some of the highlights of Lillian Allen's work in a single volume.
Michaëlle Jean by Rebecca Szulhan
Call Number: FC641. J43S98 2008
ISBN: 9781553883234
Publication Date: 2008
Provides an in-depth look at Michaëlle Jean, her inspiration, achievements and successes.

Louis Riel Day

The Audacity of His Enterprise by M. Max Hamon
ISBN: 9780773559370
Publication Date: 2020-01-23
Shining a spotlight on the life, vision, and cultivation of one of Canada's most influential historical figures.
The False Traitor by Albert Braz
ISBN: 9781442681255
Publication Date: 2017-04-10
The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be a seminal work in the study of this popular Canadian figure.
The False Traitor by Albert Braz
Call Number: PS8101. R5B72 2003
ISBN: 9780802083142
Publication Date: 2003-04-12
This book synthesizes the available material by and about Riel, including film, sculpture, and cartoons, as well as literature in French and English, and analyzes how an historical figure could be portrayed in such contradictory ways. In light of the fact that most aesthetic representations of Riel bear little resemblance not only to one another but also to their purported model, Braz suggests that they reveal less about Riel than they do about their authors and the society to which they belong.
The Incredible Adventures of Louis Riel by Cat Klerks
Call Number: FC3217.1. R53K54
ISBN: 9781551539553
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
This book will be especially fascinating for all young readers interested in: history, biography, or politics. Louis Riel is perhaps the most controversial figure in Canadian history. A rebel and a powerful orator, he emerged as a leader of the Metis in the Red River settlement. His ability to unite the Metis nation was legendary. Although known as the Father of Manitoba, he spent much of his adult life in exile. He was found guilty of treason and hanged in Regina on November 16, 1885.
Louis Riel by Dan Asfar; Tim Chodan; Faye Boer (Editor)
Call Number: FC3217.1. R53A93 2003
ISBN: 9781894864053
Publication Date: 2003-06-19
Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Read about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography. The doomed struggle of Louis Riel and his Métis people against the new Canadian government is a story rich in drama and cultural change.
Louis Riel by Sharon Stewart
Call Number: FC3217.1. R53S74 2007
ISBN: 9781894852265
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now designated Louis Riel Day in Canada.
Louis Riel by Chester Brown
Call Number: PN6733. B76L68
ISBN: 9781896597638
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Martyr or Madman? The Passionate Rebel History Can't Close The Book On. Is this the future of comics? Respectably penning the dowdy pages of history? Don't be fooled. This is one of the hippest comics going and will be a controversial must-have in 2003. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that won't stop rattling. To some Louis Riel was one of the founding fathers of a nation but to others he was a murderer who nearly tore a country apart. A man so charismatic he was elected to government twice while in exile with a prize on his head--but so impassioned his dramatic behavior cast serious doubts on his sanity. Riel took on the army, the government, the Queen, and even the Church in the name of freedom. Will Riel's visionary democracy ever be enough to defend him from the verdict of history?
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada by Jennifer Reid
ISBN: 9780826344151
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the aboriginal Métis people, Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government: the Red River Uprising of 1869-70, and the North-West Rebellion of 1885, in defense of Métis and other minority rights. Against the backdrop of these legendary uprisings, Jennifer Reid examines Riel's religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada's search for a national identity. Reid's study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country's collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel's voice speaks to these issues.
A Rush to Judgment by Roger E. Salhany
ISBN: 9781459746091
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
This book challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial. Roger Salhany argues that the presiding judge allowed the prosecutors to control the proceedings, was biased in his charge to the jury, and failed to properly explain how the jury was to consider the evidence of legal insanity. He also argues that the government was anxious to ensure the execution of Riel, notwithstanding the recommendation of the jury for clemency, because of concerns that if Riel was sent to a mental hospital or prison, he would eventually be released and cause further trouble. Salhany compels readers to reconsider Canada's most famous trial in court history.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call Number: E98. P5K56 2013
ISBN: 9781571313355
Publication Date: 2013-10-15
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
One of the Family by Brenda Macdougall
Call Number: FC113. M33 2009
ISBN: 9780774817295
Publication Date: 2010-02-22
In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as both Aboriginal and a distinct people. The study of Metis identity formation has also emerged as an innovative way to explore cultural encounters and change in North American history and anthropology. In One of the Family Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin - the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness - to trace the emergence of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how relationships in the nineteenth century were supposed to work and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated with fur trade companies and the Roman Catholic Church while nurturing a society that emphasized family obligation and responsibility. This path-breaking study offers a model for future research and discussion that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the fur trade or Metis culture and identity.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire by Chantal Fiola
ISBN: 9780887554803
Publication Date: 2015-04-17
Why don't more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? This book investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.
Returning to Ceremony by Chantal Fiola
ISBN: 9780887559358
Publication Date: 2021-10-08
Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality. Among the Métis, Fiola asserts, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and Métis spirituality includes ceremonies.

Canada's Residential Schools: the Métis Experience by Truth and Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
ISBN: 9780773546554
Publication Date: 2015-12-09
This book focuses on an often-overlooked element of Canada's residential school history. As this volume demonstrates the Métis experience of residential schooling in Canada is long and complex, involving not only the federal government and the churches, but provincial and territorial governments. Much remains to be done to identify and redress the impact that these schools had on Métis children, their families, and their community.
Contours of a People by Nichole St-Onge (Editor); Carolyn Podruchny (Editor); Brenda MacDougall (Editor); Maria Campbell (Foreword by)
Call Number: E99. M47C66 2012
ISBN: 9780806142791
Publication Date: 2012-12-21
The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of this book is conception of geography--not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors.
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire by Scott Berthelette
ISBN: 9780228010593
Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their uncertain relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen - the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis.
Metis Legacy by Lawrence J. Barkwell (et al.)
Call Number: FC109. M494 2001
ISBN: 9781894717045
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
A 512 page book covering the histories of the Metis people. Pictures of cultural items are also included.
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.
The Métis by Jennifer Howse
Call Number: FC109. H69 2007
ISBN: 9781553883371
Publication Date: 2007
The Métis are people who identify themselves as having both First Nations and European ancestors. There are more than 200,000 Métis people living in Canada today. Learn more in Métis, one of the titles in the Canadian Aboriginal Art and Culture series.
Native Chiefs and Famous Métis by Holly Quan
ISBN: 9781894974745
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible odds to preserve the culture and rights of their people. The visionary Cree leader Big Bear sought peace and a better life, only to be hunted mercilessly and imprisoned unjustly. Jerry Potts, the legendary North West Mounted Police guide and interpreter, helped smash the whisky trade and negotiate treaties. Persevering through sorrow and defeat, brave and steadfast men such as these left a lasting mark on Aboriginal culture and the history of western Canada.

Valentine's Day

American Indian Love Stories by Herman Grey
Call Number: E98. F6G74
ISBN: 9781574160635
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Traditional love stories handed down through families from generation-to-generation, these heart-warming, and sometimes playful, tales are written in a manner that lets the reader feel as if he were sitting at the feet of an elder. The lively stories provide authentic glimpses of Native culture, history, and customs from historical periods long past that continue to inform the present.
Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell; Candy Tan
Call Number: PN3448. L67W46 2009
ISBN: 9781416571223
Publication Date: 2009-04-14
Let's face it: Not many folks are willing to publicly admit they love romance novels. Meanwhile, romance continues to be the bestselling fiction genre. Ever. So what's with all the shame?
Beyond Heaving Bosoms shows that while some romance novels are silly--maybe even tawdry--they can also be intelligent, savvy, feminist, and fabulous, just like their readers!
Savage Love: Stories by Douglas Glover
Call Number: PS8563. L64S29 2014
ISBN: 0864928513
Publication Date: 2014
Page after page overflow with the vagaries of lust, the lure of novelty, the perils of infidelity, and the destructive and redemptive nature of passion. Absurd, comic, dream-like, and deeply affecting (on the molecular level), Savage Love confirms Douglas Glover as the most adventurous story writer this country has ever witnessed.

Addressing Student Sexual Violence in Higher Education by Clarissa J Humphreys; Graham J Towl
ISBN: 1838671412
Publication Date: 2020-05-01
This book is the first practical guidance on how to address sexual violence, using a comprehensive institution-wide approach. The authors provide how-to level information on policy writing, responding to disclosures, developing comprehensive prevention and response education programmes, conducting trauma-informed investigations and sanctioning.
Global Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Education by Elinor L. and Guichan Brown Zong
ISBN: 1681237962
Publication Date: 2017
This book is an international research monograph series that contributes to the body of inclusive educational policies and practices focused on: empowering society's most vulnerable groups; raising the ethical consciousness of those in positions of authority; and encouraging all to take up the mantle of global equity in educational opportunity, economic freedom and human dignity.
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris; Michael Emberley (Illustrator)
Call Number: HQ53. H37I87 2021
ISBN: 9781536207200
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
Rigorously vetted by experts, this is the most ambitiously updated edition yet, featuring to-the-minute information and language accompanied by new and refreshed art. It also provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.
Many Splendored Things by Susanna Paasonen
ISBN: 9781906897826
Publication Date: 2018-11-27
Exploring sex-bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections-in terms of play and playfulness. We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. Yet little attention has been paid to thinking through the interconnections of sex and play, sexuality and playfulness. This book considers these interconnections.
Parties, Dorms and Social Norms by Lisa M. Meeks (et al.)
ISBN: 9781849057462
Publication Date: 2016-03-21
For young people with ASD, navigating leaving home, parties, and the first sexual encounters of their twenties can be tricky. This practical guide is full of tips for how to stay safe while making the most out of life and it includes advice on socialising, relationships, online safety, looking after your health, and more.
Reconceiving the Second Sex by Marcia C. Inhorn (Editor); Maruska la Cour Mosegaard (Editor); Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (Editor); Helene Goldberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9781845454739
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
This book sheds new light on male reproduction from a cross-cultural, global perspective, focusing not only upon men in Europe and America but also those in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Both heterosexual and homosexual, married and unmarried men are featured in this volume, which assesses concerns ranging from masculinity and sexuality to childbirth and fatherhood.
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood by Ann C. Crouter (Editor); Alan Booth (Editor)
ISBN: 9780805853919
Publication Date: 2005-10-27
This book is an enlightening compilation of essays for academicians and upper-lever undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of human development and family studies, sociology, and psychology, as well as for practitioners in those fields who work with families and adolescents.
Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health by Jane M. Ussher (Editor); Joan C. Chrisler (Editor); Janette Perz (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138490260
Publication Date: 2019-10-04
This book is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health. It adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in women's sexual and reproductive health. It will also inform health care providers about the latest research and clinical developments, including women's experiences of both normal and abnormal sexual and reproductive functions.
Sex Appeal by Paul Abramson
ISBN: 9780195393897
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
This book charts a thoughtful course between extremes to present six essential principles for sexual health and happiness: Do No Harm, Celebrate Sex, Be Careful, Know Yourself, Speak Up & Speak Out, and Throw No Stones. Abramson elaborates each of these principles in an engaging, often entertaining way, and shows how sex can be a fun, safe, and life-enhancing experience if approached in the right spirit and with the necessary information to make wise sexual choices.
Sex in Canada by Tina Fetner
Call Number: HQ18. C2F48 2024
ISBN: 9780774869508
Publication Date: 2024-03-05
It shows us how the social forces that shape our lives also nudge our sexual behaviour into patterns that reflect the world around us. In applying the tools of social science to a formerly taboo topic, Sex in Canada offers the most accurate picture to date not just of Canadians' sex lives but of why we act the way we do.

Red Hearts and Roses? : Welsh Valentine Songs and Poems by Rhiannon Ifans
ISBN: 9781786833723
Publication Date: 2019
This volume analyses the first extant Welsh Saint Valentine's Day poems, and advances a new understanding of societal propriety in settings where citizens paid great attention to tradition. In so doing, it offers new insights into the tradition of observing Saint Valentine's Day in Wales and, indeed, argues that although it is the fifth-century Dwynwen who is today considered to be the patron saint of Welsh lovers, Saint Valentine also handed out aid and sympathy to lovers in Wales over many centuries.
Valentines Poems by Ted Kooser (Editor)
ISBN: 1281213535
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
For Valentine s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote Pocket Poem and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Valentines collects Kooser s twenty-two years of Valentine s Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time.
The Valentine Star by Patricia Reilly Giff; Blanche Sims (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.G3626V3
ISBN: 0440492041
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
It's time for everyone in Ms. Rooney's room to make cards for the Valentine box. Emily Arrow couldn't be happier when Dawn Bosco gives her some colored stars to decorate her cards. She plans to make a special one for Ms. Vincent, the new student teacher. But things take a turn for the worse when Ms. Rooney asks Emily to be class monitor. Emily feels important sitting at the teacher's desk, until Sherri Dent leaves her seat without Emily's permission. Emily reports her. That's when Sherri tells Emily, "You'll be sorry." Emily is really worried. What will Sherri do to get even?