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  • Counseling Women

    Kinship Against Violence in India

    by Julia Kowalski ...
    Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women understand and navigate their relationships with kin.This book follows frontline workers in India, called family ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Counseling Women

    Kinship Against Violence in India

    by Julia Kowalski ...
    Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women understand and navigate their relationships with kin.This book follows frontline workers in India, called family ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Marilyn Strathern, Janelle S. Taylor, Jason Danely, Celeste Pang, Danilyn Rutherford, Noa Vaisman, Erika Finestone0, Dawa Lokyitsang1, Deborah A. Boehm2, Katie Kilroy-Marac3, Patrick McKenzie4, Brady G’Sell5, Julia Kowalski6, Sonia Yuhui Zhang7, Michael Lambek8, Professor Riché J. Daniel Barnes9 ...
    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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  • Indigenous Healing Psychology

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    by Richard Katz, Ph.D. ...
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  • Diversity, Culture and Counselling

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    by M. Honore France, Mara del Carmen Rodriguez, Geoffrey G. Hett ...
    A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counsellingIn a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical ... Read more

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  • On Freedom

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  • Crip Theory

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    by Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
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  • Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

    Insights from Cultural Diversity

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  • Side Affects

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