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  • Civil Society and Gender Justice

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel, Gunilla Budde ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies on Civil Society
    Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept? Conversely, does feminism need the concept of civil society?This important volume offers ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Mothers of a New World

    Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

    Edited by Seth Koven, Sonya Michel ...
    Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Reassembling Motherhood

    Procreation and Care in a Globalized World

    Edited by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel ...
    The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Reassembling Motherhood

    Procreation and Care in a Globalized World

    Edited by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel ...
    The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Child Care Policy at the Crossroads

    Gender and Welfare State Restructuring

    Edited by Sonya Michel, Rianne Mahon ...
    Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

    A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

    Edited by Sonya Michel, Ito Peng ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

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  • Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe

    A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day

    by Joshua A. Sanborn, Professor Emerita Annette F. Timm ...
    At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years. Incorporating a blend of history and historiography, Annette F. Timm and Joshua A. Sanborn write engagingly on gender and sexuality in a way that ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    by Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 12 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    by Christine Overall ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe

    A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day

    by Joshua A. Sanborn, Professor Emerita Annette F. Timm ...
    Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European history more widely, as considerations of gender illuminate our understanding of historical change ... Read more

    $33.09 CAD