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Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled cowboys succeed. In the mythos of this quintessentially western sport, the hero is often a stoic white man...
ISBN: 9780295746777
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Health Advocacy, Inc.
How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement
Over the past several decades, a gradual reduction in state funding has pressured patient groups into forming private-sector partnerships. Health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and...
ISBN: 9780774833851
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Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada's Provinces and Territories
Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada’s provinces and territories, but what difference has their rise to the top made? In Doing Politics Differently? leading...
ISBN: 9780774860819
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Four Unruly Women
Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada's Most Notorious Prison
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary,...
ISBN: 9780774838887
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Assembling Unity
Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Established narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With...
ISBN: 9780774837996
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Tea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their...
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Gendered Mediation
Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics
Despite decades of women’s participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and evaluated....
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Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that...
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Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans,...
ISBN: 9780295745596
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Resisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her...
ISBN: 9780295744988
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Heroines of the Qing
Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the...
ISBN: 9780295744261
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Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set
This slipcased boxed set contains the two volumes: Art AIDS America, published in 2015 to coincide with the original exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the new book Art AIDS America...
ISBN: 9780295744636
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Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing...
ISBN: 9780295744216
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Inside Killjoy's Kastle
Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings
Hundreds of years of ridicule, persecution, erasure, misunderstanding, and institutionalization could put anyone in a bad mood. Killjoy invites you into her Kastle for a queer exorcism of the...
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Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act
Canada’s Indian Act is infamously sexist. Many iterations of the legislation conferred a woman’s status rights through marriage, and even once it was amended First Nations women could not necessarily...
ISBN: 9780774860956
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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office. In Ours by Every Law of Right and...
ISBN: 9780774861878
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Woke Gaming
Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible...
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Jesuits and Matriarchs
Domestic Worship in Early Modern China
In early modern China, Jesuit missionaries associated with the male elite of Confucian literati in order to proselytize more freely, but they had limited contact with women, whose ritual spaces were...
ISBN: 9780295743806
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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational...
ISBN: 9780295744353
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Molecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions...
ISBN: 9780295744100
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