Ubc Press imprint: 250 books

Reconsidering Radical Feminism

Affect and the Politics of Heterosexuality

by Jessica Joy Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

What’s the right way to be a feminist? The political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and ’90s was framed by the divergent, passionately held positions of radical feminism and sex-positive feminism. Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist...

British Columbia by the Road

Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape

by Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging...

Contesting Elder Abuse and Neglect

Ageism, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Rights in the Mistreatment of Older People

by Joan R. Harbison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016

The mistreatment of diverse older people in varying ways is categorized in many societies as “elder abuse and neglect,” yet this concept has not been subjected to rigorous critical inquiry. Instead, it has most often represented the interests of professionals, academics, and governments, while...

The Nature of Masculinity

Critical Theory, New Materialisms, and Technologies of Embodiment

by Steve Garlick
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

Social theorists have argued that as the complexity of our ecosystems becomes more apparent, the line between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, and technology and bodies becomes less distinct. Yet contemporary masculinity studies has generally failed to incorporate this new way of thinking....

The Stability Imperative

Human Rights and Law in China

by Sarah Biddulph
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

“Stability preservation” (weiwen) has long been an imperative of China’s one-party state. At the same time, China has recently embedded a commitment to the protection of human rights in its constitution. This book examines the multiple and shifting ways in which weiwen impinges on the implementation...

Debating Hate Crime

Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada

by Allyson M. Lunny
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

This unique work will appeal to socio-legal scholars and graduate students interested in hate crime, policy-making, and discursive analysis.
by Jeffery Vacante
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

This intellectual history explores how the idea of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and Quebec’s nationalist movement. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Quebec was an agrarian society and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and informed by Catholic principles...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

Contributing to anti-oppressive, minority-sensitive, and human-rights approaches to scholarship, this book will interest scholars, educators, and graduate students in the fields of social work, education, and gender and sexuality studies.
by George Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

A valuable resource for scholars across a number of sustainability fields, this book will also appeal to sustainability practitioners, including government researchers, policy makers, and parks managers, with its focus on sustainability, conservation, environmental management, and resource planning.

Treaty Talks in British Columbia

Negotiating a Mutually Beneficial Future

by Christopher McKee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

In this book, Christopher McKee traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in British Columbia. Through examination of Native peoples'concerns, such as their role in natural resource development and the issue of compensation for lands and resources lost to industry and urban development,...

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

by John Thistle
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

The ranchers who resettled British Columbia’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range...

Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

by Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman, Josée Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices – whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, takeout or homemade, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal – serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the case that our food habits...

Red Light Labour

Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance

by Elya M. Durisin, Emily van der Meulen, Chris Bruckert
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but little new insight into sex work. Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s new legal regime regulating sex work through the analysis of past and present...

Delivering Policy

The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada

by Francesca Scala
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the protracted debates that ensued when Canada appointed a royal commission in 1989 to settle the issue. She reveals...
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