Inanna Publications: 128 books
A Gut Reaction
A True Story About a Mother's Struggle to Save her Son's Life and his Amazing Recovery from Crohn's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors,...
And Neither Have I Wings to Fly
Labelled and Locked Up in Canada's Oldest Institution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada’s oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsden and her family were such victims, along with over ten thousand children, including infants, and...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
Theorizing Empowerment
Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist...
Living the Edges
A Disabled Women's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility....
Women and the Gift Economy
A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics from around the...
Arresting Hope
Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection,...
A Romani Women's Anthology
Spectrum of the Blue Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday experience and a social critique of the factors that enable and constrain...
First Voices
An Aboriginal Women's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and...
Corridor Talk
Canadian Feminist Scholars Share Stories of Research Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In this collection, the authors illuminate the struggles and the successes encountered in the research partnership process. The authors come from a variety of disciplines, are at various stages of their academic careers, may or may not be part of the academy, adopt a variety of feminist lenses, have...
Doctored
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Everyone knows someone who has been abused by a doctor and this book, a moving true story, is about the devastating impact of sexual abuse and one woman’s steely determination to recover and find justice. Sky Curtis is a successful writer who goes to her family doctor for anxiety resulting from...
A Force Such as the World Has Never Known
Women Creating Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
A Force Such as the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change is a unique collection of narratives from women from all around the globe. These are stories of compassion and bravery, empowered by the vision of a better world for all life. It emphasizes the need to empower the feminine and assure...
by Marilyn Potter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Leave-Taking moves through stages of grief — the reckoning, the remembering, the rituals — after the sudden death of a spouse. The poems trace reflections on a long marriage, and what it is like to be left behind. The poems travel from Haida Gwaii on the west coast of Canada, across the mountains...
The Snow Kimono
Poems and Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Ilona Martonfi’s third poetry collection, The Snow Kimono, can best described as an obsession with truth. The Snow Kimono invites the reader into a magical world where reality shimmers with the fragile beauty of the moment and the dark, haunting awareness of a painful past that lingers just out...