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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Two high-level commissions—the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007—addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical...
Canada and Africa in the New Millennium
The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Chapter 5
David R. Black
Canadian Aid to Africa: The elusive search for purpose.
Provides a historical account of development assistance as the most persistent and important basis for Canadian links with Africa. Shows how it can be explained as a manifestation of good international...
Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944
Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining...
Public Poetics
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
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“We jimmied the radio”: Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran and the Lyric in Public
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly posits Gillian Jerome and Brad Cran, in their collaborative work and in their individual poetry, in dialogue with a lyric tradition. The lyric in Jerome’s and Cran’s...
Dissonant Worlds
Roger Vandersteene among the Cree
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds Earle Waugh traces the remarkable career of Roger Vandersteene: his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and folkways,...
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its...
Ontario Boys
Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945--1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
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Christopher Greig
Chapter Four of Ontario Boys explores the phenomenon of the bad boy first presented in Chapter Three. For many adults this version of boyhood stood in direct contrast to the normal boy--the bad boy was the problem boy. Under the growing influence of postwar psychology, this unsettling...
The One Best Way?
Breastfeeding History, Politics, and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the obesity “epidemic.”
Breastfeeding...
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards...
Brothers Beyond the Sea
National Socialism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
During the years 1933 to 1939, a pro-Nazi movement developed in Canada. With the support of the German National Socialist Party, Canadian pro-Nazi institutions were formed: clubs, rallies, schools, and newspapers. The movement ended in failure. The author analyzes the reasons for the formation and...
Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes
Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who compare and contrast the experience of Jews along the chronological spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present) in their respective countries. Of particular interest to them...
Creating Together
Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Seeing Through Artistic Practices: Collaborations Between an Artist and Researcher
Vera Caine and Michelle Lavoi
Documents the collaboration between a printmaker/photographer and a narrative inquirer in Edmonton, Alberta, which began in the face of mourning the difficult stories around...
Cold War Comforts
Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament...
Making It Like a Man
Canadian Masculinities in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in the cultural, sociological, and historical fluidity of ways of being a man in Canada, from the country’s...