Fernwood Publishing: 80 books
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?
A Ninety-Year-Old Tells Why Aging Is Positive
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady? is an upbeat look at aging and the impacts of Canada’s increasingly aged population through the eyes of a ninety-year-old woman. Far from seeing older citizens as a burden and a strain on our public health care system, Lillian Zimmerman gracefully, and often humourously,...
by Sirvan Karimi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Tragedy of Social Democracy is about the rise, fall and future of social democracy as a politico-ideological force, a force that was believed would democratically transform capitalism into socialism. Instead of democratizing capitalism, social democracy was itself liberalized by capitalism. Why...
Change a Life, Change your Own
Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessness...
by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public...
Out of the Depths, 4th Edition
Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aboriginal culture by denying...
by Zoë Robertson, Jesse Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Wave goodbye to the American dream.
Just a heartbeat into the future, America is being dragged to its knees by social unrest and economic inequality. The furious pace of technological advancement has made medicine capable of near-miracles but has also enabled the widespread displacement of...
A People’s Senate for Canada
Not A Pipe Dream!
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This little book is written for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet. The Senate, surprisingly, could make major contributions to both. A People’s Senate for Canada explains how we can make that happen.
What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics,...
The Science Files
Questions and Answers from A – Z
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Conventional wisdom has it that science is boring. “The Science Files,” an hourly radio call-in talk show about science, is anything but boring, and certainly none of the listeners, emailers or tweeters who participate in the call-in radio talk show think science is boring either. Richard Zurawski...
by Peter Knegt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world — and the first in the Western Hemisphere — to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But...
by Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education...
by Bernard Schissel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth. About Canada: Children and Youth examines each of the rights within the Canadian context — and finds Canada wanting. Schissel argues that although our...
Screening Justice
Canadian Crime Films, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose to Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally?
Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on crime and justice in Canada. Crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping Canadian...
Constructing Ecoterrorism
Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex...
by John Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Adopting Mahatma Gandhi’s idea that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” this book considers the status of animals in Canada. Casting a critical gaze over how dominant ideologies, such as capitalism and patriarchy, have negatively...