Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
The Dominion of Youth
Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although...
The Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
A Bibliography with Annotations, Volume II 1977-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 1991
This book provides an annotated survey and analysis of the sociological literature concerning three sectarian religious groups: the highly varied Mennonites, the communal Hutterites and the semi-communal anti-industrial Amish.
The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
A Bibliography with Annotations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The editor provides an important new scholarly tool for locating and understanding the enormous expansion of scholarly research dealing with the sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish. Although the book includes research from American scholars, the editor devotes special attention...
Haiti
Hope for a Fragile State
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
“This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the editors has established a high...
by Velma Demerson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Chapter 12
Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby examine how the “post-nerd smart girl”--attractive, intelligent and sexually desirable--is portrayed in The Gilmore Girls, High School...
by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In The Transcendence of the World, Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our experience of the world—the world meant as independent of any particular awareness of it. Focussing on the writings of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger,...
Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
This book is a comparison of the history and politics of two sister societies, comparing Canada with Australia, rather than, as is traditional, with the United Kingdom or the United States. It is representative of a particular interest in promoting more contact and exchange among Canadian and Australian...
The Postwar Novel in Canada
Narrative Patterns and Reader Response
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application...
Fields in Motion
Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
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How the Posture of Researcher-Practitioner Serves an Understanding of Choreographic Activity
Joëlle...
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging...
Home Words
Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature,...
Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada
Translation and Transculturation / traduction et transculturation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The essays in Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of colonizer/colonized, this book examines a field of many cultures and the creative interactions among...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
6 Principles of Parametric Construction in Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion Julien Lapointe This chapter contends that the editing in Godard’s Passion (1982) serves to create repeated stylistic patterns which exist for their own sake, independently of the narrative content. The film is therefore an example...