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False Positive
Private Profit in Canada's Medical Laboratories
Häftad, 2011
258 kr
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When your doctor takes a blood sample for analysis, where does it go? Does it find its way to your local, publicly owned hospital? Does it take a longer journey to a private, for-profit lab in the next city? Chances are, you’ve never given it a lot of thought. In this daring exposé of the …
Good Girls, Good Sex
Women Talk about Church and Sexuality
Av Sonya Sharma
Häftad, 2011
222 kr
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What happens when a woman’s identities as a Christian and as an embodied sexual woman collide? What impact does a conventional Christian view of sexuality have on women’s sexual lives? Through conversations with thirty-six Protestant women, Good Girls, Good Sex explores how both religious values …
Gender and Collaboration
Communication Styles in the Engineering Classroom
Häftad, 2002
227 kr
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As more women enter male-dominated faculties such as engineering, there is a growing need to understand the set of social processes that impact upon them and the continuing need for curriculum reform. This understanding is crucially important for engineering students because of the increasing …
Fourth World
Aboriginal Women`s Activisim and Feminism
Häftad, 2002
239 kr
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This book is not about feminism. Rather, feminism is the basis of the discussion, an example of how understanding oppression must consider a number of barriers. Euro-Canadian feminists rarely address the circumstances that are unique to First Nations’ women, instead working with the assumption that …
Toxic Criminology
Environment, Law and the State in Canada
Av Susan C. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
227 kr
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Critical research, writing and advocacy by legal academics and practitioners, NGOs, indigenous peoples and eco-feminists has existed on a global scale since the 1960s, but not until the 1990s did criminologists begin to examine environmental crime in a more concerted way. This late entrance by …
Taxing Illusions
Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory
Häftad, 2003
221 kr
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For several years now, the business community, politicians, the media and many academics have been actively pro-moting tax cuts as the key to successful economic development. Governments everywhere, regardless of party label, have responded with policies of tax reduction. But taxation is about more …
Women Fishes These Days
Häftad, 2004
239 kr
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As the fisheries have dramatically changed in Newfoundland and Labrador, so has the work and learning experiences of women fishers. Restructuring, work and learning are not gender neutral. Women Fishes These Days explores women’s lives in the restructured fishery, their workload and work …
When Justice Is a Game
Unravelling Wrongful Conviction in Canada
Häftad, 2009
232 kr
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All too often the police do not get the right person. Wrongful convictions are framed as mistakes or failures of the justice system. However, many of the wrongfully convicted are from among the poor and visible minority groups. The law then becomes an ideological mask relieving us of the …
African Nova Scotian?Mi`kmaw Relations
Häftad, 2009
275 kr
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The Indigenous people of Nova Scotia, the Mi’kmaq, have been dispossessed of their lands and, since the early 1820s, confined to reserves. African Nova Scotians have also been dispossessed of lands originally granted to them by white colonial governments and settled in communities with names like …
Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity
The Politics of Difference and Solidarity
Häftad, 2010
210 kr
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This book is a critical analysis of a Muslim group in Canada that has been working to challenge Islamophobia in their community. An important part of their anti-racist work involves dealing with the internal conflicts and dilemmas created by the differences among the members of the group. The …
Aski Awasis/Children of the Earth
First Peoples Speaking on Adoption
Häftad, 2010
239 kr
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The adoption of Aboriginal children into non-Aboriginal families has a long and contentious history in Canada. Life stories told by First Nations people reveal that the adoption experience has been far from positive for these communities and has, in fact, been an integral aspect of colonization. In …
Deadly Fever
Racism, Disease and a Media Panic
Häftad, 2010
251 kr
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In February 2001, a woman from the Congo was admitted to a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, with a serious illness of unknown origin. Very quickly, the rumour spread that she was carrying the deadly Ebola virus. Even though it was equally quickly determined that she did not carry the virus, the …
Ontario Works ? Works for Whom?
An Investigation of Workfare in Ontario
Häftad, 2010
232 kr
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This book is an institutional ethnographic investigation of the Ontario Works program and the problems that it creates in the lives of people on social assistance. Ontario Works is a work-for-welfare program that was implemented in Ontario in 1996 as part of the neoliberal restructuring of the …
Get That Freak
Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools
Av Rebecca Haskell, Brian Burtch
Häftad, 2010
220 kr
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Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools. Get That Freak fills that gap by exploring the experiences of bullying among youth who identify or are …
Leaving the Streets
Stories of Canadian Youth
Av Jeff Karabanow, Alexa Carson m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
214 kr
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Youth between sixteen and twenty-four are considered the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in Canada. While much has been written about street engagement and street culture, little attention has been paid to how youth move away from the street. Giving prominence to the voices of …
Divorced Fathers
Children`s Needs and Parental Responsibilities
Av Edward Kruk
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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Once mainly breadwinners and disciplinarians, fathers are becoming increasingly involved and invested in their children’s lives. Edward Kruk examines how this changing role has affected fathers’ experiences of divorce and the loss of children that too often follows. This book offers a glimpse into …
Sex & the Supreme Court
Obscenity and Indecency Laws in Canada
Av Richard Jochelson, Kirsten Kramar
Häftad, 2011
253 kr
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Canadian laws pertaining to pornography and bawdy houses were first developed during the Victorian era, when “non-normative” sexualities were understood as a corruption of conservative morals and harmful to society as a whole. Tracing the socio-legal history of contemporary obscenity and indecency …
Men & Women and Tools
Bridging the Divide
Häftad, 2011
239 kr
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Although there have been many equity initiatives to encourage women to train and work in the trades, Canadian women still represent less than 3 percent of tradesworkers. Why does this disparity continue to exist? In Men & Women and Tools, Marcia Braundy – herself a tradesperson – explores this …
Ancient Mariner Speaks
Examining Regimes of Truth in ADHD
Häftad, 2012
196 kr
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The number of children labelled ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has been on the increase since the term entered common medical parlance thirty years ago. Through a deeply personal narrative and an analysis of Michel Foucault’s theories on truth, power and knowledge, The Ancient …
Men on the Edge
Häftad, 2012
240 kr
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In the arena of extreme sports, BASE jumping is among the most dangerous. BASE jumpers leap from fixed objects such as bridges, skyscrapers and cliffs, and freefall for several seconds before parachuting back to earth. Men On The Edge offers a wide-ranging sociological analysis of gender and …
Religion, Sex and Politics
Christian Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
Häftad, 2012
214 kr
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Same-sex marriage continues to be a heated issue in Canadian politics. Why does this issue persist in the headlines and remain so controversial? What place does religion have in legislative and legal decisions? Religion, Sex and Politics analyzes the same-sex marriage debate in Canada by examining …
