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  • Women in Magazines

    Research, Representation, Production and Consumption

    Edited by Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips, S. Jay Kleinberg ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and appearance. In the decades that followed, feminist scholars criticized such publications as at best ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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  • The Feminism Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about key ideas, organizations and events that defined the movement in The Feminism Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Feminism in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Feminism Book brings ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Strange Stirring

    The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today.“An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.” —Wall Street Journal**In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    by Katrina Srigley ...
    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Little Book of Feminism

    An Accessible Guide to Feminist History, Theory and Thought to Empower and Inspire

    by Harriet Dyer ...
    Do you want to know more about the fight for women’s rights, what we’ve achieved and how we got there? This helpful little guide will teach you the history, theory, big issues and everything you need to know to become a CARD-CARRYING FEMINIST. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

    by Elizabeth Whitaker ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to approach former classmates who had attended Smith College with her, 10 years after their graduation, the high-achieving Friedan was astonished to ... Read more

    $12.30 CAD

  • Through Feminist Eyes

    Essays on Canadian Women’s History

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • What Should We Tell Our Daughters?

    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Persistence of Gender Inequality

    by Mary Evans ...
    Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Against Meritocracy

    Culture, power and myths of mobility

    by Jo Littler ...
    Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is ... Read more

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  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • The Dominion of Youth

    Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

    by Cynthia R. Comacchio ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    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 adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD