Gender-based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era: Editors’ Reflections
Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era brings together leading experts to shine a light on a serious… READ MORE
August 1, 2024
Gender Studies
Behind the Research: Exploring Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation… READ MORE
June 19, 2024
Q&A with UTP Author Cameron Cross
Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century,… READ MORE
March 6, 2024
Q&A Interview with UTP Author Tuulia Law
Playing the Supporting Role draws on interviews with strippers and strip club management to bring to life the daily routines,… READ MORE
August 31, 2023
A Conversation with UTP Author Samuel Clowes Huneke
This Pride Month, we spoke with Samuel Clowes Huneke, author of States of Liberation. In this blog post, he talks… READ MORE
June 14, 2023
Read with Pride
To celebrate Pride Month, we have curated a selection of titles that showcase the most cutting edge scholarship in Queer Studies.
June 17, 2021
Prosecuting Single Mothers for Infanticide
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine is a page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial that tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, one of whom was her own. In this post, author Sara Beams tells us more about this suspenseful historical mystery.
Mother’s Day: An Excerpt from “Collective Care”
In honour of Mother’s Day, we’re sharing an excerpt from Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS. This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in the face of Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic.
The Need for Employers to Recognize and Reduce Ageism
The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges, including an aging workforce. Author Ellie Berger discusses some first-hand accounts of older workers in Canada and provides suggestions for employers to help reduce ageism in their organizations.
Being Fat Has a History
Jenny Ellison discusses her new book, Being Fat: Women, Weight, and Feminist Activism in Canada, and explores how fat activists wrestled with feminist issues of the era, including femininity, sexuality, and health.
August 20, 2020