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Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada, 5th Edition
Ben Carniol
$22.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 1-896357-94-6
2005
Eating Fire: Family Life, on the Queer Side
Michael Riordon
$22.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 1-896357-45-8
2001
Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Fourth Edition
Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert J. Clarke, and Michael Czerny S.J.
$24.95 CDN
$19.95 US
paper 1-896357-77-6
2003
Lesbians in Canada
Ed. Sharon Dale Stone
$18.95 CDN
paper 0-921284-29-2
1990
This anthology gives women a forum to speak for themselves about their diverse personal experiences when dealing with racism, disability, the denial of lesbian existence in education, motherhood, old age, sexism, heterosexism, and lesbophobia.
Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Michael Riordon
$19.95 CDN
$12.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-05-9
1996
Michael Riordan celebrates the survival of ordinary,extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations.
"There are important lessons in these tales for all of us."
-- Svend Robinson
"Riordon is a charming guide on these travels through Canada. Extremely evocative."
-- The Globe and Mail
Prairie Lives: The Changing Face of Farming
Lois Ross
$19.95 CDN
paper 0-919946-49-6
1985
In Prairie Lives Lois Ross documents the strong sense of community, huge responsibilities, and deep love of land that constitute a way of life for farmers. A unique and entertaining vision that runs contrary to the romantic (urban) view of farming.
Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
Sherene Razack, ed.
$29.95 CDN
$24.95 US
paper 1-896357-58-X
2002
Talking About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity, and Language
$29.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 1-896357-36-9
2001
To Set the Captives Free: Liberation Theology in Canada
Oscar Cole-Arnal
$21.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-15-6
1998
Oscar Cole-Arnal traces the biblical and historical roots of liberationist solidarity with the oppressed, and asserts the validity of radical justice in the current Canadian context. In mapping out the polarities in Canadian society, both past and present, he provides specific entry points for Christians to join the global struggle against the corporate/capitalist agenda.
"A powerful, hard-hitting and often intensely biblical journey through this country's checkered history of social justice and labour activism."
-- Kitchener-Waterloo Record
See also:
Basic Income
Booze
Brink of Reality
Citizens' Hall: Making Local Democracy Work
Civil Society in Question
Enter at Your Own Risk
Girl Trouble
Mirrors of Stone
My Journey with Jake
Poor-Bashing
Quebec and the American Dream
Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet
Skills Mania
Whose National Security?
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