Celebrate Women's History Month
Discover stories of the trailblazing women of the past and present.
Discover stories of the trailblazing women of the past and present.
Sortir du labyrinthe
Regular price $24.95 Save $-24.95Bien des projets de développement international visent actuellement les femmes. Mais la multitude de ces petits projets soi-disant générateurs de revenues les aident-elles vraiment ? Pour évaluer la pertinence et l’impact de ces politiques, Marie France Labrecque prend en exemple une région andine de la Colombie, La Cocha. À l’aide d’une méthodologie d’anthropologie socioculturelle, elle démontre que les changements sociaux les plus importants ne s’effectuent pas seulement dans les rapports entre hommes et femmes mais aussi entre les générations. L’auteure procède à une analyse minutieuse de la division du travail dans les activités principales auxquelles se livrent les hommes, les femmes, les adultes et les enfants. Elle présente aussi les trajectoires individuelles de femmes appartenant à différentes générations et décrit leur niveau d’insertion dans le travail et dans le développement. Enfin, elle se penche sur les organisations communautaires, leur implication dans la région pour tenter d’évaluer leur influence sur le changement des structures sociales, de la vie quotidienne tant pour les individus que pour la collectivité.
Published in French.
Les Femmes en milieu universitaire
Regular price $24.95 Save $-24.95Il peut paraître étonnant d’évoquer la notion de liberté en matière d’apprentissage. Celle-ci ne fait-elle pas partie intégrante de nos systèmes de valeurs ? Si la fin du XIXe siècle a été témoin de la lutte des femmes pour l’accès à l’éducation, le XXIe siècle s’annonce comme celui où les notions de pluralité, de diversité et d’accroissement continu occuperont la première place. Liberté d’apprendre, certes, mais de quelle manière ? La recherche sur les femmes en milieu universitaire montre que leur expérience est parfois aliénante. Dans cet ouvrage, Jeannine M. Ouellette révèle que le malaise vient de ce que l’apprentissage est détaché de la vie d’apprenante. Ainsi, le « autrement » se rapporte à l’intégration de l’expérience des femmes dans le projet d’apprentissage.
La « liberté » devrait être celle de rechercher dans le milieu d’apprentissage les moyens de mettre au jour les connaissances qui proviennent de l’expérience des femmes. Les personnes en situation de formation feraient leur profit d’une démarche qui reconnaîtrait leur contribution personnelle. Pour bien des femmes, il est particulièrement utile de mettre leur expérience en rapport avec les connaissances transmises, car les réalités qu’elles vivent sont parfois occultées par un système axé sur des préoccupations essentiellement masculines. Tenant compte du développement du moi, de la parole et de la pensée des femmes, l’auteure plaide en faveur d’une méthodologie de l’enseignement qui peut rendre l’expérience universitaire plus satisfaisante pour les femmes, d’une part, et soutenir leur démarche de croissance personnelle, d’autre part.
Publié en français
Femmes de carrière, carrières de femmes
Regular price $24.95 Save $-24.95Les trajectoires familiales et professionnelles suivies par les femmes gestionnaires sont multiples. Plusieurs d’entre elles ont dû subir les effets préjudiciables des rapports sociaux de sexe. Certaines ont su recueillir l’héritage culturel de leur mère, et la plupart ont tenu à faire des études poussées et voulu se ménager une vie personnelle moins contraignante en termes de responsabilités familiales et conjugales. Elles ont par ailleurs bénéficié d’une conjoncture socio-politique favorable à l’avancement des femmes : création de programmes d’équité en matière d’emploi, scolarisation en masse, présence croissante des femmes dans la fonction publique et l’entreprise privée. Dans leur vie professionnelle, les femmes de carrière ont manifesté une prédilection pour des occupations leur permettant de s’accomplir pleinement. Plusieurs d’entre elles ont choisi de défendre un point de vue féministe au travail et ont tablé, pour ce faire, sur la présence de plus en plus forte des femmes. Ouvrage arrivant à point nommé et bien étoffé, Femmes de carrière, carrières des femmes ouvre des perspectives nouvelles pour l’étude d’une réalité sociale qu’il est impossible de passer sous silence.
Publié en français
Femmes et politiques
Regular price $34.95 Save $-34.95Famille et fragmentation
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Regular price $29.95 Save $-29.95Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to the radio industry.
Who are, au féminin, the legends who shaped radio in Canada? What did they contribute locally, regionally, and nationally? How was their experience in radio broadcasting different from that of their male counterparts?
Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers an overview of the women who built careers in the Canadian radio industry—yet whose contributions have often been overlooked simply because they were women.
This collection of stories highlights the multi-faceted contributions women broadcasters made to their field and explores issues specific to them. Academic research, interviews, personal reflections and accounts, historical reviews, and hybrid texts combine neatly in this eclectic yet well–researched edited volume, to reflect the fast-paced world of radio broadcasting.
Whether through storytelling, direct quotes, or quasi transcriptions best read aloud, readers come away with a real sense of the aural nature of radio, of the voice unaccompanied, of the pure spoken word and how it differs from that of the printed word.
Women in Radio
Regular price $49.95 Save $-49.95Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to the radio industry.
Who are, au féminin, the legends who shaped radio in Canada? What did they contribute locally, regionally, and nationally? How was their experience in radio broadcasting different from that of their male counterparts?
Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers an overview of the women who built careers in the Canadian radio industry—yet whose contributions have often been overlooked simply because they were women.
This collection of stories highlights the multi-faceted contributions women broadcasters made to their field and explores issues specific to them. Academic research, interviews, personal reflections and accounts, historical reviews, and hybrid texts combine neatly in this eclectic yet well–researched edited volume, to reflect the fast-paced world of radio broadcasting.
Whether through storytelling, direct quotes, or quasi transcriptions best read aloud, readers come away with a real sense of the aural nature of radio, of the voice unaccompanied, of the pure spoken word and how it differs from that of the printed word.
Caring and Curing
Regular price $24.95 Save $-24.95This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy.
The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.
Published in English.
L’incontournable caste des femmes
Regular price $39.95 Save $-39.95Sages-femmes, religieuses, sœurs hospitalières, bénévoles, infirmières de la Croix-Rouge, de colonie, militaires, en psychiatrie, assistantes sociales et professionnelles de la santé sont ici sujets de l’histoire dans le large champ des services de santé au Québec et au Canada. Plus qu’un sujet, il est ici question d’une extraordinaire caste. Soucieux de fermer le fossé linguistique qui divisa non seulement la pratique, mais aussi l’historiographie de la médecine au Canada et au Québec, l’ouvrage collige des recherches récentes dans le champ historique de la santé réalisées par des historiennes et des historiens francophones et anglophones. Une invitation à découvrir sur plus d’un siècle la place prédominante de plusieurs générations de femmes qui ont participé activement au développement du système de santé au Québec et au Canada.
Pubilshed in French.
The Bold and the Brave
Regular price $34.95 Save $-34.95The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering.
Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of women’s education in mathematics and science through the ages, from antiquity to the Enlightenment. While opportunities for women were often purposely limited, she reveals how many women found ways to explore science outside of formal education. The book examines the lives and work of three women—Sophie Germain, Mileva Einstein, and Rosalind Franklin—that provide excellent examples of how women’s contributions to science have been dismissed, ignored or stolen outright.
She concludes with an in-depth look at women’s participation in science and engineering throughout the twentieth century and the current status of women in science and engineering, which has experienced a decline in recent years. To encourage more young women to pursue careers in science and engineering she advocates re-gendering the fields by integrating feminine and masculine approaches that would ultimately improve scientific and engineering endeavours.
Published in English.
Pour sortir les allumettières de l’ombre
Regular price $29.95 Save $-29.95Exploited young women or committed union activists? How should we remember the allumettières working at the E. B. Eddy match factory, in Hull?
Between 1854 and 1928, an anonymous workforce of female workers produced 90% of Canada’s matches—grueling and incredibly dangerous work given the continual risk of fire and, more importantly, given the manipulation of toxic chemicals. This work had disastrous consequences for these women, and it is therefore of little surprise that they launched the very first female-driven union dispute in Quebec.
In this first-ever book devoted to Hull’s allumettières, historian Kathleen Durocher tells their fascinating story using a trove of historical documents, including Canadian censuses, various governments, private, and parish archives, as well as numerous articles published in scientific journals and large-circulation newspapers.
Durocher presents a demographic profile of the allumettières, followed by sections on their daily life, their role within the working class, their positions at the factory, their working conditions—particularly hazards linked to the use of white phosphorus—, and their union activities from 1918 to 1928, when the company closed its doors in Hull.
Tragic and inspiring, the history of Hull’s allumettières has marked both regional and Canadian history for more than a century, yet it remains little known. With this book, their story is finally brought to light.
Published in French.
Pour sortir les allumettières de l’ombre
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95Exploited young women or committed union activists? How should we remember the allumettières working at the E. B. Eddy match factory, in Hull?
Between 1854 and 1928, an anonymous workforce of female workers produced 90% of Canada’s matches—grueling and incredibly dangerous work given the continual risk of fire and, more importantly, given the manipulation of toxic chemicals. This work had disastrous consequences for these women, and it is therefore of little surprise that they launched the very first female-driven union dispute in Quebec.
In this first-ever book devoted to Hull’s allumettières, historian Kathleen Durocher tells their fascinating story using a trove of historical documents, including Canadian censuses, various governments, private, and parish archives, as well as numerous articles published in scientific journals and large-circulation newspapers.
Durocher presents a demographic profile of the allumettières, followed by sections on their daily life, their role within the working class, their positions at the factory, their working conditions—particularly hazards linked to the use of white phosphorus—, and their union activities from 1918 to 1928, when the company closed its doors in Hull.
Tragic and inspiring, the history of Hull’s allumettières has marked both regional and Canadian history for more than a century, yet it remains little known. With this book, it is finally brought to light.
Published in French.
A Woman in Engineering
Regular price $29.95 Save $-29.95Her goal: to become a world-renowned biomedical engineer working with scientific societies to improve the role of women in scientific fields and the way scientists and engineers integrate people and society into their work. By 1979, this goal had become a reality.
In her memoirs, acclaimed biomedical engineer Monique Frize recalls the events in her life that taught her to overcome obstacles, become more resilient, recognize the importance of mentors and role models, and remain focused on the future. She also speaks of her appreciation of the critical role played by family and friends in maintaining the strength and determination required to succeed. And, above all, to succeed in a man’s world.
Frize fondly remembers her youth in Montreal and in Ottawa, and her marked interest for math and science. Her entry into the world of engineering was both romantic—she met her husband—and tragic. She faced prejudice and stereotypes, which she ultimately overcame. She reconciled family and work life, pursuing a challenging and rewarding international career in a very specialized field at a time when this was still very uncommon for a woman. And she relives the tragic Polytechnique massacre.
These memoirs are sure to inspire young women who have a dream, and more specifically those who wish to enter sciences and engineering.
Published in English.
My Life
Regular price $89.95 Save $-89.95One hundred years after his death, Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya.
Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber, and editor, she played an important role in the development of her husband’s career. Her memoirs – which she titled My Life – lay dormant for almost a century. Now their first-time-ever appearance in Russia is complemented by an unabridged and annotated English translation. Tolstaya’s story takes us from her childhood through the early years of her marriage, the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina and into the first year of the twentieth century. She paints an intimate and honest portrait of her husband’s character, providing new details about his life to which she alone was privy. She offers a better understanding of Tolstoy’s character, his qualities and failings as a husband and a father, and forms a picture of the quintessential Tolstoyan character which underlies his fiction.
My Life also reveals that Tolstaya was an accomplished author in her own right—as well as a translator, amateur artist, musician, photographer, and businesswoman—a rarity in the largely male-dominated world of the time. She was actively involved in the relief efforts for the 1891–92 famine and the emigration of the Doukhobors in 1899. She was a prolific correspondent, in touch with many prominent figures in Russian and Western society. Guests in her home ranged from peasants to princes, from anarchists to artists, from composers to philosophers. Her descriptions of these personalities read as a chronicle of the times, affording a unique portrait of late-19th- and early-20th-century Russian society, ranging from peasants to the Tsar himself. My Life is the most important primary document about Tolstoy to be published in many years and a unique and intimate portrait of one of the greatest literary minds of all time.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya’s My Life memoirs. My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works of 2010 by The Globe and Mail. It has also won an honourable mention in the Biography and Autobiography category of the 2010 American Publishers Awards for the Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) awards. And, finally, it made it into the Association of American University Presses' 2011 Book, Jacket and Journal Show.
Published in English.