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  • Collective Care

    Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS

    by Pamela Downe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin-care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Friendship

    The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline

    by Pamela Baker Powell ...
    We all need friends. This book is an exploration of Christian friendship. It turns out that friendship has one surprising, overlooked, almost forgotten spiritual quality. Friendship in Christ is eternal. Scripture emphasizes this. Jesus himself emphasized this. Theologians emphasized this throughout the first thousand-plus years of Christian history. Then, it was somehow mostly neglected. This ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Legacy

    Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

    by Suzanne Methot ...
    Winner of the 2019–20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award“Powerful … A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma.” — Library Journal“[A] beautifully written book about strategies for healing from intergenerational trauma … In crystal-clear prose, Methot has written a book that is both easy to follow and crucial to read.” — ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Habits of Inequality

    by Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman ...
    British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine the outcome of our socioeconomic status and integration into society. It may seem unfair, but the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • White Benevolence

    Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

    by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, Verna St. Denis ...
    When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous people. White ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • First Voices

    An Aboriginal Women's Reader

    Edited by Patricia A. Monture, Patricia D. Mcguire ...
    A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. "This volume brings us the stories of wisdom keepers and artists, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Fostering Nation?

    Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage

    by Veronica Strong-Boag ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s most disadvantaged Aboriginal and newcomer girls and boys.Gender, class, race, and (dis)ability are ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery

    by Lavell Memee. Harvard ...
    Reclaim Indigenous strength and resilience through the voices of mothers. This collection amplifies the often-silenced experiences of Indigenous women worldwide, exploring their roles as mothers, leaders, and agents of change in the face of colonial oppression and patriarchal dominance.Mothers of the Nations delves into diverse subjects impacting Indigenous mothering, including child welfare, ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights

    A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition

    by Colleen Lundy ...
    Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities for social justice, the need for linking a structural analysis to social work practice is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Saving Our Own Lives

    A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction

    by Shira Hassan ...
    Harm reduction is one of the most important movements of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found.Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers, people of color, queer folks, and trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Managing Madness

    Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada

    by Erika Dyck, Alex Deighton ...
    The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its ... Read more

    $17.99 USD