University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Nellie Lillian McClung
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
Southern Mercy
Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized,...
A Quest for Humanity
The Good Society in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2011
In A Quest for Humanity, Menno Boldt presents a persuasive new framework for achieving a human social order in the global age. Boldt explores the concept of ‘the good society’ as a world in which every person can realize their potential for humanity through liberty, social justice, and equal human...
Japan as a 'Normal Country'?
A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence...
Ms. Prime Minister
Gender, Media, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Ms. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two former Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark; and Australia’s 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard,...
Memory and Migration
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual...
W.L. Mackenzie King
A Bibliography and Research Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
This comprehensive bibliography on William Lyon Mackenzie King, the most prominent Canadian politician in the first half of the twentieth century, will be an invaluable reference tool for researchers in archives and libraries, as well as for political scientists, historians, journalists, and book...
The Imperfect Friend
Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their Conexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to cultivate 'emotional intelligence' through rhetorical means, with a view...
Literature on Trial
The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland & Russia, 1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions — Germany, Poland, and Russia — to show how fluid the relationship once was...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) shifted the terrain of western philosophy when he identified the body, rather than consciousness, as the primary site of our meaningful engagement with the world. His magnum opus, The Phenomenology of Perception (1945), revolutionized work...
Emotions Matter
A Relational Approach to Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
For the Anglo-Saxons, Latin was a language of choice that revealed a multitude of beliefs and desires about themselves as subjects, believers, scholars, and artists. In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature...
Justice Back and Forth
Duties to the Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them. However, what does justice require us to do for past and future generations?
In...
Inscribed Power
Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection...