University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Why Control Immigration?
Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Migration management in Russia is a window into how public policy, the federal system, and patronage are used to manage conflicting demands. This multi-level balancing act demonstrates the importance of high-level politics, institutional interests and constraints, and the conditions under which government...
Contemporary Canadian Federalism
Foundations, Traditions, Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2009
First published in French in 2006, Le fédéralisme canadien contemporain was immediately recognised as the most comprehensive collection of reflections on Canadian federalism by leading Québécois scholars. This remarkable translation of a range of Québécois voices makes their insightful and underrepresented...
Religion in the Public Sphere
Canadian Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices...
Killer Weed
Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of “epidemic” proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the...
Homophobia in the Hallways
Heterosexism and Transphobia in Canadian Catholic Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures equality regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada. Despite this, gay, lesbian, and gender-nonconforming teachers in publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario and Alberta are being fired for living lives that Church...
Rocking the Boat
Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Silvia Bermúdez’s fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since...
Transforming Rights
Reflections from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Maxwell Yalden began his career in the Department of External Affairs; he was posted to Moscow and Paris, and later as ambassador to Belguim. As Canada's Language Commissioner from 1977-1984, he worked to reinforce the Official Languages Act, and language equality, encouraging Canadians to become...
Healing Home
Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s...
Seeing Red
HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers...
by Mark J. Kasoff, Patrick James
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike acknowledge it as an ideal tool for understanding...
Baby Trouble in the Last Best West
Making New People in Alberta, 1905–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Reproductionis the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.
Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social...
by Donald W. Gullett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Beginning with the earliest records available describing the dental health of the Indians before the arrival of European settlers, Dr Gullett gives a detailed and carefully documented history of dentistry in Canada. He describes the unscrupulous tramp dentists who roamed the countryside years ago...
by Eleazar Birnbaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This is a selected, annotated list of some 2,000 books on Asia in English and French currently in print, chosen with the aim of providing a long-term historical perspective for the general reader. The list is presented in four main parts: Asia as a whole; the Islamic world; India, South and Southeast...
Recovering from Genocidal Trauma
An Information and Practice Guide for Working with Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Since the Second World War people have become aware of the trauma associated with genocide and other crimes against humanity. Today, assisting mass atrocity survivors, especially as they age, poses a serious challenge for service providers around the world.
Recovering from Genocidal Trauma...