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Detachable Penis
A Queer Legal Saga
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771126656
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Through an examination of author Sam Elkins legal casework and law reform efforts, accompanied by the story of his journey from lesbian to transgender lawyerDetachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga is a politically sharp narrative that offers a kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQIA+ communities living on the margins.
Quiet Rebels
A History of Ontario Women Lawyers
Price:
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781771125925
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “continuities” for some women lawyers.
On Comics and Grief
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CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781771126052
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976.
Toronto Living With AIDS
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CA$40.00
ISBN: 9780921344582
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Investigates an extraordinary moment in the histories of both activist media and AIDS activism: the creation of a community-driven video series about HIV/AIDS for public-access cable television in Toronto in early 1990s. Includes detailed historical work on the series, its creators, public reception, circulation, and censorship by Rogers Cable.
Reclamation and Resurgence
The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont
Price:
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781771126090
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Selected works from Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet who has written about Métis kinscapes and Métis presence from her first book in 1997 to now.
Tours Inside the Snow Globe
Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging
Price:
CA$47.99
ISBN: 9781771126021
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Through a series of tours of the monuments of Ottawa, this book argues that rather than instructing people on what to know about history, monuments generate feelings about the past in the present. As ambivalent sites, monuments allow for the generation of competing feelings: nostalgia, dissent, indifference.
Ecologies in Practice
Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada
Price:
CA$44.99
ISBN: 9781771126120
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share environmental knowledge.
Rivers in Rock
Elora Gorge Field Companion and Natural History
Price:
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781771125802
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Both a visitors guide to the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River in southwestern Ontario and a thorough yet accessible introduction to its history, from the origins of its bedrock some 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas, to contemporary natural and human processes affecting this fascinating example of rivers in rock.
Ring Around the Maple
A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries
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CA$59.99
ISBN: 9781771126151
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events—the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War—affected children's lives.
Foundations of Modern Harmony
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CA$59.99
ISBN: 9781771124706
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
First English translation of Karel Janec̆ek's Foundations of Modern Harmony, First published in 1965, it stands out among music theoretical publications with its balanced approach that combines systematics and empirical studies.
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
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CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781771121736
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards of reading.
The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery
Price:
CA$89.99
ISBN: 9781771125611
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of “the contemporary,” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives—historical, artistic, spiritual—on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine how Cohen's different types of art fit together.
The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition
Price:
CA$42.99
ISBN: 9781771125987
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
An experimental and radical commentary on the publishing industry, the centrepiece of this book is an autoethnographic comic erotic thriller about the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. The critical edition enriches the novella with essays, annotations, and creative assemblages.
A War Guest in Canada
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771123686
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A collection of letters from Londoner W.A.B. (Alec) Douglas, a child war guest in Canada between 1940 and 1943, to his mother back home. Details the excitement of the voyage and his years in Toronto with the Fry family.
A Possible Trust
The Poetry of Ronna Bloom
Price:
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781771125956
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
Sporting Justice
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958
Price:
CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781771125840
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A history of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an Ontario amateur baseball title in 1934. Sporting Justice situates the team in a broader history of Black baseball in Chatham and southwestern Ontario, exploring themes including racism in sport, gender, class, and social justice.
Detachable Penis
A Queer Legal Saga
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771126656
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Quiet Rebels
A History of Ontario Women Lawyers
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781771125925
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “continuities” for some women lawyers.
On Comics and Grief
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781771126052
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Toronto Living With AIDS
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9780921344582
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Reclamation and Resurgence
The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781771126090
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Selected works from Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet who has written about Métis kinscapes and Métis presence from her first book in 1997 to now.
Tours Inside the Snow Globe
Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging
CA$47.99
ISBN: 9781771126021
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Through a series of tours of the monuments of Ottawa, this book argues that rather than instructing people on what to know about history, monuments generate feelings about the past in the present. As ambivalent sites, monuments allow for the generation of competing feelings: nostalgia, dissent, indifference.
Ecologies in Practice
Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada
CA$44.99
ISBN: 9781771126120
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share environmental knowledge.
Rivers in Rock
Elora Gorge Field Companion and Natural History
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781771125802
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Both a visitors guide to the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River in southwestern Ontario and a thorough yet accessible introduction to its history, from the origins of its bedrock some 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas, to contemporary natural and human processes affecting this fascinating example of rivers in rock.
Ring Around the Maple
A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries
CA$59.99
ISBN: 9781771126151
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Foundations of Modern Harmony
CA$59.99
ISBN: 9781771124706
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781771121736
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery
CA$89.99
ISBN: 9781771125611
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition
CA$42.99
ISBN: 9781771125987
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
An experimental and radical commentary on the publishing industry, the centrepiece of this book is an autoethnographic comic erotic thriller about the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. The critical edition enriches the novella with essays, annotations, and creative assemblages.
A War Guest in Canada
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771123686
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A Possible Trust
The Poetry of Ronna Bloom
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781771125956
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
Sporting Justice
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958
CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781771125840
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press