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In 1913, Toronto launched Canada's first woman's police court. The court was run by and for women, but was it a great achievement? This multifaceted portrait of the cases, defendants, and officials that graced its halls reveals a fundamental contradiction at the experiment's core: the Toronto Women's Police Court was both a site for feminist adaptations of justice and a court empowered to punish women. Reconstructed from case files and newspap...

At Home and Abroad explores the underlying connection between Canada's special relationship with the United States and Canada's wider place in the world.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly independent states sprang up along China's western frontier. Suddenly, Beijing was forced to confront internal challenges to its authority at its border as well as international competition for energy and authority in Central Asia. Hasan Karrar traces how China cooperated with Russia and the Central Asian republics seeking to stabilize the region, facilitate commerce, and build an energy infrastruct...

Michel S. Beaulieu is the director of the Centre for Northern Studies and an associate professor of history at Lakehead University.

Fiona Kelly is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at theUniversity of British Columbia.

Give Me Shelter is a revealing examination of Canada's efforts to prepare its citizens to face nuclear war, from 1945-63.

A doctor¿s eye view of the determinants of health and frontline stories of patient experiences.

Ross Perigoe was an associate professor of journalism at Concordia University. Mahmoud Eid is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.

Elizabeth A. Sheehy is Shirley Greenberg Professor of Women and the Legal Profession in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She is a leading scholar on the legal system¿s treatment of battered women in Canada. In 2013 she was awarded the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law by the Canadian Bar Association, an annual award that recognizes outstanding contributions to law in Canada.

Pitman B. Potter is a professor of law and HSBC Chair in Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor of Globalization and Local Adaptation in International Trade Law (UBC Press, 2011).

Paulette Regan is the director of research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. She holds a PhD from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria.

The book includes excerpts and essays from political theory and international relations which provide a starting point for further study of these subjects, given the large number of newly independent states which are writing new constitutions and developing foreign relations.

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Frances Henry, FRSC, is a professor emerita of anthropology at York University.Enakshi Dua is the director of the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women¿s Studies at York University. Carl E. James, FRSC, teaches in the Faculty of Education and in the Graduate Program in Sociology at York University. Audrey Kobayashi, FRSC, is a professor of geography at Queen¿s University, Kingston.Peter Li, FRSC, is a professor emeritus of sociology a...

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural and remote locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity and as such, as central to the survival of Indigenous cultures and societies. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition as distinct peoples, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenou...

Wilhelm Peekhaus is an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Keith Banting is a professor in the School of Policy Studies and the Department of Political Studies at Queen¿s University and holds the Queen¿s Research Chair in Public Policy. John Myles is a professor emeritus of sociology and currently senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.Contributors: Robert Andersen, Robin Boadway, Gerard W. Boychuk, William D. Coleman, Katherine Cuff, Josh Curtis, Davi...

Isabel Altamirano-Jim¿z (Zapotec) is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

In the late 1970s and '80s, socialist countries in Asia began reopening their borders to overseas scholars. Today, a growing number of social scientists are embarking on fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and Laos. Red Stamps and Gold Stars brings together all the messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork in upland socialist Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. These challenges can range from how to gain research acces...

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