Women's Studies students talk about sexism, racism, violence against women, sexuality and school in this look at contemporary society from some powerful new voices. Through their journal writings, these women confront both traditional norms and contemporary feminism. The book's impact stems in part from the diverse backgrounds of the writers who ......
Social Problems in Canadian First Nations Communities
An outstanding contribution to the literature on alcohol abuse in First Nations communities, The Insanity of Alcohol illuminates this and other social problems confronting Aboriginal communities in Canada. The authors draw on more than fifteen years of studies, interviews, and test situations conducted on and off reserves. They identify issues, ......
This timely and engaging volume brings together eight remarkable, leading, and emerging Indigenous scholars from various fields in conversation with author Jimena Marquez to critically assess the state of Indigenist research in a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission era. Through ten thematically organized chapters, Marquez uses a ......
The Body in Voice is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to linguistic semiotics. Its target audience includes students of the broad range of disciplines dealing with communication and with issues of representation - from semiotics and literary analysis to media, cultural studies and beyond. Advanced semiotic terms and concepts are ......
Eva Evelyn Hanks is a writer who also happens to be married to a bank robber. She has not had a book published before but events in her life have forced her writing into an area hardly any of us really understands - what it is like to be in prison or to love someone in prison. 'Eva' has faced much hardship in her own life, but managed to overcome ......
Stylistique differentielle, textologie et traduction propose une etude comparee systematisee des caracteristiques stylistiques et culturelles de l'anglais et du francais, etude qui se situe generalement a l'etape initiale de la formation en traduction. Partant d'une perspective textuelle, cette nouvelle edition comporte l'etude de divers types de ......
Le but de cet ouvrage est d'initier a l'analyse linguistique en degageant la structure du francais moderne. Cela, de la maniere la plus claire possible, sans jargon inutile. Notre analyse est ouverte a tous les courants et non enferme dans une ecole contraignante. L'etude de la langue nous mene a des implications stylistiques, esthetiques et ......
Using concrete examples, this optimistic book illustrates the ways in which structual social work theory is being successfully implemented in social work practice. By providing examples of what does work in structural social work practice, it offers hope to others that this work is not only possible, but that it is happening, it is effective, and ......
