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★ The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

By Desmond Cole

It is not an exaggeration to say that Desmond Cole’s book should be taught in classrooms, roiling in the minds of the next generation, lauded in social justice movements. It’s a striking, searing, perspective-shifting book ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism

By Philinda Masters with the Broadside Collective (eds.)

Two things become immediately clear upon reading Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism. The first is how readily women take for granted the rights and freedoms our older sisters, mothers, and grandmothers fought for. ... Read More »

January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces

By Kelly S. Thompson

Former soldier Sandra Perron made headlines two years ago with her shocking memoir, Out Standing in the Field, about experiencing sexual harassment, rape, and physical torture from male comrades in the armed forces. A new ... Read More »

September 23, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia’s Feared and Forgotten

By Susan Doherty

Schizophrenia affects nearly one per cent of the population – about 24 million people worldwide – and, in spite of huge medical advances over the past century, remains one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized ... Read More »

July 22, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary

By Joshua M. Ferguson

It’s an awesome time to be reading trans literature. Having long toiled to carve out spaces for their stories, trans writers have deservedly garnered a newfound attention and a growing readership in Canada and beyond. ... Read More »

June 20, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences

Walmart: Diary of an Associate

By Hugo Meunier and Mary Foster (trans.)

When it comes to critiquing multinational corporate culture, Walmart has provided plenty of low-hanging fruit. Book-length studies could be written about the brand’s radical restructuring of global supply chains, hollowing out of small-town main streets, ... Read More »

April 18, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences

Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability

By John Semley

“To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist,” wrote Christopher Hitchens in his 2001 volume Letters to a Young Contrarian. “And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at ... Read More »

November 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences

Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up

By Kelli María Korducki

Breaking up might be hard to do, but it certainly isn’t hard to read about in Kelli María Korducki’s debut non-fiction title, the latest in Coach House Books’ Exploded Views series. Hard to Do turns ... Read More »

May 31, 2018 | Filed under: History, Social Sciences

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture

By Benjamin Woo

Can someone geek out over geekery itself? Benjamin Woo, an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University, provides a strong case for it in Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences

Mad Blood Stirring: The Inner Lives of Violent Men

By Daemon Fairless

In 1990, Bill Buford, a Louisiana-born American living in the U.K., published Among the Thugs, arguably the best book ever written about the English football hooliganism that spread like wildfire in the mid-1980s. Though rabid ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences

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