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Divorce and Disengagement

Divorce and Disengagement

Patterns of Fatherhood Within and Beyond Marriage

Edward Kruk

This book’s purpose is to better portray divorced fatherhood and to provide family practitioners and policy-makers with an empirically-based understanding of the impact of divorce on non-custodial fathers, and of fathers’ disengagement from their children after divorce. (more information)

Gender and Collaboration

Gender and Collaboration

Communication Styles in the Engineering Classroom

Sandra Ingram, Anne Parker

As more women enter male-dominated faculties such as engineering, there is a growing need to understand the set of social processes that impact upon them and the continuing need for curriculum reform. This understanding is crucially important for engineering students because of the increasing demand put on them to work in team-based environments in which they will need the collaborative skills of shared interaction, decision-making and responsibility. (more information)

Get That Freak

Get That Freak

Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools

Brian Burtch, Rebecca Haskell

Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools. Get That Freak fills that gap by exploring the experiences of bullying among youth who identify or are identified as queer. Through interviews with recent high school graduates in British Columbia, Haskell and Burtch share stories of physical, verbal and emotional harassment, and offer important insights into… (more information)

Man’s Will to Hurt

Man’s Will to Hurt

Investigating the Causes, Supports and Varieties of His Violence

Joseph Kuypers

This book identifies how men code their will to hurt to make it moral, and how they ignore the drastic realities of excessive male violence. (more information)

Men and Power

Men and Power

Edited by Joseph Kuypers

Ten men examine how masculinity in contemporary society is connected to power. The questions these authors ask and answer are critical. What is power? Is power always “at someone else’s expense” or can power be healthy and affirming? How is masculinity constructed to include power? Who suffers and who benefits from this gendered power? How are men both beneficiaries and victims of the cultural expectation to be powerful. And what are the alternatives if men seek to reject this… (more information)

Out There/In Here

Out There/In Here

Masculinity, Violence and Prisoning

Elizabeth Comack

Elizabeth Comack explores the complicated connections between masculinity and violence in the lives of men incarcerated at a provincial prison. Moving between the spaces of ‘out there’ and ‘in here,’ the discussion traces the men’s lives in terms of their efforts to ‘do’ masculinity and the place of violence in that undertaking. In drawing out these connections, similarities with the lives of other men become apparent. In the process, we also learn that… (more information)

Passing Through

Passing Through

End-of-Life Decisions for Lesbians and Gay Men

Jeanette Auger

In June 2001, Nova Scotia became the third province to pass legislation that permits same-sex couples to legally register their relationship in order to benefit from similar legal obligations as common-law heterosexual couples. Yet despite this new legislation’s aim to advance equal rights, end-of-life decisions for gays and lesbians remain difficult. Jeannette Auger examines how closeted relationships and the history of discrimination have led many partners to dismiss making decisions about… (more information)

Undressing the Canadian State

Undressing the Canadian State

The Politics of Pornography from Hicklin to Butler

Kirsten K. Johnson

Through a detailed historical analysis of Canada’s obscenity legislation, Johnson argues that the state implicitly supports the ideology of pornography. (more information)