Communication and Cultural Studies
Gender, Sex, and Tech!
In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex. Through an examination of a range of past and present issues, the text highlights our relationships to technology and illustrates how gendered relations are shaped and transformed through social and technological innovations.
Contributors bring to the fore feminist, decolonizing, and anti-racist methods to examine our everyday uses of technology, from the mundane to the surreal to the playful to the devastating. Original research and scholarship is skillfully grounded in real-world scenarios like revenge pornography, gender bias in artificial intelligence, menstrual tracking, online dating, and the COVID-19 pandemic, inviting students to take a closer look at technological transformations and their impact on gendered lived experience and to consider how the benefits of technology are inequitably shared within society.
Centring Canadian scholars and Canadian perspectives without losing sight of the broader global connection, Gender, Sex, and Tech! is bursting with timely and of-the-moment content, making this collection a must-read for courses focused on gender and technology.
FEATURES
- prepares and encourages students to continue exploring the relationship between gender, sex, and tech well beyond the text
- features a wealth of pedagogical supports, including questions for critical thought, invitations to go deeper, and further readings and websites of interest
- showcases a range of established and up-and-coming Canadian scholars presenting original research and scholarship
Creative Industries in Canada
Creative Industries in Canada is a foundational text that encourages students to think critically about creative industries within a Canadian context and interrogate the current state and future possibilities of the industry. While much of current creative industries literature concerns the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia, this text captures the breadth of how Canadian industries are organized and experienced, and how they operate.
This ambitious collection aims to guide students through the current landscape of Canadian creative industries through three thematic sections. “Production” collects chapters focused on how national discourses and identities are produced through creative industries and the tensions that exist between policy and media. “Participation” explores how we engage with these industries in different roles: as consumer, creator, policy-maker, and more. “Pedagogies” explores how education impacts inclusion and visibility in creative industries.
Truly intersectional, Creative Industries in Canada provides students with practical industry knowledge and frameworks to explore the current state of the field and its future. With a broad application to many undergraduate programs, this text is a must-read resource for those pursuing media studies, arts management, creative and cultural industries studies, communications, and arts and humanities.
FEATURES
- provides an intersectional perspective of current creative industries in Canada, critiquing how diversity, inclusion, and equity impact the field
- broadens the scope of Canadian creative industries by exploring underexamined fields like podcasting, gaming, comedy, education, performance art, and more
- pedagogically rich, with a glossary of terms, outlines of core concepts, and suggested activities for each chapter
Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny
In this unique approach to the field of body studies, author, scholar, and educator Victoria Kannen explores what it means to exist in a body that is constantly on display and subjected to public scrutiny. Kannen examines the interplay of many ways our bodies express identity, such as gender, race, body size, sexuality, disability, body modification, and age, and how public scrutiny of those expressions can impact our public and private selves.
Intertwining personal narratives of self-identified “odd and awed” women with theoretical chapters that help to elucidate the role of social power, this volume tackles the stares, comments, and questions that are directed towards bodies in public space through original research, personal narratives, and artistic expression. As readers encounter the narratives and images throughout the book, they will be supported by scholarly chapters on embodiment, identity, resistance, and power to help analyze, reflect on, and critically engage with the content.
Through stories, theory, and art, this timely new resource will engage students and scholars of women’s and gender studies, sociology, critical disability studies, and body studies.
FEATURES
- offers a unique understanding of interpretation and what it means to have a body that causes curiosity, discrimination, and lifelong interactions
- accessible and engaging for students and scholars, as well as those outside of academia
- provides creative and non-traditional opportunities for critical engagement with various embodiments
Body Studies in Canada
How do we perceive ourselves and our bodies in relation to our physical, geographical, social, cultural, political, psychological, and spiritual environments? Body Studies in Canada uses intersectional methodological and theoretical frameworks to discuss the political and socio-historical discourses that shape body studies in Canadian society.
This edited volume delves into a variety of timely topics including postcolonial “othering” of the body; social discourses around healthy and un-healthy bodies; intersections of aging, gender, race, class, and size; the fitness industries’ promotion of the “ideal” body; the gendering of bodywork symbols and expressions in carceral environments; and self-awareness of “the body” in social and digital media.
In thirteen chapters, editor Valerie Zawilski brings together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and expertise to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how the body interacts reflexively with society. This collection is a foundational text for sociology of the body and body studies courses, as well as gender studies, political science, and health studies.
FEATURES
- provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on body studies and the surrounding historical and political issues, with a focus on decolonization, racialization, masculinities, engagement with critical weight scholarship, and immigration
- pedagogical features include section introductions, boxed inserts highlighting key concepts, learning objectives, questions for critical thinking, and a glossary
Gender and Sexuality
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Jul 2022
Gender, Sex, and Tech!
An Intersectional Feminist Guide
By Jennifer Jill Fellows, Lisa Smith
315 PagesCommunication and Cultural Studies / Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies / Science / Sociology / Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
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Dec 2021
Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny
Women’s Stories of Staring, Strangers, and Fierce Resistance
By Victoria Kannen
164 PagesCommunication and Cultural Studies / Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies / Feminist Theory and Politics / Sociology / Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
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Jul 2021
Body Studies in Canada
Critical Approaches to Embodied Experiences
By Valerie Zawilski
296 PagesCommunication and Cultural Studies / Health Studies / Political Science / Sociology / Sociology of Gender and Sexuality / Sociology of Health
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May 2020
Women and Popular Culture in Canada
By Laine Halpern Zisman
288 PagesCanadian Studies / Communication and Cultural Studies / Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies / History / Sociology / Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
Academic and Professional Communication
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Mar 2019
Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences
By Judy Eaton, David Morris
268 PagesAnthropology / Communication and Cultural Studies / History / Political Science / Research Theory and Methods / Sociology
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Dec 2018
The Craft of Qualitative Research
A Handbook
By Steven W. Kleinknecht, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Carrie B. Sanders
412 PagesAnthropology / Communication and Cultural Studies / Health Studies / Research Theory and Methods / Social Work / Sociology
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Apr 2018
Academic Writing, Third Edition
The Complete Guide
By Steven C. Roe, Pamela H. den Ouden
328 PagesCommunication and Cultural Studies / Literary Studies / Research Theory and Methods
Media Communication and Literacy
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Aug 2022
Creative Industries in Canada
By Miranda Campbell, Cheryl Thompson
290 PagesCanadian Studies / Communication and Cultural Studies / Communications / Media Studies (Film, TV, Music)
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Aug 2018
Media Literacy for Citizenship
A Canadian Perspective
By Kirsten Kozolanka, Paul Orlowski
268 PagesCommunication and Cultural Studies / Political Science
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