Recently Published Books from the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Farewell My Concubine: A Queen Film Classic

Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Farewell My Concubine, one of three new QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, set against the political turmoil of a China in transition. The film's treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there. The movie, which helped to bring contemporary Chinese films onto the world stage, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Chinese film to do so), and was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

This book, one of two new QFCs to focus on Asian queer cinema, places the film in its historical and cultural context while drawing on fresh insights from recent works on transgender and queer studies to provide readers with an intimate, provocative, and original look at the film.

Arseanl Pulp Press

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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 the negative outcomes that result from the experience of being bullied. Challenging the familiar image of these youth as helpless victims, this book also recognizes positive outcomes: moments of resistance, friendship and inner strength. Finally, the authors make recommendations for challenging homophobic and transphobic bullying in high schools and supporting students who experience this form of harassment.

Fernwood Publishing

Brian Burtch is an Associate Faculty Member with the Department of Sexuality, and Women's Studies and a Professor in the School of Criminology, and adjunct faculty in University of Regina's Department of Justice Studies.

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Lara Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.

Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of "respectable" citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflictiong relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.

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Ozlem Sensoy is an Associate Faculty Member with the Department of Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Sensoy is the co-author of Muslim Voices in School, published by SensePublishers.

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Mary Lynn Stewart is a professor n the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s and coauthor of Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870–1914, both published by Johns Hopkins.

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Cindy Patton, Professor, received her Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1992. Dr. Patton joined the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies in May of 2003 as Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health. Dr. Patton has worked in health research for two decades. She has published work in the areas of: social study of medicine (especially AIDS); social movement theory; gender studies; and media studies. Her current research interests include: social study of medicine health, especially social aspects of AIDS and wilderness medicine; continental theory; and research design, especially mixed methods.

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Jennifer Marchbank is an Associate Faculty member in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. Introduction to Gender is an essential introductory textbook for Gender Studies across the disciplinary spectrum, particularly in Sociology, Women’s Studies and Men’s Studies, as well as more broadly across the Social Sciences and humanities.

Jennifer Marchbank is Director of Explorations in Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Gayle Letherby is Professor of Sociology in the School of Law and Social Science at the University of Plymouth.

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Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory’s postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions.

Leung explores Hong Kong cultural productions—cinema, fiction, popular music and subcultural projects—and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence.

Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition. It will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in Asian studies, film and cultural studies, and sexuality and gender studies.

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Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women’s needs. The volume’s contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations of women, while making substantial contributions to current public policy debates in Canada.

Focusing on discussions of controversial issues such as single working mothers, prostitution, mandatory retirement, guaranteed income, and work for welfare, these essays also consider the political and economic constraints that have been brought about by neo-liberal policy changes. Full of relevant policy critiques and original recommendations for improvement, Public Policy for Women readdresses often neglected subjects and concerns and makes informative appeals for public policy to address women’s needs.

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Habiba Zaman is a Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, as immigrant-receiving countries such as Canada began competing to recruit the "most desirable" candidates, immigrants became commodified, their labor bought and sold for the benefit of national and global markets. By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possibility of their decommodification in Canada. In order to present a comprehensive picture of commodification, this book uses empirical as well as historical evidence to explore the relationship between transnational migration and globalization, a relationship that sets the trajectory for immigrant women's commodification. Breaking the Iron Wall looks at the detailed lived experiences of immigrant women, expertly revealing the intersections of race, gender, and class and exposing the forces and processes of commodification in public and private spheres.

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