FERNWOOD PUBLISHING Fall 2014 Book cATALOGUE www.fernwoodpublishing.ca Fall 2014 bookS “I Hate Feminists!” December 6, 1989 and Its Aftermath Mélissa Blais, translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the of responsibility or even shift that blame onto engineering school École Polytechnique de women and feminists. In the end, Blais contends, Montréal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, the collective memory that has been constructed declaring “I hate feminists,” killed fourteen young through various media has functioned not as a women. “I Hate Feminists!”, originally published in testament to violence against women but as a French in 2009, examines the collective memory catalyst for anti-feminist discourse. that emerged in the immediate aftermath and years following the massacre as Canadians struggled to Mélissa Blais is a feminist activist, a lecturer in pb 9781552666807 / $19.95 make sense of this tragic event and understand feminist studies and a Ph.D. student in sociology at 136pp the motivations of the killer. Exploring stories and Université du Québec à Montréal. She is the author Rights: World English / November editorials in Montreal and Toronto newspapers, of a number of texts on the feminist movement, texts distributed within anti-feminist “masculinist” including an article in Social Movement Studies. networks, discourses about memorials in major CONTENTS Canadian cities and the filmPolytechnique , which Introduction • Feminist Participation in the Collective Memory was released on the twentieth anniversary of the of December 6, 1989 • From Marginalization to Vilification of Feminist Discourse • Commemorations (1999–2005) • Negotiating massacre, Mélissa Blais argues that feminist analyses Representations of the December 6 Massacre, or When Feminism and and the killer’s own statements have been set aside Anti-feminism Coexist • Conclusion in favour of interpretations that absolve the killer Visitor My Life in Canada Anthony Stewart Canada’s next major challenge is not economic itself for its population of citizens who passively lay or political. It’s ethical. On the issue of racism, claim to welcoming difference while staying silent Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to when those around them who are in fact different Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian are disenfranchised, dehumanized, undervalued and racism, if it exists at all, is more “subtle.” Is there a left to feel that we do not belong in the country in future time when newcomers and visible minorities which many of us were born, or about which we are will be enabled to feel like they belong in Canada? Or told tales of tolerance.” — Anthony Stewart will they have to accept their experience as visitors Anthony Stewart is a professor of English at pb 9781552666869 / $21.95 to Canada no matter how long they have lived here? 120pp These are some of the questions Anthony Stewart Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Rights: World / August tackles eloquently and with considerable wit. He is the author of George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency and You Must Be a Basketball “As a Black Canadian, the Canada that I have come Player: Rethinking Integration in the University. to see is different from the idealized Canada of Tim CONTENTS Hortons commercials, Hockey Night in Canada Preface: Home • Introduction: A Little Sunlight • Starting From Where and countless other imaginings. It’s a Canada that We Are • Colour-Blindness vs. Tone-Deafness, Or, Not Being Seen vs. takes credit for a level of open-mindedness that far Not Being Heard • Conclusion: Some Things Worth Trying • Advice to exceeds its reality. It’s a Canada that distinguishes Visitors • Advice to Members 2 • FERNWood PuBlishing Fall 2014 cATALOGUE Fall 2014 bookS Noble Illusions Young Canada Goes to War Stephen Dale One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. And yet, on the eve of the hundredth anniversary, countries around the world are preparing to commemorate the Great War not with regret but with nationalist pride. Conservative forces, already well into a program to elevate the place of the military in society, are embracing the opportunity to replace today’s apparent cynicism with an unquestioning patriotism similar to that which existed a century ago. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are imploring their citizens — especially their youth — to revive the sense of duty embodied in the generation that served in the trenches. pb 9781552666494 / $18.95 But is the ennobling nature of patriotism the real lesson that people today should 112pp extract from that now-vanished generation’s experience? Through a dialogue with Rights: World /September a pop-culture artifact from a lost world — a boys’ annual called Young Canada — Noble Illusions examines the use of propaganda to glorify racist colonial wars CONTENTS and, in the wake of those, the Great War. A juxtaposition of earnest instruction The Past as a Part of the Present • A World of Duty, Discovery and Death • In the on the cultivation of everyday virtues and brutal tales of war masquerading as Thick of Things • Looking Forward moral lessons on valour and righteousness, Young Canada helped to persuade a generation of young Canadians to head eagerly to the trenches of World War One. Concerned that the rise of militarism is leading today’s youth in a similar direction, Stephen Dale offers this examination as an inoculation against the blind patriotism politicians are working so hard to instill. Stephen Dale is the author of Candy from Strangers: Kids and Consumer Culture, Lost in the Suburbs: A Political Travelogue and McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media. FERNWood PuBlishing Fall 2014 cATALOGUE • 3 Fall 2014 bookS Criminalizing Women Gender and (In)Justice in Neoliberal Times, 2nd Edition edited by Gillian Balfour & Elizabeth Comack “An engaging and easily accessible edited anthology, Criminalizing Women maps out the connections between vulnerable, marginalized women and the ‘structured choices’ often imposed on them. This book has been the centerpiece of my ‘Women and Crime’ course for six years.” — Kim Luton, Department of Sociology, Western University “Criminalizing Women presents an important and relevant opportunity for students to unveil and challenge the ideologies that promote women’s conflicts with the law while they also learn about important ways that research, organizations and women in conflict with the law attempt to resist those ideologies.” pb 9781552666821/$44.95 — Jenn Clamen, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. 384pp Rights: World / August Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Short discount only Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women’s lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by CONTENTS feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The Introduction (Gillian Balfour & Elizabeth Comack) • PART 1: WOMEN, CRIMINOLOGY, contributors explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, AND FEMINISM • The Feminist Engagement with Criminology (Elizabeth Comack) • PART 2: MAKING CONNECTIONS: CLASS/RACE/GENDER INTERSECTIONS • prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the Introduction (Elizabeth Comack) • Sluts and Slags: The Censuring of the connections between women’s restricted choices and the conditions of their Erring Female (Joanne Minaker) • The In-Call Sex Industry: Gender, Class, lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, and Racialized Labour in the Margins (Chris Bruckert & Colette Parent) • corrected and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been Surviving Colonization: Anishinaabe Ikwe Street Gang Participation (Nahanni Fontaine) • Dazed, Dangerous and Dissolute: Media Representations of used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic Street-Level Sex Workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (David Hugill) abuses against poor and racialized women. • Scars (Jackie Traverse) • PART 3: REGULATING WOMEN • Introduction (Gillian Balfour) • The Making of the Black Widow: The Criminal and Psychiatric In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, Control of Women (Robert Menzies & Dorothy E. Chunn) • From Welfare this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media Fraud to Welfare as Fraud: The Criminalization of Poverty (Dorothy E. Chunn & Shelley A.M. Gavigan) • The Paradox of Visibility: Women, CCTV, and Crime representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown (Amanda Glasbeek & Emily van der Meulen) • Examining the “Psy-Carceral Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (cctv), the Complex” in the Death of Ashley Smith (Jennifer Kilty) • PART 4: MAKING CHANGE role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive • Introduction (Gillian Balfour) • Making Change in Neoliberal Times (Laureen potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program and the use of music and Snider) • Rattling Assumptions and Building Bridges: Community Engaged video as decolonizing strategies. Education and Action in a Women’s Prison (Shoshana Pollack) • Experiencing the Inside-Out Program in a Maximum