Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects
Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects

Author: Louise Bernard

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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This publication provides a classified list of objects, based on the object's original function and on the objects in the Parks Canada national collection of over 50,000 historic objects. This particular volume includes standardized terms, in English with French equivalents, for three broad categories of objects: structures (buildings, components, site features, other structure), furnishings (bedding, floor coverings, furniture, household accessories, lighting devices, plumbing fixtures, temperature control devices, window or door coverings), and personal artefacts (clothing, adornment, footwear, accessories, personal gear, toilet articles). Information given for each term includes an illustration, description, other designations used for the object, Parks Canada nomenclature code, and other terms not to be confused with the entry term. Includes index of terms.

Women, Work, and Place
Women, Work, and Place

Author: Audrey Kobayashi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994-12-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0773564942

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Topics include the transformation of the work force in nineteenth-century Montreal (Bettina Bradbury), feminization of skill in the British garment industry (Allison Kaye), the relationship between work and family for Japanese immigrant women in Canada (Audrey Kobayashi), experiences of women during a labour dispute in Ontario (Joy Parr), contemporary restructuring of the labour force in the United States (Susan Christopherson) and in an urban context in Montreal (Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve), the effect of gentrification on women's work roles (Liz Bondi), inequality in the work force (Sylvia Gold), and theoretical issues involved in understanding women in the contemporary city (Linda Peake). An introductory essay provides a review of current issues. Feminists and women's studies specialists and activists as well as geographers, historians, sociologists, and policy planners will find this book of great interest.

The Technology of Orgasm
The Technology of Orgasm

Author: Rachel P. Maines

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2001-06-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780801866463

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The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population. This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

Author: T. Bose

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 0774844833

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.