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"I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning." In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason.

From masturbation to motherhood, body shaming to burlesque, Catherine Hernandez reveals the reality of living as a queer woman of colour.

"She doesn't care about me; she doesn't even want to see me; she just pretends she does." Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn't expecting to have to worry about taking care

In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication.

France, 1917.

During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with th

In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion, giving all Jews three months to leave the country.

Walter is a young child when his parents decide to leave their home in Germany and start a new life in the Netherlands. As Jews, they know they are not safe under the Nazi regime.

The mystery surrounding Anna Grieve and her mentally fragile older sister, Esther, begins in Russia in the 1880s.

Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010.

After being attacked by a grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains, seventeen-year-old Abby Hughes' facial scars are all she can think about, and all that she thinks anyone else can see when they look a

Aline hides under the hay when her father takes her to school in their horse-drawn sled.

Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the "Korean girl" at school.

Born in the Caribbean, Philomena Jones is abandoned by her mother and left to the mercy of her grandmother, who, after raising eight children and grandchildren, is not capable of dedicating herself

Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival.