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Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population—from very young children to the elderly—with far-reaching and often devastating consequences.

“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape

163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place?

The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed

The Diplomacy of Impartiality is an analysis of a major decade in Canadian–Israeli relations, dealing with significant events that led to the Six-Day War of 1967 and its aftermath.

First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people.

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes).

The essays collected in

Ulrich Leupold was associated with Wilfrid Laurier University from 1945-1970.

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present.

In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany.

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960.

Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study.

Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions.