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 In Memoriam

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UBC Press Celebrates
International Women's Day
March 8th, 2009

Opening Doors Wider

Opening Doors Wider

Women's Political Engagement in Canada

Sylvia Bashevkin

Opening Doors Wider asks whether the doors to women’s participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

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Gendering the Nation-State

Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives


Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state.

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Landing Native Fisheries
Global Ordering
Contradictory Impulses

Landing Native Fisheries

Douglas C. Harris

Global Ordering

Louis Pauly and William D. Coleman
Contradictory Impulses

Greg Donaghy and Patricia E. Roy
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Lament for a First Nation
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Shirley Tillotson
Japan's Motorcyle Wars

Jeffrey W. Alexander
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Feature Review

Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women

Shahnaz Khan

Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women

Shahnaz Khan uses her feminist lens to explore dualities, and stereotypes of third-world women, more specifically Muslim women, while examining the contested issue of the Zina Ordinance and its multifaceted consequences for women in Pakistan.

- Habiba Zaman, Simon Fraser University, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 4, Fall 2008

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International Women's Day Events at UBC

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The Universe Provides: Alice Walker, Abundance, and the Art of Biography (with Musings from Ancient Greece)

Date: March 6, 2009
Time: 4:00 to 7:00 pm
Location: Graduate Student Centre Penthouse, Thea Koerner House


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