Toronto Women's Bookstore
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Upcoming Book Events @ TWB!
1. “Real” Indians and Others by Bonita Lawrence Thursday Nov 28
2. “Sisters or Strangers?” Friday Nov 19
3. “Sexing the Caribbean” by Kamala Kempadoo Wednesday Nov 24

1. Toronto Women’s Bookstore and University of British Columbia Press are pleased to announce the Toronto booklaunch of:
"Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
(University of British Columbia Press)
by Bonita Lawrence

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2004
7pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St
Free admission, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend.

2. The Toronto Women's Bookstore and the University of Toronto Press proudly present the launch of:
Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History
edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Frances Swyripa (University of Toronto Press)

Friday November 19th 6pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St
Free admission, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend.

Join Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and contributors to celebrate the launch of this important new collection. The central themes of Sisters or Strangers? include discourses of race in the context of nation-building, encounters with the state and public institutions, symbolic and media representations of women, familial relations, domestic violence and racism, and analyses of history and memory. In different ways, the authors question whether the historical experience of women in Canada represents a 'sisterhood' of challenge and opportunity, or if the racial, class, or marginalized identity of the immigrant and minority women made them in fact 'strangers' in a country where privilege and opportunity fall according to criteria of exclusion. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, this collaborative work reminds us that victimization and agency are never mutually exclusive, and encourages us to reflect critically on the categories of race, gender, and the nation.

3. Please Join the Toronto Women's Bookstore and Routledge as we celebrate the launch of:
Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor by Kamala Kempadoo

Wednesday, November 24th 6:30pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street
Free admission, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend.

In Sexing the Caribbean, Kamala Kempadoo illuminates intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. The focus is on the social construction of prostitution and other types of transactional sexual relations that many women and, increasingly, more young men, are engaged in. Sex tourism, migrant sex work, HIV/AIDS, and legalized prostitution are examined alongside sex worker agency, resistance, and organization. Kempadoo challenges concepts of prostitution as, exclusively, a form of violence to women, and argues that sexual-economic relations can be sites of both oppression and liberation. Kamala Kempadoo is associate professor in the Division of Social Science at York University. Her other publications include Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and The Sex Trade in the Caribbean and Global Sex Workers: Rights Resistance and Redefinition.