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article

Situating Direct-Action AIDS Activists: The Development of Organizational Responses to Vancouver’s HIV Epidemic

By Benjamin Klassen

epidemics

LGBT[Q+]

protest

sexuality

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022

Review

Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw

By Martha Black

BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021

Cover Image: Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw

Review

Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir

By Robert Scott

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019

Cover Image: Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir

Review

A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

By Steven Maynard

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019

Cover Image: A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

article

Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900

By Jean Barman

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

Gender

Gender

sexuality

women

women

BC Studies no. 115-116 Autumn-Winter 1997

article

Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz

By Karen Duder

Gender

Gender

sexuality

sexuality

women

women

BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003

Review

Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, Third Edition

By John-Henry Harter

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017

article

‘Most of Today’s Teen-agers Laugh about God’: Youth, Secularization, and the Sixties in British Columbia

By Tina Block

religion

religion

sexuality

sexuality

sixties

youth

youth

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019

Review

Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur

By Elizabeth Vibert

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016

article

Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860–1871

By Alice Gorton

Barkerville

gold rush

Identities

race and racism

sexuality

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary

article

Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End

By Becki Lynn Ross, Jamie Lee Hamilton

LGBT[Q+]

monuments and memorials

monuments and memorials

sexuality

sexuality

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018

article

From “Knife Men” to “Streamlining with Curves”: Structure, Skill, and Gender in British Columbia’s Meat-Packing Industry

By Tim Paulson

food processing

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

labour force

technology

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017

article

“I Feel Like a Girl Inside”: Possibilities for Gender and Sexual Diversity in Early Primary School

By Anika Nicole Stafford

education

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016

article

Class, Regional, and Institutional Sources of Social Conflict in B.C.

By Patricia Marchak

business

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

labour force

BC Studies no. 27 Autumn 1975

article

Working Class Vancouver, 1886-1914: Urbanism and Class in British Columbia

By Robert A.J. McDonald

business

environment

environment

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

labour force

socialism

strikes and lockouts

BC Studies no. 69-70 Spring-Summer 1986

article

Ambiguities of Political Consciousness Among Registered Nurses in British Columbia

By Rennie T. Warburton, William K. Carroll

government

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

labour force

nursing

BC Studies no. 83 Autumn 1989

article

The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858

By Richard Somerset Mackie

colonization

Colony of Vancouver Island

Douglas, Sir James

Douglas, Sir James

Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

land settlement

land settlement

article

Class and Race in the Social Structure of British Columbia, 1870-1939

By W. Peter Ward

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

race and racism

race and racism

race and racism

BC Studies no. 45 Spring 1980

article

Rejoinder: Class Still Counts

By Martin Robin

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

political parties

Social Credit party

BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972

article

On Frogs and Worms – A Reply to Professors Black and Robin

By Mark Sproule-Jones

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

political parties

Social Credit party

BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972

article

Conflict and Change in British Columbia Sikh Family Life

By Joy Inglis

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

India

South Asians

BC Studies no. 20 Winter 1973-1974

article

Revisiting Colonization Through Gender: Anglican Missionary Women in the Pacific Northwest and the Arctic, 1860-1945

By Myra Rutherdale

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

colonization

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

missionaries

religion

religion

women

women

BC Studies no. 104 Winter 1994-1995

Review

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West

By Hugh Johnston

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013

article

He Thought He was the Boss of Everything: Masculinity and Power in a Vancouver Family

By Robert A.J. McDonald

Bell-Irving, Henry

business

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002

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