Books published by Between the Lines

Based on interviews and other archival materials, this graphic history illustrates how Hamilton workers translated their experience of work and organizing in the 1930s and early 1940s into a new kind of unionism and a new North American society in the decades following World War II.

Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. This book is a compendium of conversations with Cuban people rather than politicians.

Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. She draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation.

An engaging introduction to the vibrant history of the political left in Canada