Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.

Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds explores the lives and careers of women, famous and forgotten, who influenced Canada's place in the world during the twentieth century.

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting LGBTQ2S+ students in Canadian schools.

Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.

Making and Breaking Settler Space deftly explores how power and space are organized under settler colonialism in order to uncover decolonization opportunities for Indigenous and settler people alike.

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

Exporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.

The Shoe Boy is an evocative exploration of Indigenous identity and connection to the land, expressed in guise of a unique coming-of-age memoir set on a trapline in northern Quebec.