Canadian Women's Studies Association
L'association canadienne des études sur les femmes

CWSA/ACEF BOOK PRIZE

In 2002 the CWSA/ACEF introduced an annual book prize competition, awarded to a monograph published in the previous year, in either English or French, as selected by a committee of 3-5 members. In the years since implementing this award, between 8-18 books have been nominated each year. Nominations are solicited from both association members and from publishers. Award winners receive a complimentary registration to the conference, a plaque, and a year's subscription to Atlantis at the awards ceremony during the annual conference, and are invited to give a short talk at that event. Up to $1000.00 is available to defray travel expenses.

Books for the book prize are assessed according to the following criteria:

i) Relevance to Women’s Studies as a discipline

ii) Likely usefulness as a text in Women’s Studies courses

iii) Currency of subject matter to debates/developments in the field

iv) Quality of style, presentation, research, and methodology

v) Originality

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS for 2009-10 BOOK PRIZE

The call for nominations for the annual CWSA/ACEF book award is now ready!

LIST OF PREVIOUS WINNERS

2008-09:
Norman Smith, Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007; awarded at the 2009 annual conference at Carleton University.

      Honorable mention: Sheila Cavanaugh, Sexing the Teacher: School Sexual Scandals and Queer Pedagogies. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007

2007-08:
Sheryl Nestel, Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery. Vancouver: UBC Press 2006; awarded at the 2008 annual conference at the University of British Columbia.

      Honorable mentions: i) Shahnaz Khan, Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006; ii) Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald, Talk Back: Sex Workers in the Maritimes. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006

2006-07:
Abigail Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis, Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005; awarded at the 2007 annual conference at the University of Saskatchewan

2005-06:
Wendy McKeen, Money in Their Own Name: the Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004; awarded at the 2006 annual conference at York University

2004-05:
Ann Porter, Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003; awarded at the annual conference in 2005 at the University of Western Ontario

2003-04:
Aysan Sev'er, Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who have Left Abusive Partners. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; awarded at the annual conference at the 2004 annual conference at the University of Manitoba

2002-03:
Annis May Timpson, Driven Apart: Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001; awarded at the annual conference in 2003 at Dalhousie University