Fat Activism

Being Fat: Women, Weight and Feminist Activism. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives. University of Toronto Press, 2016. Co-edited with Deborah McPhail and Wendy Mitchinson.

“Weighing In: The ‘Evidence of Experience’ and Canadian Fat Women’s Activism.” The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 30, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 55-75

“Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981-1985.” In Gender, Health and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives. Ed. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, 205-226. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011.

“Not Jane Fonda: Aerobics for Fat Women Only.” In The Fat Studies Reader. Eds. Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum, 312-19. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

“‘Stop Postponing Your Life Until You Lose Weight and Start Living Now’: Vancouver’s Large as Life Action Group, 1979-1985.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 1 (2007): 241-65.


Contemporary Sport

“Modern Gladiator: How Georges St-Pierre Has Shaped Sport.” Published on the Canadian Museum of History blog, February 2019.

Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game. Co-edited with Jennifer Anderson. University of Ottawa Press, Mercury Book Series, 2018.

“‘A Unifying Influence on Our Nation’: Making and Remaking the Meaning of Terry Fox.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 49, no. 3 (Fall 2015), 170-190.

“Terry Fox was an Activist.” Published on ActiveHistory.ca, April 2015.

“Model Athletes: Images of Women in Sport in Canada, 1950-2006.” In Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader (2nd Edition). Eds. Andrea Medovarski and Brenda Cranney, 478-488. Toronto: Inanna, 2006.

“Women and Sport: An Examination of Advertisements between 1950 and 2002.” Canadian Woman Studies 21, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 77-82.


Museums

“Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game.” In Interpreting Sport at Museums and Historical Sites. Eds. Kathy Leann Harris and Doug Stark. New York: Rowan & Littlefield/AASHL Interpreting History Series. Forthcoming, March 2023.

“Globalization of Sports in Museums,” co-authored with Bruce Kidd.  In Interpreting Sport at Museums and Historic Sites. Eds. Kathy Leann Harris and Doug Stark. New York: Rowan & Littlefield/AASHL Interpreting History Series. Forthcoming, March 2023.

Hockey: More than Just a Game. Co-authored with Jennifer Anderson. Canadian Museum of History exhibition catalogue, 2017.

“Controversies in Context: Communication, Hot Topics and Museums in Canada.” In HotTopics, Public Culture, Museums. Eds. Fiona Cameron and Lynda Kelly, 176-93. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

“Front Page Challenge: Museums and the Media.” Muse: The Voice of Canada’s Museum Community 21, no. 5 (2004): 36-39.

Re-visioning the Media, Museums and Controversy: A Preliminary Case Study. Open Museum Journal 6, September 2003.