We are now fifteen years into the second wave of feminism, and public opinion polls show majority support for all the basic issues raised by the women’s movement. This collection of articles focuses on strategies and directions for the...
Women
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Author:Greaves, LorraineSummary:Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and...
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Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
- Author:Héroux, Élyse-AndréeSummary:
Qui est Pauline Marois? On connaît la personnalité publique, la femme d'engagement. On a vu la battante se hisser au sommet du pouvoir et occuper, pour la première fois de notre histoire, le siège de première ministre. Mais le...
- Author:Dennis-Benn, NicoleSummary:
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest...
- Author:Serrano, MarcelaSummary:
"Hermosa, delicada, culta, de clase social acomodada, habitante del universo de los hijos y un marido protector, Blanca--la protagonista de esta novela--sufre un remezón: conoce un medio social distinto al suyo, el de la gente...
- Author:Haynes, NatalieSummary:
The tellers of Greek myths, historically men, have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. Broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian,...
- Author:Perron, SandraSummary:
Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer, describes her experiences serving in the Canadian Forces, including the harassment she suffered during training and her deployments to Bosnia and Croatia.
- Author:Midorikawa, EmilySummary:
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the seance-a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides...
- Author:Brookfield, TarahSummary:
In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women...
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Author:Nissen, ThisbeSummary:A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa...
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Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in...
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Author:DeRango-Adem, Adebe, Thompson, AndreaSummary:Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race...
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
Orlando emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversions of the 1920s ... Orlando's journey,...
- Author:Morgan, BonnieSummary:
From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as...
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Author:Shriver, LionelSummary:For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. Here the spiteful Farrell O'Phelan wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's...
- Author:Monro, AliceSummary:
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party...
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Author:Morrow, JamesSummary:Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative...
- Author:McElyea, AudraSummary:
Madeline Barton is struggling as a freelance reporter. But when an anonymous source tips her off about a murder, she knows the story could launch her career, except that her source keeps meddling in the investigation.
- Author:Little Thunder, BeverlySummary:
One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and...
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