An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that provide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international...
Women--Social conditions
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Author:Miles, AngelaSummary: -
Author:Jerkins, MorganSummary:From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to...
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Author:Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsSummary:Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of...
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Author:Nimeh-Mailloux, RosineSummary:It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Women,” having feigned insanity to avoid being put to death for the murder of her abusive husband. When attacked by a fellow inmate, Amal must confront her traumatic...
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Author:Chopin, KateSummary:Just as evocative as it is original, The Awakening isn’t your everyday Victorian Romance. Chopin beautifully crafts the story of protagonist Edna Pontellier, a woman living in the American South during the post Civil War period, as she...
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle...
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Author:Summary:In Talking Tales a variety of women tell their stories in prose and poetry. They cast their nets wide, hauling in themes that celebrate as much as they castigate and mourn. There is the delight of discovering oneself on the cusp of...
- Author:Renzetti, Elizabeth, Renzetti, ElizabethSummary:
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan...
- Author:Renzetti, Elizabeth, Renzetti, ElizabethSummary:
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan...
- Author:Renzetti, ElizabethSummary:
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country....
- Author:Sangster, JoanSummary:
The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and...
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Author:Mukhopadhyay, SamhitaSummary:When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump's America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of...
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Author:Turtschaninoff, MariaSummary:This thrilling prequel to the award-winning Maresi explores the founding of the Red Abbey Booklist called Maresi "utterly satisfying and completely different from standard YA fantasy." Now, Naondel goes back to establish the world of...
- Author:Younes, MilaSummary:
Ma mère, ma fille, ma sœur nous plonge au cœur du drame personnel d’une adolescente d’origine kabyle vivant en France, déchirée entre les valeurs traditionnelles berbères et celles de son pays d’accueil. Ce récit autobiographique nous...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Les héritiers du fleuve tome 4: 1931-1939 D’une rive à l’autre du Saint-Laurent, des familles attachantes aux destins entrecroisés voguent entre amitiés et rivalités, drames déchirants et bonheurs intenses. Dans ce quatrième et dernier...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Cette guerre, qui ne devait durer que quelques mois, se termine enfin, ramenant au pays un Léopold transformé à jamais. La maladie de Lysbeth, comme celle du petit Germain, laisse des cicatrices douloureuses, mais révèle aussi le...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Nous voici à l’aube d’un siècle nouveau, témoins d’une ère où modernité et tradition s’affrontent. Tandis qu’Alexandrine et Clovis tentent de se remettre d’un deuil épouvantable, Albert et Victoire vivront l’envers de la tragédie qui...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Nous voici au XIXe siècle, en bordure du Saint-Laurent, là où le fleuve se mêle à la mer. Deux rives : celle du nord, aride, majestueuse, faite de falaises et de plages ; celle du sud, tout en vallons, en prés verdoyants et en terres...
- Author:Ibsen, HenrikSummary:
Hedda Gabler, daughter of a deceased general, marries dull George Tesman and looks forward to a life of middle class tedium. Judge Brack, who admires Hedda, wants to establish a ménage à trois. Then, a former admirer comes to vie for...
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