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2015., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Bio G132a Edition: Translated ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One of Canadaœs greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender.Karl Marx replaced Paul Claudel in Gagnonœs intellectual pantheon. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the desire to write, and her first works poured out in a torrent. She describes the friendships that played such a large part in her life and the feminist battles of the time with all their hopes and disappointments. At the same time she casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society, tracing the emergence of a distinct Canadian literature.This is an account of a life well lived, told with candour, wisdom, and an inextinguishable sense of wonder.
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-- Bound feet and Western dress1996., Doubleday Call No: 305.42 C456b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Zaremba, Eve2015., Insomniac Press Call No: Bio Z36b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her long life, Eve Zaremba has picked tomatoes, driven a Bookmobile, researched Canadians' junk food preferences, and written lesbian-feminist detective novels. She reflects on those experiences, and the personalities and politics involved, in her memoir, The Broad Side. Eve spent her childhood in 1930s Warsaw, the daughter of a Polish army officer. When the Nazis invaded, she and her family took refuge in England, arriving in Canada in 1952. By the 1970s, Eve was an active part of Toronto's lesbian-feminist community and a founding collective member of Broadside newspaper. Sharply observant and fearlessly honest, Eve Zaremba's memories and insights will entertain and provoke readers, often simultaneously. She provides an inside look at a disappearing but hugely influential period in the Canadian women's movement and the people and ideas that shaped it. Illustrated with photos and ephemera from Eve's personal collection, The Broad Side makes a sparkling contribution to Canadian feminist history.
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2013., Adult, Boréal Call No: QWF FR Bio G135d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Née à Amqui, Madeleine Gagnon se souvient avec enchantement de son enfance entourée dœune nature rayonnante, au sein dœune vaste famille qui œuvre dans la forêt et sur la terre, gens droits et fiers, mais sur lœesprit desquels règne encore indûment tout ce qui porte soutane.Lœentrée au pensionnat marque le début des grandes aventures intellectuelles et la naissance dœun profond refus qui commence à creuser ses sillons. Refus qui tranquillement remontera à la surface pendant les études en Europe, pour éclater quand la jeune femme rentrera dans un Québec méconnaissable. Marx a remplacé Claudel. La psychanalyse accompagne et favorise la venue à lœécriture, et lœœuvre surgit sous forme dœun torrent. En même temps que la femme connaît la douleur et lœéblouissement de lœenfantement, lœexaltation amoureuse et les tourments du désamour.Madeleine Gagnon raconte aussi les amitiés, primordiales, avec Annie Leclerc, Christiane Rochefort, entre autres. Les luttes féministes, avec tous les rêves et toutes les déchirures quœelles portent. Le temps qui transforme tout, la disparition des parents. Les nouvelles passions, qui seules nous permettent de continuer la route, comme celle de comprendre le lien cruel et mystérieux qui unit les femmes et la guerre.
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2011., PMA Productions Call No: DVD Bio M128g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary CanadiansSummary Note: Feminist, politician, and social activist, Nellie McClung altered Canada's political landscape, leaving a legacy that has long survived her. She had a wicked wit, and her convictions and campaigns helped shape the Canada we live in today. Acclaimed writer Charlotte Gray, who has forged a distinguished career exploring the lives of such notable women as Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson, is the perfect writer to reinterpret McClung.
![Extraordinary Canadians: Charlotte Gray on Nellie McClung [DVD] (2011).](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Extraordinary Canadians: Charlotte Gray on Nellie McClung [DVD] (2011).")
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By Rebick, Judy2018., General, Anansi Call No: Bio R289h Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryView an interview with Judy Rebick from CBC Radio's The Current website. Summary Note: Renowned Canadian feminist Judy Rebick tells the story of the eleven personalities she developed in order to help her cope with, and survive, childhood sexual abuse. Rebick chronicles her struggle with depression in the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion. It was in the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, that her memories began to surface and became too persistent to ignore. Rebick reveals her moment of discovery: meeting the eleven personalities; uncovering her repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse; and then communicating with each personality in therapy and on the page in a journal - all of this while she is leading high-profile national struggles against a Conservative government. With courage and honesty, Rebick lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her life. Judy Rebick is now a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Television. She lives in Toronto.
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2022., Halban Call No: Bio A316h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, and an indigenous Bedouin in Israel, Amal came into this world fighting for her voice to be heard in a community that did not prize girls. At birth it was only her father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her Amal [hope] in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." Five brothers were indeed to follow. Hope is a Woman's Name is a rare look at Bedouin life form the even rarer perspective of a Bedouin girl. Amal challenged authority from birth, slowly learning where her community's boundaries lay and how to navigate them. As a shepherd at the age of 6, Amal led her flock of sheep across the green mountains of Laqiya, her village in the Negev in southern Israel. Given such responsibility, though rarely recognition, Amal came to understand her community and forge her skills as a leader. Aged 13 and frustrated by the constraints put on her education as a girl, Amal set up literacy classes for the adult women in her village. She aimed to teach them not only how to read, but to value education itself: "I wanted them to taste an education so that they would never again deprive their daughters of one." This was the beginning of a lifelong career initiating projects that would help create change for the Bedouin - a minority within Israel's Palestinian minority - and for their women in particular. She established economic empowerment programmes for marginalised women, helped found an Arab-Jewish school, and created organisations to promote a shared society. At every turn she had to face the challenges of tradition - as well as the prejudices of Israeli society - to create new possibilities that would allow women to empower themselves. Amal has learnt to embrace every aspect of her complicated identity - Bedouin, Arab, woman, Palestinian and Israeli citizen - to help create social change, build bridges with other communities and inspire hope.
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1976., Reader's Digest Press : distributed by Crowell Call No: Bio M1194L Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2015., Adult, Random House Call No: Bio S822m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine. In 1968 she helped found New York magazine. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In stories that span her entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure to social activism in India, and the decades spent organizing ground-up movements in America; the taxi drivers who were "vectors of modern myths" and the airline stewardesses who embraced the feminist revolution; and the infinite, surprising contrasts, the "surrealism in everyday life" that Steinem encountered as she traveled back and forth across the country. With the unique perspective of one of the greatest feminist icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, here is an inspiring, profound, enlightening memoir of one woman's life-long journey."--Publisher.
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2008., Penguin Group Call No: Bio M1286g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians.
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[2014], Adult, Second Story Press Call No: Bio M145s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. And she did all this while suffering from polio. In this biography we learn that she supervised 4500 workers and produced about 1450 Hawker Hurricanes by the end of WWII. Elsie was a popular heroine of her time, inspiring the comic book Queen of the Hurricanes in the 1940s. In later life she became a powerful feminist activist, advocating for the rights of women and children."--From publisher.
