Table of Contents
Editorial/Éditorial
by Fran Beer, Brenda Cranney and Andrea Medovarski
Our Elders, Our Foremothers, Our Grandmothers
Going, Going, Gone
by Marcia Walker
These Women
by Renee Norman
Mary-Violet Beaulieu
by Christina Foisy
The Extraordinary Life of a Daughter of the Revolution
by Lily Pourzand
Dreaming Grandchildren
by Renee Norman
My Grandmother Only
by Marlene Kadar
My Grandmother Is Normal
by Gianna Patriarca
In Another Time
by Joanna M. Weston
Memoires de femmes
par Micheline Mercier
Mother Teresa
by Janna Payne
Letter for Emily D.
by Carol Lipszyc
Rainy Season
by Rachel O’Donnell
Portraits of Queer Artists
by Sarah Hunter
Revival
by Andrea Thompson
Maria Grazia and Naples
by Gianna Patriarca
Fly Away Home
by Linda J. Kmet
The Art of Friends
by Patricia Keeney
Une mémoire à ta mesue et à ta démesure
par Élaine Audet
From Shy Feminist to World Citizen
by Özlem Ezer
Composing: The Work of Geraldine Moodie
by Rebecca Luce-Kaplar
Wash up as far as
by Sheila Stewart
Vengeance infâme
par Eva Circé-Côté
I. (slime and other discrepancies)
by Ela Przybylo
II. (to know death, impossible)
by Ela Przybylo
Our Mothers, Our Daughters
Mother
by Ari Belathar
Killing Me Softly
by Adwoa Ntozake Onuora
This Is What It All Comes To
by Renee Norman
Green Onions
by Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin
Uttermost
by Susan McCaslin
The Choice of Listening
by Linda Martin
Disorder
by Gianna Patriarca
Wanting Out
by Jenny Morrow
Demeter’s Epic Smile
by Susan McCaslin
Spill of Trees
by Renee Norman
The Mother on the Shore
by Maura Hanrahan
The Queen of Peter Street
by Eleanor Albanese
Like Mother
by Jocelyn William
my mother would put ribbons
by A. Mary Murphy
Enna
by Susan McCaslin
Because
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
A Fugue on the World
by Sheila Stewart
Silhouette on the Snow
by June Stevenson
Variations
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Mind over Matter
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Our Lives as Women: Strength, Love, Loss
Cyclone
by Esther Vincent
Silence
by Lisa de Nikolits
It was really nothing
by Marion Mutala
Irises in Fire
by Ilona Martonfi
So We Try Again
by Laura McLauchlan
The Real Nanny Diaries
by Alexa Bernabo
The way light falls
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Crater of Her Absence
by Carol Damioli
Untitled
by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Big Woman Blues
by Gianna Patriarca
This Yearning
by Tara Kainer
A Speck of Dust
by Mary Kay Ross
Washing Up
by Joanna M. Weston
I am a truck driver’s underarm
by Christina Foisy
Entrapped
by Barbara D. Janusz
The Love Song of Dora Maar
by Eva Tihanyi
11 Years Later
by Jennie Donovan
Devils and Saints
by Diane Driedger
Clinic A, Exam Room 7
by Katerina Fretwell
Dear Doctor
by Karen Fejer
Cyborg
by Diane Driedger
In Memory of Farideh de Bosset
by Diane Driedger
Sufi Evening
by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
Stir
by Carole Glasser Langille
I don’t want to be an old crazy person
by A. Mary Murphy
La Lâcheté en pendentif
par Lélia Young
Out of Iran
by Patricia Keeney
When We Were Girls
It Happened on Good Friday
by Janet Tyrell
Last Summer of Childhood
by Renee Norman
I Have a Dream
by Diane Driedger
Reduction
by Madeline Sonik
Wild Plunge
by Linda Martin
Digging in the Dirt
by Michelle Hartai
Do You Remember?
by Claudia Costa
Inheritance
by Elizabeth Greene
Stained Door
by Madeline Sonik
In the Basin of Fundy, 1948
by Gail Taylor
Scrabble Poetry
by Renee Norman
Chestnut Hill Farm
by Frances Beer
Then
by Jocelyn Williams
Bad news
by Madeline Sonik
Grass
by Carrianne K. Y. Leung
The Singers on Grodzka Street
by Carol Lipszyc
Late Bloomer
by Tara Kainer
The Wallflower
by Joan Baril
words keep bursting out of books
by A. Mary Murphy
Soundings
by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Book Reviews
Pas d’ici, pas d’ailleurs: Anthologie poétiques francophone de voix féminines contemporaines
reviewed by Lélia Young
The Goose Girl,The Rabbi and the New York Teachers: A Family Memoir
reviewed by Marjorie Roemer
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The P.E.I. Years, 1889-1900
reviewed by C. Van Daalen-Smith
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Second Edition
reviewed by Marilyn J. Batey
Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada
reviewed by Jennifer Hayter
Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women’s History
reviewed by Marlene Mendonça
Mr. Fox
reviewed by Kathryn Travis
The Mere Future
reviewed by Robert Teixeira
A Large Harmonium
reviewed by Oana Secrieru
The New African Diaspora in Vancouver: Migration, Exclusion and Belonging
reviewed by Sanja Ivanov
Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration and Translation reviewed by Paola Bohórquez
Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939
reviewed by Nina Kaye
Women, Communism and Industrialization in Postwar Poland
reviewed by Weronika Rogula
All is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day
reviewed by Daniel Lagacé-Roy
About the Artwork
Front Cover Artwork
Cheryl Braganza, “Carte Blanche,” 2012, acrylic, 16 x 20″.
Back Cover Artwork
Cheryl Braganza, “Seeds,” 2010, mixed medium, 16 x 20″.
Artist statement: “My wish is that my art engages people, challenges their assumptions about women, provokes critical thought with respect to diversity and stir their humanity—all with the eventual goal of promoting harmony and peace.”
Artist bio: Cheryl Braganza, artist, writer, cancer-survivor, was born in India, studied in Italy and the United Kingdom, lived in Montreal since 1966 and has painted for the past 45 years. Chosen Montreal Woman of the Year in 2008 by the Montreal Council of Women, her acrylic paintings with vibrant colours and imagery echo peace, hope and infinite renewal. She collaborates closely with organizations that focus on human rights. Convenor for Culture and Heritage for the National Council of Women of Canada, she was recently appointed President of the Women’s Art Society of Montreal.
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