Celebrating Canadian women
Subtitle: prose and poetry by and about women
By: edited by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff.
Contributors: Nemiroff, Greta.
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Published: 1989
Place of publication: [Markham, Ont.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Short stories, Canadian -- Women authors; Short stories, Canadian -- 20th century; Canadian fiction -- Women authors; Canadian fiction -- 20th century; Canadian poetry -- Women authors; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Short stories, French-Canadian -- Translations into English; French-Canadian poetry -- Translations into English; Women -- Literary collections
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Greta Hofmann Nemiroff -- I. Growing up female: Song of the moss / Frances Davis -- Sixteen / Roo Borson -- Youngest sister (on her marriage) / Susan McMaster -- Sara's gift / Barbara Smith -- Leavings / Brenda Riches -- Good girl / Norah McClintock -- II. Body/mind: pleasures and betrayals: Gravity / Mary di Michele -- Your are as close to my body as my lust / Mary Melfi -- Climax / Dorothy Livesay -- Your soft moaning noises are / Anne Cameron -- Nine months / Paddy Webb -- Abortion / Sandy Shreve -- "Just skin and bones" / Kristin Andrychuk -- Fireworks / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- In favour of being alive / Elizabeth Brewster -- The labour / Susan Gail Collins -- The seiche / Thelma Wheatley -- The pip / Debra Martens -- Responding to pain / Katherine Govier -- III. Romantic love: Common magic / Bronwen Wallace -- You held out the light / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Red sequins or stars / Jan Conn -- Variations on the word love / Margaret Atwood -- Desire as a natural catastrophe / Claire Dé -- Tenderness / Marie-Claire Blais -- Practising / Naomi Guttman -- Falling in love / Sandra Birdsell -- Anna and the custodians / Constance Rooke -- IV. Mothers: In the blood / Shulamis Yelin -- Sadness of mothers / Susan Glickman -- Apology to my son / Frances Davis -- Imprints / Pat Jasper -- Christmas carols / Margaret Atwood -- Of one / Deborah Findlay -- Hippopotamus / G.P. Greenwood -- Touching the buffalo / Elona Malterre -- Real mothers / Audrey Thomas -- The return / Frances Duncan -- The death dance / Miriam Packer -- V. Families: The secret life / Miriam Waddington -- Fathers / Lake Sagaris -- Long way home / Pat Jasper -- A housewife studies literature / Eva Tihanyi -- Connection / Julie Bruck -- Elegy for Laura Elizabeth Porter / Betsy Struthers -- The house that breathes / Cathy Ford -- Angels / Kayla Hoffman -- Blueprints / Byrna Barclay -- This bright night / Connie Gault -- VI. Work: Aprons / Leona Gom -- Canning tomatoes / Kristin Andrychuk -- Water slides / Carole Brost -- Farming / Leona Gom -- White lies / Sandy Shreve -- Spadina Avenue / Milda Danys -- A washing by the creek / Louise Simon -- Entries / Jill Dalibard -- Klee Wyck / Kathleen Moore -- On choosing books at the library / Frances Davis -- Borrowed beauty / Maxine Tynes -- Bugs / Nancy Holmes -- The harvest / Josephine Friesen -- Lessons / Claudia Lambert -- Am stram gram / Monique Proulx -- In the yard / Carla Nemiroff -- VII. Women and men: That other country / Beth Jankola -- There are days / Sharon Carlson -- Every woman you loved / Dorothy Livesay -- Anniversaries / Sheila Delany -- Trying hard / Heidi Muench -- A women's issue / Margaret Atwood -- Resistance / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias -- Eating elephant / Aritha van Herk -- Trip with Brock / Lori Weber -- Snow in August / Sandra Hartline -- Lily / Judith Kalman -- VIII. Women and women: This is a postcard / Claire Harris -- Story one / Beth Brant -- I have known male smells / Anne Cameron -- Betrayed by women / Roberta Buchanan -- Mastectomy meeting / Elly van de Walle -- Aunt Annie / Mona Elaine Adilman -- The loons / Margaret Laurence -- The badge-wearing dyke and her two maiden aunts / Suniti Namjoshi -- Watermelon time / Diana Baillie -- IX. Women alone/women aging: Of spinsters / Deborah Eibel -- Boogeying with the Queen / Susan Musgrave -- Eileen and Jean / Susan Ioannou -- The intensities / Sharon Carlson -- Collared / Dorothy Livesay -- The country of old people / Susan Glickman -- The death of the cat / Anne Marriott -- Lichen / Alice Munro -- Corridors / Joyce Marshall -- The hoyer / Edna Alford -- X. Power and transcendence: Woman, withdraw / Julia van Gorder -- Of cats and bells / Suniti Namjoshi -- Scream / Sharon H. Nelson -- A simple poem for Virginia Woolf / Bronwen Wallace -- What is the validity of your life? / Dorothy Livesay -- Tidal night / Libby Scheier -- Big mama / Marilyn J. Boyle -- Breaths along the run / Eva Tihanyi -- To console myself / Anne Dandurand -- The suitcase / Désirée Szucsany -- Renovating Maggie / Sylvia Maultash Warsh -- Parable of paragraphs / Greta Hofmann Nemiroff -- The world is full of magic / Anne Cameron