Inspiring women
Subtitle: a celebration of Herstory
By: [edited by] Mona Holmlund & Gail Youngberg ; foreword by Margaret Atwood.
Contributors: Holmlund, Mona.; Youngberg, Gail.; Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective.
Publisher: Coteau Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Regina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781550502046
Subjects: Women -- Canada -- History.; Women -- Canada -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The history of women in Canada is one of starting out struggling to feed and clothe their families and ending up writing the great Canadian novel. Inspiring Women charts women's course from subsistence to cultural production.

"Women's lives historically have been very complex and interconnected - being a woman you can never be just one thing. Nellie McClung, for example, was a writer, reformer, politician and mother. So the themes of the six chapters are set for the sake of focus rather than to compartmentalize. The chapters are: In the Beginning, A Great Race of Women, My Sister's Keeper, The Door Steadily Opens, The Long Distance Race, and Voices and Visions.

"The text is accompanied with over 150 black and white photos, some historical, some contemporary, that also portray the women of Canadian herstory. As you read through these pages, you will follow the ebb and flow of women's history and be carried along by the tide of impressive, courageous and inspiring women."-- Publisher description.
Notes: Compiled by the Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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