Lifelines
Lifelines

Author: Christl Verduyn

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995-08-28

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0773565582

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Christl Verduyn analyses Engel's work from a feminist literary perspective, examining Engel's concern with women's experiences and perception of the world, female identity and the social constraints on its development, female subjectivity and self, the mother-daughter relationship, and forces opposing women's artistic self-expression. Verduyn presents in-depth readings of both the novels and Engel's reflections on her experiences as a woman and a writer as found in her personal journals and other writings. Verduyn demonstrates the extent to which Engel's work not only deserves to be ranked with the best of Canadian literature but also enriches our understanding of women's experiences and broadens our view of women's worlds. Lifelines makes an important contribution to Canadian literature, women's studies, and the growing genre of life writing.

Women & Aging
Women & Aging

Author: Helen Rippier Wheeler

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781555876616

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Guide with more than two thousand bibliographic entries and cross-references. It includes journal articles, book chapters, essays, and doctoral dissertations, as well as complete books.

Wild Mother Dancing
Wild Mother Dancing

Author: Di Brandt

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0887553931

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Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a variety of cultural traditions—Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee—and a collection of oral interviews about childbirth told by Mennonite women. The results broaden, enrich, and finally recover the motherstory in ways that have revolutionary implications for our institutions and imaginations.