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OverviewThere are women throughout Canada's history who when faced with a locked door, have looked for a key--or a battering ram. Award-winning writer Karin Wells tells the stories of women like the fierce and iconoclastic Mina Benson Hubbard, who finished the mission to map northern Labrador that had killed her explorer husband, and Vera Peters, MD, who revolutionized treatments for Hodgkins lymphoma and breast cancer. Or the painter Paraskeva Clark, child of the Bolshevik Revolution, who rattled staid Toronto when she took Norman Bethune as a lover and spoke out for art as a tool of social change. And have you heard of Charlotte Small, a Métis woman who canoed and trekked 42,000 km--more than three times further than the American explorers Lewis and Clark--and had five babies along the way? Some were outrageous, some were unassuming, most were not polite, but they all ignored the voices that said women could not paddle a canoe, program a computer, understand the universe, or cure a disease. They lived big lives--often at great cost--and they made a difference. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karin WellsPublisher: Second Story Press Imprint: Second Story Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781772602661ISBN 10: 1772602663 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 04 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""The book makes fascinating reading, not least of all because Wells writes so well... Like her documentaries, her book is incredibly well researched and her prose sings, bringing these mostly forgotten women to life."" --Sylvia Sutherland ""The Peterborough Examiner""" The book makes fascinating reading, not least of all because Wells writes so well... Like her documentaries, her book is incredibly well researched and her prose sings, bringing these mostly forgotten women to life. --Sylvia Sutherland The Peterborough Examiner Author InformationKarin Wells is a well-known CBC radio documentarian and a lawyer. Her books tell the often overlooked stories of remarkable Canadian women, including The Abortion Caravan, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and More Than a Footnote. Karin lives in Port Hope, Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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