Queen of the Hurricanes

Crystal Sissons

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book
• Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age... Lees meer

Inside Broadside

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book
• Includes Susan G. Cole interviewing Gloria Steinem and writing by Margaret Atwood, Susan Crean, June Callwood, and Marian Engel. Broadside: A Feminist... Lees meer

The Abortion Caravan

Karin Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book | nr. 11
• In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Ab... Lees meer

Two Firsts

Constance Backhouse

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book
• Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted femini... Lees meer

Because They Were Women

Josée Boileau

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book | nr. 13
• Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with vio... Lees meer

No Second Chances

Kate Graham

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist History Society Book
• As of September 2021, only thirteen women had reached Canada's top political posts: elected or appointed provincial premier or prime minister. They ha... Lees meer