Book Review: In Beyond Brutal Passions, historian Mary Anne Poutanen traces the largely ignored lives of women in the sex trade in nineteenth-century Montreal, illustrating that these women were much more than the sum of their work.
Book Review: In Victorian society, women were seen as inherently passive, but author Claudie Massicotte shows how spiritualists used the role of medium to turn this fragility into a strength.
Book review: Lezlie Lowe, a Halifax-based journalist, tells the story of Halifax as it throbbed with tens of thousands of service personnel who brought both excitement and trouble in their wake.
Book Review: Working for the Common Good highlights the work of eight Canadian women: Agnes Macphail, Thérèse Casgrain, Grace MacInnis, Pauline Jewett, Margaret Mitchell, Lynn McDonald, Audrey McLaughlin, and Alexa McDonough.
Book Review: In Boom & Bust, author Jennifer Butler asked mothers, daughters, and granddaughters to tell their families’ collective memories of living in an isolated community.
