Canadian Woman Studies / les cahiers de la femme (E-Journal, York University)

Agyepong, Rosina

Brigham, Margaret

Desai, Sabra

Sutherland, Patsy

Wagner, Anne

Wane, Njoki Nathani

Editorial/Éditorial

Haffajee, Zehra

Breaking the Silence: Reclaiming Qur’anic Interpretations as a Tool for Empowerment and Liberatory Praxis for Dealing with Domestic Violence in Canadian Muslim Communities

Hobbs, Margaret

Rice, Carla

Reading Women’s and Gender Studies in Canada

Neill, Natalie

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation

Martonfi, Ilona

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MARGO SWISS
Women Tell
Women tell of their babies that died:
ones born black as your boot, grey or blue
ones that lived just a day or two
ones that slept with death in their cribs
ones that were spindly and could never suck
ones that were taken before they wore clothes.
Women tell of the nurseries they made:
linens and lamps, assorted notions of joy,
the patient passing of nine months gone
as on a long trip, heavy with love for the unexpected
to be finally rejected by somebody special
who never arrived, a door slammed in the face,
the place they came to a vacant space,
a house abandoned and all swept clean
with only a simple sign on the door,
no body lives here any more.
Margo Swiss’s poetry appears earlier in this volume.
ILONA MARTONFI
Father’s Wake
“Tomorrow is the funeral,” she said.
She talked and talked, and consoled me with her voice.
Mother talked about her duties to him: how she had filled
the vials for his injections. Now she didn’t have to do it
anymore. She prepared his Sunday suit, his shirt, his tie,
and shoes, to take to the Verhoeve Funeral Home.
“Death roamed the house for weeks,” my father had said.
Ilona Martonfi’s poetry appears earlier in this volume.


English

Father’s Wake

Wilkinson, Lesley

With Thanks

Fretwell, Katerina

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Anne Gauthier, Yolande Pinard. 
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Essential Reading 
for Feminists Everywhere
www.cwscf.ca
Warren, Jean-Philippe. Ils Voulient 
changer le monde: Le militantisme 
Marxiste-léniniste au Québec. 
Montréal: vlb éditeurs, 2007. 
Print.
KATERINA FRETWELL
Invocation to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
how does your brain explain
the demise of the despised
royal chopped heads   guillotine’s dread?
Entrained thoughts   abstained oughts
Divine Right Male   Beyond the pale?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
your writerly flare   lives on a dare
freedom-based words   mere hint of swords
the unnatural order   to initial disorder
women in the world   person-hood unfurled
Divine Right Female   A plausible tale?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
your prescient words   construed absurd
no precedent   unrepentant
feminist ignored   what you first abhorred
lonely oracle   begged a miracle:
Divine Right Everyone   Our labours just begun …
Katerina Fretwell’s acclaimed sixth poetry collection, Angelic Scintillations, 
was published by Inanna Publications in 2011. Her poems are forthcoming 
in The Seventh Quarry, Wales, and in The Prairie Journal Trust, 
Ropedancer Anthology, and her essay, ”Poetic Epiphanies,” appears in 
the Living Archives chapbook, Epiphanies, from the Feminist Caucus of 
the League of Canadian Poets. 


Invocation to Mary Wollstonecraft by

Wilkinson, Shelagh

Women’s Studies — One Experience

Morel, Sylvie

Sécurisation des trajectoires professionnelles, théorie économique et engagement citoyeno

Lynn, Marion

Shelagh Brenda Wilkinson, September 18, 1928-November 16, 2011: Such a Long Journey

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