Summer 2001

What Really Happened at the Quebec Summit?; The All Grrl, On Line Revolution; interviews with Canadian authors Evelyn Lau, Anita Rau Badami and Deborah Ellis.

What Really Happened At The Quebec Summit by Heather Menzies

What Really Happened At The Quebec Summit

The media stake out their positions on Boulevard Rene Levesque, telephoto cameras slung low on their hips. They are waiting for High Noon, the moment when the Black Block will arrive for their scheduled confrontation with the chain-link fence that is erected to keep anti-globalization protestors far removed from the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit site. So focussed arre the media on this one expected-to-be-violent moment that they miss us women completely. Not that we care if the media ignored us. We ae there for ourselves and our own agenda.

Girls Around The House

Summer 2001

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Author:

m.a.c. farrant

Review by:

Gail Buente

There's something irresistible about gossip. The delicious- not the malicious-kind. Reading M.A.C. Farrant's Girls Around the House is a lot like sitting down with a friend for a good old-fashioned gossip session. Her voice is chatty but intimate as she tells tales of the humble passions of middle age, and the frantic energy of teenagers struggling toward adulthood. In 12 unpretentious and pithy stories packed into a slim 150-odd page-book, she manages to express all the irony, pathos and absurdity of modern family life in a small Canadian city.

Revelling/Reckoning

Summer 2001

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Artist:

Ani Difranco

Label:

Righteous Babe Records

Review by:

Cindy Filipenko

Politically correct folk music isn't generally a phrase that will make you want to run out to your local Sam the Record Man and lay down cold, hard cash. However, if the creator of the tunes in the aforementioned genre is Ani DiFranco it's rarely a foolish move to separate yourself from your money.

(Archives 2001) The All-Girl On-line Revolution by Krista Scott-Dixon

(Archives 2001) The All-Girl On-line Revolution

The Internet intrigues me, and for my master's research I looked at what young women were producing and putting on line.