Winter 2003

Funny Girl Alvira Kurt in Profile; PLUS: Pink Think: The Invention of Feminine Culture; Exclusive: Interview with Dissident Author Taslima Nasrin; Eco-feminism in Brazil; Fat Angry Woman, by Mariko Tamaki and more.

Funny Girl Elvira Kurt by Karen X. Tulchinsky

Funny Girl Elvira Kurt

We 'd barely sat down, Elvira Kurt and I, for double moch-a-cinno lattes (don 't laugh-this is Vancouver, after all and there 's an espresso bar on every corner) at a funky Yaletown cafe, when we were hounded (or rather, she was) by a small group of fans wanting autographs. They 'd recognized her from her television show that aired on the Comedy Network, called Elvira Kurt: Adventures in Comedy. The producers toured the country looking for new talent. Budding stand-up comics were given the opportunity to showcase their work on national TV.

Hormone Therapy: A Prescription for Replacement by Penni Mitchell

Hormone Therapy: A Prescription for Replacement

In 1966,an American doctor named Robert Wilson wrote Feminine Forever, a book that promoted estrogen replacement as a miracle cure for women 's aging woes.

Closer Apart

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Author:

Gayla Reid

Review by:

Joan Givner

The brevity of Gayla Reid's second novel belies the breadth of its scope, for, in a mere 249 pages, she manages to portray the lives of four generations of women. She does so, moreover, against a richly textured social background that extends from the cities and outback of her native Australia to Italy and Canada, while encompassing three major wars of the Twentieth Century. Like many novelists with expertise in the short story genre, Reid achieves a highly concentrated effect through her passages of dialogue and selection of evocative detail.