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Penni Mitchell

Managing Editor of Herizons Magazine.

Luna Babies Land At Work

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Penni Mitchell

(VANCOUVER) So, what’s a new mother to do when she owns her own business and doesn’t qualify for paid maternity leave? [more]

Dirt and the Body Politic

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Penni Mitchell

The first thing I thought when I heard about toxic chemicals in personal care products was, “Well, I’m probably okay, I use a lot of Body Shop products.” [more]

Too Close for Comfort

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Penni Mitchell

Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. administration under George Bush has defined security in the narrowest of possible terms. [more]

Pink to Green

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Penni Mitchell

They’re everywhere—on bread wrappers, cosmetics, golf balls, cereal packages, bank ads and even a $60 silver coin issued by the Royal Canadian Mint. [more]

Hot Air Policy

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Penni Mitchell

To hear the Liberals tell it, we should be quaking in our gumboots, our Birkenstocks, or our whirly girly flip-flops.

A very scary thing is in our midst. [more]

Beauty Queens

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Author: 
Candace Savage
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Penni Mitchell

Subtitled "A Playful History," Beauty Queens is a wonderful, uncritical look at the evolution of beauty pageants in North America seen through the eyes of a historian and told from the heart of a feminist. [more]

The Splendid Vision

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N.E.S. Griffiths
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Penni Mitchell

The National Council of Women of Canada has staying power. After 100 years of petitioning, lobbying and, slowly but surely, working to improve the status of women in Canada, the Council emerges as an undercredited feminist institution. The Council is no hotbed of radical activism, though it's influence on the equality stage in Canada is more pronounced that the organization's sleepy reputation. [more]

Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century

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Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean and Kate O'Rourke
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Penni Mitchell

While short essays by feminist historians like Veronica Strong-Boag give Framing Our Past a quick glance feminist credibility, this encyclopedic book is no source of feminist inspiration. [more]

Hormone Therapy: A Prescription for Replacement

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Penni Mitchell

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. [more]

Drivers Wanted

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Penni Mitchell

Everyone -Roy Romanow included -agrees that Canada's public health system needs more money -more physicians on salary and more health professionals, not just doctors, paid to diagnose and treat us whe [more]

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