Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Part Three: Section II
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Part Three: Section II

Women and Depression: Auto/biographies

From: The Point is To Change the World

This reading consists of the following essays: Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] – M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Part Three: Section III
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Part Three: Section III

Undomesticating Violence

From: The Point is To Change the World

This reading consists of the following essays: Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] – Three Letters … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Part Two

From: The Mantle of Struggle

Part two explores Douglas’ move to Canada to attend Sir George Williams University in Montreal during the 1960s. These chapters detail his life during this time; his civil rights activism … 102 $10.20 Add
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Part Two: Section I

Why and How to Count Unwaged Work

From: The Point is To Change the World

This reading consists of the following essays: Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Part Two: Section II
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Part Two: Section II

Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged

From: The Point is To Change the World

This reading consists of the following essays: Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] – The Impact of the IMF … ; 40 $4.00 Add
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Part Two: The Big City
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Part Two: The Big City

From: The Things I Came Here With

Part Two reflects on MacDonald’s early adolescence, the move to Toronto, his last visit to his mother, skateboarding, school, first loves, experimenting with weed, teenage rebellion, being … 71 $7.10 Add
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Partitus
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Partitus

From: My Mother, My Translator

Discusses Partition, Singh’s relationship to and removal from those events as something that occurred before his time that his mother scarcely talked about. 11 $1.10 Add
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Party or No Party?
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Party or No Party?

Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign

From: Women Winning Office

In Party or No Party? Nash examines the decision to support and join a political party for which to run for office. The chapter explores topics such as branding of political parties, differences … 6 $0.60 Add
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Pass the Spuds
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Pass the Spuds

From: Up the Coast

Chapter Seven focuses on the cook house, the cook Dave, the routine at the logging camp, grizzly bears in the shed, and the cook Lousia the nazi. 10 $1.00 Add
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Passing the Torch

Passing the Torch

1982-1989

From: Brotherhood to Nationhood

Chapter twenty of George Manuel’s biography examines the end of his life, the momentum he generated and his legacy. He was in a wheelchair the last years of his life, and he was finally … ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Passion

Passion

From: On Love and Tyranny

This chapter explores Arendt’s relationship with the philosopher Martin Heidegger. 10 $1.00 Add
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Passport to fairyland

Passport to fairyland

From: The Wheel of Things

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Patterns of a Childhood in Kashmir
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Patterns of a Childhood in Kashmir

From: My Mother, My Translator

Chronicles Singh’s childhood in India—family trips, dinners, and challenges, including the complexities and division created through language. 18 $1.80 Add
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Peace and Fire

Peace and Fire

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It gives insight into the changes and challenges faced by the family under the communist government. 3 $0.30 Add
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Pediatric Hidden Agendas and Myths

Pediatric Hidden Agendas and Myths

From: A Lucky Life

Talks about the hidden agenda of parents who bring their children to the pediatrician for complaints that may seem trivial to the physician. Most hidden agendas fall into one of the following … 15 $1.50 Add